Trust in science in the United States @nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Out today in @nature.com our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive, four-decade dataset of annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that global migration has nearly tripled since 2000. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in PNAS! We show that becoming a grandparent substantially reduces employment and earnings, especially for women. At the same time, grandparents go more to the doctor for respiratory infections, but less for mental health conditions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The cost of caring: Gendered health and labor market effects of grandparenthood | PNAS

While the effects of the transition to parenthood are well researched, less is known about how the transition to grandparenthood affects health and...

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On 10 June, I am going to give a talk at the IHS in Vienna on Party Competition and the Normalization of the Radical Right. If you are around, you can sign up with the link below. I am at the IHS for the whole week, so do reach out if you'd like to meet up. www.ihs.ac.at/news-and-eve...

👋 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

Building a research funding programme to look into questions of transformations in our societies in Europe in the labour market, in education, in social policy, in regard to the green transition, etc. That’s our task here in Krakow from May 19-20, hosted by the excellent team of @ncn.gov.pl

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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„Mothers saw a significant decline in their chance of getting tenure (dropping by 35% three to four years after birth, and 23% lower after eight years) than if they hadn’t had children, whereas fathers experienced no discernible change.“ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why

Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.

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📢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

I have a 5-year Senior Research Fellow position open! This is linked to my Academy Professorhip that launched in January. I am looking for a person with strong methods skills, cv sufficient for an adjunct professor (”dosentti”, a bit similar to habilitation), and supervision experience.

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚀 We’re hiring! Senior Research Fellow (5 years) at @utu.fi / INVEST Flagship Research Centre Join the Research Council of Finland –funded #STRATEQ project on Equality of Opportunity in the era of AI, automation & social polarisation — led by @janierola.net. ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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🚨 Are Gen Z gender gaps in gender equality attitudes really as pronounced as perceived? In a new preprint w/ @stinasiegert.bsky.social , we analyzed 82k+ young adults across 24 European countries. 👉 Read here: osf.io/6h9gd_v1

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt

PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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From the abstract: "[...] hypogamy [=woman has a higher formal education than her male partner] is associated with more gender equality in labour market participation but not with a more equitable sharing of household tasks."

European Sociological Review@europeansocreview.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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/...

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Science personnel and funding gutted at astonishing scale in the US: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Do Daughters gain from Hypogamy and Sons from Hypergamy? Parental Heterogamy and Children's Educational Outcomes: https://osf.io/yq3ub

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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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/...

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

We are seeking to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in Sociology with focus on #QuantitativeMethods @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at For the call and how to apply 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Nadia Steiber 〽️@nadiasteiber.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

So proud - check out the fantastic work of @stinasiegert.bsky.social on parenthood and poverty within couples #PhDone

Christina Siegert@stinasiegert.bsky.social · last yr.

Defended my PhD on Monday and received a prize for it on Wednesday! 🥳🍾 Many thanks to my supervisor @nadiasteiber.bsky.social, examiners Leen Vandecasteele and Wilfred Uunk, and the Theodor Körner Fonds for their support and recognition.

New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · last yr.

“SES, Genes & Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment”: @fabriberna.bsky.social & @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social find the largest penalty for “high-SES students whose parents separate is…among those w/ a low PGI EA.” @eui-eu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in @pnas.org We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage 🔗https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409418122

"Changing Minds: How Academic Fields Shape Political Attitudes" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🇦🇹 Do you want to add your own survey question to the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel #ASEP? There is now a call for open modules for ASEP wave 2 (autumn 2026): www.statistik.at/fileadmin/pa...

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

In a shift, American women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman. As one researcher told Stephanie H. Murray, “understanding the dynamics of these couples is key to understanding the future of marriage”: https://theatln.tc/MTCP3Ef0