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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
@aissr.bsky.social
We unite all social science research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and offer high-quality PhD training
❌❌❌ The Social Science of Amsterdam

🎥 Video 5/6 explores what happens when research is embedded in city government. Anne Sastromedjo & Siegnella Concincion reflect on doing a PhD as civil servants in Amsterdam, bridging policy, care and critical social science in practice:

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Anne Sastromedjo & Siegnella Concincion on Doing a PhD as a Civil Servant at the City of Amsterdam
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January 23, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥

@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust.

Find out what they are 👉 📖

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Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior
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January 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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My PhD dissertation is available here: shorturl.at/jJhIt
Unpublished chapters are being developed into w papers 📄
I'am deeply grateful to my promotors @hermwerf.bsky.social, @thijsbol.bsky.social, for their guidance+support, the committee's thoughtful engagement & @aissr.bsky.social colleagues+team
January 21, 2026 at 8:49 PM
❌❌❌ Urban development is often framed as progress, but who decides?

🎥 Video 4/6 of The Social Science of Amsterdam follows Yannick Drijfhout on activism, participation & power in Amsterdam Noord, working closely with community organisations.

@anouk-amsterdam.bsky.social

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Yannick Drijfhout on Activism & Social Movements in Amsterdam-Noord
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January 20, 2026 at 8:58 AM
How inclusive is citizen participation in practice?

🎥 Video 3/6 of *The Social Science of Amsterdam* features Nanke Verloo on participation processes in A'dam, following residents, civil servants & alderman @rutgergrootwassink.bsky.social ⬇️

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Nanke Verloo on Citizen Participation in Local Decision-Making
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January 15, 2026 at 11:36 AM
🎉 Congrats to @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social on being elected as a new member of The Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie), an independent division of @knaw-nl.bsky.social

A well-deserved recognition of his impactful research on housing inequality and urban change 👏

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January 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM
How does social science engage with Amsterdam? ❌❌❌

In this video series, AISSR researchers show how their work connects to everyday urban life 🏙️

🎥 Video 2/6 features Christian Bröer on TimingStress: how time pressure shapes #stress, #sleep and #familylife in Amsterdam ⬇️

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Christian Bröer on Stress & Time in Amsterdam Families
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January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Sign up for next week's AISSR Lecture by Erasmus Uni experts Willem Schinkel & @rvanreekum.bsky.social: 'An extremely well-ordered mud-puddle. Migration, the Netherlands, and the fascist horizon'

Aftertalk with @antigonesdream.bsky.social & Darshan Vigneswaran

15 Jan ⬇️
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An extremely well-ordered mud-puddle. Migration, the Netherlands, and the fascist horizon - AISSR
Explore how contemporary European fascism operates within liberal democracy and why migration is its core battleground. This AISSR lecture by Schinkel & Van Reekum offers sharp insights on Europe and ...
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January 9, 2026 at 9:38 AM
How does social science engage with Amsterdam? ❌❌❌

In this new video series, researchers show how their work informs policy and urban life 🏙️

🎥Video 1/6 features Eelke Heemskerk, @yuliia-kazmina.bsky.social & Laure Michon on mapping everyday social connections in the city:

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Eelke Heemskerk & Yuliia Kazmina on Data Science with Amsterdam’s Research & Statistics (O&S)
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January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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How to Publish Ethically in a World Dominated by Predatory and Exploitative Academic Publishers

Blog by @aissr.bsky.social
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January 8, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Join us 15 Jan (15:30–17:00) at CREA for the 3rd AISSR Lecture in our series, by Willem Schinkel & @rvanreekum.bsky.social: An extremely well-ordered mud-puddle.

Aftertalk with Sarah Bracke (@antigonesdream.bsky.social) & Darshan Vigneswaran + drinks. Register now ⬇️

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December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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📢♀️ 'Resilience in Action: A Toolkit for Feminist Strategies in Times of Backlash' is out now!

🧰⚒️ Free to use and share. May this support many of you in pushing back against backlash.

💯⚡Proud of the Push*Back*Lash team @aissr.bsky.social

⬇️👇Download here #Toolkit2
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Push Back Lash - Dissemination
Cartoons You can browse and download each episode of our Cartoon Series: Let’s Design Equality Together here. Cartoons and supporting materials are available in English and an additional language depe...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Extremely happy that my project got funded with a Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu. The project is called FIRMS, and with a team, I'll study how the workplace/firm affects inequality in careers. We'll use register data to trace the careers of millions of workers. 1/3
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Nine UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
💠 Rebuilding Trust in Uncertain Times 💠
Launching our IMPULSE Spotlight series!

