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Ozan Aksoy
@aksoyundan.bsky.social
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Professorial Fellow @ Nuffield College & Associate Professor in Sociology @ University of Oxford. PhD Uni Utrecht, BA Bogazici Uni | (Natural) Experimental Methods, Stats, Politics and Religion

https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/ozan-aksoy/
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
aksoyundan.bsky.social
Looking forward to the talk below on beards, religion, signals, and other things including evidence-based grooming ;) Do come along if you are around at UCL.
ruthmace.bsky.social Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow Tuesday @UCLanthropology evo anth seminar: Ozan Aksoy 'Hair speaks: social context and the interpretation of religious signals such as veiling and beards'. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by🍷 All welcome
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Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
📢 We're looking for a full-time Research Assistant to work with Prof @aksoyundan.bsky.social on a project evaluating the DfE's Fundamental British Values initiative.

🌟 Perfect for those who've done an undergrad in sociology, politics or economics!

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We're hiring a Research Assistant in Quantitative Analysis of Fundamental British Values. Deadline: 24 November 2025
November 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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benansell.bsky.social
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
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November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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norawaitkus.bsky.social
🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
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October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
👩‍🎓 Are you planning to apply for the MSc in Sociology at Oxford?

Don’t miss our online info session for prospective students - sign up today! ✨

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October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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📢 We’re also holding an online info session for those considering applying for the MPhil in Sociology & Demography! 👨‍🎓

Sign up now to learn more ✨➡️ forms.office.com/e/DTt26zSjwL
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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tcru-ucl.bsky.social
Can education shape how we see ourselves as British?
Join @aksoyundan.bsky.social & @buraksonmez.bsky.social on 30 Oct, 12-1pm, as they explore how the FBV policy has shaped national identity & democratic values.
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#SRI #Education #belonging
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Education and national identity: Evidence from the fundamental British values policy
Join this event to hear Professor Ozan Aksoy and Professor Burak Sonmez discuss whether national identity and democratic values are shaped by education.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
Anti-abortion politics & changes in abortion, miscarriage & stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey
doi.org/10.55016/ojs...
Paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social by @selinkoksal.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Francesco Billari & Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social
Anti-abortion politics and changes in abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey | Journal of Critical Public Health
Abortion has been legal without restriction in Turkey since 1983. However, the government’s anti-abortion campaign in 2012 has resulted in significant restrictions on abortion services, particularly…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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selinkoksal.bsky.social
What happens when abortion access becomes restricted even without a law officially passing?

With Francesco Billari and @aksoyundan.bsky.social, we investigated how incidence of abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth changed under the anti-abortion campaign in Turkey.
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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sociologyoxford.bsky.social
📢 Calling all Oxford academics doing sociological research!

If you’re faculty, a researcher or DPhil student at @ox.ac.uk or Oxford Brookes, join our community for collaboration & knowledge exchange across sociology & related fields 🎓

Sign up ✍️➡️ forms.office.com/e/TViD46Kdxz
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September 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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buraksonmez.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert: Postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’ll uncover how group boundaries form online using virtual experiments + digital trace data and work with a fantastic trio: Mario Molina, Minsu Park & Blaine Robbins. Apply by 1 Nov 2025. 👇🏼

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September 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Thank you @sociologyoxford.bsky.social !
sociologyoxford.bsky.social Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Sep 19
Welcome to @aksoyundan.bsky.social, who has joined us as Associate Professor in Sociology! 🎉

His research covers religious behaviour, cooperation and trust 🤝

Game theory, statistical and computational methods are amongst his research tools 💻🎲

www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/ozan-...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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norawaitkus.bsky.social
🎉Big news! My ERCStG proposal SOCDEBT has been selected for funding @erc.europa.eu!
📚I’ll study how household debt is stratified across countries & over time; how people strategize, evaluate, and morally judge debt(ors).
🙏I'm truly indebted to all my friends, colleagues & mentors for your support!
erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 4
The new ERC Starting Grant - funded projects include:

