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Marga Torre

@mtorre.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Master in Computational Social Science at University Carlos III of Madrid. Labor markets, gender, inequality. Orophile. Winter lover. www.margatorre.com

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!

📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019

Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019

This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful news! 🎉

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · 7d

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀

Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 25d

The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT.

Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 27d

💼 Oferta de trabajo!

Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:

- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)

👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...

¡Se agradece difusión!

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Eva Zschirnt @evazschirnt.bsky.social · Aug 11

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam.
We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025.

@aissr.bsky.social

Call for Papers and/or research designs for a workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences" at the University of Amsterdam in October.

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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · Jul 30

New article from Marga Torre and colleagues shows that gender homophily is most pronounced in fields at the intersection of male-dominated and gender-neutral areas and lowest in female-dominated fields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.

Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · Jul 29

Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity"

Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · Jul 29

*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.

Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Anxo Sánchez @anxosanchez.bsky.social · Jul 29

So happy to see this surprising work out. Terrific job by Amar D'Adamo and his supervisor @anatajadura.bsky.social, with the help of Lize de Coster and myself. We show that social support networks shape body perception: larger networks weaken the illusion and link to higher body image satisfaction!

New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · Jul 28

iScience: Sound effects on body perception vary with the social support network of individuals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225013525

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

Enhorabuena!

Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you everyone for the great feedback!

Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

We argue that this asymmetry stems from men and women facing different collaboration incentives, rooted in the historical concentration of power in men’s hands. As women gain presence, men pull back. Women, however, still benefit from collaborating with men. Together, but not quite integrated!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

More interestingly, behavioral homophily varies asymmetrically with the proportion of women in a field: it’s lowest in female-majority fields, moderate in male-dominated ones, and peaks at the edge of gender parity but only on the male side (~40% women)

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

First, we looked at how gender homophily in scientific publications has changed over time. One might expect more gender-mixed teams. But (surprise!) gender homophily has increased in all research areas (153) - even after adjusting for structural factors

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

Female authorship has risen across fields in recent decades. But how has this shift affected gender-mixed collaborations in science? To find out, we analyzed gender homophily in 28.2M articles from 15,642 journals indexed in Web of Science (1980–2019).

Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 29

The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019

This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · Jul 25

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981.

@polarportal.bsky.social

Screenshot from polarportal.dk, a website that makes research on the Arctic research conducted by Danish institutions available to the public and researchers. The image shows Greenland in tan and the Greenland Ice Sheet in red and white. The red part indicates melting and covers all except about 20% in the northeast, which is roughly the area higher than 2500 m above Se level.

Below the map is a chart that compares 2025 melting to the 1981-2010 average. The average melting peaks in mid-July at about 35%. For the last few days, melting has occurred over roughly 80% of the area of Greenland, with a maximum melt area of 80.6% on 24 July 2025. This is the highest value in our dataset, which starts in 1981.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Jul 28

Good. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights will pay a heavy price for this, which is light as a feather

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 28

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

Reports detailing killing of children and elderly, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action * Middle East crisis – live updates Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it. In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society. Continue reading...

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · Jul 25

Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tenure and research trajectories | PNAS

Tenure is a cornerstone of the US academic system, yet its relationship to faculty research trajectories remains poorly understood. Conceptually, t...

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · Jul 24

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · Jul 3

Third graduating class of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M. Let’s celebrate!