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Willem de Koster

@willemdekoster.bsky.social
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Cultural sociologist | Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification | www.willemdekoster.nl

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Thijs Lindner @thijslin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New open-access paper in Social Policy & Administration 📄 Showing people official statistics on ethnic differences in welfare receipt makes them more negative about welfare recipients in general, not just about minorities. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/spol...
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Does Exposure to Information on Ethnic Minorities' Greater Welfare Dependency Affect Attitudes to Welfare and Welfare Recipients? A Pre‐Registered, Population‐Based Survey Experiment
The relationship between ethnic diversity and welfare attitudes has been the subject of much research. However, little is known about how exposure to information on the overrepresentation of ethnic m...
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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 08/10/2026
We're hiring 📣 Assistant Professor in the sociology of Health & Aging as part of @bostonu.bsky.social cluster hire on 'The Future of Healthy Aging' Pref for someone with expertise in quantitative or computational approaches More info & apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32925
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Boston University, Office of Research
Job #AJO32925, Assistant Professor Faculty Position in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, with a focus on the Future of Healthy Aging, Office of Research, Boston Univers...
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Katerina Manevska @kmanevska.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ziek. De sociale partners en het onderwijs tegen elkaar uitspelen terwijl de allerrijksten vrolijk kunnen doorgraaien. Wat een stuitend gebrek aan beschaving
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Leandros Kavadias @lkavadia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
❗New paper in @ssreditorial.bsky.social With @sussch.bsky.social, @tkupp.bsky.social and @bramspruyt.bsky.social. A global view on educational differences in career success: Organizational sponsorship, accumulated advantage, and the schooled society. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, the @nytimes.com is writing about the class ceiling! Surely they will have cited and talked to Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison who wrote about this, oh, 8 ish years ago, and not an economist who rediscovered the now obvious but published it in Journal of Econowhatever! Oh, wait.
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Elske van den Hoogen @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How does AI impact the political realm? How does it impact democracy? With @kimonkieslich.bsky.social, @lsfenner.bsky.social, @theolenoir.bsky.social and @dmugge.eurosky.social, I will be discussing all things AI & Politics at Spui25 on the 6th of October. Interested? Please sign up below.
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The AI Blow-up. How the “Technology of the Future” turned into a political battleground
Until recently, AI was to be found everywhere except for political debates. Almost everyone agreed that AI was the key to future prosperity, and that a thriving society needed more of it. That has cha...
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Post doc alert: Very nice new opportunity in Hamburg: Climate change and social conflict www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
While it measures (is supposed to measure) declarative cultural capital, its effects are typically interpreted as those of non-declarative ('embodied') cultural capital, see doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital: A National Population-Based Study Combining IAT and Survey Data - Jeroen van der Waal, Willem de Koster, Tim van Meurs, Kjell Noordzij, Joost Oude Groeniger, Julian Schaap, 2024
Cultural capital is a central concept in stratification research. Crucial to the Bourdieusian habitus, upper strata familiarity with the dominant culture is ass...
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Assistant Professor in Social Inequality
Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!
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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 14/07/2026
📣Job opportunity (d/l Aug 13): @willemdekoster.bsky.social is hiring a 3-yr postdoc to study the different meanings people ascribe to climate change, drawing on survey (experiment) and discrete choice experiment. Open to Sociology and Social Science PhDs! Apply here: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes (3 years, 0.8 fte)
What does climate change mean to people? And how do these meanings shape their responses to policy and information campaigns?
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...
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Open competitions for academic posts
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Jaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Job opportunity!! Are you interested in studying new politicizations of science? And are you interested in how these politicizations could meaningfully be addressed in university education? Then we are looking for you! 🗓 Application deadline: 27 July 2026 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD: Understanding the politization of university knowledge and education
Are you passionate about understanding the growing politicization of science and how to address these topics in university education?
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student for a new project on Parties' social group ownership, based in the @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social research group at KU Leuven! Deadline for applying is 26 June, estimated starting date is 1 Oct 2026. All info is here 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Share widely!
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1 doctoraatspositie in kiesgedrag
1 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups
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Sofia Vasilopoulou @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May
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PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London, listed...
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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Nieuws! In september komt mijn boek Lelijke Mooie Wereld uit. Volgens uitgever Das Mag: "een persoonlijk en bevlogen manifest over ons doorgedraaide schoonheidsideaal en hoe we daaruit kunnen – en moeten– ontsnappen." Het - spectaculaire!- omslag is al klaar. dasmag.nl/product/leli...
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Lelijke mooie wereld - Das Mag
Let op: dit is een pre-order. Het boek valt in september bij je op de deurmat.   Een persoonlijk en bevlogen manifest over ons doorgedraaide schoonheidsideaal en hoe we daaruit kunnen – en moeten– o...
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek. careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi...
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Universitair Docenten Politieke Wetenschap
Universitair Docenten Politieke Wetenschap
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...
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2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Roderik Rekker @roderikrekker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences. The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Vandaag verdedigt Josje ten Kate haar prachtige proefschrift "Vaccinatiescepsis begrijpen" aan de @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social. Gisteravond vertelde ze er al kraakhelder over op Radio 1: www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d... En hier is een interview met haar te lezen: www.eur.nl/essb/nieuws/...
