NEW: Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger, "Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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#OutNow in #iCS Gender equity at work is shaped in everyday interactions, including who speaks, who is interrupted and who feels visible. This article examines how video conferencing changes those dynamics. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

From the room to the screen: how video conferencing reshapes gendered interpersonal behaviors

Amidst debates about remote work and the return to office, less is known about how video conferencing reshapes gender differences in interpersonal behaviors, potentially mitigating or reproducing g...

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Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

📢 New paper out! Much research shows gender differences in interpersonal behaviours. But how do these patterns change in video conferencing? I explored how distinct features of video conferencing reshape these gendered interpersonal behaviours. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From the room to the screen: how video conferencing reshapes gendered interpersonal behaviors

Amidst debates about remote work and the return to office, less is known about how video conferencing reshapes gender differences in interpersonal behaviors, potentially mitigating or reproducing g...

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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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Interesting OA article (🔓) by @ferraraale.bsky.social, @yaso.bsky.social, and Alicia Vignali on immigrants' attitudes toward abortion across generations, published in @sfjournal.bsky.social.

Between beliefs and borders: migration, religion, and abortion attitudes

Abstract. Abortion remains a uniquely contentious issue, rooted not only in moral concerns but also in its broader implications for women’s reproductive au

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Nothing strengthens your argument like deleting half of it to meet the word limit

Happy to have contributed to recent WZB-Mitteilungen on our study on gender status bias in video conferencing (in German). If you want to learn more about it, check out our article as well! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

WZB Berlin@wzb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Neue WZB-Mitteilungen: „Männer“ Viele Beiträge des Hefts erzählen davon, wie erstaunlich hartnäckig die Rollenbilder auch 2026 noch sind. Ob in der Familie, in der Arbeitswelt oder im politischen Raum: Die Erwartungen und Normen kommen erst allmählich ins Tanzen. www.wzb.eu/de/publikati...

💡 Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference 2026 on the topic “Challenges to International Orders: Causes and Consequences” 📅 7–9 October at the WZB. 🔄Please share our call for papers within your networks. Deadline for submissions: 23 April 26 www.wzb.eu/en/events/2n...

🚨🚨🚨 We are organizing a conference to discuss spatial dynamics in refugee integration 🎤 Keynotes: Jenny Phillimore, Wolfgang Dauth 📆 November 9th/10th @lifbi.bsky.social in Bamberg. 🏁 Application deadline: April 30th 2026. Consider applying! More info and CfP: www.lifbi.de/UneTra-Confe...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

Happy to share our working paper on the emergence, challenges & sustainability of refugee-led orgs in Europe! We also released the survey data as an open-access resource and built an interactive platform for orgs to connect. Huge thanks to the participating orgs & co-authors! tinyurl.com/7txpnhpt

Repository of Refugee-Led Organisations in Europe - Migration Policy Centre

This repository is a database that maps and amplifies the work of organisations led by forcibly displaced and stateless persons across Europe

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PhD Position (75%) at the IAB Nuremberg – Migration, Integration & Labour Markets | Application deadline: 30 January 2026 | Start date: 1 April 2026 Application deadline: 30 January 2026 Start date: 1 April 2026 Link: recruiting.arbeitsagentur.de/ba-karriere/...

Our department at @wzb.bsky.social is organising a conference on "The Cultural Evolution of Migration and Diversity" (Sept 25-26, 2026). If you work on or are interested in migration and cultural evolution, please consider applying! wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

🚨 Last days to apply! Don't miss out on the academic journey of a lifetime at the European University Institute in Italy! 🇮🇹 🌐 Join a vibrant research hub and be part of a world-renowned academic community. #EUIPhD Apply now: www.eui.eu/phd

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 looking for a student assistant for our research project on spatial dynamics in refugee integration in Germany. Full details below 👇👇

Jonas Wiedner @jwied.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Wir suchen eine studentische Hilfskraft in unserem Projekt zu den Erfahrungen Geflüchteter in Deutschland! Interesse am Thema, Studium einer Sozialwissenschaft und Quanti-Aufgeschlossenheit sind wichtig. wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/415... Bitte bewerben und an kluge Studis weiterleiten!

🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027! 📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort! Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

📢 The EUI’s SPS Department invites applications for the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy, a prestigious position supported by the Swiss Government. Apply by 24 Nov 2025: eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-academic-posts #AcademicJobs #Federalism #Democracy #EUI

Open competitions for academic posts

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Video calls are now fundamental to how we interact. But does gender status bias persist when we move from in-person to video calls? Together with Klarita Gërxhani and @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, we examined this using a preregistered experiment and follow-up interviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

This is a fabulous response by my colleague Kevin Munger to "that" Economist piece about the EUI. Perhaps @spignal.bsky.social and @jhooper.bsky.social might be interested! kevinmunger.substack.com/p/i-guess-th...

I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?

or maybe the centaur named "Firenze"

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Very excited to spend the following days at @iasliu.bsky.social for the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science! 🤖

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 🚀 #SICSS-IAS is officially underway! We’re excited to kick off two weeks of learning, coding, and collaboration with a brilliant new cohort of aspiring computational social scientists.

We (@mpc-eui.bsky.social) have prepared a survey to showcase the work and strengthen the collective advocacy of organisations led by forcibly displaced and stateless persons across Europe. Can you help us disseminate it? #RefugeeVoices tinyurl.com/7pft72x2