Arnout van de Rijt

Great reception for our work on online misinformation in Chile!
Thanks to my collaborators @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social & Jonas Stein

"This article documents a surprising reversal in the long-standing gender gap in academic achievement."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor!

Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Warnings From Weimar Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...

Waarschuwingen uit Weimar Extremisten kunnen alleen aan de macht komen met hulp van partijen die uit ambitie of lijfsbehoud met ze samenwerken. Dat is de les van de Weimarrepubliek, zegt Daniel Ziblatt.

In NRC: Waarschuwingen uit Weimar

✨ SPS Welcome 2025 ✨

Yesterday evening, we welcomed our new cohort of #SPS researchers.

Head of Department @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, together with our academic faculty, greeted the first-year researchers and celebrated the start of a new academic journey.

Cheers to a fruitful year ahead! 🥂📚

Defending the One Percent (Summer 2013) - Imagine a society with perfect economic equality. Then, one day, this egalitarian utopia is disturbed by an entrepreneur with an idea for a new product. Think of the entrepreneur as St...

This did not age well.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"This article offers an alternative framework for studying optimal policy design that replaces the dominant economic model’s emphasis on individual utility with a sociological emphasis on unequal life chances."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment - Scientometrics Scientists and funding agencies invest considerable resources in writing and evaluating grant proposals. But do grant proposal texts noticeably change panel decisions in single blind review? We report...

Well you're lucky... apparently reading a grant proposal does not meaningfully affect how it's ranked.

Brextinction? How cohort replacement has transformed support for Brexit Public support for Brexit has declined since the 2016 referendum. We argue that part of this decline is due to cohort replacement where many older voters (who support Brexit) have passed away, while ...

Brextinction!

From our student @fresejoris.bsky.social and colleagues @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨
The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026).

Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university!
📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669

"We find a...positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows."

This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

"Consonant with findings of low reliability and high, non-random non-response when a “Don’t know” option is available, the interviews highlight that Topbot is worded ambiguously, leading to varied interpretations and often puzzlement."

This week in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward

doi.org/10.15195/v12...

Inequality Readers. On the merits Education expansion merits optimism, and other puns

I wrote about @hermwerf.bsky.social 's excellent ASR article last year on education expansion and intergenerational mobility.

Hope you find it useful!

asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

If you are interested in doing a PhD on Agent-based models of Protests consider this call:

2 Doctoral Scholarships (48 months) ‘Contentious Politics in the Digital Age’ (CoPoDi), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Visit: www.bigsss-bremen.de/academic-pro...

Norwegian 🇳🇴 votes nearly counted. Looks like reelection for the Labour Party and the red block. Remarkable comeback. The populist Progress Party has a great result and has overtaken the Conservative Party (remind you of anything?) @jonasgahrstore will be back as PM #valg2025

Love this artwork!

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

Great to have you around, Ramina!

Green smells, children running, old men smiling. Suddenly a band starts playing, giving me the chills. Paradise on a Saturday afternoon in Florence.

Herman, I hope you're not thinking the department will just buy you a new one.

Your Head of Department

Haha.

Full disclosure: When I'm the rejected author myself, it IS always the editor's fault.

Hi Klara: No, but now I am curious what you said! Is it about the ECSR Reviewer Award?