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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At the book market at the ESA conference in Warsaw I spotted the editor putting our Handbook of Beauty and Inequality to good use: propping up her laptop during a Zoom call. It is indeed quite hefty, as you can see on the next image with my co-editor @outisarpila.bsky.social

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Eva Zschirnt @evazschirnt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For the 4th time, @bramlancee.bsky.social & I, in collaboration with AMCIS, organise a workshop on survey experiments on 5 Oct. 2026. CfP below ⬇️. We particularly welcome papers/research designs from early career researchers. Deadline for submissions: 23 Aug. @aissr.bsky.social

Call for Papers/Research Designs - Workshop on Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences on 5 October 2026 at the University of Amsterdam

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Beauty – a long-overlooked yet undeniably significant dimension of inequality in contemporary societies – has finally received its own handbook. Fully open access, edited by @giselinde.bsky.social and me.

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 26/02/2026

I have a bunch of positions open with @mjantti.bsky.social and @anttikouvo.bsky.social in four different projects! You need a PhD (or you should be about to defend your thesis), quant methods skills are necessary, but otherwise we are pretty flexible. #sociology #demography #economics #statistics

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Important myth-debunking by evolutionary psychologists Linda Lidborg and @drboothroyd.bsky.social. The authors also contributed an outstanding chapter to the forthcoming Handbook on Beauty and Inequality edited by @outisarpila.bsky.social and me.

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations. Read more and apply invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

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INVEST Fellowship Programme - INVEST Research Flagship Centre

What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...

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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

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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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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The windmill gave us feudalism, the steam mill gave us industrial capitalism, but what does the content mill bring us? Riffing on Marx, Kobe De Keere discuss this question with Rachel O'Dwyer and Ashley Mears in this new episode of the Culture and inequality Podcast: pod.link/1533967764/e... >>

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Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Suomen Akatemia tuomitsee jyrkästi tutkijaan kohdistuvan häirinnän ja vihapuheen. ”In Finland, academic freedom is a core value. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly.” ”Let’s protect the freedom to do science, and the people who make it possible.”

Suomen Akatemian LinkedIn-päivitys:

The Research Council of Finland firmly condemns the harassment and hate speech that RCF-funded researchers have recently faced online.

This kind of targeting behaviour is highly inappropriate and dangerous. It threatens academic freedom, narrows public debate, and undermines trust in science and the people behind it.

𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. Researchers must be able to explore, question and share knowledge openly. The RCF funds research through open competition and international peer review, and our staff work to ensure the 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 of the process.

Debate and disagreement are part of a healthy democracy. But there is a line that is crossed when the conversation turns into personal attacks or intimidation.

We call on everyone to help keep that line clear. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, and the people who make it possible.

In 2023, we released a statement on the online targeting of researchers: https://lnkd.in/dbRrUDBu

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Kirjoitimme Anna Grahnin kanssa Tilastokeskuksen tänään julkaisemaan ”Ajan jäljet” -teokseen ulkonäkötyöstä. Ulkonäkötyö on merkittävä osa sukupuolittunutta palkatonta työtä. Syystä tai toisesta se kuitenkin tavallisesti jätetään vastaavissa määrällisissä tarkasteluissa huomioimatta.

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Vera Mikkilä @veramikkila.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

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Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents

The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities’ ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF’s strategy, the call wi...

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Tomas Sjöblom @tomassjoblom.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Itse ajattelen, että eri silottajavoiteiden hämmästelevän kehumisen sijaan voisi olla paikallaan kyseenalaistaa, miksi meidän kulttuuri on sellainen, että ikääntymisen merkkejä pitää peitellä. (Eri asia, jos on jokin lääketieteellinen syy käyttää vastaavia tuotteita) www.hs.fi/elama/art-20...

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Testi | Hittivoide silotti toimittajan ihon kolmessa kuukaudessa – lähikuva paljastaa tuloksen

Toimittaja testasi ihonhoidon hittiainetta kolmen kuukauden ajan ja hämmästyi tuloksista. Retinolin tehosta on myös tutkimusnäyttöä.

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Olemme Turun yliopiston sosiologian oppiaineessa tuottaneet viisijaksoisen podcast-sarjan ”Sosiologian ääni”. Sarjassa tutustutaan yksikössä tehtävään tutkimukseen yleistajuisella otteella. Minun & Minttu Rantasen jakso kuunneltavissa täältä👇 open.spotify.com/episode/23MX...

