The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ

New ESR paper: In traditional Italy, income positively predicts parenthood for men/women, especially among high-income couples. This is at odds with classic sex-specialisation theory, implying high economic prerequisites/stratification of parenthood under rising childlessness doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

I am hiring! A postdoctoral position (100%, 3 years, renewable) is available at the University of Potsdam. The successful candidate will contribute to research on education and the life course and to teaching. Application deadline: August 15, 2026. See: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/socedlico...

New ETV out for everyone! I’m joined by @fabriberna.bsky.social to discuss his work on sociology of luck, how luck has been downplayed in the field, and what comes of expanding the concept! Enjoy!

Sociology of Luck with Fabrizio Bernardi — Embrace The Void

My guest this week is Fabrizio Bernardi (@fabriberna.bsky.social), a Sociologist at UNED in Madrid who works on educational inequality, social mobility, and social demography. He’s also the editor at ...

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In “Wildfires & Birth Outcomes,” @conteristo.bsky.social & @mariarubiocab.bsky.social assess how exposure to wildfire & PM2.5 during pregnancy is associated w/ lower birth weight & increased risk of LBW & preterm birth. @mpidr.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Thrilled to see my latest paper published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! 📊 ​In this study, I look into how partnership trajectories shape fertility recuperation and the key role education plays. Check out the full open-access paper below! 👇 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Are partnership trajectories associated with fertility recuperation? @cristinasuero.bsky.social shows that women with multiple partners are more likely to recuperate births by shortening birth intervals, particularly the highly educated. 📄Full paper: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Are partnership trajectories associated with fertility recuperation? @cristinasuero.bsky.social shows that women with multiple partners are more likely to recuperate births by shortening birth intervals, particularly the highly educated. 📄Full paper: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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

Young men aren't the whole story. Our new preprint on antifeminist attitudes across Europe by gender and age 👇

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1/4 🗣️ Has feminism gone too far? In a new preprint with @stinasiegert.bsky.social, we analyze how agreement with this statement might vary across genders and age groups in Europe. Read the full preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📢 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...

Neue Aufmerksamkeit für die Forschung unserer Professorin für #Sozialstrukturanalyse und #Quantitative Methoden Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social #Soziologie

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Women who out-earn their partners through education face a smaller child penalty

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

Tomorrow in Madrid! GEPS/UNED Inequality and Social Demography seminar Arnout van de Rijt (EUI) “What Drives the Matthew Effect in Science Funding: Money or Status?” Jorge Cavodeassi Room, UNED, Calle Bravo Murillo 38, Madrid May 7 (7:00–8:30 pm) Followed as usual by some drinks

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Luck and Predictability in the Life Course

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

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🎉 An exciting new project just startet in April! #STEMPATHS More info ➡️ www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/detail-ne... Stay tuned! @univie.ac.at #Sociology #STEM #women #career

Project start in April: STEMPATHS

Manuel T. Valdés, Nadia Steiber and Laura Zilian are project leaders for ‘Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence’

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Manuel T. Valdés@mvaldes1989.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy to announce that the STEMPATHS project starts today, led by Laura Zilian, @nadiasteiber.bsky.social, and myself at the University of Vienna! 🚀 We employ Austrian register data to study women's underrepresentation in the STEM sector. 🧵 More info 👇 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/funding/d... (1/5)

Entre las nuevas titulaciones de la UNED el proximo año empieza un master semi-presencial de "Investigación sobre desigualdades sociales" Más información: blogs.uned.es/mads/

NEW WORKING PAPER OUT! 🚨 I provide a detailed accounting of successive reforms that extended compulsory education in Spain. The paper defines precisely affected cohorts, geographical variation, and the impact on enrollment rates Read it here doi.org/10.31235/osf... See the thread for more🧵 1/5

Happy to announce that the STEMPATHS project starts today, led by Laura Zilian, @nadiasteiber.bsky.social, and myself at the University of Vienna! 🚀 We employ Austrian register data to study women's underrepresentation in the STEM sector. 🧵 More info 👇 www.oeaw.ac.at/en/funding/d... (1/5)

Data:Research:Austria

Mit dem neuen Förderprogramm Data:Research:Austria fördert die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) Forschungsvorhaben im Bereich der Register-/Mikrodatenforschung, bei denen Daten zur gr...

