Wonderful to receive this award with @aksoyundan.bsky.social at INAS! It's for our paper that (we hope) sheds some light on a tragic and sociologically puzzling phenomenon.

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 2w ago

👏🏆 Congrats to Dr Ozan Aksoy and @ucl.ac.uk's Aron Szekely on winning the 2026 Robert K. Merton Award from the International Network of Analytical Sociologists! 📝 Won for their 2025 article “Making Sense of Honor Killings". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/articles/oza...

We are so proud of our brilliant Social Sciences with Data Science BSc student, Daniel Jones, taking up a @uclsocialdata.bsky.social summer internship at @financialtimes.com. One of his first contributions 👇

Ministers look at restricting cash payments as disability benefits bill soars

Rise in claims since 2019 has been driven by mental health and neuro-developmental conditions

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📢 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...

👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io

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/...

We'll miss @ruettenauer.bsky.social and be ever grateful for his service. Happy that part of UCL travels with him and please be in touch.

Tobias Rüttenauer@ruettenauer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

After nearly four great years at UCL‘s Social Research Institute, I’m excited to be moving on to C³S at Goethe University Frankfurt: www.c3s-frankfurt.de 🎓🧮🤖 I’m incredibly grateful for all the support and kindness over the years 🤗 and very excited about what’s ahead 🤓🧑‍🏫

If you're a current or recent PhD student based in London and using quantitative methods...we're currently recruiting TAs for next year, get in touch!

Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation? I've got something for you! My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)

Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS

First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...

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Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📝 Research from Turkey finds that visible religious markers like headscarves & beards can reduce perceived trustworthiness among strangers 🤝 This held even among highly religious respondents - challenging the idea that these markers signal trust. 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/reli...

📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚 We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Ozan Aksoy@aksoyundan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

In this preprint, we (@ruettenauer.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I) ask and address two questions: (i) How does immigrant-native #segregation vary across urban areas in Europe? (ii) Which urban area- and country-level characteristics are consistently linked to segregation? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Tobias Rüttenauer@ruettenauer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Staff Working Paper 1147 by B Tracey (BoE) & N van Horen (BoE) shows FTB home purchases rose sharply after 2013 when the deposit requirement was reduced from 10% to 5% by HTB. Gains were concentrated among FTBs unlikely to have relied on family support. 🔗 www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-pape...

Credit constraints and the redistribution of housing wealth

Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.

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Humbled to have received the biennial ‘Best Dissertation Award’ of the German Academy of Sociology at this year’s conference in Mainz! It was a pleasure to present a summary of my thesis. Grateful for all the support and guidance I received over the last years. #AkadSoz25 #sociology

Sebastian E. Wenz@sewenz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And the AS Dissertation Award 2025 goes to... @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social for his dissertation "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate us. Congratulations! #AkadSoz25 #sociology

A reminder that there is about 1 week left to apply for these 2 positions in Quantitative Social Science @sriucl.bsky.social! Application deadline: 10 October. Further details in the link below.

Dingeman Wiertz@dingemanwiertz.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social. It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre. Deadline + link 👇

Are you a UCL Sociologist? Apply to join UCL Sociology Network's Coordinating Group. Contribute to the Network’s wide-ranging programme of activities and share news of important sociological developments tinyurl.com/2ut5dttz

Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉 His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝 Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...

Ozan Aksoy

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A Dutch study explores a key barrier to social integration: strong in-group preferences. One hopeful exception: young people don’t have strong preferences for people of their own ethnicity when it comes to sports activities. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in. More info 👇

Kasimir Dederichs@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️ The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · 11mo ago

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week. Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️ We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations doi.org/10.1093/esr/... Paper in @europeansocreview.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social and Associate Member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social

Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations

Abstract. Civic organizations are often depicted as vehicles for social integration: Since they gather people around common interests and have relatively l

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We have 2 posts available in our Quantitative Social Science centre at @sriucl.bsky.social. It is a wonderful place to work, with great colleagues, exciting degrees, and good promotion prospects. The posts are open to anyone working in the broad space covered by our centre. Deadline + link 👇

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Who remains single? Educational gradients in long-term singlehood across ethnic groups doi.org/10.1111/jomf... Paper in @jmfncfr.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social postdoc @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Associate Member Evelina Akimova and Fellow Nan Dirk de Graaf

Shout out to my @sriucl.bsky.social colleague @ruettenauer.bsky.social who's doing an amazing job at bringing methods to the people His recent output includes two handbook chapters (spatial + panel data), a DiD paper, and a treasure trove of teaching materials online: ruettenauer.github.io

Is there a religious revival in England? @sriucl.bsky.social's David Voas raises questions about a recent report claiming that Gen Z is leading a rise in church attendance after decades of religious decline. It appears the devil is in the data. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2zptnnw3

Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report

In Anglican and Catholic churches, average weekly attendance is down about 20% from pre-pandemic levels.

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