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Outi Sarpila

@outisarpila.bsky.social

An economic sociologist currently working as a professor of sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Research interests: appearance, beauty, social inequalities, consumption.

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Jani Erola@janierola.net · 5mo ago

I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects! You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible. #sociology #demography #economics #statistics

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

🔥 Apply for our 2-year fixed-term position as a Senior Researcher! Open positions (4–6) at @utu.fi/INVEST in the #STRATEQ & #USFI projects led by @janierola.net #CoROL project led by @anttikouvo.bsky.social #PublicPrivate project led by @mjantti.bsky.social ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

Giselinde Kuipers@giselinde.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Important myth-debunking by evolutionary psychologists Linda Lidborg and @drboothroyd.bsky.social. The authors also contributed an outstanding chapter to the forthcoming Handbook on Beauty and Inequality edited by @outisarpila.bsky.social and me.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations. Read more and apply invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

INVEST Fellowship Programme - INVEST Research Flagship Centre

What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...

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Satu Helske@satuhelske.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

INVEST Research Flagship Centre@invest-flagship.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re hiring! Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶 🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #hiring #openvacancies

Giselinde Kuipers@giselinde.bsky.social · last yr.

The windmill gave us feudalism, the steam mill gave us industrial capitalism, but what does the content mill bring us? Riffing on Marx, Kobe De Keere discuss this question with Rachel O'Dwyer and Ashley Mears in this new episode of the Culture and inequality Podcast: pod.link/1533967764/e... >>

Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

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Vera Mikkilä@veramikkila.bsky.social · last yr.

Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen. ”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.” ”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”

Suomen Akatemian LinkedIn-päivitys: The Research Council of Finland firmly condemns the harassment and hate speech that RCF-funded researchers have recently faced online.   This kind of targeting behaviour is highly inappropriate and dangerous. It threatens academic freedom, narrows public debate, and undermines trust in science and the people behind it.   𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly. The RCF funds research through open competition and international peer review, and our staff work to ensure the 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 of the process.   Debate and disagreement are part of a healthy democracy. But there is a line that is crossed when the conversation turns into personal attacks or intimidation.   We call on everyone to help keep that line clear. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, and the people who make it possible. In 2023, we released a statement on the online targeting of researchers: https://lnkd.in/dbRrUDBu
Outi Sarpila@outisarpila.bsky.social · last yr.

Kirjoitimme Anna Grahnin kanssa Tilastokeskuksen tänään julkaisemaan ”Ajan jäljet” -teokseen ulkonäkötyöstä. Ulkonäkötyö on merkittävä osa sukupuolittunutta palkatonta työtä. Syystä tai toisesta se kuitenkin tavallisesti jätetään vastaavissa määrällisissä tarkasteluissa huomioimatta.

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Vera Mikkilä@veramikkila.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities’ ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF’s strategy, the call wi...

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Tomas Sjöblom@tomassjoblom.bsky.social · last yr.

Itse ajattelen, että eri silottajavoiteiden hämmästelevän kehumisen sijaan voisi olla paikallaan kyseenalaistaa, miksi meidän kulttuuri on sellainen, että ikääntymisen merkkejä pitää peitellä. (Eri asia, jos on jokin lääketieteellinen syy käyttää vastaavia tuotteita) www.hs.fi/elama/art-20...

Testi | Hittivoide silotti toimittajan ihon kolmessa kuukaudessa – lähikuva paljastaa tuloksen

Toimittaja testasi ihonhoidon hittiainetta kolmen kuukauden ajan ja hämmästyi tuloksista. Retinolin tehosta on myös tutkimusnäyttöä.

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Jani Erola@janierola.net · last yr.

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

H-P Ontto-Panula@hplehk.bsky.social · last yr.

I made a comic about beauty as a capital in my first year of studying social sciences. It's 11 pages (+sources) this this will be a thread. Nowadays my view on my looks isn't as negative but I'm still insecure about it. 🧵1/3

Comic. Person looks tired. Text: I look this tired every day. This might surprise you but I'm very uncomfortable with my looks. I avoid looking in the mirror when I go to toilet. Covid was a great reason to not think of my looks.Comic, person does make up. Text: I bought a concealer serum. It makes me feel better. But I have to admit I dream of having money for fillers. I try to be body neutral. Positive is too much. Such intense love for one's body seems fake. I know I'm smart, funny and kind. I like my body. I'm strong and my shoulders are nice and wide... but my face.Text: my face exists. If I don't think about it I'm ok. But recently I've had to think about it a lot. I started studying and I'm older than most others. They keep commenting. Comic, blonde young woman says "Wow, you don't look 35!" Text: it's a compliment.Comic, person with no face. Text: but it makes me feel horrible because it reminds me of the fact that people see me. I don't want to be seen. I used to make youtube videos, but I stopped. When trying to continue, I can't do it. People say "nobody cares about uour looks". They're right and wrong. 1) yes, people who care about me don't care. 2) but I care. 3) research says looks determine a lot of how you're treated in our society. Let's look into the research.
Outi Sarpila@outisarpila.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is an interesting result at a time when obtaining ethical approval for field experiments is not a straightforward matter (at least in Finnish universities). Causing an incentive to move towards the implementation of factorial survey experiments.

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Andrea G. Forster, Martin Neugebauer, "Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies"

Giselinde Kuipers@giselinde.bsky.social · 2y ago

Maybe not entirely common sense in the field (yet), but it should be: Men tend to benefit more from good looks than women. Don't believe me? Read this: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Is beauty-based inequality gendered? A systematic review of gender differences in socioeconomic outcomes of physical attractiveness in labor markets

During the past decade, academic interest in physical attractiveness-based social inequalities has spread significantly beyond the United States to Europe. In previous research, however, there has ...

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Encephalophatass@encephalophatass.bsky.social · 3y ago

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.

Outi Sarpila@outisarpila.bsky.social · 2y ago

How do attractiveness and expectations of appearance in different occupations relate to each other? We examine this connection with Aki Koivula and Iida Kukkonen in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Appearance and Social Inequalities: Physical Attractiveness as a Part of Occupation-Congruent Appearance - Outi Sarpila, Aki Koivula, Iida Kukkonen, 2024

Appearance-based inequalities are gaining increasing interest in sociology. This article is the first to systematically examine the extent to which attractivene...

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Hanna Kuusela@hannakuu.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers: Families and Wealth

Special issue editors: Céline Bessière (Paris Dauphine University), Katie Higgins (University of Oxford) and Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä)

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Outi Sarpila@outisarpila.bsky.social · 3y ago

Main thoughts after two-day online workshop: 1) this is awesome 2) how did we ever manage to do this daily back then, when the only tangible sign of the passage of time was the changing sizes of our children's clothes.

Jouni Helske@jounihelske.bsky.social · 3y ago

We are looking for a Senior Researcher interested in interested in e.g., #causalinference, #bayes #stats, #lifecourse studies, #sociology, #econ, #rstats, #longitudinal register data etc: ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi... #metasci #econsky #AcademicSky #PhDSky #tutkimus

Senior researcher

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Research and Flagship Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term position of senior researcher from 01.03.2024 to 31.0...

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