Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

For the record I estimate that sociology has only a 0.1 percent chance of destroying humanity in the next decade.

How do refugee crises end? In Dec. 2024, Syrian dictator Assad fled to Russia, ending a regime that displaced millions Would Syrians go back now the regime fell? Our paper tests this with original panel data (2019-2026), ~3k Syrian refugees, spanning fall of Assad osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 1/8

We are growing! This year we’re excited to welcome new lecturers @zsofiaboda.bsky.social and @lukaslehner.bsky.social who will add to our team of Quantitative Social Science expertise

Welcome to UCL, Lukas! One of our new signings for the 26/27 academic season. A strong addition to the QSS squad 📊We’re lucky to have got this one over the line

Lukas Lehner@lukaslehner.bsky.social · 4w ago

Excited to join University College London as Assistant Professor in Economics and Social Policy. @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

A perfect opportunity to work with @zsofiaboda.bsky.social, who has joined QSS at UCL SRI, on her ERC project exploring how stereotypes, social networks, and self-fulfilling prophecies reinforce social inequalities.

Zsófi Boda@zsofiaboda.bsky.social · last mo.

last minute PhD opportunity on stereotypes, social networks, and social inequalities at @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social, two fully funded 4-year positions are available! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The paper factory in action @pengzell.bsky.social ?

This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far). statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/2...

Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Here is a clunky but decently functional script to make a local copy of all your private and public OSF projects. You'll have to decide where to keep them. Maybe a flash drive under your mattress? levarilab.com/osf-backup-t...

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 2027 Kohli Fellowship at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. 📆 Deadline 20 September 2026 Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-gro... @wzb.bsky.social #Postdoc #Fellowship #forSociology

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

At this rate, every course will soon be called X and LLMs

Trust in scientists depends not only on evidence, but also on perceived political identity. That’s one reason I believe academic associations like AAUP should avoid partisan endorsements and protect institutional neutrality. Evidence from our experiment: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Public perception of scientists: Experimental evidence on the role of sociodemographic, partisan, and professional characteristics

Previous research shows that public trust in scientists is often bound up with the messages that they convey and the context in which they communicate. However, in the current study, we examine how th...

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AAUP@aaup.org · 2mo ago

The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.

Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Another reason sociology is vulnerable to these attacks is that it’s such a broad church. Its disciplinary boundaries are highly fluid, making it easy to move in and out of the field and for a wide range of interdisciplinary work to be conflated with sociology and sociologists

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2mo ago

Sociology has epistemological (science/nonscience), methodological (qual/quat), and political (left/right) divides. It's best when these groups overlap (hi, fellow overlappers!). The external force of right-wing attack is forcing the political divide to the fore. Bad, but maybe inevitable.

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Everyone can see this is disastrous, but no one is screaming loudly enough. Years of policy drift have hollowed out the funding model, and now direct cuts are accelerating the damage. But hey, there’s still demand for university merch on Oxford Street!

David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m starting to suspect that many in government think UKHE is too big and actively want courses to close, staff to be sacked, and unis to collapse. But this is hard to say publicly, so instead they go for a funding squeeze, leading to total chaos.

New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜

UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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There’s still time to join us!

Burak Sonmez@buraksonmez.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🤝 We are inviting researchers & labs to join the SSA’s inaugural study. Labs will implement a shared, pre-registered protocol of behavioural tasks across many regions, pooling data for robust evidence! ➡️ Express your interest here: essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Could they also consider banning poverty for under-18s?

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.

What would you randomise in this pathway if you were an economist? Wrong answers only

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Short story about statistical modeling without causal inference gone badly wrong. Just head on the news that preschoolers play 15 minutes less on rainy days. The reporting stressed that the research was "associational" and therefore couldn't tell us why. Huh? 1/

Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Senior Research Officer in Sociology

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent

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New DP @i4replication.bsky.social : An Empirical Assessment of Computational Reproducibility in Sociology. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰

I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups

Seva@seva.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've now seen four separate pieces accusing John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times, you've seen his stuff before) of messing with his data on four separate occasions: 1. isitcredible.com/cases 2. unherd.com/newsroom/the... 3. github.com/James-Traina... 4. blog.albertkuo.me/post/2024-01...

📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...

Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...