A new space for conversation: Gegenwartslese brings together social science, literature & the public. Join us on June 26 in Göttingen: with @steffenmau.bsky.social, @mafaalani.bsky.social & Julia Friedrichs. Register in advance, details below in the flyer. Supported by @kohli-sociology.bsky.social
The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) invites applications for a Postdoc position on family formation among sexual minorities. Apply by 5 May: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...
Part-time, 20 hours a week, Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology as soon as possible for a fixed term for 9 months.
Project on the political economy of gendered violence in North India, requires experience of handling complex survey data at scale
More Cambridge jobs! Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology: Data Collection and Analysis (Part Time, Fixed Term) @camsociology.bsky.social
Further info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD489/r...
A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
PhD summer school 'Terms and Turns of Empire. Interconnecting Concepts and Methods' at Freiburg University, applications open until 31 May 2026. In English, space for up to 10 external participants, accommodation, and (some) travel costs covered.
More info: uni-freiburg.de/empires/summ...
If anything goes wrong, you Engzell, are responsible.
Me to myself, every day:
Breaking: Among members of the “dogs should bite strangers” club, support for dog-biting was driven less by canine liberty than by hostility toward strangers.
Very excited for another Reproduction Salon!! Don’t forget to sign up and see you 29 May in London ☀️
This PhD is absolutely thrilled that her latest publication is out in New Media & Society🔥
Ever came across dating platforms like Ashley Madison? My paper analyzes how such platforms discursively legitimize infidelity in contexts where such practices are widely stigmatized: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
Happy to announce that Claude Code can now write my papers for me and I can focus on my core competence: spending hours fiddling with latex until tables fit on a page
BA panel on Love in the time of tech
What a star panel at Love in the time of tech tonight @britishacademy.bsky.social
New article out now with @clarestovell.bsky.social, which may be of interest to qualitative family researchers! 👇
We consider the idea of internal confidentiality in family research, and how we can protect participant confidentiality when interviewing more than one person in a couple or family.
After 5 years I can finally share a full WP of our project conducting cognitive interviews of life satisfaction reporting.
Main findings:
1. LS scales are psychometrically valid, but...
2. Standard statistical assumptions made when analysing LS data are not credible.
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NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
Vacancy for a teaching associate at our department @camsociology.bsky.social, focus on decolonial/postcolonial sociology
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQV286/t...
Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...
Screenshot of Nockerberg theatre play 2026 depicting Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn
Ich persönlich finde Armut ja unästhetisch
Suspicious that your girl doesn’t love you?
Now you don’t have to guess.
You post her ig URL, and the app brutally distracts you for yet another five minutes from your deep-rooted insecurities
Photo post Gorton and Denton byelection featuring Reform candidate Matt Goodwin and Green’s candidate Hannah Spencer (the latter elected as MP)
My colleagues at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Social Policy unit, are seeking a postdoc for 2-3 years. Great opportunity! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Part of a questionnaire (in German language) asking about participant’s age
Tell me you’re wearing barefoot shoes without telling me…
📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April:
⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate
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⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher
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See you tomorrow at 11a.m for our online reading group!
It's also OK to come if you haven't managed to read the book!
I already rooted against the U.S. before it was cool.
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
englishplaining (noun): that moment when a native English speaker rephrases something you just said, but in smoother and prettier English and everyone suddenly understands and praises them. meanwhile you’re left thinking: wait, wasn’t that exactly what I said? #englishplaining
University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...
For our February reading group we will be discussing Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis.
This is an informal get together. You don't need to have read the piece.
When: 25th February 11am-12pm
Where: Teams (online)
Register here: shorturl.at/kjKoj
Screenshot of a WhatsApp message of a photo of a cat and the text ‘there is a second cat?!?!?’
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