One grant application writer's expanding spell-check dictionary of slightly grandiose but unusual terms.

Three weeks ago, our article "Local Communities, Distant Origins" was published in @amjsoc.bsky.social. It draws on data from 25,000+ ethnoreligious organizations. You can work with that data, too! Download it here: Ethnoreligious Infrastructures in Germany Dataset (ErIGDa) doi.org/10.7802/2900

Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt by Amanda McMillan Lequieu American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1255-1257, March 2026. #sociology link

Local Communities, Distant Origins: How Cultural Distance and Local Context Shape Immigrant Ethnoreligious Infrastructures American Journal of Sociology, Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 1182-1221, March 2026. #sociology link

Interesting new preprint on how political preferences of Turkish emigrants in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland evolve, and the extent to which they resemble those of non-immigrant Turkish peers, by @jwied.bsky.social , Mareike Heller, and Serhat Karakayali.

Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv)@socpaperbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When Cleavages Travel: Transnational Updating in Turkish Diaspora Voting Why do emigrants’ political preferences resemble those of peers at home? Research in political sociology suggests considerable stability in emigrants’ home-country political attitudes over the migration expe #sociology link

Heute wünsche ich mir, jemand in der Bundesregierung würde mal die strategische Wohnungsreserve des Bundes anzapfen.

They don't teach Sorokin in Migration Studies, do they?

Refugee integration researchers: send us your abstracts!

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨🚨🚨 We are organizing a conference to discuss spatial dynamics in refugee integration 🎤 Keynotes: Jenny Phillimore, Wolfgang Dauth 📆 November 9th/10th @lifbi.bsky.social in Bamberg. 🏁 Application deadline: April 30th 2026. Consider applying! More info and CfP: www.lifbi.de/UneTra-Confe...

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

65.1🦋 #FarRight amplifiers 🔊 @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social show how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties, particularly around Islam, migration & cultural issues. #AfD

Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream - Volume 65 Issue 1

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Send us abstracts!

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call for Papers: My department @wzb.bsky.social is organizing a conference on the application of Cultural Evolution Theory to migration/diversity topics. I find this very exciting. Consider applying and share widely! wzb.eu/en/node/89129

Periodic reminder that this is happening. We particularly invite proposals by social scientists (broadly conceived) and migration experts!

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call for Papers: My department @wzb.bsky.social is organizing a conference on the application of Cultural Evolution Theory to migration/diversity topics. I find this very exciting. Consider applying and share widely! wzb.eu/en/node/89129

🚨🚨🚨 We are organizing a conference to discuss spatial dynamics in refugee integration 🎤 Keynotes: Jenny Phillimore, Wolfgang Dauth 📆 November 9th/10th @lifbi.bsky.social in Bamberg. 🏁 Application deadline: April 30th 2026. Consider applying! More info and CfP: www.lifbi.de/UneTra-Confe...

New analytical sociology textbook just dropped

Andrea Leverentz@amlevere.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality.” State. Approved. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Can culture help to explain prejudice? We (@maxschaub.bsky.social) explore this question by examining the rise of antisemitism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. @wzb.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social @politikuhh.bsky.social @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

It's cold here. Time for gulasch I think.

Bleiben oder gehen ❓ Das fragen sich auch in Deutschland lebende Migrantinnen und Migranten. Ergebnisse der IAB-Online-Befragung „International Mobility Panel of Migrants in Germany“ zeigen, dass Auswanderungsüberlegungen und -pläne regional sehr unterschiedlich ausgeprägt sind. (1/2)

🚨🚨🚨 We are organizing a conference to discuss spatial dynamics in refugee integration 🎤 Keynotes: Jenny Phillimore, Wolfgang Dauth 📆 November 9th/10th @lifbi.bsky.social in Bamberg. 🏁 Application deadline: April 30th 2026. Consider applying! More info and CfP: www.lifbi.de/UneTra-Confe...

Growth is up 0.2% percentage points, but the snow is all gone now.

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 8mo ago

my country has 0 percent growth, but hey at least the landing page of the statistical office has animated snowflakes

Periodic reminder that this is happening. We particularly invite proposals by social scientists (broadly conceived) and migration experts!

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call for Papers: My department @wzb.bsky.social is organizing a conference on the application of Cultural Evolution Theory to migration/diversity topics. I find this very exciting. Consider applying and share widely! wzb.eu/en/node/89129

A study on publication time focussing on differences between the gender-composition of authors. "Sample averages show that all female-authored articles take about 9 % longer to accept [...] while female solo-authored articles take about 20 % longer to accept" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whoever runs the ESR account surely loves exclamation marks!!

Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne. This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world. bit.ly/soziologisch...

Title and abstract (300-500 words) can be sent until 15 March 2026 to mad-office@wzb.eu. WZB will cover travel and accommodation costs for invited participants. See wzb.eu/de/veranstal... for more details.

Thrilled to see this article in print by my former colleagues at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children - Jonas Radl, William Foley, Lea Katharina Kröger, Patricia Lorente, Alberto Palacios-Abad, Heike Solga, Ja...

Cognitive effort (i.e., the mobilization of mental resources for task performance) is essential to equality of opportunity and meritocracy because it epitomizes...

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Brilliant article just out in PLOSOne: The overlap of gender and ethnicity/SES in school classes has large effects on friendship segregation. The authors develop an easy fix: Class placement minimizing gender consolidation decreases segregation by 4–7 percentage points. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Call for Papers: My department @wzb.bsky.social is organizing a conference on the application of Cultural Evolution Theory to migration/diversity topics. I find this very exciting. Consider applying and share widely! wzb.eu/en/node/89129