🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥
Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...
📣 Call for Papers | DeZIM-Konferenz „Die umkämpfte Normalität der Migration“
Wie prägen globale Krisen, transnationale Verflechtungen, nationale Diskurse & lokale Erfahrungen langfristige Verschiebungen von Solidarität, Exklusion und Demokratie?
Alle Infos ➡️ www.dezim-institut.de/veranstaltun...
📢 Promotionsstelle zum 01.07.2026 bei GESIS
- Standort: Mannheim
- Team: GESIS Panel
- Aufgabenprofil: survey-methodisch, facettenreich, innovativ & team-orientiert
- Vertragslänge: 4 Jahre
- Gehaltseingruppierung: TVL 13, 75%
- Bewerbungsfrist: 12.04.2026
- gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2553179?...
Der Soziologische Aschermittwoch 2026 zum Thema „Akademische Freiheit" zum Nachsehen:
youtu.be/AOZd4tmwrvU?...
Mit @cdiehl.bsky.social @naikaforoutan.bsky.social, Markus Ogorek, Uwe Schimank, Richard Traunmüller und @jmwiarda.bsky.social
@wisocologne.bsky.social #AdenauerSchoolofGovernment
The Social Networks website now (finally) also features our call for a special issue on:
Social Network Theory.
In case you always wanted say something theoretical about networks, and to smuggle it into our flagship journal, don't hesitate to send us an extended abstract until April 1!
Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social!
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Short summary in 🧵below:
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Toll, Glückwunsch zur neuen Position. Da wirst du sicher viel bewegen. 🥳
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague).
Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools.
Deadline 1 April 2026.
More information:
Silhouettes of people in front of a world map, symbolizing the big gaps in migration research.
Large Gaps in Migration Research: Study reveals imbalanced coverage of global areas in migration research. Jose Ignacio Carrasco, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Marie Godin & Carlos Vargas-Silva identified and analyzed about 125,000 migration-related publications.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/GapsMigrationResearch
Now out in the American Sociological Review
We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/
And co-author Robert Braun (sorry!).
Fascinating paper by @elena-amaya.bsky.social on Kinderschreck folklore and far-right voting in the Weimar Republic. It fits neatly with theories of “black pedagogy” and how fear-based upbringing can foster authoritarian dispositions.
Thank you for your work! Paper Picnic has become part of my regular Friday routine to keep up with new studies.
Only 3 days left to apply 👩💻
When liberal values hit their limits 🕌⚖️
Lise Lund Bjånesøy, Peter Esaiasson, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten & Paul M. Sniderman
find support for Muslims’ civil liberties across Europe drops sharply when religious freedom is used to preach conservative values
Die gesamte Studie lässt sich über folgenden Link herunterladen:
Der aktuelle Berlin-Monitor zeigt besorgniserregende Befunde zu antisemitischen und antiziganistischen Einstellungen in der Berliner Bevölkerung. Besonders alarmierend: Bei antisemitischen Einstellungen, die teils seit 2019 erhoben werden, ist ein deutlicher Anstieg zu verzeichnen.
Unbefristete Stelle im #FDM!
stellenangebote.b-tu.de/jobposting/4...
Currently, there are thousands of large pretrained language models (LLMs) available to social scientists. How do we select among them? Using validity, reliability, reproducibility, and replicability as guides, we explore the significance of:(1) model openness, (2) model footprint, (3) training data, and (4) model architectures and fine-tuning. While ex ante tests of validity (i.e., benchmarks) are often privileged in these discussions, we argue that social scientists cannot altogether avoid validating computational measures (ex-post). Replicability, in particular, is a more pressing guide for selecting language models. Being able to reliably replicate a particular finding that entails the use of a language model necessitates reliably reproducing a task. To this end, we propose starting with smaller, open models, and constructing delimited benchmarks to demonstrate the validity of the entire computational pipeline.
Here's a little working paper with Marshall Taylor and Sanuj Kumar:
Selecting Language Models for Social Science
arxiv.org/abs/2601.10926
Thoughts welcome!
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
❗️Early Career Women* Scholars
🏫 join us for the summer school in political methodology 📈 all payed
👩💻 See you in July (19-25) in Mannheim
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social.
Link to full-text:
academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
#PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology
🚨Assistant Professor in International Migration at @lse-ei.bsky.social
I am not in the search committee but very happy to answer questions. Please share widely!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?
There should be complimentary copies available; if not, just drop me a message and I’m happy to share.
My article has now found an issue!
I should also mention that a replication package is available, with data hosted at the Research Data Center Ruhr (@rwi.bsky.social).
Replication package (also via GitHub/OSF): osf.io/k35yw/overview
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
Von Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, ein schöner soziologischer Nachruf
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Cultural #Roots of #Prejudice: #Cultural Scripts & the #Reactivation of #Antisemitism in #Germany
By @kanol.bsky.social & @maxschaub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.
Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne.
This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world.
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