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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 1

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨

Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:

1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html
2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html

Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

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Friedolin Merhout @fmerhout.bsky.social · 27d

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰

My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours?

Apply by Nov 15.

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 28d

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · Aug 8

A new study confirms what I’ve known for years: ambivalent ties (relationships w/ intermittent stress + support) may accelerate aging *more* than purely negative ones. Half-and-half ties (like with dysfunctional family) can be the most damaging. Very validating! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40475146/

Negative Social Ties as Emerging Risk Factors for Accelerated Aging, Inflammation, and Multimorbidity - PubMed

Negative social ties, or "hasslers," are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidity. Using ego-centric network data and DNA methylation...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Daniel Tadmon @danieltadmon.bsky.social · Jun 16

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
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Dingeman Wiertz @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hurray!

UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · Jun 13

USN member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social received the 2025 Outstanding Article Award of the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section of @asanews.bsky.social for “Civic Lessons That Last?” (with Chaeyoon Lim). Well done! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · Jun 13

Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this.
www.pewresearch.org/...

Plot showing that married LGBTQ adults with a same-sex spouse or partner rate their relationship more highly than those living with a partner

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing.

asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · Jun 7

Who polices which boundaries? How racial self-identification affects external classification https://osf.io/bhrdj This study explores whether Americans agree on the ethnoracial categories that are worth policing. It evaluates how receptive White, Black, Latino, and Asian Americans are to #sociology

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · Jun 4

thanks much!!

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · Jun 4

thanks!!

BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · Jun 4

I am happy to share the news that our paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!!

BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · Nov 19

Excited to share my paper published in ASR on unemployment and suicide!! Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · May 27

Oh yes, that’s actually part of another paper I’m working on with Brea. The short answer is yes, but it’s more about how embedded family and friends are in your network. The more deeply embedded they are, the stronger their negative influence tends to be.

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · May 27

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster!

Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health.

Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities

Negative social ties, or "difficult ties," are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidity. Using ego-centric network data and DNA methy...

www.medrxiv.org

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · May 25

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328261v1

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Daniela Urbina J. @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social · May 22

New paper with Daria Tisch ‪(@dariatisch.bsky.social‬) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States - Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch, 2025

Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. Th...

doi.org

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Griffin Eckstein @gec.bsky.social · Apr 10

Marco Rubio says he alone can deport people for their “past, current, or expected beliefs”

"Thought crimes": Rubio lays out government's justification for deportations based on "beliefs"

Rubio said that speech-based deportations were one part of the United States' fight against antisemitism

www.salon.com

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congrats!!! Fantastic news!!

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · Mar 26

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social · Mar 21

Shame. This is happening across essential institutions: media, Congress, law firms, & now universities. Instead of standing up to illegal authoritarian power grabs, they capitulate, hoping the threat will pass. It won’t. And as the rule of law & the constitutional order die, so does our democracy.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Mar 21

"A Columbia senior administrator said the school considered legal options ...but ... the ... government has so many available levers to claw back money, it would be a difficult fight. Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands."

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is a shameful moment in the history of the American university.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 21

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 21

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Mar 20

Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members!

www.aaup.org/membership/d...

Join

See dues rates categories based on your annual academic income. Show your support with a lifetime membership! Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · Mar 17

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.

immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part:

"Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen.

On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses.

As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship.

The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours.

All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated.

The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk.

After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s
wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · Mar 10

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