Simone Schneider

A spam email inviting me to give a keynote at a conference.

An email which addresses me as Professor.

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.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The field continues to do this.

Conference abstract

Conference presentation

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...

📢Join us! The Department is currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. For further information including closing dates and job details, please check out our website: shorturl.at/rTFhi #academicjobs #socjobs

A screenshot of a Google calendar. It shows one event on today which is titled ‘Was I not enough’

Dissertation chapter headlines setting a questionable vibe for a Thursday morning

A picture of me in a colorful outfit, a green and yellow box on my head, eating a pizza slice

Trying to hit 10k followers on my birthday with this post. Girlfriend said it couldn’t be done. She’s probably right anyway

It's here! Our latest issue takes up big social problems, from the multi-front assault on queer and trans people to the opioid epidemic, urban segregation, and environmental racism. #sociology

Clickable table of contents: contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/

Companion playlist: tinyurl.com/CTXsp25tunes

Reviewer: “Have you considered…?” Me: Not only have I considered it, I cut 900 words on it last night.

📢Join us!
The Department is currently recruiting for a Teaching Associate and a Professorship. For further information including closing dates and job details, please check out our website: shorturl.at/rTFhi

Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀

tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...

Being an academic means saying “I’d love to collaborate!” and then vanishing into the ether for 14 months

Seema auntie from Indian matchmaking: "You only get 60 or 70 but still we proceed"

Trying to convince reviewers like

Kool-Aid Man, mascot for a brand of flavored drink mix.

The only liquid modernity I accept

A photo taken inside the Café ‘84, Cambridge. It features a little explanation about the name of the cafe, a list of donors, and a shelf filled with books.

Cambridge or where we name cafés after when women were admitted (yes, because it was so unbelievably late)

One of the entrances to the Old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England.

Want to work where the electron was discovered (and where other funky physics things happened before sociologists took over the Old Cavendish Lab)? We’re hiring for a Professorship of Sociology at Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social, applications open until 16 Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI980/t...

you may not like it but this is what 2 high agency males look like

Featuring in the Sociology department kitchen: Purrlock Holmes and the itty bitty kitty mystery of why I did not reach my writing goal today

Another year, another #reprosalon, this time with @jorelink.bsky.social. Thanks @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social for bringing us all together

Oh yes, I have come across that. And of course, I can image!

I hope that gets clear throughout the episode - I talk about the relation between consensual non-monogamy and infidelity, but not seeking to conflate them :)

Lust, Betrayal, and “open” relationships: Intimate stories of infidelity ePODstemology · Episode

Also on Spotify: I’m joining host @markfabian.bsky.social in the new episode of ePODstemology to discuss my research @camsociology.bsky.social! Diving into all things infidelity through a sociological lens: open.spotify.com/episode/5a1N...

I got to join ePODstemology to talk about my research on infidelity. Thanks @markfabian.bsky.social for having me! Tune into the latest episode:

Job ad for the Departmental Lecturer in Sociology position, deadline: 30 May 2025

🚨 We're hiring!

Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations.

Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Absolutely loved your slide design!!!