Extremely popular in education psychology: ‘math self-concept’ (which literally involves asking people ‘do you think you are good at doing math’) as an explanation for mathematics achievement🤯

I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects!

You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible.

#sociology #demography #economics #statistics

Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…

🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper &
@robgruijters.bsky.social!

We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@sriucl.bsky.social

If this means the decades of sociology using twins to estimate heritability is wrong, has someone written that up for non-genetics people to understand? Seems important

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children Abstract. Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same

New article in @sfjournal.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and I. Lievore on the effect of edu expansion among parents on children's achievement

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands among parents?

Short answer: yes

1/2

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

The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.

Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...

Just can across this brutal book review from 1995…

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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.

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.

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

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

#BookSky

📣 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

🚨 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/...

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

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

🚨🎓 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...

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.

Sounds interesting, I’ll have a read!

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/...

‘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

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

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

"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...

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...

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...

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....

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

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

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...

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-...

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

@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...

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

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...

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...

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)