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Podéis consultar toda la información sobre el congreso y el envío de comunicaciones aquí: congreso2026.fes-sociologia.com

⏰ Últimas horas para enviar comunicaciones al XVI Congreso Español de Sociología! 🔜 El plazo de envío se cierra esta noche. Si estáis pensando en presentar vuestro trabajo, todavía estáis a tiempo de hacerlo.

Al casero le pagas la hipoteca de la casa que te alquila. Pero le sobran 400 euros todos los meses, que los ahorra para la entrada de otro piso que también alquilará. Asi sucesivamente Este es el problema de vivienda. Es rentismo y especulación, y está partiendo a la sociedad

Happy to share our new paper in Comparative Migration Studies, with @hcebolla.bsky.social , @borchgrevink.bsky.social , and Inmaculada Serrano, within @equalstrength.bsky.social, where we show that #Radical-Right electoral gains increase anti-Muslim #HateCrime across Europe. shorturl.at/UDGh9

The tipping point of intolerance: radical-right elections and terrorist attacks as catalysts for anti-Muslim hate crime in Europe - Comparative Migration Studies

Comparative Migration Studies - This paper provides a cross-country analysis of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Europe, using ODHIR-OSCE data for 30 countries between 2016 and 2022. We systematically...

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📣 Os recordamos que hasta el 8 de marzo sigue abierto el plazo para presentar comunicaciones para el XVI Congreso Español de Sociología. 📍 Bilbao | 15–17 de julio de 2026 🗓 Plazo de envío: 19 de enero – 8 de marzo 🔗 Más información y call completa: congreso2026.fes-sociologia.com/wp-content/u...

ECSR Thematic Conference "Life Course and Social Stratification", University of Trento (Italy), 23-24 April 2026 Submit your abstract to: csis@unitn.it Deadline for abstract submissions: 22 February 2026 For full details, please visit the conference website: sites.google.com/unitn.it/ecs...

Life Course & Social Stratification

Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

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For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

The socioeconomic patterning of GB's fast-food outlets and supermarkets "More deprived areas consistently had higher densities of fast-food outlets than less deprived areas. The gap in fast-food outlet density between these areas grew between 2011-and 2024". 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and supermarkets: A repeated cross-sectional study of area-level deprivation and food outlet density from 2011 to 2024

Although previous research has demonstrated socioeconomic differences in the distribution of food outlets, no study to date has examined these pattern…

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New paper! Happy to share a review on hate crime, that I conducted within the framework of @equalstrength.bsky.social Highlights: 1️⃣Contextual shocks → hate crime spikes 2️⃣Blind spots in who we study 3️⃣Stronger victim support + better reporting systems needed www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mapping Hate Crime Research in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

This study presents a scoping review of the academic literature on hate crimes in Europe over the past decade. From an initial pool of 2536 studies, 76 met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed ...

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1️⃣ Hoy, #DíaInternacionalDeLaEducación, compartimos la investigación de nuestra compañera Dulce Manzano junto a Julia Cordero-Coma (@ucm.es) y @mvaldes1989.bsky.social (@univie.ac.at).

Do not miss our article published at @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Using content analysis and survey data, we show how generalist influencers in consumer markets produce anti-feminist content and how it can shape, reinforce, or shift public attitudes toward feminism

Nueva evidencia de un espejismo recurrente en la educación española; en este caso, a nivel de universidad. La prima salarial de la universidad privada desaparece al descontar el efecto del origen social. Informe de Ismael Sanz para FUNCAS www.funcas.es/prensa/el-ni...