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Katya Ivanova 🟥
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Family sociologist at Tilburg University interested in how people 'do' #family | family plurality | societal pessimism & #fertility decisions / #childlessness | #Sociology | a migrant in 🇳🇱

Website: katyaivanova.eu
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I have donated to Wikipedia occasionally, and will do it again in the future. Support free and factual information on the internet!
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#Yellowstone really didn't have consultants with any academia experience... 😬
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge.

And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large).

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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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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Als een imam zoiets zegt, is hij een haatbaard.
Als Henri uit Rotterdam het zegt, is het fatsoen.

nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...
CDA-leider Bontenbal: religieus onderwijs mag botsen met grondrecht van gelijkheid
Dat religieuze scholen homoseksuele relaties afwijzen, is volgens CDA-leider Henri Bontenbal nu eenmaal een gevolg van de vrijheid van onderwijs. Daar wil hij niet aan tornen. "Een andere mening doet ...
nos.nl
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Alarmerend: Fvd (33), PVV (30), JA21 (14), SGP (13) en BBB (13) hebben de meeste plannen die in strijd zijn met de beginselen van rechtsstatelijkheid. 3 partijen doen geen enkel voorstel dat strijdig is met de rechtsstaat GroenLinks/PvdA, Volt en PartijvdDieren www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/par...
Partijen zoeken in hun programma’s ‘steeds vaker de grenzen van de rechtsstaat op’, ziet de Orde van Advocaten
Twaalf van de vijftien politieke partijen doen voorstellen in hun verkiezingsprogramma’s die tegen de rechtsstaat in gaan. Forum voor Democratie (33), PVV (30), JA21 (14), SGP (13) en BBB (13) hebben ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Research using Administrative Data is rarely replicated. So we are going to do it at scale and increase the rigour and transparency.

Want to learn more about the data and the research it supports whilst also advancing Open Science? Why not sign up?
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Before Dutch elections, most parties let the financial and economic consequences of their plans by @cpbnl.bsky.social. Here the spending on education, relative to the basic trajectory (which, I assume, already includes last year’s budget cuts). There is only one party that wants to cut even more.
October 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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On 'The Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives', written in 1997: "The use of fertility (& population growth) related arguments to justify policies on matters which cannot be proved to be related to fertility without intervening assumptions is at least as old as Malthus"
The ‘Politicization’ of Fertility to Achieve Non-Demographic Objectives
Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 51, No. 1, 1997)
www.tandfonline.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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👉Systematic review finds same-sex & different-sex parents show similar mental health, parenting stress & relationship quality. Same-sex parents face more stress related to discrimination and less family help.
@yuxuanjin.bsky.social @denimazrekaj.bsky.social

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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At the Department of Political Science (University of Amsterdam, @uva-fmg.bsky.social), we are looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team. Interested? You can find all details and apply here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies....
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for one and possibly two tenure-track Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) positions in Political Science w...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Laten we het extreem-rechtse geweld van gisteren niet politiseren.
September 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Not fluent in Dutch but I think they spelled "fascists" wrong...
September 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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VVD en NSC, die voor de grootste HO bezuiniging sinds tijden tekenden, en CDA en CU, die deze onderwijsbegroting aan een meerderheid in de 1e kamer hielpen, scoren volledig ‘groen’.
Dus je kunt de innovatieMOTOR straffeloos afbreken en toch maximaal scoren op de innovatiemonitor. 🧐
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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📢NEW Vacancy📢

Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Specialising in quantitative sociology

⏰Deadline: 6 October

Maternity cover

MORE INFO:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/
Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🎉 This week, Marcel Das marks 25 years as the director of Centerdata!

To celebrate, we invited him to the ODISSEI Podcast to discuss the LISS Panel: how it operates, the studies it supports, and why it matters for research.

🎧 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ope...
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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An assistant professor position in Tilburg, in the sociology of social inequalities.
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The plenaries this year were excellent. Stuart Gietel-Basten argued passionately that demographers must reclaim the narrative around low fertility and drive the debate in a more productive, less dysfunctional, direction. We have the skills, and this issue *matters* for multiple reasons
September 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This Wednesday, our colleague Billie de Haas will be at the #Forum in #Groningen to discuss her research on conversations around couples' desires of having children & her card game (hetkinderspel.nl) that helps couples in their decision process👶🧩

🕑20:00 - 21:30 (in Dutch)

forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...
Wil ik een kind?
forum.nl
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This article also featured prominently in one of Germany's largest newspapers @szde.bsky.social (published yesterday). Pretty irritating that they are amplifying this. Thanks @philipncohen.com for doing the work to debunk it (see here familyinequality.wordpress.com/tag/national...)
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just in case you hear any of the podcast bro's waxing poetic about the @theatlantic.com article on the marriage effect: 👇
Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:
Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition
Some tips for critical reading in light of the marriage-reduces-rape controversy.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:
Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition
Some tips for critical reading in light of the marriage-reduces-rape controversy.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Whoa. How did I know this was about to appear in the Atlantic? Uncanny!
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM