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Tobias Rüttenauer

@ruettenauer.bsky.social
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Quantitative Social Science at C3S Frankfurt. Climate Change, Environmental + Urban Sociology, Spatial Demography and Methods, with ❤️ for Fixed Effects and 🚴

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 5h
When can we use two-way fixed effects (TWFE)? A comparison of TWFE and novel dynamic difference-in-differences estimators doi.org/10.1177/0081... Paper in Sociological Methodology by Associate Member @ruettenauer.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After extensive qualitative fieldwork (n=1), I can report that this is a pretty great job 🧑‍🎓😀 If you work on #Climate, #Environment and #CausalInference, I highly recommend applying for this Assistant Professor position @sriucl.bsky.social 👇 🚨Deadline: October 30
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ghent University members are asking for support, so its institution can investigate Cofnas as its regulations require, and because: "appeals to absolutist academic freedom as a guise for pursuing racist and pseudoscientific research threaten the integrity and credibility of research as a whole"
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n
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Lara Minkus @laraminkus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚨Very happy that this Special Issue is out. Together with @swallaschek.bsky.social, I also contributed a study to this great collection of papers. 📝
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New data analysis “has provided fresh evidence that cycling is the fastest inner city rush hour transport, with new findings from London showing that 2 wheels beats the tube & cars for most trips…the bike beat 92% of matched trips aligned to TfL services, as well as 75% of rush hour driving trips.”
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Cycling again declared London’s fastest transport in new data
New data analysis from health data experts Terra and triathlon icon Alistair Brownlee has provided fresh evidence that cycling is
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abgeordnetenwatch @abgeordnetenwatch.de · 24/07/2026
NEU: Streit um das IFG: Wie das Kanzleramt vor Gericht gegen abgeordnetenwatch vorgeht www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/i....
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Wie das Kanzleramt gegen abgeordnetenwatch vorgeht | abgeordnetenwatch
Die Regierung das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz massiv einschränken. Vor Gericht versucht das Kanzleramt schon jetzt, den Zugang zu Unterlagen zu erschweren – und behauptet: abgeordnetenwatch hat seinen...
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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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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Working on climate & population? Keen to discuss future directions & methodological frontiers? Join 28-29 Jan in Bologna 🇮🇹 📩 Call for abstracts by 20 Sep! Organized with POPCLIMA project, @iussp.bsky.social Panel on Climate & Environmental Demography & @eaps.bsky.social Climate Demography.
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POPCLIMA: Call for Abstracts - POPCLIMA
Population Dynamics in a Changing Climate – Future Directions for Climate Demography Organiser: University of Bologna (POPCLIMA – ERC Consolidator Grant), in...
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tomorrow I'll present "The Society of Exponentiality" for the first time in English. In Bamberg and on Zoom. Join us!
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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There’s been a lot of buzz around the Borjas/Breznau (2026) paper (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and potential ideological bias in research. We took a closer look at the data. Could there be a "bias in bias research"? Here is what we found: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Every delay has a backstory @deutschebahn.com 🚂⏰
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🚨👩‍🎓 We're hiring a Full Professor in Macrosociology! 👩‍🏫🚨 Join us in beautiful Heidelberg 🏰 starting April 1, 2027. Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding the position www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #Sociology #sociologyjobs #AcademicSky
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Job vacancy: Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” (f/m/d) - Max Weber Institute of Sociology
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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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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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 22/05/2026
"Journalismus ist antifaschistisch oder er ist kein Journalismus”, sagt die Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin und Medienkritikerin @nadiazaboura.bsky.social auf der re:publica 2026, zusammen mit Leonhard Dobusch.
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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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Lars Leszczensky @leszczensky.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📢 WiMi (75%, E13) gesucht! Ich suche Verstärkung für mein Team an der @goetheuni.bsky.social! Es geht um Netzwerkforschung & Mitarbeit im @erc.europa.eu-Projekt zum Zusammenspiel der Netzwerke von Kindern & Eltern. Laufzeit bis Ende 2028. Infos & Bewerbung: 🔗 www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
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Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ever wondered why nearby places behave more alike than distant ones?🤔 Turns out, many regression model may be missing spatial dependencies!🗺️📍 Join our #Geodata & #Spatial Regression workshop (30 Jun–2 Jul, Mannheim) and learn how to model spatial regression models in R 📊 👉 t1p.de/geodata-spat...
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt @goetheuni.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🎉Herzlichen Glückwunsch | Der #Umweltsoziologe Prof. Dr. @ruettenauer.bsky.social erhält LOEWE-Start-Professur an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Er erforscht das Verhältnis zwischen #Natur und #Gesellschaft. 🔗 aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/forschung/lo...
Porträt von Prof. Dr. Tobias Rüttenauer, der mit verschränkten Armen vor einer Tür steht. Darunter eine Grafik mit Text zur LOEWE-Start-Professur: Er forscht am C3S der Goethe-Universität zu den sozialen und demographischen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels und erhält dafür 1,3 Millionen Euro Förderung.
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This weekend I witnessed a brutal misogynistic assault in public, read annoyed texts from female friends leaving multiple clubs to escape harassment by men, and sat by as others exchanged story after story of workplace sexism. No news at all, but this world urgently needs more feminism, not less.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
After nearly four great years at UCL‘s Social Research Institute, I’m excited to be moving on to C³S at Goethe University Frankfurt: www.c3s-frankfurt.de 🎓🧮🤖 I’m incredibly grateful for all the support and kindness over the years 🤗 and very excited about what’s ahead 🤓🧑‍🏫
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Don’t miss your chance to explore spatial regression techniques with @ruettenauer.bsky.social! 👉 t1p.de/geodata-spat...
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
How costly is apprenticeship dropout—and for whom? Using an IV approach, our new @europeansocreview.bsky.social article finds strong income penalties, but only for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. My great coauthors patzinaalex.bsky.social & @katymorris.bsky.social 💖 tinyurl.com/tk4nkdb3
Screenshot of the articles title "Stratified Scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout" and the abstract: While the association between apprenticeship dropout and negative labour market consequences is well documented, the causal link and social stratification in this effect are less clear. Using georeferenced German administrative data and a conditional instrumental variable approach that exploits distance between place of residence and large firms, we find negative financial consequences but show that the dropout penalty is entirely concentrated among individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. We further show that these stratified scars partly reflect unequal educational reenrolment rates and unequal employment outcomes among dropouts who do not reenrol. Our results highlight the potential of policies targeting higher graduation rates to reduce social inequality and suggest social advantage buffers the negative financial consequences of apprenticeship dropout, even in institutional settings with strong links between credentials and labour market outcomes.
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wir erheben grade dutzende Interviews und es ist wirklich irre, wie komplett weg vom Radar der Klimawandel ist. Selbst bei grünen Akademikern taucht er nicht mal auf, wenn nach den Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft gefragt wird. Don't Look Up, aber weil alle einfach vergessen, dass da was war.
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series. Book now for our next talk with Professor Ulf Liebe. #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers, topics ranging from #ClimatePolicy and #ClimateJustice to #Energy transitions www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Challenges in measuring the importance of justice concerns for climate policy support
This presentation invites reflection on the theoretical concepts that underpin research into social acceptance and climate policy support.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 16/03/2026
Paul Ehrlich, famous for being wrong, dies at 93.
PROLOGUE

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s
and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to
death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon
now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial
increase in the world death rate, although many lives
could be saved through dramatic programs to "stretch"
the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food
production and providing for more equitable distribution
of whatever food is available. But these programs will
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Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
Paul R. Ehrlich, Who
Alarmed the World With
'The Population Bomb,
Dies at 93
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement.
But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.

Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes
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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Geography shapes social processes – voting, migration & protests are often spatially dependent in ways standard regression models can’t capture. Learn with @ruettenauer.bsky.social to detect, visualize & model spatial ties via advanced spatial regression techniques! ➡️ t1p.de/geodata-spat...
GESIS Workshop
Geodata and Spatial Regression Analysis
30 June to 02 July 2026 in Mannheim
Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Two more days to apply!
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 27/02/2026
⭐️ @ruettenauer.bsky.social will share his latest insights into migrant dynamics across 30 countries. ⭐️ Meena Khatwa will showcase her impactful project on online eating disorder content, co-produced with diverse stakeholders. ⭐️ Hear from our students what exciting projects they are working on!
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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… 📊 9,000+ studies
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/02/2026
Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.
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Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval
City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Today in our quantitative social science seminar, Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) will tell us what we can learn about worker rights from analysing 30,000 collective bargaining agreements. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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Bastian Betthaeuser @betthaeuser.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation? I've got something for you! My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Example for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using point data as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.xample for the two staged unsupervised machine learning algorithm using 500x500m grid cells as input. Backlayer maps depict Hamburg. The map shows large neighborhoods in different sizes and forms, sometimes following administrative borders (black lines) sometimes not. Three differently colored neighborhood types are displayed, each representing a different social group of residents.
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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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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 09/02/2026
🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqiansoc.bsky.social just out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization
Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our first talk is happening tomorrow 👇 Join us to uncover how extreme heat is deepening global inequalities in antenatal care, drawing on data from 860,000 births in 52 LMICs. #ClimateHealth #GlobalHealth #CLEAN
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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
CRIS at the Sciences Po, Paris is seeking a post-doctoral researcher to join the Research Team led by Prof. Mirna Safi working on “The Discrimination-Inequality Cycle: Bridging Unequal Treatment and Unequal Outcomes across Countries, Regions and Workplaces” Apply: www.sciencespo.fr/cris/files/J...
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Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In this preprint, we (@ruettenauer.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I) ask and address two questions: (i) How does immigrant-native #segregation vary across urban areas in Europe? (ii) Which urban area- and country-level characteristics are consistently linked to segregation? Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🌍🌱 New #CLEAN 2026 Seminar Series ♻️🔥💡 #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers to discuss topics ranging from #ClimateJustice and #Adaptation policies to #Energy transitions and #Health impacts of extreme heat 🏜️ 📆 #hybrid Get in touch for zoom link www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 02/01/2026
🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper & @robgruijters.bsky.social! We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda
As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…
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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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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work? In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread. 1/
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳
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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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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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