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Ozan Aksoy

@aksoyundan.bsky.social
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Professorial Fellow @ Nuffield College & Associate Professor in Sociology @ University of Oxford. PhD Uni Utrecht, BA Bogazici Uni | (Natural) Experimental Methods, Stats, Politics and Religion www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profil…

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great team, great place, nice faculty room, fantastic students, good number of faculty meetings ;)
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Lucas Sage @l-sage.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'm putting together a session for the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (Gwangju, Korea, 4-10 July 2027) on how micro-level behavior adds up to stable macro-level inequality. I'd love to see diverse and unconventional approaches in the room. isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...
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Session: Mechanisms of Inequality: Models, Experiments, and Consequences (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027))
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Closing tomorrow at noon UK time. Last call. Last call. Come join us!
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just under 2 weeks til the closing date for the Assoc Prof in Law, Politics and Computational Social Science at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford. This is an amazing opportunity to be part of the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. Join us! www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
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Associate Professorship of Law, Politics and Computational Social Science (APNTF)
In association with Nuffield CollegePermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review isconducted during the first 5 years.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3
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Zsófi Boda @zsofiaboda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
last minute PhD opportunity on stereotypes, social networks, and social inequalities at @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social, two fully funded 4-year positions are available! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Nuffield College, Oxford @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📞 Calling academics in Sociology, Social Policy or Demography Join us in Oxford as a Sociology Group Visitor in 2027 to 2028 Applications are now open 📆 Deadline: Mon 28 Sept ✍️ Find out more and apply at: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research... #nuffsky
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
prize fellowships are out: two three-year postdoc positions in sociology, time and resources to carry out independent research projects with minimal distraction. Deadline 21 September. Details: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Really great paper by @carlobarone.bsky.social following up to the position statement by @aksoyundan.bsky.social, Manzo, Birkelund, and Raub on the occasion of the 25th EAS anniversary journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Turning the tide, or treading water? On the politics of sociological standards
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This commentary questions why progress toward more rigorous standards has been so slow 25 years after the creation of the EAS. It argues the problem is structural rather than cognitive: critical and expressive sociology dominate hiring, publishing, and editorial gatekeeping, and their success criteria are largely orthogonal to methodological rigor. It contends that more rapid progress will require not just moral suasion but a more aggressive capture of evaluation infrastructure — journals, funding panels, and editorial boards — alongside greater public visibility for cognitive sociology, since legitimacy in public debate is itself a resource in the competition for academic power.
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Nuffield College, Oxford @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Congratulations to Nuffield College Professorial Fellow Ozan Aksoy, who has received the 2026 Robert K. Merton Award from the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), together with Dr Aron Szekely (UCL), for their article Making Sense of Honor Killings. Read more: buff.ly/JuOHuOQ
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I and @aronszekely.bsky.social were very happy for receiving this 2026 Robet Merton award 👇
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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Job alert! 📣 I’m recruiting a 3-year postdoc for my ERC Stg project DIVREP, which examines within-country variation in reproductive behaviour and its determinants across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 September 2026 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/events/postd... Please share and apply!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Demography
Closing Date: 12.00pm Wednesday 16th September 2026
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
💡 Job alert! 💡 We're seeking a Postdoc Researcher to join the most comprehensive global study of the patterns & determinants of growing within-country disparities in reproductive behaviour 🌏 Full-time for 3 years, working with Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social. Apply ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're hiring: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Demography, deadline: 16 September 2026
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🌍 The Climate x Health seminar series with Oxford Climate Research Network @climateoxford.bsky.social successfully launched! Great turnout from climate, medical, data science, social policy, geography, ethics & more - kicking off what promises to be a rich dialogue. #climate #Oxford #health
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Edmund Chattoe-Brown @edmundcb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Haven't read this yet but a topic we _so_ need to attend to: doi.org/10.1177/1043...
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Image of the Department of Sociology building overlaid with text: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Positions). Deadline: 31 July 2026
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🎓 Marking the European Academy of Sociology’s 25th anniversary, sociologists propose 3 principles to advance disciplinary standards: 🔗 Theory–empirics integration 🔓 Open science 🌍 Careful public engagement Read more ⬇️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/soci...
