ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.

@klararaiber.bsky.social and I wrote a paper and it is published now! In this study in @actasociologica.bsky.social, we investigate willingness to perform small caregiving tasks for neighbors. We show that anticipated reciprocity increases willingness but previous caregiving experience does not(1/2)

Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia - Scientometrics We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

COVID has reduced the number of papers published by NL-based scholars, but it has not increased the gender gap. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sehr schöne Zusammenfassung der Abwägungen!

📢 Call for submissions for European Population Conference 2026 (3–6 June, Bologna) is open! Organized by EAPS & University of Bologna.

💡 More information: www.eaps.nl/epc/european...

Great! I am confident that I will manage this time haha

This sounds indeed super interesting! I looked up the program and hope to be at the conference if there is a next time.

The paper I had to present today got reject after a similar paper came out during the reviewing process (also rejected for other reasons that I do not agreed with). So I switched up my presentation and made it about publishing tragedies 😅

Were you at my presentation at #ECSR2025 or is the timing of this post a random coincidence? 🤔

if yes, it was not my intention to blame any editor, but happy to spark this discussion and love between editors.

Students, there's no need to use ChatGPT to draft emails to your professors.

Just be polite and direct. No need to stress over the style.

W3 Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 01.10.2025.

#Stellenausschreibung
#Professur

tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/731/universitaetsprofessur-w3-allgemeine-soziologie?page_lang=de

New publication with @katjamoe.bsky.social, M. Visser, and E. Verbakel in @wesjnl.bsky.social

Using a combination of survey and register data in NL, we see that men cargiver were able to improve their wages over time, while wages for women caregivers decreased.
So very similar to the dady bonus...

4️🫂📈 @klararaiber.bsky.social, M.Visser, E.Verbakel & I examine caregiving & wages with 🇳🇱 longitudinal register data: caregiving yields improved wage growth for men, but not for women—highlighting persistent gender inequality. @wesjnl.bsky.social‬
doi.org/10.1177/0950...

Overview of new publications by Katja Möhring and others from https://www.uni-bamberg.de/sfa/

Very proud that 5 of my papers have recently been published 🤩! 🫶 to my co-authors!!!
1️Employment trajectories during Corona😷🔀
2️Motherhood penalty in wealth👩‍👧‍👦💰
3️Support for a right to work from home🏠✅
4️Wage development of family caregivers🫂📈
5️Handbook article on longitudinal analyses🧮👩‍🏫
Time to read📚🤓⬇️

Ariane Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @klararaiber.bsky.social show that caregiving improves cognitive functioning for both men and women in later life. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very interesting piece and speaks to probably many more parents!

The political consequences of the mental load Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

A Venn diagram shows overlapping circles labeled: "Your Paper", "The Part You're Excited About", "The Part People Actually Read", and "The Part One Reviewer Insisted Your Paper Must Have." The last circle is completely outside the two middle ones.

Sad but true #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #ErrantScience

New paper out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social!

A. Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social and I find that cargiving is associated with better cognitive health - so some positive effect for a change

Mega! Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🥳🥳

Come work with us!

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

GESIS Workshop Geodata and Spatial Regression Analysis 09 to 11 July 2025 Tobias Rüttenauer University College London

Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture. Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques!

➡️ tinyurl.com/07-25-geodat...

📢 Call for Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Network for Empirical-Analytical Social Research on Muslims (NAFS) on September 15 & 16 @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt, Germany.

Call is here: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170436331/Cf...?

Thanks for sharing! 👍

Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open!

It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.

Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow

About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

Promovendus: Meer uren werkt! | Radboud Universiteit Als Promovendus: Meer uren werkt! werken bij Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen? Bekijk hier de vacature!

We are looking for a PhD candidate!

💡 Create and evaluate interventions designed to lower work-care conflict for family caregivers
📍Sociology department at Radboud University in Nijmegen but part of a bigger project
✅️ Dutch language skills required
💰 Four year fulltime

www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

Budget cuts in higher education. Now what? The coalition agreement includes the largest budget cuts in higher education since the 1980s. What does this mean for the University of Amsterdam (UvA)? What is the process? What actions are being tak...

Today we are striking against the planned budget cuts in higher education at the University of Amsterdam! This is part of a larger relay strike. 🟥

For more info see: www.uva.nl/en/current/b...

And

woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/02/aank...

#doehetniet @woinactie.bsky.social

New framework highlights limits of prediction in computational science Researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science have outlined a framework for understanding the limits of predictive accuracy in a correspondence article published today in Nature…

🤔 How accurate can predictive machines be and is there a limit to their accuracy? buff.ly/O9DpCWu @crahal.com and Jiani Yan's recent @natcomputsci.bsky.social correspondence outlines a framework for understanding the limits of predictive accuracy @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social

About the position • 3-year Ph.D. position (60%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme) • Can be extended by another 17 months • Workplace is Zurich What will be your main tasks? • Conduct a Ph.D. thesis in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects • Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach • Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA and MA levels • Take part in doctoral training programmes offered by UZH and IKMZ • Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required What should you bring to the team? • Master’s degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline • Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory • Expertise in quantitative research methods • Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics • Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory What do we offer you? • Great background and support for high quality research • Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division • Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere • Excellent track record of the department in academic career development How to apply Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post): • Letter of motivation (including ideas for your Ph.D. project; max. 2 pages) • Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and presentations, if applicable) • MA thesis or equivalent, research publications if already applicable • Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025 Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then The position starts in April or by agreement

About the position • 3-year postdoctoral position (80%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme) • One position can be extended up to 3 years, the other up to 6 years • Workplace is Zurich What will be your main tasks? • Conduct research in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects • Lead your own projects and collaborate in team projects • Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach • Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA, MA, and Ph.D. levels • Take part in supporting and training predocs at the division • Engage in third party funding activities • Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required What should you bring to the team? • Doctoral degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline • Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory • Expertise in quantitative research methods • Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics • Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory What do we offer you? • Great background and support for high quality research • Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division • Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post): • Letter of motivation (including ideas for future research projects; max. 2 pages) • Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and conference presentations) • Full-texts of up to three sample publications & PhD dissertation • Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025 Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then The position starts in April or by agreement

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs.

If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂

International applications welcome!

Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...