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Tobias Rüttenauer
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Quantitative Social Science at UCL. Climate Change, Environmental + Urban Sociology, Spatial Demography and Methods, with ❤️ for Fixed Effects and 🚴
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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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🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper &
@robgruijters.bsky.social!

We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@sriucl.bsky.social
Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda
As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:20 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
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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NEW: How did the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) change London’s geography of work?

In a new @theifs.bsky.social paper, @joelkariel.bsky.social, Fizza Jabbar and I have taken a look – and it turns out people adapt in surprising ways. A thread.

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December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Today we’re celebrating 10 years of SRI! This afternoon we’ll come together to share reflections on the past 10 years, showcase our strengths in research and education, and look to the future for our Institute 🎉🎈🥳
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
tinyurl.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Turns out the fastest way to get rid of anything in the UK is to call it a fire hazard 🔥

Anyone tried this on political parties yet? #FireHazardPolitics

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EA to spend millions clearing Oxfordshire illegal waste mountain in break with policy
Announcement draws anger from Labour MP over refusal to remove tonnes of rubbish dumped near school in Wigan
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
❗️Our next workshop will be on Dec 11 6 pm CET titled A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Simulation in R by
@damiepak.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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#NoWords 😱😱🔥🌎🔥
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
shorturl.at/ZiAFb
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Billions of regressions ≠ robustness.

My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We conducted a systematic review of the effect of in-utero exposure to ambient air pollution on the sex ratio at birth. Evidence is scarce and we need more studies employing rigorous causal inference designs. Work led by Ursula Gazeley @oxforddemsci.bsky.social, preprint available below.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🚨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
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
doi.org/10.1080/0032...
@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks
The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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PODCAST: Does pollution affect immigrant populations disproportionately?

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/podcasts/bre...

Chris Coates looks at air pollution and in particular how common is it for immigrant populations to live in more polluted areas. With @ruettenauer.bsky.social and L’myah Sherae
October 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Does #AirPollution 🏭 affect immigrant populations more than others?

🎙️I joined @usociety.bsky.social with L’myah Sherae to discuss #EnvironmentalJustice and the unequal exposure of immigrant minorities to air pollution in England and Germany.

Listen to the podcast below 👇
October 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Sorry did you just not see this? It is an amazing interview. If you can't like and share this, please don't follow me as we have nothing in common.
This Brit nails it.

#Immigration
September 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Auf dem Weg ins schöne Duisburg!
Freue mich u.a. auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft von @deutschmann.bsky.social. Morgen, 17h #DGS2025
Mittwoch um 17 Uhr in LB 107 beim #DGS2025. Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft

Danke @norawaitkus.bsky.social und Monika Eigmüller für die Organisation!
Bei Lektüre von #Exponentialgesellschaft by @deutschmann.bsky.social
viel gelernt über Ökologie, Wachstum, Stabilisierung. Wichtige Denkanstöße. Vor allem bleibt die Frage: Wie soll ich leben? Welche Kompromisse muss ich und muss die Gesellschaft schließen?

See you in Duisburg #DGS2025 bei AmC3
September 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience!

It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐

Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Honored that my thesis was selected for the second place of this year's ECSR best thesis award. I feel very grateful for everyone who supported me during this journey! 😊
Congratulations to Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows Said Hassan and Kasimir Dederichs who have been awarded first and second ECSR Prize for best PhD thesis, respectively, for their Nuffield College DPhil theses!

Read more: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
September 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
@kasimirdederichs.bsky.social just presented our paper on #ResidentialSegregation 🏘️ across Europe at #ECSR in Cologne.

Very impressed by a packed Residential Segregation session at the end of the conference🧐 - cool #ECSR crowed😎
September 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🎉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!
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