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🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk 🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts 🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social ➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program 📄 Member @ref2029.bsky.social Sociology 🌐 www.yanghu.co.uk

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Community, Work & Family @cwfjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📅 Save the date! The 11th International Community, Work and Family Conference is coming to Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 📍 University of Porto 🗓️ 1–3 September 2027 Conference theme, Call for Papers & more details coming soon! #CWF2027 @wfrn.bsky.social @sociofamilyisa.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Genuine question - now that OSF will soon phase out its "project" function, what would be a good alternative for depositing and sharing analysis code? Zenodo? Harvard Dataverse? Or...?
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Congratulations to everyone receiving their A Level results today🎉We’re delighted to see that social science subjects remain popular, with psychology, economics, business studies & sociology ranked in the top 10 most studied subjects at A Level in terms of entries. acss.org.uk/news/a-level...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/07/2026
Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
AS American Sociological Association
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing with important information about the ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG), which has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past six years.
After learning that we will not be receiving our next funding increment from NSF, we are suspending the ASA DDRIG program and will not be opening the 2027 application cycle. This does not affect any student who currently holds an ASA DDRIG.
Over six application cycles, the ASA DDRIG program awarded 153 grants to students at 62 institutions. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the reviewers who have made the program possible and to all the students, both applicants and grantees, whose work has inspired us. We are actively seeking other funding opportunities and will be back in touch with the sociology community if funding becomes available in the future.
In the meantime, we encourage you to write to your representatives in Congress to let them know how the cancellation and suspension of research funding impacts you, your students, and your colleagues. Please visit ASA Action Center to view our current action alerts on this matter. Feel free to customize your message if you received an ASA DDRIG or NSF DDRI and share how the program helped shape your trajectory.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support of ASA's efforts to promote the work of sociologists and the discipline of sociology.
ASA DDRIG Program Team
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. We're inviting proposals from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Learn more: bit.ly/4xWduAS
A colour block banner promoting Postdoctoral Fellowships funding. Deadline: Wednesday 30 September 2026
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 15/05/2026
What are the odds of the same journal inviting you to review two DIFFERENT papers an hour apart?
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our @pengzell.bsky.social is co-organising this 2-day event to shed light on the role of labour markets in economic inequality and mobility. Send your best contributions!
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 24/03/2026
This new paper on ethics/confidentiality of interviewing partners of a couple, by my wonderful @sriucl.bsky.social colleagues @susiebowerbrown.bsky.social @clarestovell.bsky.social, is a must-read for those doing qualitative family research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Family Theory & Review | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article draws attention to the ethical and methodological complexities of internal confidentiality in family research and provides field-specific recommendations. Conducting individual (rather t...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 24/03/2026
This is insane.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A great showcase of the range and depth of work happening in our department... talent on display all around.
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 03/03/2026
In the new issue @jmfncfr.bsky.social, we draw on a national survey experiment to examine people's spouse preferences in China: doi.org/10.1111/jomf... Does money trump beauty❓ Are preferences still gendered, or has there been a gender convergence❓ @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 27/02/2026
🚨 How to change the world as a social researcher & what it takes to do so? What it feels like to study Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Research Methods (with Data Science) MSc/MA at @sriucl.bsky.social? 🔜 Sign up for our social sciences online taster event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 21/02/2026
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‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New #OpenAccess Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, @yanghu.co.uk & @yueqiansoc.bsky.social analyze longitudinal data from @usociety.bsky.social to reveal how the use of online banking shape couples' money management and financial decisions doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag002
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 19/02/2026
📰My research (@sriucl.bsky.social) on LAT (living apart together) w/ Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social ) just quoted in @telegraph.co.uk: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02... Read our @geronmedia.bsky.social paper on how LAT relates to older adults' mental health here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#OutNow in #iCS Who worries most about digitalisation? Using European Social Survey data from across 30 countries, this article shows concerns cluster by age and education more than income or geography, and rise with digital literacy and exposure. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 09/02/2026
🚨 New paper with Monideepa Tarafdar & Irina Rets doi.org/10.1111/isj.... 🤖 Why is bias in machine learning applications so slippery to catch & eliminate? We dive into a key organisation developing AI tools for job/hiring decisions to find out. @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
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Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications
Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically an...