✴️ redefining false memories

✴️ making artificial touch feel more natural and realistic

✴️ how aging reshapes human tissues

✴️ ADHD in adults vs childhood

✴️ how plants shield from excessive sun exposure

Discover more 👉 buff.ly/APfNmCK
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
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September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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zparolin.bsky.social
Bocconi University in Milan is hiring in sociology at any level (open rank). Ideal candidate might focus on inequality, social policy, computational, labor markets, or similar. Happy to answer questions about my time there for anyone considering applying. More details: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu
July 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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cmonden.bsky.social
Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
Sociology Visitorships - Nuffield College Oxford University
The Nuffield College Sociology Group invites applications for a Visitorship at the College during the 2026-27 academic year (between early October 2026 and late June 2027).
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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nadiasteiber.bsky.social
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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sriucl.bsky.social
Goodbye to a real one. @aksoyundan.bsky.social mentored, collaborated, and somehow made difference-in-difference estimators funny. We’ll miss all three.
buraksonmez.bsky.social Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Jul 17
We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday!

Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way.

We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀
July 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
aksoyundan.bsky.social
It was hell of 9 years at now a world-leading place for (quant) social sciences and sociology. Forever grateful to my colleagues at @sriucl.bsky.social and we will remain in touch. 😓😓
buraksonmez.bsky.social Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Jul 17
We had our farewell to @aksoyundan.bsky.social at UCL yesterday!

Ozan has been such a big part of our journey, from building our Quant Sociology group to being an incredible mentor and collaborator along the way.

We’ll miss his presence & humour a lot, but we’re excited to see what he does next 👀
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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uclsociology.bsky.social
Why do people resort to the brutal measure of killing their own daughters, sisters, or cousins when they feel their family honour is tarnished? @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @aronszekely.bsky.social offer novel insights based on game theory and data on honour killings & honour norms.
aksoyundan.bsky.social Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · Apr 12
📢 My paper w Aron Szekely on honour-based violence is published online (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

We explain this puzzling phenomenon applying game-theory and testing it using large-scale data on norms and actual femicides.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Details of the publication with abstract which reads: Honor killings, which occur when women are perceived to have broken purity norms and bring “dishonor” to their family, pose profound moral and societal problems and underrecognized sociological puzzles. Given the immense cost, why do families murder their own daughter, niece, or cousin? Conversely, given the tragic consequences, why are norms broken in the first place? Drawing on accounts of honor killings, we characterize the key actors, actions, and incentives, and develop two interlinked theoretical models, one on norm-enforcement and another on norm-breaking. The former specifies the conditions under which honor norms should hold, the latter, counterintuitively, predicts that honor killings occur most frequently when honor norms are contested; not when they are strictest. Analyzing data from 24 countries and ~26,000 individuals and building a unique dataset of honor killings from Turkey, we find support for the hypotheses. Honor norms are stronger when laws offer leniency for honor killings, families’ loss of reputation is more consequential, and community cohesion is higher. Actual killings have an inverse-U-shaped link with the prevalence of honor norms. Our work advances the theoretical understanding of honor norms and killings and offers one of the most comprehensive empirical analyses of the factors influencing honor killings. Figure 1 from the paper. Within-Family Interaction and Probabilities of Interaction Outcomes Note: Panel A shows an interaction within a family. Panel B shows the probability of breaking a norm (p2) in the game tree in panel A; the probability of the existence of an honor norm in the repeated norm-enforcement game (p1, i.e., conditions given in Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 obtain); and the probability of honor killing (p3), which is the product of the former two probabilities, as a function of repeated norm-enforcement game parameters. Figure 3 from the paper. Support for Honor Killings; Coefficients from Multilevel Regressions with Random Intercepts for Countries Data source: PEW (2013) World Muslims Survey. Note: N (response) = 26,458. N (country) = 24. Countries that adopted laws that allow leniency for honor-based violence: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Palestinian Territories. Countries that have adultery laws: Afghanistan, Pakistan. Figure 5 from the paper. Results of Poisson Models Predicting the Monthly Number of Honor Killings Note: Predictive margins for the association between support for honor norms and honor killings (top panel) and the average marginal effect of passing law 6284 according to support for honor norms (bottom panel).
June 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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tcru-ucl.bsky.social
New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...).

Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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benansell.bsky.social
Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out.

benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts
June 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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aronszekely.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the following video of the master's level honours degree: the Social and Political Sciences track of the Allievi Program.

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Discover the Allievi Program in Social and Political Sciences at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin
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June 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM