Very happy to have received another ERC PoC! In CLEAR STATS, together with Santiago Gómez-Echeverry, Roberta Varriale (Sapienza), Paulina Pankowska (UU), Danila Filipponi, Silvia Loriga and Davide di Laurea (Istat) we are making a major step in detecting data quality. vu.nl/en/news/2026...

The department meeting of the sociology department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam decided unanimously to support the decision of the @isa-sociology.org to suspend ties with the Israeli Sociological Society.

Do you work at a #Sociology department or are you studying Sociology? Consider supporting the petition shorturl.at/qmkZf of supporting the @isa-sociology.org decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society on its failure to take a clear position on the genocide in Gaza.

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The identity of my university... #VUAmsterdam defined by students on their own initiative

My #ERC project has finally it's own website: dynanseproject.eu See there how we study employment trajectories of young and older workers, how we study the role of non-standard employment contracts and how we develop new methods for it using latent variable models!

Commentaar van NRC redactie: "De situatie in Gaza is in één woord ondraaglijk. In n week dat Nederland oorlogsdoden herdenkt met de woorden ‘nooit weer’, worden in een gebied ter grootte van Rotterdam oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd die het voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Wat vindt NRC | Toekijken hoe Israël in Gaza dood en honger zaait is onacceptabel

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A vessel with civilians (including colleague Takis Politis from University of Thessaly) carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was attacked by drones outside Malta. It seems that Israel's immunity to national and international law has no limits... www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Israeli drones hit Gaza aid flotilla in international waters off Malta, NGO says

A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists heading for Gaza was attacked by Israeli drones while in international waters off Malta early Friday, said Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international…

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With this letter, we (208 employees of #VUamsterdam) call the Executive board to stop calling the police to campus to repress student protests shorturl.at/xCcWF

Open letter to the VU Executive Board: We do not want the VU to call the police on our students

(This open letter has been presented to the VU Executive Board on 17 April 2025; it is now closed for new signatures.) On 9 April, the VU called the police on our students. Seven students were arreste...

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New publication of the ERC DYNANSE research team and the PhD thesis of Anika Chowdhury! Addressing the complexity of pre- and post-retirement pathways in the Netherlands by combining (self-)employment status, working hours and income with the use of a novel method (mixture hidden Markov models)

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New article published, first one of PhD-candidate Anika Chowdhury who has done impressive analyses on Dutch register data looking at retirement pathways, available open access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An education-related publication is always a particular moment! This is joint work with several colleagues from VU, UvA, UU, EUR on the development of an open-source statistics database. It is useful for anyone teaching statistics especially for social sciences. doi.org/10.1111/test...

ShareStats: An open statistics item bank developed by a community of instructors in higher education

Gaining knowledge of statistics is important in most (under)graduate programs within the social and behavioral sciences and requires repeated study by students, highlighting the need for good practic...

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Excellent course on mixture models at VU Amsterdam in May/June! Starting from logistic regression and reaching Latent Class Analysis vu.nl/en/education...

Call for panels, Conference, Day of Sociology (19th of June), at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Submit your proposal by January 27th! Call for papers will follow!

PM and minister of Defence of Israel officially wanted by the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...

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Defend public higher education in Greece. Sign the petition against the privatisation bill! forms.gle/oEmNiMRfXEMw...

Temporary agency and on-call work are associated with unstable career paths and limited wage growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...  New publication of @lauraeberlein.bsky.social, Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal and me using wonderful register data from CBS!

Why do Dutch companies use flexible employment contracts? New publication deriving register data from actual company practices doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/irj....

My new colleague Prof Reinoud Stoel from Statistics Netherlands. Welcome to the VU www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/corpor...