Friedolin Merhout
@fmerhout.bsky.social
Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io
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What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents?
We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.
We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.
We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
Tutorials and Resources – CSS @ IP-Paris
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
www.css.cnrs.fr
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents?
We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.
We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.
We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
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My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science for an open position!
I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply.
Deadline is 6 February 2026!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply.
Deadline is 6 February 2026!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Political Science
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an
su.varbi.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science for an open position!
I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply.
Deadline is 6 February 2026!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply.
Deadline is 6 February 2026!
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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The UNC Sociology department is hiring a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor. The review of applications begins 2/26/26. To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312....
January 23, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The UNC Sociology department is hiring a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor. The review of applications begins 2/26/26. To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312....
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Now out in Sociological Science
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
sociologicalscience.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Now out in Sociological Science
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
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The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back!
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
January 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back!
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
Call for Papers/Extended Abstracts | American Sociological Association
Thank you for your interest in submitting a paper/extended abstract to the ASA Annual Meeting. The call for submissions opens on November 3, 2025, and closes
www.asanet.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM
At this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
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I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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Day 1
Foundations of causal inference
Foundations of causal inference
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Day 1
Foundations of causal inference
Foundations of causal inference
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It's been just over a year since many academics and sociology folks came over to Bluesky. Thought Id share for some more community building and the later arrivals. Feel free to add other sections and areas to the list and or request to be added to any packs!
January 16, 2026 at 6:41 PM
It's been just over a year since many academics and sociology folks came over to Bluesky. Thought Id share for some more community building and the later arrivals. Feel free to add other sections and areas to the list and or request to be added to any packs!
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Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
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I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?).
Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
January 15, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?).
Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
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Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
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Join us in Pittsburgh for the annual SQIP conference !
Feb 23rd deadline for proposals.
Details below 👇
Feb 23rd deadline for proposals.
Details below 👇
Call for Proposals! SQIP 2026 conference "Narrating the Needs of Our Time: Inquiries of Hope, Connection, and Possibility" will be held July 17-18, 2026, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Deadline for proposal submissions is February 23, 2026. Submit here bit.ly/4aG7Nhw
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Join us in Pittsburgh for the annual SQIP conference !
Feb 23rd deadline for proposals.
Details below 👇
Feb 23rd deadline for proposals.
Details below 👇
Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026
Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Associate Professor in sociology with focus on quantitative methods
At The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Society and Politics, a position as Associate Professor in Sociology with focus on quantitati...
www.stillinger.aau.dk
January 15, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026
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We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?
“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
We’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background?
“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
“The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
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We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
Links in🧵
#commsky
📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
Links in🧵
#commsky
January 8, 2026 at 9:14 AM
PLEASE SHARE
📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
Links in🧵
#commsky
📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”
Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).
Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.
Links in🧵
#commsky
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Best experimental sociology paper you've read in the last five years?
January 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Best experimental sociology paper you've read in the last five years?
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Computational social scientists: final week to submit to CS2Italy! The Italian Conference on Computational Social Science will be held May 19-21, 2026 in Torino. Great opportunity to connect with the CSS community in Europe. #AcademicSky #conferences
https://cs2italy.org
https://cs2italy.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Computational social scientists: final week to submit to CS2Italy! The Italian Conference on Computational Social Science will be held May 19-21, 2026 in Torino. Great opportunity to connect with the CSS community in Europe. #AcademicSky #conferences
https://cs2italy.org
https://cs2italy.org
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How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026.
Application deadline: 26 January 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
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New postdoc position in Computational Social Science (80%) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. Part of the Digital Society Lab.
Start April 2026.
Apply by Jan 31, 2026.
Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Start April 2026.
Apply by Jan 31, 2026.
Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New postdoc position in Computational Social Science (80%) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. Part of the Digital Society Lab.
Start April 2026.
Apply by Jan 31, 2026.
Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Start April 2026.
Apply by Jan 31, 2026.
Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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CEU DNDS is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join us in #Vienna!
If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4
If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
CEU DNDS is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join us in #Vienna!
If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4
If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4
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📢 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
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
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
tinyurl.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
📢 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
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