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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Aug 20

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Valeria Bordone @valeriabordone.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are seeking to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in Sociology with focus on #QuantitativeMethods @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

For the call and how to apply 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Jun 27

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

🚨Please share widely!

#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

wzb.eu

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jun 27

So proud - check out the fantastic work of @stinasiegert.bsky.social on parenthood and poverty within couples #PhDone

Christina Siegert @stinasiegert.bsky.social · Jun 26

Defended my PhD on Monday and received a prize for it on Wednesday! 🥳🍾 Many thanks to my supervisor @nadiasteiber.bsky.social, examiners Leen Vandecasteele and Wilfred Uunk, and the Theodor Körner Fonds for their support and recognition.

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Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social · Jun 10

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis!

Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children?

→ When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Jun 10

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: @fabriberna.bsky.social & @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…among those w/ a low PGI EA.” @eui-eu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Guy Abel @guyabel.bsky.social · May 2

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org

We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage

🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 1

"Changing Minds: How Academic Fields Shape Political Attitudes"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Martin Halla @mhalla.bsky.social · Apr 4

🇦🇹 Do you want to add your own survey question to the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel #ASEP? There is now a call for open modules for ASEP wave 2 (autumn 2026): www.statistik.at/fileadmin/pa...

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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · Apr 16

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Apr 5

In a shift, American women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman. As one researcher told Stephanie H. Murray, “understanding the dynamics of these couples is key to understanding the future of marriage”: https://theatln.tc/MTCP3Ef0

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Andreas Bergthaler @andreasbergthaler.bsky.social · Apr 2

Für die Forschung sind die Zeiten vielerorts schwieriger geworden. In #Wien wurden die Bedingungen stetig besser. Ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Trend anhält, die Unterstützung dafür stark bleibt und werde meinen Teil dazu beitragen. Ich lebe und forsche gerne in Wien! #IchForscheGernInWien

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Polcom Vienna @polcomvienna.bsky.social · Apr 2

Für unser Team der Political Communication Research Group bietet Wien hervorragende Rahmenbedingungen.
#IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien 1/3

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 31

In a shift, American women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman. As one researcher told Stephanie H. Murray, “understanding the dynamics of these couples is key to understanding the future of marriage”:

The New ‘Marrying Down’

Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.

www.theatlantic.com

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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 Call for Papers!
We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna.
📆 Deadline: May 31, 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/ywetcthm
#WiCVienna #demography

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Harald Oberhofer @ho2604.bsky.social · Feb 27

#Registerforschung im #Regierungsprogramm:

1️⃣ Alle Register bis Juli 26 im #AMDC.
2️⃣ Erhöhung der Basisfinanzierung des AMDC bei gleichzeitiger Senkung der Projektkosten auf int. Niveau.
3️⃣ Langfristige Absicherung des ASEP im Falle einer positiven Evaluierung.

@registerforschung.bsky.social

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jan 19

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

www.sciencespo.fr

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Nov 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in in the field of Health and Sustainability | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (10 Jan 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Nov 29

Congrats Sandrine 🥳

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Nov 28

Very thankful for reghdfe and ivreghdfe.

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Pablo Gracia @pablogracia.bsky.social · Oct 23

🆕 2 JOBS at the ERC-funded DIGINEQ project!

* Join my team at CED/UAB in Barcelona!

* 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc

* Topics: Adolescent Wellbeing; Social Inequalities; Digital Media; Computational Social Sciences

* Deadline: December 3, 2024

Link: pablogracia-sociology.com/jobs

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Fartein Ask Torvik @torvik.bsky.social · Nov 21

How do parents matter for their children's heath? In our new paper, we find that parents’ education and income strongly predict early adult mortality. However, once we account for children's own school performance, social background is no longer important. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

School performance and the social gradient in young adult death in Norway - Nature Human Behaviour

This study, using population-wide data from Norway, found that school performance was a stronger predictor of young adult death than parental education or earnings and largely explained the socioecono...

www.nature.com

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨 Job alert: Postdoc in Computational Social Science, especially text analysis in the MULTIREP @ERC_Research
project at Uni Vienna @Dept_Government
. If you do quantitative text analysis & are interested in pol representation, this 👇 is for you 🧵 (1/4)

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 19

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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