First up:
@stevepickering.bsky.social on how trust in institutions can be rebuilt through cross-national experiments.

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IMPULSE Spotlight: Steven Pickering on Rebuilding Trust in Uncertain Times - AISSR
Discover how Steven Pickering’s IMPULSE-funded research explores rebuilding public trust through cross-national experiments and guides policymakers in today’s uncertain political climate.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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On Thursday we host Claudia Diehl for the year's last AMCIS Seminar: "Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments & Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women & Students"

Info & registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

@codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social
Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments and Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women and Students - AMCIS
In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Claudia Diehl discusses to what extent the various mechanisms that have been proposed to explain perceived ethnic discrimination apply to other disadvantaged groups and othe...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Tomorrow, we host @miroborn.bsky.social for an AMCIS Seminar on "Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility" where he will critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

Info and registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

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Social Ladders: The Weight of Social Mobility - AMCIS
In this talk, Dr Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) critically explores the ideal of social mobility.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
✨ Wij zoeken een nieuwe programmamanager! ✨

Werk je graag verbindend tussen onderzoekers, projecten en subsidiegevers? Ben je sterk in organiseren en communiceren? Solliciteer vóór 19 dec 2025 en kom werken binnen ons domein Sociale Wetenschappen:

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Vacature — Programmamanager Onderzoeksinstituut Sociale Wetenschappen
<p><span>Ben jij op zoek naar een functie waar je jouw organisatorische vaardigheden in kwijt kan? Ben jij zowel communicatief als administratief goed onderlegd en zet je deze talenten graag in binnen de academische wereld? Dan is de functie Programmamanager bij het Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (Universiteit van Amsterdam) wat voor jou! </span></p>
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November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Onderzoek naar liefde & midlife in Amsterdam-Noord 💛
Antropoloog Rahil Roodsaz duikt in de dagelijkse ritmes van stellen (35–60) in *Rhythms of Love*. Hoe verandert liefde als we ouder worden? Persoonlijke, kwetsbare verhalen vol inzicht.

Een interview in @parool.nl: www.parool.nl/ps-van-de-we...
Rahil Roodsaz (43) geeft les over de liefde aan de UvA: ‘Mensen zijn klaar met datingapps, dat hoor ik ook van studenten’
UvA-docent en liefdesonderzoeker Rahil Roodsaz (43) doet antropologisch onderzoek naar langdurige relaties in de Waterlandpleinbuurt in Noord. ‘Ik vraag heel concreet: waar en hoe vindt het liefhebben...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Call for abstracts, Seed Panel:

Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures

Conv. by Jean-Benoît Falisse (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) and @felixundstein.bsky.social (@aissr.bsky.social)

📍 @iobua.bsky.social

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November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How Migration Really Works — now as a comic! 📚✨

A 12-page visual summary of @heindehaas.bsky.social' research, created by @blijstift.bsky.social and LOKAAL Rotterdam.

Free to download (in Dutch) or get the print for €9.95 (hello holiday season): www.blijstift.nl/samengevat-i...
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
❌❌❌ AISSR Harvest Day 2025 | The Social Science of Amsterdam | 4 Dec | CREA

Join our 12th annual gathering on the “harvest” of social science in/with/for Amsterdam.

Keynotes, aftertalks, videos & workshops on urban challenges, methods, and community collaboration.

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November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sneak peek from Renée DiResta’s AISSR Lecture last week: How does social media reshape political power? From performed credibility to fragmented info worlds, her insights hit hard.

Watch the full lecture & aftertalk with @lizamugge.bsky.social ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nshb...

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November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In @nrc.nl waarschuwt socioloog Sarah Bracke voor de normalisering van het begrip ‘omvolking’, centraal in radicaal-rechtse frames over islam en migratie. Haar team toont hoe moslims als “vreemd lichaam” worden neergezet.

Presentatie 13 nov: aissr.uva.nl/content/even...

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‘Omvolking is dé fantasie van radicaal-rechts’
Sarah Bracke | socioloog: Het begrip ‘omvolking’ maakte opmars onder het nazi-regime. Hoogleraar sociologie Sarah Bracke maakt zich zorgen over de normalisering ervan.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM