Eleanor Power

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨

We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.

Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.

Full time, 2 years, no teaching.

Deadline: Jan 23

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@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.

If you or any of your students are interested in pursuing an MSc in data social or research methods, please join us online for our annual virtual open day sessions.

These are brief but very informative sessions that prospective students tend to greatly enjoy. See you there.

Just a few days left to apply to join us @lsemethodology.bsky.social!

we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025

Not long left to apply for our Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science vacancy❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

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

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The Trust’s International Fellowship scheme has merged with the Research Fellowship scheme. Apply now if you are looking to complete a piece of original research; projects with an international focus are welcome. Deadline: 6 November 2025 👉 www.leverhulme.ac.uk/research-fel...

Very disappointed that we were forced to cancel our field season and return early, following the suspension of our NSF grant as part of Trump’s attacks on UCLA. Particularly sad for our students, who spent significant time and effort to join us this year.

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships

If you’ve recently earned a Ph.D. in any scientific field and want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research, consider applying.

Deadline: October 1, 2025
Apply here: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

⭐🎓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...

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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

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Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

I've written a chapter for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief edited by Neil Van Leeuwen and Tania Lombrozo. It's an (incomplete) survey of work on how networks affect the uptake and spread of beliefs. Preprint here:

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/25858/

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨

A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.

This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

It is still true that @alondra.bsky.social is the leader we need. Perfection here. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Täna õhtul esimene poolfinaal! 🇪🇪☕🤍🤎
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Hi folks!

Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?

Call for ASREC conference is out!

Preceded by grad student workshop.

Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.

Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org

Very worrying! I can access the site in Germany.

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YouTube live captionings really taking that whole American pope thing to heart! 🤣 🏈💰🇺🇸🧙‍♂️

Chance to work as a research assistant with the excellent @elspethready.bsky.social in the Canadian Arctic this summer/fall! 👇

2nd British NetSci Symposium, London, June 9, 2025. If you are a PhD student or a Post-Doc working in the field, submit an abstract. Deadline May 28th. All info all links here: www.netsci.uk/events.html

Rep2SI: Reputation & the Reproduction of Social Inequality. A Leverhulme-funded project based at the LSE, combining ethnography, economic games, and modelling. We're looking for a modeller to join our core team as a two-year postdoctoral research officer.

🚨Job alert! Two-year postdoc to join the Rep2SI project at @lsemethodology.bsky.social! We're looking for a modeller to join our team of ethnographers & experimentalists studying the role of reputation and reputational concern in perpetuating social inequality.
Apply by 4 May: tinyurl.com/yjccd3vv

🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)