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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 12h

Join us at INET Oxford (@inetoxford.bsky.social)! I'm hiring one post-doctoral researcher and three research assistants in the field of inequality, social policy, and social mobility to join our research team. Deadline: October 24. Read more and apply: www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Vacancies

Jobs and Vacancies at INET Oxford, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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abgeordnetenwatch @abgeordnetenwatch.de · 9d

„Familienunternehmen“ klingt nach Bäckerei oder Mittelstand. Recherchen des ARD-Magazins Panorama & @investigativ.greenpeace.de zeigen: Dahinter stehen Milliardärsfamilien & Konzerne wie Lidl, Bertelsmann, Rossmann. Von 123 Förderern waren nur 2 echte Mittelständler
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

"Stiftung Familienunternehmen": Vertreter des Mittelstands oder Lobbyist für Superreiche?

Die "Stiftung Familienunternehmen" hat ein mittelständisches Image. Doch offenbar vertritt sie eher die Interessen superreicher Familien und Konzerne. Nach Panorama-Recherchen zählen einige der größte...

www.tagesschau.de

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 15d

Auf dem Weg ins schöne Duisburg!
Freue mich u.a. auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft von @deutschmann.bsky.social. Morgen, 17h #DGS2025

Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 16d

Mittwoch um 17 Uhr in LB 107 beim #DGS2025. Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft

Danke @norawaitkus.bsky.social und Monika Eigmüller für die Organisation!

Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 17d

Bei Lektüre von #Exponentialgesellschaft by @deutschmann.bsky.social
viel gelernt über Ökologie, Wachstum, Stabilisierung. Wichtige Denkanstöße. Vor allem bleibt die Frage: Wie soll ich leben? Welche Kompromisse muss ich und muss die Gesellschaft schließen?

See you in Duisburg #DGS2025 bei AmC3

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you to everyone who joined us at LSE to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Inequalities Institute!

Over two days, our conference featured parallel sessions on diverse themes of inequality, alongside two inspiring keynote lectures and a thought-provoking panel discussion.

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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 19d

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉

His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝

Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

Ozan Aksoy

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 16d

Bei Miosga stellt Jens Spahn die republikanische Gleichschaltung der US Medien als bloße Reaktion auf eine angebliche „Cancel Culture“ der Demokraten dar. Und unterstreicht dabei sehr schön, was die Mär vom linken Meinungsdiktat bei vielen ihrer glühendsten Erzähler immer schon vorbereiten sollte.

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 20d

@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 23d

📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣
New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering:
* Have moral appeals increased over time?
* Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned?
* Are some topics consistently more moralized than others?
osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

osf.io

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Nicole Kapelle @nicolekapelle.bsky.social · 28d

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover).

Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome.

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Sociology on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Maren Toft @marentoft.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is a fantastic project. So well deserved!

Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

www.academictransfer.com

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

doi.org

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 5

This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎉 @norawaitkus.bsky.social has received an ERC Starting Grant!
Her project explores inequality in household debt across countries, people & time, and the moral economy of debt—how we judge debt, debtors & borrowing.
More info 👉 buff.ly/bzMPqmO

ERC Awards Four Starting Grants to Universität Heidelberg

Press Release No. 97/20254 September 2025

www.uni-heidelberg.de

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · Sep 5

👀 Call for Papers 👀

The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

British Journal of Sociology Conference

Find out more about the BJS conference 2026, which will provide an in-person platform for academics across the discipline to advance their research.

www.lse.ac.uk

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️

The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh

#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4

The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK

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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶

In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes.

Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality

Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de

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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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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · Sep 1

WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Universitair docent sociologie

Wil jij studenten inspireren en vernieuwend onderwijs geven? Versterk ons team als universitair docent met expertise in migratie en/of sociale stratificatie.

www.uu.nl

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Aug 4

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · Aug 2

Saskia Ludwig (CDU), war am Freitag Teil eines Panels des MCC - der Orbánschen Kaderschmiede - zusammen mit Max Tichy, Sohn von Roland Tichy, der ebenfalls bei Tichys Einblick arbeitet. In der 1. Reihe im Publikum: Alice Weidel. Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand, sprechen 2x miteinander

Weidel auf dem Weg zum Platz in der ersten Reihe auf dem MCC Feszt

Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand und reden

Ludwig, Tichy und Weidel lächelnd im Gespräch

Ludwig und Weidel (im MCC T-shirt) nach dem Panel, lächelnd im Gespräch

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