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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A new academic year of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M is officially underway! A big thank you to Pelayo Arbués, Head of Data Science & AI at Idealista, for joining us. His talk was truly inspiring. To our students: welcome! We are excited about the year ahead 🙂

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

On the occasion of the inaugural conference of the Instituto Juan Linz, political scientist Susan Stokes was interviewed on Hora 25, one of Spain’s leading evening news programs, to discuss democratic backsliding and rising inequality. 🎙️ cadenaser.com/nacional/202...

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Una politóloga advierte de que la desigualdad puede erosionar la democracia: "Invertir en sociedades más igualitarias es fortalecer las democracias"

La politóloga Susan Stokes ha analizado los procesos de erosión democrática de las sociedades actuales en 'Coordenada 25' | Cadena SER

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

📢 Funding opportunity for a top MA in Social Sciences (UC3M – IJL) 🏛️ Rigorous training, strong methods, and a direct path to top PhD programs • 3 full scholarships (Deadline: April 30) • 3 tuition grants (Deadline: May 31) Apply for full scholarships and tuition grants 👇 ijlinz.es/en/postgradu...

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Sebastián Lavezzolo @lavezzolo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📣 Hemos lanzado una MICROCREDENCIAL en la @uc3m.es para introducir los experimentos de encuesta y los conjoint experiments como herramientas para entender mejor qué quiere la gente 😎 Más info 👇 www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...

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Microcredencial Universitaria Qué quiere la gente (y cómo saberlo): Experimentos para entender a clientes, usuarios o votantes | UC3M

Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es

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Sebastián Lavezzolo @lavezzolo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hay 10 ayudas de 300€ para nuestra microcredencial sobre experimentos de encuestas y conjoints experiments en la @uc3m.es. Plazo para solicitarlas: hasta el 9 de abril. Más información 👉 www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...

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Programa de Becas y Ayudas entre el SANTANDER y UC3M | UC3M

Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

An era has come to an end

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 on what we promised? At the outset, we set out a twofold vision. We wanted to keep European Societies a genuinely general sociology journal with a focus on Europe and European sociology, open to all substantive areas and to authors worldwide. At the same time, we wanted to modernize the journal by lowering barriers to participation, moving toward open access and open science, and by running peer review as fairly, comprehensively, and efficiently as possible. Looking back, we believe the direction of travel has been consistent with that agenda, even if some constraints have become more pronounced as submissions have grown.

The most tangible step toward barrier reduction has been the shift in the journal's publishing model. The move to MIT Press and the adoption of a noncommercial, diamond open-access model have made the journal free to read and free to publish in. This has mattered not only as an institutional achievement by ESA, but also as a signal of what a flagship journal of the European Sociological Association can be: a truly public scholarly resource rather than a gated space shaped by the ability to pay. In parallel, we worked to reduce friction in submission and production by making procedures more predictable and less resource-intensive for authors, and by strengthening the journal's commitment to transparency, including the routine expectation of replication materials for quantitative work published in the journal (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2025). We have thought of these changes as working on “access” and “voice” simultaneously. By “access,” we mean making it easier for people to read the journal and to submit their work. By “voice,” we mean that a broader range of scholars, institutions, and regions appears on our pages and shapes the debates. Bot…

European societies in motion, and a commitment to voice

A general sociology journal should reflect the major currents shaping European societies, not by chasing headlines, but by publishing sociological work that helps explain how Europe is changing. Over the past years, the journal has continued to engage research on inequalities and social stratification, climate change and ecological transition, migration and shifting borders, transformations in work and welfare, population aging and health inequalities, and the reconfiguration of social trust and political contestation. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 further underlined how quickly the horizon of “normal” European development can rupture, and how urgent it becomes to understand societies that have too often been treated as peripheral in general sociological publishing. The Special Issue on understanding Ukrainian society before and after the invasion (Martsenyuk et al., 2024) was therefore an attempt to contribute to that understanding while also practicing what we had argued for from the start: that underrepresented parts of Europe should not appear only through external observation, but should be visible through scholarship that is locally grounded, rigorously theoretical, and fully integrated into European sociology.

