"This study investigates variability in women’s experiences balancing work and family, focusing on the association between early childhood investments and work trajectories."
Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
Quote from Jasmin Abdel Ghany: "Extreme heat is not only a major public health threat. Temperature fundamentally shapes human reproduction by influencing who is born and who is not born. Our findings show that temperature has measurable consequences for foetal survival and family planning behaviour, with implications for population composition and gender balance. Understanding these processes is essential for anticipating how the environment affects societies in a warming climate."
🌡️ New research published in @pnas.org finds that high temperatures may influence the sex ratio at birth.
Analysing 5+ million births, researchers show that exposure to temps above 20°C during pregnancy is linked to fewer boys being born 📊👶
🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
We have a cool post-doc opportunity in #HNL to study human social chemosignaling and olfaction:
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676477/p...
Please re-post.
Congrats Alicia! Looks like a fantastic paper 🤩
A 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange
Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now!
We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence.
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Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
Very excited for our paper in @nature.com on what genes association studies discover and why. It was a privilege to work closely with @jeffspence.github.io, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our collaborators.
We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.
I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
A new and very accurate technique called mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity and AI tools.
This could also be used to reveal what animals are thinking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
The UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch
If you are Madrid, come along!
👇the program for this academic year
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
So happy to share that my book, Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement, will be out in March with @ucpress.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/believ...
So happy to be spending the fall in Florence/Fiesole. Thank you for having me, @eui-eu.bsky.social 😊
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
The first #metrics-and-models talk was fantastic🤗!
Next: @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social on "Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth".
Details: metrics-and-models.github.io
Sign up: metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Excited to be speaking at a very cool seminar series — Metrics & Models seminar organized by the brilliant Charlie and others at Oxford 🥳
🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥
A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.
🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
🚀 Call for Papers! 🚀
I’m coordinating the sessions on AI, Big Data, and Demographic Challenges at the next Conference of the Association of Historical Demography of Spain! 🌍📊
📢 Got research to share? Submit your 300-word abstract by April 25 here: 🔗 adeh.org/untitled-pag...
See you in Málaga! ☀️
New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
📢🎉🤖 Published today in natcomputsci.bsky.social /w @jiani-y.bsky.social📢🎉🤖:
A new framework for (ir)reducible errors. We argue that it's impossible to know how 'predictable' things are (until we've collected every epsilon of information).
ReadCube: rdcu.be/eb9IL
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2411.19223
The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper forthcoming in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility by Associate Member @perblock.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Jan O. Jonsson #NuffSky
A sneak peek of the Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) I'm working on these days. At the rate at which the US is deteriorating, maybe this is the last data we see from this country.
#demography #rstats #data #population #US
📢 Join us this Thursday 27 February to learn about mode effects in the UK cohort studies and discover methods for handling them. Sign up now for this free webinar: https://buff.ly/41A9Cbe
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