Mark Lutter

Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia - Scientometrics We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

"We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men."
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This paper by @savolainen.bsky.social is very interesting!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New article in @socresonline.bsky.social ⤵️

"Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature"

Findings suggest partial overlap across cultural domains.

🔓 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1360...
#OpenAccess #CulturalSociology

Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences - Scientometrics The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest tha...

Just published in Scientometrics: "Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences." Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Decision by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member Dear RC28-community, As members of the ISA-RC28, we are deeply committed to the values of international scholarly collaboration, academic freedom, and critical engagement. It is precisely because of this commitment that we feel compelled to express our concerns about the decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member. While we share the ISA’s commitment to human rights and solidarity with people affected by violence, we believe that professional scholarly organizations should not be treated as representatives of their governments. We are aware that boycott is a means of applying pressure on governments and societies; however, in the field of academia, it can endanger the space needed for rigorous and principled academic dialogue. Academic boycotts shut down debate and silence diverse voices—precisely the opposite of what academia should represent.

Moreover, the ISS is deeply committed to democratic values, human rights, and academic freedom. Over the past four years, many of its members – including those affiliated with ISA-RC28 – have actively worked to document, critique, and stand against their government’s actions and policies. The ISA’s decision not only weakens these progressive efforts on a broader scale, but also has real, personal, and professional consequences for members of our community. RC28 has a proud tradition of supporting sociologists who were repressed for their progressive views and actions – for example, in Czechoslovakia and Hungary under Soviet rule. In that spirit, we should support, not boycott, the progressive forces within Israel and elsewhere. Questioning the ISA’s decision does not imply support for the actions of the Israeli government, nor does it diminish the destruction, death, and human suffering in Gaza. Rather, it reflects a principled belief that academic boycotts undermine the values of academic freedom, open dialogue, and international scholarly collaboration, and should not be used as a response to governmental actions. We respectfully urge the ISA Executive Committee to reconsider this decision.

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

Do academics publish less after getting tenured? Depends on your field Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.

There's an large uptick in papers published in the year before researchers attain tenure, a new analysis shows.

From there it diverges: those in fields that have labs (eg biology, chemistry) keep churning papers, while those that aren't (eg sociology, math) see a decline in papers.

Spannend! Will ich lesen!

Huh. I like to think I'm often right ... but I'm rarely proven right twice on the same topic in the space of a week!

I specifically argued that country level clustering likely explained the gender equality paradox in 2022. And what do you know...

durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1187310

⭐🎓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...

Klare Position: Akademie für Soziologie teilt Widerspruch der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social gegen den Ausschluss der Israeli Sociological Society und zeigt sich „solidarisch mit der ISS, deren wissenschaftliche Freiheit und wissenschaftliches Wirken durch die Entscheidung der ISA eingeschränkt wird“ 👍🙏🏼

Und auch die Kölner Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Department für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (dss.uni-koeln.de/de/) positionieren sich klar gegen den Ausschluss der Israeli Sociological Society durch die ISA! 👍🙏🏼
dss.uni-koeln.de/sites/soziol...

I would at least look at it, but it seems ok as it is. I don't have fulltext either (currently) :-) ....

The East in wolf’s clothing. Wolf attacks correlate with but do not cause far-right voting The resurgence of wolves in Germany has sparked intense debate, particularly in rural areas where wolf attacks on livestock are frequent. Prior resear…

Local reactions to wolf attacks in Germany are not powerful enough to influence the election decisions of many voters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting and plausible. But men also publish more overall. I guess the authors take this into account ... ?

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... There is a stat significant diff btw retraction rates of 1st-author male and female articles. Substantively, it seems negligible to me w a difference of 1 retraction per 10,000 articles

Open access version of the article here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Thank you, @socarxiv.bsky.social

Thanks, very interesting work. May I ask how do you actually test for the mechanism of compensation?

Interesting. May I ask, what is it then? Why do women more often say "don't know"?

Very excited to share our article on gender and political expression! We explore why women are more likely to say they "don't know" in survey research. This project was in the works for many years-- thanks to the folks at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social for giving it a home. Please give it a read!

However, in any case, that would be not at all a "control for war crimes"

That would have been interesting; we plan to do so in a follow up study. However, I doubt that results would be much different; Israel would still be the one with highest removal hazard, I believe. Partly bc many don't even recognize the colors of the russ flag. Partly bc Israel just triggers more

‪Hey, @isa-sociology.org , I'd love for you to share the piece by the Israeli Association after you suspended their membership
Any comments?

@dgsoziologie.bsky.social
Was sagt die DGS, die institutionelles Mitglied der ISA ist, zu dieser Entscheidung des Ausschlusses der israelischen Kolleginnen und Kollegen? Tragen Sie das mit? Unterstützen Sie diese Entscheidung?
www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...
#Soziologie

Die International Sociological Association schliesst israelische Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus! Das ist erbärmlich. #Soziologie

www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferenc...

Who’s in your extended network? Analysing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands This study advances the understanding of the size and homogeneity of personal networks, focusing on extended networks that encompass both core discuss…

Thrilled to share my latest publication in the journal Social Networks, together with Beate Völker (lead), @rensec.bsky.social, and Frank van Tubergen.

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Thank you !

What an nice and simple experiment!

shared humanities/social sciences & in central facilities hallways. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

We secretly placed small flags on a university campus and monitored what happened over the course of two semsters. The Israeli flag had the highest removal rate; politically motivated removals disproportionately targeted Israeli flags; removal rates were highest in hallways of the humanities, ...