Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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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Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

The largest Danish retailer, Salling Group, will mark all products from Europe with a star, helping customers select European rather than American products. The continents are drifting apart at both the macro and micro level. Danish news story here: www.dr.dk/nyheder/peng...

Vil du boykotte amerikanske varer? Nu sætter dagligvarekæmpe sort stjerne ved europæiske varer

Fremover får kunder i Netto, Føtex og Bilka nemmere ved at vælge europæiske varer.

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Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

I have received a request to review from the Israel Science Foundation today. I have declined it. My email reply below. My position is similar to @philipncohen.com : I do not collaborate with institutions linked to the Israeli government. But I do collaborate with individual researchers.

Sollte es dereinst noch liberale Historiker geben, dann werden sie ueber das 21. Jahrhundert schreiben: Erneut verfiel das liberale Buergertum einer irrationalen Furcht, dieses Mal nicht vor Kommunisten, dieses Mal vor den Woken (USA) und den Gruenen/Shitbuergern (Deutschland).

We have an open position for an Associate Professor in Sociology working in the field of quantitative inequality and stratification research at Roskilde University, Denmark. Please share or apply! tinyurl.com/2u4mx2ve

Associate Professor in Sociology

Offering a high-performing, large and truly interdisciplinary social science environment, the Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE) at Roskilde Unive

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Gestern hat die SZ über unserere (mit @mschaeffer.bsky.social ) Forschung zur Sekundärmobilität von Flüchtlingen in Deutschland berichtet: Wohnungsnot verschärft Integrationsprobleme www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gefl... Die Studie gibt es OA hier: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wohnungsnot verschärft Integrationsprobleme für Geflüchtete

Neue Studie: Geflüchtete ziehen vor allem in Städte mit hoher Arbeitslosigkeit, weil dort Wohnungen billig sind. Etwa nach Ostdeutschland.

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Flüchtlinge in Deutschland ziehen oft in wirtschaftlich schwache Städte mit hoher Arbeitslosigkeit, um günstigen Wohnraum finden/ Refugees in Germany often move to economically weak cities with high unemployment to find affordable housing. Research by @jwied.bsky.social & @mschaeffer.bsky.social

Spatial overlap: trade-offs in refugees’ residential choices

Social science research gives rise to what we call the ‘refugee mobility puzzle’: While restrictions on the freedom of residence limit refugees’ socio-economic integration, those who do not face su...

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Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 2y ago

Zu unserer Studie zur Sekundärmobilität Geflüchteter gibt es jetzt auch eine Pressemitteilung: www.wzb.eu/de/pressemit...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Open call for a fully funded PhD scholarship starting September 1st. Deadline for applications is March 2nd. Do not miss this rare opportunity to pursue your own research idea and earn a PhD degree. Read more in link below 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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Putting the focus on causal inference in Stats2 for bachelor students went fine. But crafting exam questions that truly test application is tricky! Want to assess their ability to apply causal inference, not just identify limitations of observational data. But how in take home exams? Any ideas?

Merlin Schaeffer@mschaeffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Anyone else teaching multiple OLS to sociology undergrads and putting the focus on causal inference with Angrist & Pischke's "Mastering Metrics"? Would love to chat and share ideas. Here's my material: merlin-ols.netlify.app

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

General Instructions

Submission of Papers The European Sociological Review publishes original research articles in all fields of Sociology. Submissions should usually be around 8,0

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Refugees in 🇩🇪 are not allowed to relocate for some time after arrival. We know this is bad for integration. So, once they are allowed to, refugees move to places with opportunity, right? On average: no, as @mschaeffer.bsky.social and I show in a new publication @scmrjems.bsky.social . Thread👇

In 2024 work in @pnas.org, @amir-ghasemian.bsky.social and I explore “The Structure and Function of Antagonistic Ties in Village Social Networks.” At the population level, the existence of antagonism has important implications for the overall structure and function of human groups. #HNL 1/

🚨New publication alert🚨 What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky

Just published on APSR First View: "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bsky is being flooded with German speaking AI powered bots. A thread on why this is important, ultimately making all social media is unusable. #deutschland #trolls #AI #election 1/ What happened? All these responses to a @zeit.de post have something in common (spoiler: they are not real):

European Sociological Review is on Bluesky! @europeansocreview.bsky.social Follow it for alerts and new initiatives

This work has implications for a radical idea: diseases formerly thought to be biologically non-communicable (e.g., obesity, depression, hypertension, arthritis, etc.) may actually be (somewhat!) communicable, via the spread of the microbiome. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 13/

Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks - Nature

An investigation into the relationship between network structure and gut microbiome composition among people living in 18 isolated Honduras villages reveals that strain-sharing can be mediated by...

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We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

'Experimental Sociology' by Davide Barrera, Klarita Gërxhani, Bernhard Kittel, @luismmiller.bsky.social & @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social. Gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, different designs, and methodological controversies in experimental sociology. 📚 cup.org/3Cld4M6 📚

Why does integration sometimes lead to more #discrimination? In our survey experiment on the “integration paradox“, immigrants & descendants who learned about research on discrimination against immigrants were (20% of SD) more likely to disclose personal experiences. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?

The “integration paradox” posits that seemingly well-established immigrants and their descendants tend to report more discrimination compared to their more marginalized peers. This study investigates...

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In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? The answer: learning curves.

Why are civilians abused and killed in during conventional war? Using data from Ukraine, Julius Koch and I put forward a new explanation: The threat to combatants posed by long-range weapon technology.   The paper is here: osf.io/z38sq/ , and we would be grateful for comments!

Thanks to @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding this research!

Merlin Schaeffer@mschaeffer.bsky.social · 2y ago

(1/7) 📢 New research alert! Even when people are shown clear evidence of #discrimination, it doesn‘t change their support for anti-discrimination policies. Read @kkrakows.bsky.social, @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, and my article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social to find out why: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

(1/7) 📢 New research alert! Even when people are shown clear evidence of #discrimination, it doesn‘t change their support for anti-discrimination policies. Read @kkrakows.bsky.social, @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, and my article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social to find out why: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...

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Does childhood exposure to coethnics impede or promote the acquisition of citizenship? In a new article in @pnas.org, I show that the modest presence of coethnic peers in school increases migrant children’s probability of getting 🇩🇰 citizenship later in life. 🧵👇 1/15 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...