I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Last week, our colleagues from team @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and team @valeriabordone.bsky.social presented their research at #EPC2026 in Bologna! @lilivargha.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social @mvaldes1989.bsky.social @ageingsocvienna.bsky.social @mksicabaraban.bsky.social #Sociology @univie.ac.at

Team Steiber is participating at the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna, Italy. Several members of the team will present their work and organise a pre conference workshop! #Sociology @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social

Team Steiber at the 2026 European Population Conference 3-6 June in Bologna

Team Steiber is participating in the European Population Conference (EPC) 2026 in Bologna, Italy

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How long can parents take leave, and how can they share it? The new EPLP Dataset tracks parenting leave in 21 European countries, 1970-2024, with 33 variables on duration, benefits, flexibility, and incentives for sharing www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... eplp-dataset.org

"I was terminated from my position several times in my career. Each time…I focused all of my energy to figure out what is next. This was the only thing I could control." Katalin Karikó, the powerhouse Nobel laureate who created the mRNA revolution, at @jhu.edu commencement yesterday.

How to Spot a Breakthrough When Everyone Else Sees Failure | Dr. Katalin Karikó

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Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

📢Join this pre- #EPC2026 workshop on 3 June 2026 in Bologna for researchers interested in comparative research using #population register #data! Register by 20 Apr 2026➡️ t.ly/9Uuhx @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @baranowska-rataj.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

We are thrilled about this strong representation of our Department at the #FACES2026 conference in Munich last week! 🚀 #Sociology #SociologyOfTheFamily #FamilyScience @univie.ac.at @nadiasteiber.bsky.social @lilivargha.bsky.social @metzgers.bsky.social

13 Department members at the FACES 2026 conference in Munich

Last week, 13 members of our Department presented their research at the FACES conference ("Families and Challenges in Evolving Societies in the D-A-CH Region and beyond“) in Munich, hosted by the Deut...

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New in ESR Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions? 🌟New #OpenAccess study by @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and #CSiegert constrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Educational hypogamy and gender equality within couples: a review of competing hypotheses and evidence from the Generations and Gender Survey

Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

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Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

📢 New dataset for researchers! The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024. 🔗 eplp-dataset.org

German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna

How to stop the revolving door of German academia

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

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Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows! The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development! wfrn.org/news/announc...

Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.

Lili Vargha@lilivargha.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care. A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.

My time as a Work and Family Researchers Network Early-Career Fellow is soon coming to an end, and I’m very grateful for the academic care. A huge thank you to @Nicole Denier and @yanghu.co.uk for creating such a thoughtful program! It was great to meet so many other fellows and hear their stories.

It was very nice indeed to visit Vienna for a little while, and I am happy it was productive as well. Thank you very much for hosting! Now it's time to write.

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It was really nice having you @mischewu.bsky.social as a visiting research fellow! Also the best timing ever: We still have some days to finish our abstract for #EPC2026 Bologna 🍝

Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien@ifswien.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 Incoming Research Fellow: Maximilian Reichert (13.–17.10.2025) We’re happy to welcome Max Reichert @mischewu.bsky.social from Erasmus University Rotterdam! His work explores how family dynamics and social policy interact across the life course. t.ly/8iHUL

Demographers & sociologists assemble! I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged. #sociology #demography

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE? ✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective. ✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R? Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful! I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work. github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out! We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance. @sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Mundane and the Extreme: Women’s Experiences of Housework and Marital Violence in India - Kausiki Sarma, Yang Hu, 2025

Mainstream theories tend to consider housework a form of labor and its gendered division a result of resource exchange or bargaining and an act of “doing gender...

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We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest. #feministeconomics www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

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📊 Key findings II — Decomposition: - Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs - My results: → GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences → Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work → Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳 I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

Katja Möhring 🦁@katjamoe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Congratulations to Chen-Hao Hsu @uni-bamberg.de for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

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Last week I had the pleasure presenting at #ECSR2025 and meeting many old and new friends 🥳 Stay tuned, preprints are soon coming from longitudinal linked lives approaches using group-based multi-trajectory modeling 🚀