#Socsci

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

2 weeks ago

A blue flyer featuring a call for book proposals for the series, along with contact information and the editorial board

Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences

Our ‘Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences’ is seeking book proposals across formats from researchers who are interested in rethinking methodologies from interdisciplinary perspectives. Find out more here: bit.ly/3Oeps6T. #SocSci #ResearchPublishing

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

3 weeks ago

🌍 'Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures', an #OpenAccess book, introduces eco-social contracts as a bold and actionable vision for addressing the major, interconnected crises of our time. bit.ly/4bWWHW2 #SocSci #BookSky

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

1 month ago

The special issue's cover shows a black chalk sketch of an elephant's head with people in the background.

📙🐘 Humanimalia special issue “Elephant (Research) Routes” edited by Marianna Szczygielska and Violette Pouillard.

It contributes to a rereading of scientific narratives about elephants, seeking to strengthen multidisciplinary dialogue and promote co-existence.

🔗 bit.ly/4Io8V

#SocSci #OpenAccess

Rene von Schomberg

@renevs.bsky.social

1 month ago

Living Labs for driving innovation and engineering practices towards responsible outcomes #STS #SCIENCECOMM #Socsci #responsibleinnovation #science4policy
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

1 month ago

Programme now available!
Experts from different domains will shed light on various aspects of #AIGovernance, regulation and ethics, considering international differences.
📝 Register by 19 Feb.: t1p.de/deh88

#Polisky #SocSci #STS
Thanks for sharing: @rctrust.bsky.social

Research Impact Academy

@researchimpactacademy.com

1 month ago

Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026

Event you might be interested in: Social Sciences Impact Conference 2026 in Oxford on 24-25 March. This conference is supported by the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

For more details, visit www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-confe...

#event #researchimpact #impactacademy #socsci

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

1 month ago

Collage of three images. The first reads: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring.” The second image shows a group of people at the institute’s courtyard. Image by: MPIWG, 2021. The third image shows the building of the MPIWG. Image by: Reinhard Goerner.

Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge” seeks to appoint a #PublicationsManager with work experience in:

✍️ Editorial leadership
📚 Publication management
🌐 Multilingual experience

🗓️ Deadline: Feb 28, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4k5DWSs

#HistSci #STS #SocSci #Humanities

Laurie Stras

@lauriestras.bsky.social

1 month ago

#skystorians #bookhistory #earlymodern #socsci I don't know as an FRHistS whether I qualify b/c technically I'm an Emeritus Professor of Music, but I could give it a go...

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

1 month ago

Workshop programme now available: researchers from diff. European countries will contribute their expertise on ethnic-racial socialisation (ERS) in family, school, peer, and higher education contexts.

📝 Register until 28 Jan.: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...

#SocSci #devpsyc

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

1 month ago

De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health and Society The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health and Society explores how digitalization is reconfiguring practices of health and medicine. Digitalisation requires health and medical practices to address and...

📖 New publication: the De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health and Society, edited by former Senior Fellow @benjaminmarent.bsky.social. It compiles theories, evidence, strategies & governance approaches on the future of #health & #care in the digital age. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
#DigitalHealth #SocSci

Claas Kirchhelle

@kirchhelle.bsky.social

2 months ago

(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global health threat. Despite increasing international attention, AMR governance has often neglected so…

Hot off the press in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social!

In (Un)intended Consequences, we conduct a #socsci stocktake of 10 years of research on #AMR interventions, highlight the need for more contextual #antimicrobial governance & make recommendations #GAP'26! #IDSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

2 months ago

Mapping the Hidden Geography of High-Risk Fertility in India: What District-Level Data Reveals

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Mapping the Hidden Geography of High-Risk Fertility in India: What District-Level Data Reveals.' This study uncovers hidden fertility hotspots and explains why child marriage and education matter most.🔗 bit.ly/4pEwEpR #SocSci #AcademicSky

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

2 months ago

📖 New publication: JProf Matthias Kranke co-edited a special issue of @econsocjournal.bsky.social on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’, which brings together scholarship on (post-)growth, transformations, infrastructures and socio-material relations. Most articles open access.
#PostGrowth #SocSci

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

2 months ago

Strengthening evidence for the health of justice-involved people

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Strengthening evidence for the health of justice-involved people.' 🛟 Health & Justice has launched 3 new OA collections on health equity, behavioural care, and ethical methodologies to strengthen evidence & reform practice. 🔗 bit.ly/4jhu0o8 @bmc.springernature.com #SocSci

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

2 months ago

Why the Social Sciences Matter: More Than Ever

'Why the Social Sciences Matter: More Than Ever'—edited by Jonathan Michie and @profcarycooper.bsky.social—explores the defining challenges of our time, from #ClimateChange and inequality to migration and global conflict. bit.ly/4rRObwZ #SocSci #MigrationResearch #ResearchPublishing #BookSky

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

3 months ago

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows a researcher presenting at the March 2025 Publications Slam. The third shows a group of people at the institute's courtyard. Second image by Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025. Third image by MPIWG, 2021.

