Kerstin Ostermann
@kostermann.bsky.social
What has place to do with social inequality? PostDoc in Sociology @University Bielefeld investigating this link in using geodata and CSS
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Kerstin Ostermann
@kostermann.bsky.social
· Mar 13
New preprint out now: how do #neighborhood #networks and local work norms affect the integration of #refugee women? With geodata, @sebbaehr.bsky.social and I show that especially employed female neighbors seem to play a decisive role ♀️🏠
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📢Apply now for one of our GradAB PhD scholarships beginning 1st Oct 2026. GradAB is a joint program of IAB and @fau.de in cooperation with TU Dortmund. (1/4)
January 9, 2026 at 10:52 AM
📢Apply now for one of our GradAB PhD scholarships beginning 1st Oct 2026. GradAB is a joint program of IAB and @fau.de in cooperation with TU Dortmund. (1/4)
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🎓🥳 2025 war ein Jahr voller Fortschritte und wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Besonders stolz sind wir auf unsere Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die dieses Jahr ihre Promotion erfolgreich abgeschlossen oder verteidigt haben – herzlichen Glückwunsch zu diesem beeindruckenden Erfolg!
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🎓🥳 2025 war ein Jahr voller Fortschritte und wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Besonders stolz sind wir auf unsere Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die dieses Jahr ihre Promotion erfolgreich abgeschlossen oder verteidigt haben – herzlichen Glückwunsch zu diesem beeindruckenden Erfolg!
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🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
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“Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility & Segregation”: @benjarvis.bsky.social, @kchihaya.bsky.social & @eduardotapia.bsky.social examine ancestry & segregation; they find ancestry sorting effects are 3X greater than kin propinquity effects. @iasliu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
December 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility & Segregation”: @benjarvis.bsky.social, @kchihaya.bsky.social & @eduardotapia.bsky.social examine ancestry & segregation; they find ancestry sorting effects are 3X greater than kin propinquity effects. @iasliu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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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.
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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...
What a day! After nine years at the @iabnews.bsky.social, I’m closing a chapter that shaped me deeply — from research assistant to PostDoc 🙏
Grateful for the people and ideas along the way.
Nexy stop: RegioHub at Uni Bielefeld where I will investigate the link between place and CSS more deeply 👩💻🌇
Grateful for the people and ideas along the way.
Nexy stop: RegioHub at Uni Bielefeld where I will investigate the link between place and CSS more deeply 👩💻🌇
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What a day! After nine years at the @iabnews.bsky.social, I’m closing a chapter that shaped me deeply — from research assistant to PostDoc 🙏
Grateful for the people and ideas along the way.
Nexy stop: RegioHub at Uni Bielefeld where I will investigate the link between place and CSS more deeply 👩💻🌇
Grateful for the people and ideas along the way.
Nexy stop: RegioHub at Uni Bielefeld where I will investigate the link between place and CSS more deeply 👩💻🌇
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🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP)
(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)
👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread:
1/11
(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)
👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread:
1/11
September 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚨 New paper: “Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?” in the Journal of Politics (JOP)
(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)
👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread:
1/11
(joint work with @anselmhager.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social)
👉 Have a look over here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Most important findings in this thread:
1/11
Valuable first insights on the spatial imbalance of private vs public run day care facilities by neighborhood ressources with new city-district level data for Germany. Would be great to see this as a panel!
"Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Stadtteile mit größeren sozioökonomischen Herausforderungen schlechter mit Kindertagesstätten versorgt sind."
-> georeferenzierte Daten zu Kindertagesstätten aus 52 Städten in DE
pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... @mpifg.bsky.social discussion paper
-> georeferenzierte Daten zu Kindertagesstätten aus 52 Städten in DE
pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... @mpifg.bsky.social discussion paper
pure.mpg.de
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Valuable first insights on the spatial imbalance of private vs public run day care facilities by neighborhood ressources with new city-district level data for Germany. Would be great to see this as a panel!
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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
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Sigtuna time!
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sigtuna time!
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
I'm presenting work with @kostermann.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social on the causal effect of apprenticeship dropout on earnings in Germany
Preprint is on @socarxiv.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Frauen promovieren fast genauso häufig wie Männer – doch zur Professur gelangen sie deutlich seltener. Für @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, Direktorin des WSI, ist klar: Trotz Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Frauen behindert das Wissenschaftssystem die Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten von Frauen ganz offensichtlich.
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Frauen promovieren fast genauso häufig wie Männer – doch zur Professur gelangen sie deutlich seltener. Für @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, Direktorin des WSI, ist klar: Trotz Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Frauen behindert das Wissenschaftssystem die Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten von Frauen ganz offensichtlich.
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@kostermann.bsky.social presented our joint work on how pioneer gentrifier follow artists and raise the gentrification probability in poor neighborhoods. Getting closer to understanding sorting patterns creates the possibility for prediction and intervention in spatial inequality.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@kostermann.bsky.social presented our joint work on how pioneer gentrifier follow artists and raise the gentrification probability in poor neighborhoods. Getting closer to understanding sorting patterns creates the possibility for prediction and intervention in spatial inequality.
