Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Very happy to have won the Swiss Prize for Educational Research! 2252
Reposted by Benita CombetInstitute of Sociology · University of Bern @soziologie-unibe.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Welcome to the official Bluesky channel of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern! 🎓 Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎 141
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨 What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents? ➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements. academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch, @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch 2279
Reposted by Benita CombetValentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing 1194
Reposted by Benita CombetTroy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Not only acting as gatekeepers for scientific funding at NIH, NSF etc, but now trying to gate keep the entire scientific process. 0112
Reposted by Benita CombetKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This great piece by @badnewshagen.bsky.social really gets into the sexism, racism, and eugenics that make up the very fabric of US pronatalist efforts. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...npr.orgThey say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance. 0186
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Ever wondered whether women really hate programming that much or whether they just have such a huge preference for helping? Join, I’m presenting new work! 041
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 12/04/2025💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥 025
Reposted by Benita CombetJudith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course) ⬇️ @ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social #Machtmissbrauch #Hochschule #Wissenschaft #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #Befristung #Prekarisierung 01312
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨: ▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc. ▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern. ▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies ▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...ohws.prospective.chUni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years. 0715
Reposted by Benita CombetSilja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 21/01/2025‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions 1149144
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 22/01/2025In these turbulent times (just, wtf?), I have some good news. 🥳☀️🌈 I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!! It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍 7761
Reposted by Benita CombetKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day: 9679171003
Reposted by Benita CombetAnders Hjorth-Trolle @andershtrolle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings: 1/4 #EconSky #SocSky 45323
Reposted by Benita CombetProf. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs". Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023. scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...scilogs.spektrum.deNeue Studie legt nahe, dass die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC „auf Kippkurs ist“Heute wurde in Science Advances eine neue Studie veröffentlicht. Der Titel sagt schon, worum es geht: „Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course.“ Die Studie folgt einer ... 341044625
Reposted by Benita CombetOlivier Bos @olivierbos.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈academic.oup.comViolence Against Women at Work*Abstract. In this paper, we link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues, and the economic consequences fo 14423
Reposted by Benita CombetRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/11/2023New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data. (Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)t.coThe persistence of eugenics in mainstream journals highlights major gaps in research integrityWhen published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continu… 14418
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 17/11/2023I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail! 11575
Reposted by Benita CombetAnna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 03/11/2023"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...pubs.aeaweb.org 38440
Reposted by Benita CombetBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/10/2023I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comToxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobsWomen feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life... 12321118
Reposted by Benita CombetKim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Women who perceive incident as unambiguously discrimination more likely to say they'd report it. Those who see incident as ambiguous more likely to say they'd lean in, change own behav. One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out? Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...sociologicalscience.com 0259
Reposted by Benita CombetBettina Kohlrausch @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Ich finde diese Grafik aus unserem Bericht zur Gleichstellung in Ost und West besonders eindrucksvoll, weil sie zeigt, dass in Haushalten beider Landesteile wirklich unterschiedliche Rollenmodelle gelebt werden. Das modernisierte male breadwinner model ist vor allem ein westdeutsches Phänomen. 1212745
Reposted by Benita CombetSam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2023New Paper 🔔 We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau 🧵 below… academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...academic.oup.comThe Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work LegitimacyAbstract. Elites often use merit to explain, justify, and make sense of their advantaged positions. But what exactly do they mean by this? In this paper, we dra 57832
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 29/09/2023As someone who loves to cook (but often doesn‘t find the time 😔), this is super interesting! 0101
Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance.nature.comMotivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance 030
Reposted by Benita CombetJohn V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Hey Stata folks! Want to visually present your regression results? I made a guide. It covers key aesthetics, combining results from multiple models, working w/ logit models, & more. Oh, and I provide all the code. Comments/feedback welcome! drive.google.com/drive/folder... 712445