#CallForApplications ✨🔭
Short term #Fellowships with a stipend and self-funded #ResearchStays in #HistSci, #PhilSci, and #SocSci are open to applicants of any nationality 🌏

🔗 bit.ly/4od8Jx5
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15 and Sep 15 (rolling basis)
📍 Berlin, Germany

#CfA #AcademicCareer

Philip Leifeld

@leifeld.bsky.social

3 months ago

We would like to hire a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (permanent) in AI in our Department of Social Statistics at Manchester. Deadline: 5 Jan 26. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Possibly in combination with #multiagent #ABM, #SocSci, #SocialStats. #academicjobs #psminfo #AIresearch #agentic

Springer

@springer.springernature.com

3 months ago

A key #SDGs Series title: 'Climate Change Issues and Social Sciences'. This book provides comprehensive social science-based knowledge necessary for changing toward a carbon-neutral society. bit.ly/47UCSe8 #BookSky #SocSci #AcademicSky

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

3 months ago

A key #SDGs Series title: 'Climate Change Issues and Social Sciences'. This book provides comprehensive social science-based knowledge necessary for changing toward a carbon-neutral society. bit.ly/44kGt4f #BookSky #SocSci #AcademicSky

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

3 months ago

In an @szde.bsky.social interview, Christian Weber speaks with @annalahlers.bsky.social about China’s rise in the global system of science, its current #SciencePolicy, and how #China approaches notions of #AcademicFreedom.

🔗 www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/china... (GER)

#HistSci #SocSci #PolSci

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

4 months ago

Collage of three images. The first reads: “Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We’re hiring!" The second image shows researchers looking for books in the institute’s library. And the third image shows the MPIWG main building. Photos by setform 2017.

Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” seeks to appoint a #GraduateAssistant with English and Chinese language skills

Support the team with:
🖥️ Project websites
🖋️ Research databases
🌐 Social media
📙 Text analysis
🚀 Research tasks

🗓️ Deadline: Dec 31, 2025

🔗 bit.ly/4h0N8

#SocSci

Springer

@springer.springernature.com

4 months ago

Climatic Change

🌎 Social sciences are key to understanding climate change. A new study examines how social science integration is shaping U.S. climate assessments and their future direction. 🔗 The social sciences in climate assessments in the United States: bit.ly/43iUVtd. #ClimateChange #SocSci

Stirling Criminology

@stirunicriminology.bsky.social

4 months ago

Research Fellow at University of Stirling Apply for the Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

JOBS (×5): Research Fellow fixed-term jobs at University of Stirling.

All part of FORTH20 @ukri.org Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) project between multiple universities and stakeholders, includ. Scottish Government, Scottish Water, SEPA.
#Academia #SocSci
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK488/r...

Alejandro Espinosa-Rada

@aespinosarada.bsky.social

4 months ago

Socio-cognitive networks between researchers: Investigating scientific dualities with the group-oriented relational hyperevent model Understanding why researchers cite certain works remains a key question in the study of scientific networks. Prior research has identified factors suc…

5/n Curious how social and cognitive structures shape scientific knowledge?
Read the full paper in Social Networks:
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SNA #NetSci #Bibliometrics #ScienceOfScience #SocSci

Philip Leifeld

@leifeld.bsky.social

4 months ago

Applications open for University of Manchester / SHF studentship (2026) - Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to continue working with the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester to offer a studentship for a PhD candidate starting in September 2026. Th...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie... #phd #phdfunding #stipend #studentship #sna #networkanalysis #socialscience #socsci #polisky #socialresearch #socialstats #acjobs

Humanities & Social Sciences

@hss.springernature.com

4 months ago

The book cover shows an academic screeming out loud with his eye wide open and his hair spiking in all directions, whereby the colors in the background starting with blue on the bottom and turning to purple in the middle and red at the top show the level of frustration.

'Failing Beautifully in Science' is a satirical book about university systems, everyday life, and irony, including cartoons, for all those concerned with or irritated by academic practices. Read more here: bit.ly/4nVdmwm. Also, available in German: bit.ly/42F4nXv. #booksky #academicsky #socsci

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

4 months ago

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows bookshelves in the institute's library (Photo by Vivienne Rischke, 2024). The third image shows the MPIWG Summer Publications Slam held in the institute's library (Photo by Marvin Müller (2024).

Three new funded #DoctoralPositions in the International Max Planck School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities!"

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/4peeKez

#HistSci #DH #STS #HistSTM #EnvHum #PolSci #SocSci

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

@mpiwg.bsky.social

5 months ago

Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft: Sie erforschen, was den Markt regelt Auch das Rechtssystem, die Verwaltung und die Mechanismen der Märkte wollen erforscht sein. Denn ohne Wissen, wie der Warenstrom fließt und der Markt funktioniert, stehen wir bald vor dem nächsten…

Research Group Leader Anna L. Ahlers has been named by @tagesspiegel.de among Berlin’s top 100 researchers 2025! 👏

@annalahlers.bsky.social heads the MPIWG's Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science.”

🔗 bit.ly/4nRTGt2 (GER, paywall)

#SocSci #Sinology

@evelienbakker.bsky.social

5 months ago

The book cover shows an academic screaming out loud with his eye wide open and his hair spiking in all directions, whereby the colors in the background starting in blue on the bottom and turning to purple in the middle and red at the top show the level of frustration.

Academic life dull? On the contrary! Check out this new satiric book about university systems, everyday life and irony, including cartoons, for all those concerned with or irritated by academic practices. #booksky #academicsky #socsci @hss.springernature.com link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr

@college-uaruhr.bsky.social

5 months ago

collage of two images: 1) overlapping schemes of faces seen from the side, 2) abstract network-like pattern in black and white

📅 WORKSHOP: Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide
25–26 Nov.

This transdisciplinary workshop challenges different approaches to social memories and collective identities in the context of genocidal social practices.

Register by 20 Oct.: t1p.de/q8pvw

#SocSci