Hello from Paris! 🇫🇷 Amazing @ninaglaeser.bsky.social gave with her JMP on skill sorting and #gentrifcation one of the first presentations at the urban and spatial PhD workshop at #CREST today. She investigates why high, medium and low qualified workers reside in different parts of a city 🌆🌃
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hello from Paris! 🇫🇷 Amazing @ninaglaeser.bsky.social gave with her JMP on skill sorting and #gentrifcation one of the first presentations at the urban and spatial PhD workshop at #CREST today. She investigates why high, medium and low qualified workers reside in different parts of a city 🌆🌃
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How is ethnic diversity linked to the cohesion of social networks?
@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051
@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051
Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks
Abstract. This paper addresses a key yet untested proposition in social cohesion research: ethnic diversity fragments social networks and leads to an overa
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
How is ethnic diversity linked to the cohesion of social networks?
@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051
@glorenz.bsky.social & #C_Rjosk analyse >1,300 adolescent friendship networks to examine how connectivity varies with ethnic diversity, and its consolidation with gender and SES.
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf051
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👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
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Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.
Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
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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!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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We’re looking for a student assistant for our research project on spatial dynamics in refugee integration in Germany.
Full details below 👇👇
Full details below 👇👇
Wir suchen eine studentische Hilfskraft in unserem Projekt zu den Erfahrungen Geflüchteter in Deutschland!
Interesse am Thema, Studium einer Sozialwissenschaft und Quanti-Aufgeschlossenheit sind wichtig.
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/415...
Bitte bewerben und an kluge Studis weiterleiten!
Interesse am Thema, Studium einer Sozialwissenschaft und Quanti-Aufgeschlossenheit sind wichtig.
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/415...
Bitte bewerben und an kluge Studis weiterleiten!
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) (ID366)
Das WZB ist eine öffentlich geförderte Einrichtung für problemorientierte sozialwissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung (http://www.wzb.eu). Als auß...
wzb.hr4you.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We’re looking for a student assistant for our research project on spatial dynamics in refugee integration in Germany.
Full details below 👇👇
Full details below 👇👇
First month of teaching 'Spatial #sociology with Python' at the University #Bielefeld ✅️
Really love to dive into the campus vibe again each monday this semester!
Today topic: local opportunity structures 🌆🚄🏕 #teaching #css
Really love to dive into the campus vibe again each monday this semester!
Today topic: local opportunity structures 🌆🚄🏕 #teaching #css
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
First month of teaching 'Spatial #sociology with Python' at the University #Bielefeld ✅️
Really love to dive into the campus vibe again each monday this semester!
Today topic: local opportunity structures 🌆🚄🏕 #teaching #css
Really love to dive into the campus vibe again each monday this semester!
Today topic: local opportunity structures 🌆🚄🏕 #teaching #css
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Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
🎓 Two PhD positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern! Join our team (Chair of Social Change and Inequality, Ass. Prof. Dr. Benita Combet) to research career development inequalities by gender, ethnicity & social background. Apply by Nov 21.
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
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Kernel density estimates of proximity to parents show clearly differences between groups, but only slight differences between stayers locations, movers' origins, and movers' destinations. Curves are multi-modal b/c of uneven distribution of residential populations across Swedish cities and towns.
October 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Kernel density estimates of proximity to parents show clearly differences between groups, but only slight differences between stayers locations, movers' origins, and movers' destinations. Curves are multi-modal b/c of uneven distribution of residential populations across Swedish cities and towns.
#AkadSoz25 is buzzing! Cool data, interesting research and so many thoughtful comments (thx! <3). I presented work on two projects on the gendered dimension of #neighborhoods using geodata.
Formal tasks done; I am looking forward to the conference dinner 🍷 (and to the sociological cabaret 🧐🧐)
Formal tasks done; I am looking forward to the conference dinner 🍷 (and to the sociological cabaret 🧐🧐)
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#AkadSoz25 is buzzing! Cool data, interesting research and so many thoughtful comments (thx! <3). I presented work on two projects on the gendered dimension of #neighborhoods using geodata.
Formal tasks done; I am looking forward to the conference dinner 🍷 (and to the sociological cabaret 🧐🧐)
Formal tasks done; I am looking forward to the conference dinner 🍷 (and to the sociological cabaret 🧐🧐)
Well deserved 🙏 congrats!
And the AS Dissertation Award 2025 goes to...
@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social
for his dissertation "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate us.
Congratulations!
#AkadSoz25 #sociology
@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social
for his dissertation "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate us.
Congratulations!
#AkadSoz25 #sociology
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Well deserved 🙏 congrats!
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Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark
Abstract. Research shows that cultural tastes are socially stratified. Yet, most of this research relies on small-sample surveys and includes only a few di
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Even in Denmark, cultural tastes are socially stratified. With some quite cool library data we find strong gradients by education and wealth - important as wealth is rarely studied in cultural stratification research
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
OA: osf.io/ar2xc_v2/dow...
@europeansocreview.bsky.social