Ozan Aksoy

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🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼

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🎉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!

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!

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Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

Micro-macro transformation process, rather fittingly for @ic2s2.bsky.social, is apparent.

Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

⭐🎓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...

Yes but you'll need to fill in several forms and pass a test after an online training

That was the intended effect ;-)

Thanks Per! No problem and see you soon.

why not MemeBear?

Goodbye to a real one. @aksoyundan.bsky.social mentored, collaborated, and somehow made difference-in-difference estimators funny. We’ll miss all three.

🤭🤭 thanks Tobi!

If we managed to get admin rights for our UCL PCs we will manage everything!

Thanks Ben. I am looking forward to understanding better why politics fails while sociology thrives ;)

It was hell of 9 years at now a world-leading place for (quant) social sciences and sociology. Forever grateful to my colleagues at @sriucl.bsky.social and we will remain in touch. 😓😓

New pastures @rensec.bsky.social not too far away.

You must have missed our dear IOE building.

Why do people resort to the brutal measure of killing their own daughters, sisters, or cousins when they feel their family honour is tarnished? @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @aronszekely.bsky.social offer novel insights based on game theory and data on honour killings & honour norms.

New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...).

Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out.

benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

YouTube video by Collegio Carlo Alberto Discover the Allievi Program in Social and Political Sciences at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin

Thrilled to share the following video of the master's level honours degree: the Social and Political Sciences track of the Allievi Program.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X047...

a snippet from the post, saying: "Critiques like this, mostly coming from the Heterodox Academy quarters of academia, share a familiar structure. They contend that sociology is “politically captured,” yet when it is time to say what scholars should actually do differently, the prescriptions are procedural (new review boards, special grants, and viewpoint-diversity pledges), rather than intellectual."

a "heterodox" critique of sociology is just a critique in search of its orthodoxy. in this short post, I argue that criticism of sociology should be substantive, with *actual* implications for practice.

Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy

I couldn't check the data, but if I did I'd look at: is there a secular upward or downward trend in P over time (if so Polya) or there are momentary but somwehat stable shifts in P which goes back and fort (if so multilevel)

1-year opportunity for a Departmental Lecturer in Sociology at @sociologyoxford.bsky.social for the academic year 25/26. This position has a focus on life course research and quant methods. Apply by 27/6. tinyurl.com/2tydswwj

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

Inequality between fields in inequality research increases...

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Thought this recent paper by @aksoyundan.bsky.social and Szekely was particularly good social science theorising. Takes the qualitative evidence seriously and builds on existing formal theory. Plus, a case of clear writing about game theory without formalism.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks Simon, we are indeed asked to shift most formal material to the appendix. I think the text is more readable for that even though it wasn't my strict preference initially.

Political Islam, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 123, No 5 The plethora of pathways leading to family formation decisions has made the causal assessment of the influence of politics and religion on marriage and fertility difficult. The authors exploit the uni...

Thanks yes. In AJS we discuss historical demog policies of TR which shifted w AKP. 2010 to 2015 TFR increased (~2 to ~2.2), though if this is real or "measurement" is questionable. Also effects we show are regional, applying to AKP districts & soon die out (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...)