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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · 9d

Just can across this brutal book review from 1995…

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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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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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Aug 18

Helpful piece by Benjamin Elbers explaining the difference between the D and the H index in studying segregation: elbersb.de/public/posts... #Sociology

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · Jul 19

#BookSky

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · Jul 6

One or two lectureships in the sociology department at Uppsala.
Excellent applicants wanted!

Sociology Department Uppsala University @uusociologydep.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 We’re happy to share a new opportunity in our department!
Check out the details and apply here:
🔗 www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...
#JobOpening #UppsalaUniversity #AcademicJobs

En till två biträdande universitetslektorer i sociologi - Uppsala universitet

En till två biträdande universitetslektorer i sociologi, Sociologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

liu.se

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are pleased to announce that the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting 2026 will be held at the campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville.
Conference dates: May 20–22, 2026.
Theme: Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South
Stay tuned! Submissions will begin soon.

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Jun 9

Sounds interesting, I’ll have a read!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Jun 6

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 3

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · May 7

"Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student — or even a human." Yup, sounds familiar! nymag.com/intelligence...

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

nymag.com

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Apr 30

Fascinating findings from the Global Flourishing Study (www.nature.com/collections/...): no correlation whatsoever between GDP and human flourishing. Indonesia ranks highest, Japan lowest. Full table: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Apr 15

In its letter, the White House demanded that Harvard accept a group of political commissars who would monitor all hiring and student admissions to ensure they were ideologically acceptable to Trump. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring. By August 2025, the University shall
commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its
competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for
viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually
viewpoint diverse. This audit shall begin no later than the summer of 2025 and shall proceed
on a department-by-department, field-by-field, or teaching-unit-by-teaching-unit basis as
appropriate. The report of the external party shall be submitted to University leadership and
the federal government no later than the end of 2025. Harvard must abolish all criteria,
preferences, and practices, whether mandatory or optional, throughout its admissions and
hiring practices, that function as ideological litmus tests. Every department or field found to
lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within
that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity; every teaching unit found to
lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by admitting a critical mass of students who will
provide viewpoint diversity. If the review finds that the existing faculty in the relevant
department or field are not capable of hiring for viewpoint diversity, or that the relevant
teaching unit is not capable of admitting a critical mass of students with diverse viewpoints,
hiring or admissions within that department, field, or teaching unit shall be transferred to the
closest cognate department, field, or teaching unit that is capable of achieving viewpoint
diversity. This audit shall be performed and the same steps taken to establish viewpoint
diversity every year during the period in which reforms are being implemented, which shall
be at least until the end of 2028

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Mar 21

New publication! We assessed stakeholder perspectives on Ghana's Free Senior High School policy. Findings show that the policy increased access & reduced the financial burden on parents, but also had several unintended adverse impacts.
Full study (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Mar 12

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

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Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social · Feb 11

More supreme public service from Ben Jann @unibern.bsky.social: the Stata crosswalk package, which replaces iscogen 🫡

Rapidly recode ISCO codes to an even wider range of occupational scales and class schemes, including the Occupational Earning Potential scale

github.com/benjann/cros...

GitHub - benjann/crosswalk: Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding)

Stata module to recode variable based on crosswalk table (bulk recoding) - benjann/crosswalk

github.com

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INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · Feb 4

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open!

This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography.

Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon).
More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Feb 11

Here's just some of the things IES contracts pay for:

-National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
-What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
-Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
-U.S. participation in TIMSS/PISA
-Large-scale evaluations of ed interventions (NCEE)
-Regional Ed Laboratories

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Emanuela Struffolino @emstruffolino.bsky.social · Feb 7

@raabm.bsky.social and I will teach an online introduction to #SequenceAnalysis in #R at @icpsrsummer.bsky.social in June 23-25, 2025. Info: web.cvent.com/event/ab4981...

2025 ICPSR Summer Program Registration.

The Summer Program offers excellent opportunities for training in research design, analytic strategies, statistical methods, and data management.

web.cvent.com

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Jan 31

To my Canadian and Mexican friends hit by the absurd Trump tariffs, I say: do this!

You can fight back by hitting the US oligarchy

👇👇👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman

Unlike tariffs, a new form of protectionism could target climate-wrecking, untaxed corporations and their billionaire owners

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Jan 17

Aan de andere kant schijnt het in de VS wel zo te zijn: zie @jonathanmijs.com compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Waarschijnlijk hangt het ook vanaf over wat voor polarisatie we het hebben (cultureel, politiek, economisch, sociale netwerken)

Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020

As income inequality in the United States has reached an all-time high, commentators from across the political spectrum warn about the social implications of these economic changes. America, they fea...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rob Gruijters @robgruijters.bsky.social · Jan 17

Goed stuk maar ik vraag me af of het empirisch klopt dat de kloof tussen praktisch and theoretisch geschoolden nu groter is dan vroeger: @hermwerf.bsky.social zegt van niet www.aup.nl/en/book/9789....

Een kloof van alle tijden

Van het onderwijs wordt gezegd dat het in toenemende mate bepalend is voor allerlei kansen, gedragingen en oriëntaties. Goede vooruitzichten op de arbeidsmarkt, deelname aan de politiek, het bezoek aa...

www.aup.nl

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