Throughout our tenure, we also sought to ensure that the journal provided space for the plurality of sociological traditions across Europe. European sociology remains multi-paradigmatic and unevenly structured by regional and institutional inequalities. We therefore aimed to combine a high threshold for publication with broad openness to different intellectual styles, methods, and substantive agendas, and to keep ourselves accountable by paying attention to patterns in submissions and editorial outcomes across regions and approaches. This is unfinished work, but it is work that cannot be postponed if we want a journal that represents European sociology as it exists, rather th…

the structural reality remains that a general journal with finite capacity cannot publish all of the strong sociology it receives, even when that sociology deserves a wide readership.

This pressure is intertwined with another growing challenge: the difficulty of securing peer reviewers. Reviewing is the central infrastructure of scholarly publishing, but it rests on time and goodwill that are increasingly stretched. Across our term, it has become harder to find the right expertise quickly, particularly for more specialized topics or for underrepresented contexts where the pool of suitable reviewers is smaller. We therefore want to thank reviewers once more, not as a ritual, but as recognition that the journal's quality and fairness depend directly on their labor. We also hope that our community continues to treat reviewing as part of academic reciprocity, because without a sustainable reviewing culture, no editorial team can reliably balance speed, rigor, and equity.
Thanks, acknowledgments, and handover

We owe special thanks to Patrick Präg, who left his editorial role slightly earlier but contributed enormously to the journal's direction and to the everyday work that makes a journal function. His intellectual judgment, practical ambition, and commitment to fairness and transparency shaped many of the changes implemented during our tenure, and the journal is stronger because of his contributions. We also thank our associate editors, without whom our work would have been impossible: Plamen Akaliyski (Lingnan University), Çetin Çelik (Koç University), Roxanne Connelly (University of Edinburgh), Ivana Dobrotić (University of Zagreb), Marta Dominguez Folgueras (Sciences Po), Magne P. Flemmen (University of Oslo), Pablo Gracia (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Mobarak Hossain (London School of Economics and Political Science), Mathieu Ichou (INED), Katya Ivanova (Tilburg University), Cyril Jayet (Sorbonne University), Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Anna K…

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

☀️☀️ Exciting news in Madrid! We are VERY happy to officially announce the creation of the Instituto Juan Linz (aka “IJL”). ijlinz.es The IJL ("Juan Linz Institute" in English) is dedicated to cutting-edge research and teaching in political science, sociology, economic history and more. thread 1/12

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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣 This does NOT happen everyday. THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Quién no se ha llevado un boli de la oficina

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Compartimos (con Iñaki Úcar y Jesús Alvaro Prieto Alonso) un breve resumen de nuestro último artículo: “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019”. theconversation.com/mas-paridad-...

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Más paridad, menos colaboración: la paradoja de la igualdad en la investigación científica

La homofilia funciona como un mecanismo silencioso que mantiene desigualdades incluso cuando las cifras parecen equilibradas. Reconocerlo es un paso imprescindible para que la ciencia sea no solo dive...

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Enhorabuena a @funcas.bsky.social por este nuevo formato. A los análisis en profundidad se suman notas de investigación sobre temas de interés general. Muy contenta de haber participado y más aún de leer las contribuciones de compañer@s a quienes admiro mucho. Divulgar es de guap@s.

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funcas.bsky.social @funcas.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

PUBLICACIÓN | Panorama Social 42 - 'Perspectivas sobre las desigualdades sociales'. Los impuestos y las prestaciones públicas reducen la desigualdad en España en un 33%, aunque menos que en Europa Occidental (40%). Descarga y lee: buff.ly/VdYLuiN

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

‼️Tomorrow, Nikoleta Yordanova on "Just to be clear? Strategic Vagueness of the European Parliament in EU Policy Negotiations"‼️ Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25) A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Wonderful news! 🎉

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀 Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨ This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT. Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

💼 Oferta de trabajo! Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG: - 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes - Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive) 👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche... ¡Se agradece difusión!

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Eva Zschirnt @evazschirnt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam. We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025. @aissr.bsky.social

Call for Papers and/or research designs for a workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences" at the University of Amsterdam in October.