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Sociologists propose three key principles for standards in sociology
16 June 2026
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · 04/06/2026
All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
FULL and MACRO, cannot be bigger than this! Great city as well.👇
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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The event will conclude with drinks and informal networking before the start of the conference’s two days of parallel sessions. If you plan to attend, please remember to sign up for the Forum when registering for the conference. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
@kauspurg.bsky.social and Josef do great service to social sciences by carefully combing through sensational empirical work. We cited the findings in B&B in our earlier work, though with hindsight regretfully.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 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...
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Reminder: R&S is calling for commentaries (1000words) as a response to our statement recent statement: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... If you want to join the discussion re current state and future of Sociology, consider submitting a response (see: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
1/ With the DR Congo facing another Ebola outbreak, I’ve been reflecting on research I published on the 2018–2020 outbreak, one of the most violent public health emergencies for healthcare workers. Key lesson: Public health emergencies become far more dangerous when they are politicized.
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I worked for a year at Bilgi MBA while studying at Boğaziçi uni. Both universities are devastated and Bilgi now closed by presidential decree. All the same time the country says they want to attract back talented Turkish students and academics. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...
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Turkiye shutters liberal Istanbul university seized in criminal probe
Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students 'suffer no harm'.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Bilgi was a wonderful university… beautiful campus, lively student body, excellent academics. No wonder the Erdogan regime couldn’t stand it. Yet another devastating blow for Turkish academia and society. Solidarity with all faculty, staff and students! ✊
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Turkiye shutters liberal Istanbul university seized in criminal probe
Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students 'suffer no harm'.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
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Sociological Science Accelerator
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A new paper w Manzo, Birkelund & Raub is out in Rationality and Society: 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... Taking the opportunity of the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology (www.european-academy-sociology.eu), the statement assesses current challenges for the discipline ...
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Shaping the Future of european Sociology The European Academy of Sociology is a distinguished fellowship of scholars dedicated to advancing excellence in sociology. Bringing together expertise from di...
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Who said sociology lags in open science, has any other discipline tried pre-registered presentations?
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Great paper.
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
how policies in sociology lead to embarrassing outcomes.
reproducibility results after using the same methods and data.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
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Associate Professorship of Causal and Experimental Methods in Politics and Social Policy
University salary from £58,265 - £77,645 per annum which is inclusive of an Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 p.aPermanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is conducted during th...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee. Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code. No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.
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Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered
As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
there is a fantastic visualization strategy coming from cultural evolution circles. I thought it'd be a perfect way to describe public opinion data, so I adapted it for aggregate survey data, created an R package, and wrote a post introducing it here: tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/publicopin
a plot showing % favoring laws against interracial marriage in the GSS.
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
💸🚨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/ 🚨💸
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨 New fully-funded DPhil studentship 🎓 Research British hacking & cybercrime 💻🔐 supervised by Associate Prof Jonathan Lusthaus. Open to home & overseas students. 📅 Deadline: 3 March 2026 📍 Start: Oct 2026 Apply now! ⬇️ sociology.web.ox.ac.uk/event/resear...
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Research Studentship on British Hacking and Cybercrime
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
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Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS
First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Still a couple of days before the deadline to slot in an application👇🏼
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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Women’s Forum will meet on July 1st in the afternoon and will host flash talks for junior scholars as well as a panel on women in academia. We hope to see you there!
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sad to see my Alma mater turning inward as on institution after another have been doing.
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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢 Please do share widely 1/3
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@sriucl.bsky.social was my academic home for 9 years during its first decade. I am looking forward to its 10th anniversary as now an honorary member.
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Don’t forget! ⏰ The first deadline for 2025–26 MSc, MPhil & DPhil applications is 9 January. It’s also the latest deadline for most Oxford scholarships - apply by then to be considered 🎓
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New year, new job? Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. The post is open to candidates from different areas of empirical specialisation and at different levels of experience. Please consider applying! closes Jan 5th. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/associ...
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
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