Yu Deng, who, with his collaborators, solved David Hilbert’s 125-year-old “sixth problem,” has just won the Fields Medal. Read our profile exploring his work bringing together the worlds of probability and wave equations: www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins...

Yu Deng Wins the Fields Medal 2026 for His Work on the Random Data Problem | Quanta Magazine

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium in his own life.

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Hong Wang wins 2026 Fields Medal, the third woman ever www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.

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Happy to share my paper coming out in Sexuality & Culture! This study examines the role of religion contexts in the relationship between same-sex union legislations and public attitudes toward homosexuality. The article is open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-026-10598-3

The Secular Divide and GAL/TAN Politics: How Religion Shapes Same-Sex Union Legislations’ Impact on Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Europe - Sexuality & Culture

National contexts have been overlooked by previous comparative studies on the impact of same-sex union (SSU) legislations on public attitudes toward homosexuality. This study examines the role of reli...

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Good piece on the 4.0 edition of The PopuList with the great @caterinafr.bsky.social

Populist, far-right and far-left parties in Europe: The PopuList, the reference database, gets a makeover

A project involving Caterina Froio, a researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics

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Happy to share our new article on International Migration Review, together with Jani Turunen, @siddarthaaradhya.bsky.social and Jan Saarela! We investigated the labor market outcomes of return migrants in Finland, with Finnish registered data and sibling comparison design doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Tonight! 6:00 pm EST! With the World Cup only a few weeks away, @casmudde.bsky.social is joining me for a @resistanceschool.bsky.social lecture on soccer, nationalism, civil society, and politics. www.resistancestudiesseries.com/wcpf101-regi...

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Slavoj Žižek and renowned scholars demand freedom for Bahruz Samadov | Free Bahruz Campaign

Support unjustly imprisoned Azerbaijani scholar Bahruz Samadov!

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Register to attend our #webinar on targeted incentives being held from 12-1pm (BST) on Wednesday 28 April. Lucy Bryant, Sam Hardon and Alice Wolfle (Office for National Statistics 🇬🇧) will present a study on using targeted monetary #incentives in the Opinions and Lifestyle #Survey.

Exploring targeted incentives to improve response in under-represented groups on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey | City St George's, University of London

This webinar will focus on a study that examined whether targeted monetary incentives improved survey participation among under‑represented groups in the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

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this is very unfortunate, especially for someone who supposedly works on decolonial queer feminism

In Global China Lab's monthly digest, there's a round-up of many brilliant articles on China's ethnic politics published in @madeinchinajournal.com and other venues. If you haven't already check this out mailchi.mp/thepeoplesma...

on the "AI and lit review" debate that's somewhat circulating around I think the question is not about whether AI can generate a literature review but what do we need literature reviews for. many, many human-written literature reviews have glaring errors & misrepresentation;

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

I wonder if comparative pol people have tested this hypothesis: no country (post 1945) has successfully and peacefully democratized while being treated as a military-strategic adversary of the US

🔥 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...

Senior researcher, 4-6 positions

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, 2-year fixed term senior researcher (4-6 positions). Employment s...

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There Is No Religious Revival. Trend stories about rising religiosity are not supported by evidence arcmag.org/there-is-no-...

There Is No Religious Revival | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

The Harvard Catholic Center wrapped up 2025 with huge news: the number of potential converts coming through its doors had doubled from the previous year. According to The Wall Street Journal “Free Exp...

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Four Years After the Genocide Judgment: Reflections on the Uyghur Tribunal uhrp.org/insights/fou...

Four Years After the Genocide Judgment: Reflections on the Uyghur Tribunal - Uyghur Human Rights Project

Four years after this landmark determination, we asked seven individuals involved in the Tribunal, including four camp survivors, to reflect on its short-term legacy, its impact, and the responsibilit...

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Our new project got funding from the Swedish Research Council! "Structural Change, Education, and the Radical Right". It will explore how gender, place, and structural change intersect to shape young rural men’s changing political behavior in Sweden. With @zethis.bsky.social & Sirus Dehdari.

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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When more people in Sweden can name the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York than the Prime Minister of neighbouring Finland…maybe — just maybe — there’s a little too much coverage of US politics in Europe.

🧵1/6 New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.

Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data

Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

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🚨Postdoc! Join us to develop #AI (#LLM) tools for research, governance & lawmaking. 📅 Apply by Oct 21, 16.15 (Finnish time) ⏳ fixed-term 2026–2028 🔗 valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/seni... @thlfi.bsky.social #openpositions #Hiring #ResearchJob #AcademicJob #AIResearch #Postdoc #ResearchCareers

Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project) - National Institute for Health and Welfare

Open job: Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project), National Institute for Health and Welfare - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

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Do register-based research? 🔎 #FIRE Fellowships offer 1–2 month visits to Finland for postdocs & senior researchers. Apply now 👉 fire-infra.com/en/fire-visi... @utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi #TampereUniversity @helsinki.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social

👋 Research Fellow @weiqianxia.bsky.social xia.bsky.social is visiting us through the #INVESTFellowship program. Welcome! 🔹“I am deeply impressed by the high quality of research produced at INVEST and look forward to collaborations.” Read more: invest.utu.fi/news/invest-... #demography #sociology

INVEST Visitor: Weiqian Xia - INVEST

In the “INVEST visitors” series, we present visiting professors and fellows who have arrived at the flagship INVEST. This time...

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Happy to have the chance to visit @invest-flagship.bsky.social ! Look forward to fruitful collaborations!

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👋 Research Fellow @weiqianxia.bsky.social xia.bsky.social is visiting us through the #INVESTFellowship program. Welcome! 🔹“I am deeply impressed by the high quality of research produced at INVEST and look forward to collaborations.” Read more: invest.utu.fi/news/invest-... #demography #sociology

At Deer Park, New Delhi, I saw a Mama with her little naughty monkey. 新德里鹿野苑的猴子。

has anybody seen coverage of this on Chinese social media? most of his (unidentified) victims were in China, and he's also obviously the scion of some well-off family www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Serial rapist Zhenhao Zou facing second trial as more women come forward

Prosecutors weigh possibility Chinese student who treated his victims as ‘sex toys’ could face further action

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The introductory chapter (Kappa in Swedish) of my doctoral dissertation, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and its Consequences among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden, is available online (3/3): su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

Exciting discussion @rrluthra.bsky.social @wooseongkim.bsky.social

Open Ph.D. student position calls in Sociology and Sociological Demography at Stockholm University: Ph.D. student position in Sociology: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Ph.D. student position in Sociological Demography: su.varbi.com/what:job/job... The closing date is March 1. _________

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The Department of Sociology , founded 1954, offers a lively and collaborative research environment with a strong international research profile. The department is especially competitive in the areas o

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