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Twee vormen van vaccinatietwijfel onder theoretisch opgeleiden
De vaccinatiegraad daalt in Nederland. Ook onder theoretisch opgeleiden ouders zijn er twijfelaars. Josje ten Kate onderzocht deze groep voor haar proefschrift aan de Erasmus Universiteit. Ze stelt da...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...
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Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Manchester
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Sociology at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
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Vacancies | ICS
ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dat hogeropgeleide politici gemiddeld genomen de belangen van hogeropgeleiden beter behartigen is toch gewoon een empirische vaststelling, geen uitspraak over wat zou kunnen?
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy
Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.
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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social: tiu.nu/23054 (Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid) Deadline: 14 December Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens (and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)
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Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid (23054)
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Thijs Lindner @thijslin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📣 We staan in de Volkskrant! 🎉 Op basis van ons recente onderzoek schreven we ook een bijdrage over hoe burgers reageren op politieke communicatie rond moeilijke beleidsbesluiten - een thema dat, met de lopende formatie en de komende coalitiefase, actueler is dan ooit.
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Newly released: Understanding Cultural Sociology by Dick Houtman (KU Leuven, Belgium) Read a free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #culturalsociology #sociology
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Thomas-theorema - Wikipedia
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ik zag net dat Kuppens en Spruyt uitgebreid hebben gereageerd onder het stuk van Tiemeijer op Socialevraagstukken (reactie #3 onderaan de pagina). Zeer lezenswaardig!
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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
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Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
En dit stuk misschien ook: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment
Various branches of the literature suggest that exposure to the high-status appearances and lifestyles of politicians in contemporary “diploma democracies” affects the attitudes and behavior of less-...
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Misschien vind je dit stuk van Kjell Noordzij interessant: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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“They don’t know what it’s like to be at the bottom”: Exploring the role of perceived cultural distance in less‐educated citizens’ discontent with politicians
Why is discontent with politicians highest among less-educated citizens? Supplementing explanations concerning a lack of resources and knowledge, we examine the cultural distance to many a politician....
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🗓️ Deadline sollicitatie: 17 augustus 2025 🔗 Vacature + sollicitatie: www.eur.nl/werken-bij-e... Solliciteer zelf, of stuur door aan iemand voor wie dit interessant is.
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Onderwijs (0,3 fte): • Scriptiebegeleiding • Mede-verantwoordelijk voor het bachelorvak Cohesie en Conflict
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We zoeken een postdoc (1,0 fte) voor 3 jaar en 10 maanden. Onderzoek (0,7 fte) binnen het Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification (EICS). Focus op polarisatie, politiek of gezondheid.
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇
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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 09/07/2025
Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action? We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread! Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 01/07/2025
Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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PhD student in Analytical Sociology
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Toon Kuppens @tkupp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
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PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
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2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior
2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎓 #vacature Postdoc sociologie (bijna 4 jaar) Onderzoek (0,7 fte): bij voorkeur gebruik cultuursociologische / politiek-sociologische inzichten om gezondheidssociologische vraagstukken te onderzoeken. Onderwijs (0,3 fte): scripties & Bachelorvak Cohesie & conflict Solliciteer uiterlijk 16 juni!
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Postdoc Sociologie voor bijna 4 jaar
Voor een substantiële periode (bij goed functioneren in totaal 3 jaar en 10 maanden) zoeken we een postdoc Sociologie om onderzoek te doen (0,7 fte) en onderwijs te verzorgen (0,3 fte). Het onderzoek ...
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange
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Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Interested in climate change and sociology? Speak Italian? Want a postdoc? Then @willemdekoster.bsky.social has you covered www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3522...
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Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
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Roderik Rekker @roderikrekker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Job alert! We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers at the intersection of political psychology, science communication, and survey methodology: -One for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization. -One for my starting grant on the politicization of science. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
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Kjell Noordzij @kjellnoordzij.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
How do people view environmental sustainability—and what does this mean for public support for interventions? Joost Oude Groeniger, @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen van der Waal, and I explore this in our new article in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 1/9
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Niels Spierings @nielsspierings.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Over inclusie, LGBTQ+, islam, migratie, politiek, populisme, verandering, weerstand en de wetenschap. Mijn oratie - met allerlei statistieken, anecdotes en toffe mensen - is nu ook na te lezen #openacces in Mens en Maatschappij: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/03/2025
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Jochem van Noord @jochemvannoord.eu · 11/03/2025
Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social
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Opinie: Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?
In een column voor de Volkskrant beweerde Sander Schimmelpenninck dat het niet te bewijzen is dat hoogopgeleiden neerkijken op lager opgeleiden. Die stelling negeert helaas vijftien jaar onderzoek naa...
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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are hiring a new PhD candidate on Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews" Please share with your most talented students! Deadline: April 10 Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position: Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews"
Ever wondered how smartphone usage influences the political worldviews of young adults? Are you interested in doing meaningful research? Then we have the perfect PhD position for you!
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Willem de Koster @willemdekoster.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Very happy to receive a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council for a mixed-methods study on how people understand climate change, why these understandings differ, and what the consequences are. www.eur.nl/en/essb/news...
Aims of the research project
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