@norawaitkus.bsky.social
Sociologist interested in wealth inequality, housing, and class analysis. Heidelberg University & London School of Economics https://waitkus.github.io/
„Familienunternehmen“ klingt nach Bäckerei oder Mittelstand. Recherchen des ARD-Magazins Panorama & @investigativ.greenpeace.de zeigen: Dahinter stehen Milliardärsfamilien & Konzerne wie Lidl, Bertelsmann, Rossmann. Von 123 Förderern waren nur 2 echte Mittelständler
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
Auf dem Weg ins schöne Duisburg!
Freue mich u.a. auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft von @deutschmann.bsky.social. Morgen, 17h #DGS2025
Thank you to everyone who joined us at LSE to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Inequalities Institute!
Over two days, our conference featured parallel sessions on diverse themes of inequality, alongside two inspiring keynote lectures and a thought-provoking panel discussion.
Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉
His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝
Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲
www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...
Bei Miosga stellt Jens Spahn die republikanische Gleichschaltung der US Medien als bloße Reaktion auf eine angebliche „Cancel Culture“ der Demokraten dar. Und unterstreicht dabei sehr schön, was die Mär vom linken Meinungsdiktat bei vielen ihrer glühendsten Erzähler immer schon vorbereiten sollte.
22.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 606 🔁 156 💬 22 📌 4
@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!
It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐
Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📣 MORAL APPEALS IN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 📣
New version of @twidmann.bsky.social and my working paper answering:
* Have moral appeals increased over time?
* Is the tendency to moralize ideologically patterned?
* Are some topics consistently more moralized than others?
osf.io/preprints/os...
📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover).
Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...
This is a fantastic project. So well deserved!
04.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
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
💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....
This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)
05.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 @norawaitkus.bsky.social has received an ERC Starting Grant!
Her project explores inequality in household debt across countries, people & time, and the moral economy of debt—how we judge debt, debtors & borrowing.
More info 👉 buff.ly/bzMPqmO
👀 Call for Papers 👀
The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
Excited and grateful to launch my ERC project #SOCIO-CLIMP 🌍🌤️
The project explores how #ClimateChange and #EnvironmentalHazards unequally affect different socio-demographic groups 🧑🤝🧑 across Europe — combining spatial climate data with demographic detail to uncover patterns of #ClimateInjustice.
🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!
Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶
In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes.
Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality
Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
WORK! The Sociology Department at Utrecht University is hiring a new assistant prof, with expertise on migration/integration/polarization/stratification. Come join us! www.uu.nl/organisatie/...
01.09.2025 11:39 — 👍 31 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 3
👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
04.08.2025 09:53 — 👍 176 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 9
Weidel auf dem Weg zum Platz in der ersten Reihe auf dem MCC Feszt
Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand und reden
Ludwig, Tichy und Weidel lächelnd im Gespräch
Ludwig und Weidel (im MCC T-shirt) nach dem Panel, lächelnd im Gespräch
Saskia Ludwig (CDU), war am Freitag Teil eines Panels des MCC - der Orbánschen Kaderschmiede - zusammen mit Max Tichy, Sohn von Roland Tichy, der ebenfalls bei Tichys Einblick arbeitet. In der 1. Reihe im Publikum: Alice Weidel. Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand, sprechen 2x miteinander
02.08.2025 17:41 — 👍 3805 🔁 1717 💬 170 📌 184Bald ist Einschulung. Kindern in Bürgergeld stehen mtl. 390€ zu. Davon kann man kaum gesund Ernährung oder Teilhabe ermöglichen.Wie also eine Schuleinführung finanzieren? Mit eurer Hilfe verschenken wir 150€ Schulbonus an so viele Kinder wie möglich! Mitmachen o. spenden: sanktionsfrei.de/schulbonus
28.07.2025 08:58 — 👍 808 🔁 357 💬 18 📌 15
I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.
23.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 74 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 9Derweil in Deutschland
21.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods
Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline July 21st! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
01.07.2025 12:37 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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