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Ulkonäkö ja eriarvoisuus

Sosiologian ääni · Episode

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🔍 Interested in #inequality, #interventions, or the future of the #WelfareState? The Spring 2025 call our #Fellowship Programme is open! Check out our five research themes — is there a good match with your own work. ✈️ Travel covered, grant provided, housing arranged 👉 invest.utu.fi/fellowships/

Text: INVEST Fellowship Programme Spring Call 2025 is now open! DL 30 April, 2025

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 27/03/2025

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"What happens to the self when surgery is embraced for the purpose of political conformity, consciously or otherwise?" Insightful article on the "brutal" beauty standards of the MAGA right>> www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA

Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

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H-P Ontto-Panula @hplehk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I made a comic about beauty as a capital in my first year of studying social sciences. It's 11 pages (+sources) this this will be a thread. Nowadays my view on my looks isn't as negative but I'm still insecure about it. 🧵1/3

Comic. Person looks tired. Text: I look this tired every day. This might surprise you but I'm very uncomfortable with my looks. I avoid looking in the mirror when I go to toilet. Covid was a great reason to not think of my looks.

Comic, person does make up. Text: I bought a concealer serum. It makes me feel better. But I have to admit I dream of having money for fillers. I try to be body neutral. Positive is too much. Such intense love for one's body seems fake. I know I'm smart, funny and kind. I like my body. I'm strong and my shoulders are nice and wide... but my face.

Text: my face exists. If I don't think about it I'm ok. But recently I've had to think about it a lot. I started studying and I'm older than most others. They keep commenting.
Comic, blonde young woman says "Wow, you don't look 35!" Text: it's a compliment.

Comic, person with no face. Text: but it makes me feel horrible because it reminds me of the fact that people see me. I don't want to be seen. I used to make youtube videos, but I stopped. When trying to continue, I can't do it. People say "nobody cares about uour looks". They're right and wrong. 1) yes, people who care about me don't care. 2) but I care. 3) research says looks determine a lot of how you're treated in our society. Let's look into the research.

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Hanna Ylöstalo @hannaylostalo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Vielä tämä viikko aikaa hakea 2-vuotista tutkijatohtorin paikkaa populaarifeminismiä käsittelevässä tutkimushankkeessa Tampereen yliopistossa: blogit.utu.fi/femtie/uutis...

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Uutiset - FEMTIE

Hakuilmoitus: Projektitutkija (postdoc, apurahatutkija) populaarifeminismiä käsittelevään tutkimushankkeeseen Tampereen yliopiston yhteiskuntatutkimuksen yksikössä, sukupuolentutkimuksen oppiaineessa ...

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hei mitä iältään noin 7-9-vuotiaiden olisi hyvä tietää (suomalaisesta) yhteiskunnasta tai mikä heitä oman kokemuksesi mukaan yhteiskunnallisissa teemoissa kiinnostaa? Itseni ja @ericaaberg.bsky.social puolesta kyselen.

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Irene Prix @ireprix.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Haku auki vielä ma 30.9. asti: Vakituinen yliopisto-opettajan pesti Turussa! Tehtävään kuuluu myös kanditason määrällisten menetelmien opetus. ats.talentadore.com/apply/sosiaa...

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Sosiaalitieteiden yliopisto-opettaja

Turun yliopiston yhteiskuntatieteellisen tiedekunnan sosiaalitieteiden laitoksella on haettavana sosiaalitieteiden yliopisto-opettajan toistaiseksi voimassa oleva tehtävä. Työsuhde alkaa 1.1.2025 tai ...

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

This is an interesting result at a time when obtaining ethical approval for field experiments is not a straightforward matter (at least in Finnish universities). Causing an incentive to move towards the implementation of factorial survey experiments.

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Hanna Kuusela @hannakuu.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers: Families and Wealth

Special issue editors: Céline Bessière (Paris Dauphine University), Katie Higgins (University of Oxford) and Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä)

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Finnish Journal of Social Research @fjsr.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Spring is coming (eventually), and so is our CALL FOR PAPERS 2024! Submit your social sciences manuscript with (some) relevance to Finland until 5 April. Accepted articles are published online and open-access after double-blind peer review. For details see: fjsr.journal.fi/announcement...

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Main thoughts after two-day online workshop: 1) this is awesome 2) how did we ever manage to do this daily back then, when the only tangible sign of the passage of time was the changing sizes of our children's clothes.

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Irene Prix @ireprix.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

New paper out -- studying geographical and socioeconomic constraints on gendered educational transitions at the upper secondary level (with Outi Sirniö and Juhani Saari): doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Hello Bluesky! I you're in for something hopeful and constructive you might like the new episode of our Culture and Inequality Podcast, in which I talk with Harvard sociologist Michele Lamont about her new book Seeing Others. pod.link/1533967764

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Culture & Inequality Podcast

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Outi Sarpila @outisarpila.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

My paper w/ @hbahamonde.bsky.social in Political Psychology is out. Finns tend to vote for upper-class-looking candidates. Female candidates with a working-class appearance face electoral penalties. No such association is observed among men. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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