Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026)
The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!
Check out our new, open access paper in RSSM. Anne Maaike Mulders expertly led our author team (with Christoph Janietz Jochem Tolsma myself) to find an important piece of the gender inequity puzzle in academia.
🔬Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📰Press release: www.ru.nl/onderzoek/on...
For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...
12.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 50 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
12.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 17 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations, Ole, on this very fine achievement!
Great to see your important work on gendered perceptions of fairness in pay being recognized with a PhD award!
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"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone or cut off the presenter mid-sentence increase for women presenters."
And at the end of the day we’re all still happy! Super interesting projects altogether.
29.01.2026 17:10 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Together with @distasioval.bsky.social and @lippenyi.bsky.social we have a cool project to develop thanks to @odissei.bsky.social and the LISS panel grant!
Find out more here: odissei-data.nl/project/evol...
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
19.12.2025 21:45 — 👍 9 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
CRIS @sciencespo.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social is hiring! Recruiting postdoc to join the research team led by Prof. Mirna Safi @msafi.bsky.social on the ERC project “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle (DISEQUAL)." Deadline 8 February 2026. Apply, share!
www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...
Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
07.01.2026 07:29 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to taking part in this seminar series, with great company! If you're in Oxford in early March, consider dropping by.
06.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.
The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.
Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
@billiemartiniello.bsky.social
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️
✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨
When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background?
🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅
Check it out here: 🧵
Check out the very first EqualStrength publication, led by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social
17.12.2025 13:11 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides?
Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts:
Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h...
Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...
At a symposium on structural racism in Malmö, the EU Commission's anti-racism coordinator Michaela Moua stressed the importance of safeguarding the independence of science and developing a strong research infrastructure. We shared findings from Horizon projects, incl. @equalstrength.bsky.social
26.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Come and do a PhD at the #EUI! We are five professors in sociology, within the department of Political and Social Sciences. Social stratification, education, family demography, analytical sociology, experimental sociology, it’s all here!
23.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
05.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 11 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2
Returning to the Venice Workshop of Analytical Sociology this week meant a lot to me--smart talks, kind people, and lots of cool ideas. Shout out to the lovely community on Bluesky @kauspurg.bsky.social @marklutter345.bsky.social @verenaseibel.bsky.social @sawalzenbach.bsky.social ...
20.11.2025 15:15 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
@ivancanzio.bsky.social with a DIY poster from our TARGETS project at the great 'Analytical Sociology' conference in Venice!
19.11.2025 21:42 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Great participation from NGOs, civil society, academics, schools, religious leaders and intercultural dialogue specialists. At the end, a roundtable by Italian young graduates of Moroccan, Peruvian and Chinese origins who reflected on their identities. Thank you to Fondazione Balducci for organizing
15.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, we took part in a symposium at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence on the challenges & opportunities experienced by descendants of immigrants in Italy. We presented recent and ongoing PhD projects from SPS researchers @eui-sps.bsky.social of the EUI @eui-eu.bsky.social, and my work on discrimination.
15.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
This project has been an incredible experience for all of us. The data collection is almost finished, so hopefully you’ll start seeing results from this amazing team effort in 2026.
Big thanks to the organising team @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social, Stephanie Steinmetz and Vasilena Lachkovska!
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
After so many months of fieldwork, it was great to present findings from our @equalstrength.bsky.social's project at the LIVES centre in beautiful Lausanne! Stay tuned for more in the coming months!
08.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Researchers from the Horizon funded EqualStrength consortium discussing research
It was so good to meet with @equalstrength.bsky.social -researchers to discuss structural discrimination against Black, Muslim, and Roma people, funded by Horizon Europe.
Thank you @stephsteinmetz.bsky.social, @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and Vasilena Lachkovska for hosting us at UNIL in Lausanne.
We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.
07.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 20 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0