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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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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 06/02/2026
Wonderful news that my great friend @imogentyler.bsky.social is elected Vice President of the @britsoci.bsky.social - having worked closely with Imogen for years, I cannot speak highly enough of what a truly caring, visionary, and inspiring leader Imogen is! ❤️🥰 es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-im...
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Professor Imogen Tyler elected as next BSA Vice President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
We are pleased to announce that BSA members have elected Professor Imogen Tyler as our next Vice President. Imogen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at...
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UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉 es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...
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Professor Les Back takes up role of BSA President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 28/01/2026
🚨 Our @sriucl.bsky.social 2026 Open Days are landing next week! ⭐️ Feb 4, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Sociology ⭐️ Feb 5, Thursday, 13:00-14:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Social Policy and in Social Research Methods ➡️ Sign up here and join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/graduate...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE. Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
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Joshua Claassen @jclaass.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As well as being our 10th anniversary, 2025 was a huge year for our department's continued commitment to research, policy and social change. Read just a little bit of what we got up to in SRI's first ever Impact Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/io...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 02/01/2026
🚨What's the role of AI in hiring & organisational inequalities? How does an interdisciplinary view matter? Read our new paper (Karen Hughes, Alla Konnikov & @ndenier.bsky.social) in inaugural Human Relations review SI @tavinstitute.org: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Problematizing the role of artificial intelligence in hiring and organizational inequalities: A multidisciplinary review - Karen D Hughes, Alla Konnikov, Nicole Denier, Yang Hu, 2025
What are the implications of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment and hiring for organizational inequalities? While advocates suggest ...
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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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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Its the annual holiday countdown for my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Over the next 24 days I'll be highlighting the episodes from this year as well as giving shoutouts to some of the books of the year too!
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Research by Dr @yanghu.co.uk @sriucl.bsky.social finds concern around technology's impact on privacy, misinformation and work-life boundaries are highest among educated, Western European millennials. In fact, greater use of technology heightens digital anxiety, especially for the digitally literate.
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Tech savvy users have most digital concerns
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 16/12/2025
Resonating with @academicdiary.bsky.social's wonderful annual lecture on "The Paradox of Home" @uclsociology.bsky.social last week.
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 15/12/2025
From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries
Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
With alt-text:
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
By Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 12/12/2025
Call: The London Journal Early Career Publishing Workshop thelondonjournal.org/ECRPublishin...
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 06/12/2025
Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 01/12/2025
🚨 SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN – MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social 🌍 International: Clarke & ISH Centenary (Tuition + Stipend/Accommodation). 🇬🇧 UK: Aziz Foundation (Full Tuition). Scholarship details: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-io... Apply to join MSc/MA Sociology: www.linkedin.com/posts/yang-h...
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Considering doing a Master&#39;s degree in Sociology? For the first time in the 200-year history of UCL, and after several years in the making, the UCL Social Research Institute has just formally… |...
Considering doing a Master's degree in Sociology? For the first time in the 200-year history of UCL, and after several years in the making, the UCL Social Research Institute has just formally launch...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville. Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai... If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
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The Conference
Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 25/11/2025
Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows! The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development! wfrn.org/news/announc...
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Announcing the 2026 WFRN Early Career Fellowship Recipients - Work and Family Researchers Network
The WFRN Welcomes 2026 Early Career Fellowship Recipients! To date, 170 early-career scholars have participated in the WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program. This program is designed to deliver a var...
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Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨 The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL723/l...
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Lecturer in Economics at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in Economics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 20/11/2025
The perks of studying MSc Sociology in the research powerhouse @sriucl.bsky.social - you get to hone your research skills by working in cutting-edge projects with world-leading experts! ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Awww @wfrn.bsky.social - it's been so amazing and inspiring working with our talented ECFs.
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 12/11/2025
Exciting!! After reviewing many many excellent applications and making recommendations...the first batch of our @ucl.ac.uk @sriucl.bsky.social MSc Sociology offers for 2026/27 entry just went out to our applicants TODAY! Do you have our (first) offer? 🤩 Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/11/2025
It's easy for some of you to just never use LLMs and just criticize people who do. I would like to be in that situation. But here I am, with my moderator volunteers, assessing hundreds of papers submitted to @socarxiv.bsky.social, trying to decide how to fairly judge whether to accept them. /1
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