Anica Waldendorf

📊 Analytical Sociologists: just over one week left to submit your abstract for this year’s INAS conference at Nuffield College 📚
We look forward to your contributions! 📄✨ www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

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/...

Events European Consortium for Political Research

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

Two AI generated images showing 1) a boy walking through a disorderly neighbourhood with graffiti and trash and 2) a boy walking through a very similar but cleaned up neighbourhood without trash ad graffiti.

Can AI-generated images work as visual vignettes in survey experiments? I argue yes - and discuss how . in my new @sscratsage.bsky.social paper: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

New publication with @riazsascha.bsky.social in @bjpols.bsky.social

As I’m concerned that the figures in the SI might get too little attention, here are some findings in visual form:

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social

German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

Come join next Wednesday if you want to rant about society's love-hate relationship with LLMs!

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), 15–17 June 2026, Newcastle University

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels and Papers ⤵️
📚 Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research
🪑@dariusribbe.bsky.social @mtplk.bsky.social
⌛👇 7 Nov buff.ly/1Te6ATa

#GenderSky #Governance #PoliticalMethodology #qualitative #quantitative

Home The Generative² Social Science Lab is a collaborative research forum based at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. - gen2socscilab/Generative2-Social-Science-Lab

Excited to announce the launch of a new working group at Nuffield College, the Generative² Social Science Lab (co-organised with @pablogerbas.bsky.social). We will have our first meeting tomorrow at 11:00am, come join us! More details here: github.com/gen2socscila...

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...

Very much looking forward to present new joint work with @awaldendorf.bsky.social on the "Politics of Language" at #APSA2025 tomorrow morning (8am). Please reach out for a coffee during the conference :)

Send in your papers for Europe’s biggest political science conference before November 7th

The inaugural EPSS conference now has a section for Gender and Sexuality politics chaired by @anacweeks.bsky.social & myself

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

New publication in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with Delia Baldassarri. We show that in the US, social relationships remain politically heterogeneous, and that heterogeneous close ties and acquaintances lower partisan animosity through distinct mechanisms. A thread on the main findings:

Hendrik Erz PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++

I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).

If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!

More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing?

Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace.

CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications...
Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV...

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The event will include discussions on topics that matter most to participants. Our goal is to create a space for meaningful exchange and shared reflection.

If you have suggestions for discussion themes, we’d love to hear them! Feel free to get in touch here or via email at womensforumINAS@gmail.com

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...

This year’s INAS will be hybrid – and so will the Women’s Forum! We will offer online and offline activities so you can join in even if you are not travelling to NYC. Sign up for the Women’s Forum for updates and join our Slack channel for more information.

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply!

Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team.

www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

🗓️ Excited to share our Sociology Seminar Series for this term at Nuffield College! @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

Join us every Wednesday at 4 pm from next week

#Sociology #Stratification #Inequality

*JOB OPENING*

Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data.

tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf

Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)

Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Have you checked out our latest issue?

It's a unique ✨Themed Issue✨ that's packed with outstanding research on "LGBTQ+ Politics in Contentious Times" 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

@politicsoxford.bsky.social introduces Oxford Computational Political Science Group - a non-partisan research initiative dedicated to advancing the study and application of computational methods in political science: ow.ly/yi8E50VwkTk

🚨Publication Alert

Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉

Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇

Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
#OpenAccess

Hi everyone! We are also on Bluesky!

With the Women's Forum, we aim to enhance recognition of the work, perspectives, and expertise of women within the analytical sociology community.

Find out more on our webpage and join our mailing list: analyticalsociology.com/womens-forum

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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