📢 Open positions!
I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻
3–4 years + strong support for training🎒
Deadline: 23 June 2026
More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
Important review on the harassment of scientists, and how to address it. Having been at the receiving hand of intimidation due to my work on discrimination, the review confirms the positive impact of supportive senior management on targets and the need for coordinated measures across institutions.
These equivalence requirements & associated costs are ridiculous, and put extra burdens on young scholars. Something similar happened with my IT habilitation, for which my experience at a NL graduate school accredited by the Dutch Royal Academy of Science did not count as not approved by IT ministry
Tomorrow at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social, @awaldendorf.bsky.social will present joint work (also with Susanne Veit) on the content of spontaneosuly generated stereotypes, and how this differs for people at the intersection of identities. Join online or in person if you can!
Lucky to be doing this work with a fantastic team: @billiemartiniello.bsky.social, @ivancanzio.bsky.social, @brueggemann-o.bsky.social. And looking forward to presenting some findings at the ECSR in Dublin next week!
🎓 Fifty years of questions
As the EUI turns 50, the SPS Department reflects on what it means to grow inside an interdisciplinary blender
In this special conversation
🔹 Arnout van de Rijt, Head of Department
🔹 PhD researchers Louise Dupont and Cathrine Kjaer
🎥 Full episode here: loom.ly/ZlwyV8A
A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read.
Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
How long can parents take leave, and how can they share it? The new EPLP Dataset tracks parenting leave in 21 European countries, 1970-2024, with 33 variables on duration, benefits, flexibility, and incentives for sharing www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
eplp-dataset.org
Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨
Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project.
Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences.
More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN
🥰 RT appreciated 🥰
Tobias Rüttenauer
As part of the uniquelyEUI anniversary series, the Department of Political and Social Sciences reflects on five decades of interdisciplinary research, explori
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent
In April I applied for 3 vacancies in 2 universities in Spain. I found out I'm excluded from the selection process because my Swiss PhD title is not automatically recognized. This happens in *most* (not all) universities.
These closure processes impose a penalty on those who went abroad to study
Attacked, Harassed, Intimidated: A Narrative Review of Research and Action on Public Backlash Against Scientists in the Netherlands and Beyond Public backlash against scientists, encompassing attacks, harassment, intimidation, hate, and threats from members of the public, has bec
#sociology link
Discrimination is often easier to identify in theory than in practice. EUI Professor @distasioval.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social on why it's so hard to recognise – and what that means for workplaces. 🔗 https://loom.ly/4dfroi8
❗️ Tue, May 12, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@awaldendorf.bsky.social
"Complex Stereotypes: Going Beyond Warmth and Competence in Spontaneous Associations"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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