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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

New article from Marga Torre and colleagues shows that gender homophily is most pronounced in fields at the intersection of male-dominated and gender-neutral areas and lowest in female-dominated fields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity" Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Anxo Sánchez @anxo.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025

So happy to see this surprising work out. Terrific job by Amar D'Adamo and his supervisor @anatajadura.bsky.social, with the help of Lize de Coster and myself. We show that social support networks shape body perception: larger networks weaken the illusion and link to higher body image satisfaction!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research! 📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019 Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019

This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981. @polarportal.bsky.social

Screenshot from polarportal.dk, a website that makes research on the Arctic research conducted by Danish institutions available to the public and researchers. The image shows Greenland in tan and the Greenland Ice Sheet in red and white. The red part indicates melting and covers all except about 20% in the northeast, which is roughly the area higher than 2500 m above Se level.

Below the map is a chart that compares 2025 melting to the 1981-2010 average. The average melting peaks in mid-July at about 35%. For the last few days, melting has occurred over roughly 80% of the area of Greenland, with a maximum melt area of 80.6% on 24 July 2025. This is the highest value in our dataset, which starts in 1981.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/07/2025

Good. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights will pay a heavy price for this, which is light as a feather

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Tenure and research trajectories | PNAS

Tenure is a cornerstone of the US academic system, yet its relationship to faculty research trajectories remains poorly understood. Conceptually, t...

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Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta* Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸) Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD) 🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Third graduating class of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M. Let’s celebrate!

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“Muchas personas que se oponen a las cuotas no lo hacen porque tengan claro sus efectos, sino porque imaginan que tienen un impacto mucho mayor del real”

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Sebastián Lavezzolo @lavezzolo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Join us at the #EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections! 📅 June 25, 2025 📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) — Rooms 0.A.05 and 0.A.06 🕘 9 AM — 6 PM 10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of sharp insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more! #EPSA2025

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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid! The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below). To express interest, complete form (by 06/24) 👉 n9.cl/qdjvz 1/n

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Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez @pablofernandezv.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Last few days to apply!

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

📢 Last chance to apply for tuition waiver scholarships for our interdisciplinary Master’s in Social Sciences! 🎓 3 tuition waivers still available 🗓 Deadline: this week – May 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🎓 Thinking of studying a Master’s in Social Sciences at IC3JM-UC3M? Good news: All admitted students can apply for the €1,000 Santander Economic Support Grant 2025! 📅 Apply to the programme now & don’t miss out: 👉 www.uc3m.es/postgrado/ay... #UC3M #Masters #Grants

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Programa de Becas y Ayudas entre el SANTANDER y UC3M | UC3M

Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es

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Tomás Cano @tomascano.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🚨 Postdoc position! 🚨 Join MultiMasc — a project on social stratification & masculinities. 📍 Based at UNED (Madrid) / remote possible 🧑‍💻 1-year / €2,250 net monthly / €4,000 travel fund 👉 Apply by June 7 ℹ️More info 👉 files.persona.co/60187/Call-P... 🙏 Share widely 📣📣 #Sociology #Postdoc

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Marga Torre @mtorre.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

El Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la UC3M convoca dos plazas de Profesor/a Ayudante Doctor/a en Sociología y Ciencia Política. Toda la info en este enlace: www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite... Para consultas podéis escribir a: socialsciences.department@uc3m.es Agradecemos difusión!

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Profesorado Ayudante Doctor - CONVOCATORIA 2025/D/DE/TD/2 | UC3M

Contenido compartido desde el sitio web oficial de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - www.uc3m.es

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

‼️On Friday, Vicky Fouka on "Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement"‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

⏰⏳ Final days to apply! 📢 Don’t miss the chance to apply for one of the 4 full scholarships for the Master in Social Sciences (IC3JM - UC3M)! 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025 🔗 Apply now: www.uc3m.es/master/socia... Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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Master in Social Sciences | UC3M

Master in Social Sciences - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"We show that women have higher commuting costs and, as a result, their labor markets are smaller and their job opportunities are more limited." This month in our journal @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

‼️On Friday, @andyguess.com on "The Effects of Political Recommendations on Social Media‼️ Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

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Instituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🔹 Catherine E. De Vries (Bocconi University), member of the IC3JM Scientific Committee, shares her perspective on what makes our master's program in social sciences unique. 📢 Scholarship opportunities! ✅ 4 full scholarships ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 💥 Apply now! www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

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Catherine E De Vries (Bocconi University) - Member of the IC3JM Scientific Committee

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