Simone Schneider

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Missed cycling & vega bitterballen too much, so I‘m back in the Netherlands 🚲 Heel excited to be spending this autumn at the University of Amsterdam as a visiting researcher at the Department of Sociology @uva.nl @aissr.bsky.social Get in touch if you’re around and fancy a ☕️/🍻

Reminder: Stellenausschreibung endet 30.09.

The secret to academic success is 20% grit, 80% sunk cost fallacy

🚨 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. 👇🏼

apply.interfolio.com/173544

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That time of the year

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Any excuse to go back to Ghent and revisit last year‘s ECPG conference memories! Talking about my research on infidelity at the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender, join us today at noon if you‘re around ✨

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Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

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

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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Academic publishing: because you‘re worth it

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/...

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Industry postdoc vs academia postdoc

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University travel risk assessment: which precautions shall I take for these *deep and meaningful conversations* awaiting me in the Netherlands

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism).

At:University of Edinburgh
Starting: April 2026
Deadline: 2 October 2025

I'm teaching an MA seminar in sociology on 'AFFECTS' (mainly in German). any suggestions for recent literature (after 2020?)? I have Simmel, Plessner, Ahmed, Neckel, Sauer, Landweer, Hochschild. I'm especially interested in articles on empirical studies that work well in class.
DANKE

Junior Professorship (non-tenure) in Environmental Anthropology Deadline: 01.10.2025

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry).
The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology!
Details ⬇️
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

#academia

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Who needs tenure track when you got spam emails and teach undergrads

DGS-Stellenmarkt:

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

I've been slow to share this because in all honesty I was a little bit hungover on Saturday, but I wrote the New Statesman's weekend essay this week, on why England's ex-mining areas have become especially disenchanted with politics:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

16:59 let’s leave the library

17:01 trapped in the library, it’s summer in England after all

Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham.

Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender.

durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Well-being at the cost of welfare: Learned helplessness and responsibility in positive psychology and American policy - Ian J. Davidson, 2025 In this article I trace the connected histories of well-being and welfare within contemporary American social science and policy. Focusing on the postwar concep...

This article offers a neat historical analysis of how early positive psychology perpetuated various often pernicious or at least problematic value judgements even as it tried earnestly to help people.

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The field continues to do this.

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New job opportunity! Come work with me at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social on my major project on the political representation of men.
You: PhD in relevant area, strong quantitative methods skills, interest in representation.
The job: 18 months full-time, London or remote qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...