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Ely Strömberg
@elystromberg.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam.
Interested in intersectionality, discrimination, and pretty books. Like to measure categories continuously, eg. gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality. They/them

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Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social · Nov 12
Seeing the new inflow from the other place I made a small starter pack of some people working on gender &/OR sexuality, biased towards Sociology. Let me know if you or anyone else should be on it!
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
It was so good to meet with @equalstrength.bsky.social -researchers to discuss structural discrimination against Black, Muslim, and Roma people, funded by Horizon Europe.

Thank you @stephsteinmetz.bsky.social, @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and Vasilena Lachkovska for hosting us at UNIL in Lausanne.
Researchers from the Horizon funded EqualStrength consortium discussing research
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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equalstrength.bsky.social
This project has been an incredible experience for all of us. The data collection is almost finished, so hopefully you’ll start seeing results from this amazing team effort in 2026.
Big thanks to the organising team @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social, Stephanie Steinmetz and Vasilena Lachkovska!
distasioval.bsky.social Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · 6d
After so many months of fieldwork, it was great to present findings from our @equalstrength.bsky.social's project at the LIVES centre in beautiful Lausanne! Stay tuned for more in the coming months!
sbvanoosten.bsky.social Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 6d
After seemingly endless meetings online, meeting in-person is so unbelievably valuable 🤩

Get ready for lots of research from Team Science coming your way 🤝

@distasioval.bsky.social already gave a keynote summarising the state of the art... and there is still so much more to come 👏
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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distasioval.bsky.social
After so many months of fieldwork, it was great to present findings from our @equalstrength.bsky.social's project at the LIVES centre in beautiful Lausanne! Stay tuned for more in the coming months!
sbvanoosten.bsky.social Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 6d
After seemingly endless meetings online, meeting in-person is so unbelievably valuable 🤩

Get ready for lots of research from Team Science coming your way 🤝

@distasioval.bsky.social already gave a keynote summarising the state of the art... and there is still so much more to come 👏
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
elystromberg.bsky.social
This week in Lausanne for workshops with the @equalstrength.bsky.social and the LIVES centre. Weather does not disappoint.
View of a road with mountains in the background
November 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
elystromberg.bsky.social
Who's 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 with gender?
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
elystromberg.bsky.social
Past me: ”I should just write, it’s easy to cut at the end.”

Current me, 5000 words above the journal word limit:
Man crying
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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tabeanaujoks.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers 📢
Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)!
We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe.
🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
October 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
I was interviewed by @winfriedbaijens.bsky.social on @nieuws.nos.nl @nporadio1.bsky.social Met het Oog op Morgen, to talk about my research on voting behaviour of Muslims. It was such a pleasure to be there again!
Onderzoek naar stemgedrag van moslims
In Den Haag was er een debat vanavond over de Stem van Moslims. Een bevolkingsgroep waarvan bekend is dat ze moeilijker naar de stembus te krijgen zijn dan andere Nederlanders. En op WELKE partij ze d...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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chlolv.bsky.social
📢 First thesis paper is out!

In November 2022 I started my Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht. 📃 Today, my first paper is available on the website of the European Sociological Review (url.td/Q7kIJ). I love this paper and hope you will too.

I guess I like to take 3 years to publish things. 👩‍🎓😅
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September 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
elystromberg.bsky.social
Discussing on another site with an employee of the Dutch statistical agency is very concerned about administrative data. This after a survey finds that 6.4% of the Dutch population would consider choosing a third gender marker if gender self-id law made it easy.
September 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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dickzijp.bsky.social
NOS/Nieuwsuur maakte vorige week een alarmistisch item over onvrije debatcultuur aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Mirko Tobias Schäfer en ik schreven er een opiniestuk over: 'Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door linkse cancelcultuur.'

dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/un...
‘Universiteit kan geen vrijplaats voor feitenvrije meningen zijn’
Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door de ‘linkse cancelcultuur’, betogen universitair docent Dick Zijp en universitair hoofddocent Mirko Tobias Schäfer. Zij hekelen de beeldvorm...
dub.uu.nl
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
✨Accepted for Publication ✨

"Surveying Citizens with a Migration Background - A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization"

Coming soon in the journal Survey Research Methods.

Read the pre-print here:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...
OSF
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Happy to be in Amsterdam today to present some work that bites the hand that feeds me
"People can see status without seeking status" Per Engzell. Research into social stratification presents a puzzle. On the one hand, across social strata, people agree on a hierarchy of prestige between occupations. On the other, they differ widely in the extent to which they seek social advancement for themselves or their children. If occupational values were shared, we would expect differences in status seeking to be smaller. I resolve this puzzle by distinguishing between consensus beliefs--what we think 'most others value--and what we ourselves value. From this, I sketch a model of status alignment showing how differing preferences shape taste for status versus other attributes. I contrast this with dominant theories that attribute social reproduction to status maintenance: the desire to avoid downward social mobility. A novel empirical test using Swedish survey data shows that status alignment offers the most consistent explanation and best model fit when mothers are asked to evaluate 82 occupations for their child. Across social strata, mothers hold accurate beliefs about what others want, but differ in what they want for their child. Status alignment, not status maintenance, drives social reproduction.
September 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
elystromberg.bsky.social
This is the worst timeline
September 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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signesvallfors.bsky.social
📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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signesvallfors.bsky.social
So excited to announce that I have been awarded a €1.6M Starting Grant from @erc.europa.eu to study the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health.

I'm so grateful to all who provided their support through this journey.

Ads for 2 fully funded PhD studentships in comments 👇
September 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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signesvallfors.bsky.social
At #BSPS2025 @bspsuk.bsky.social talking about how demography as a field has engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework.

📷 The fantastic @joestrong.bsky.social
Researcher standing in front of a poster
September 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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buraksonmez.bsky.social
🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨

What we look for:
🐍 R/Python proficiency
🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks
🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more

Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z
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).
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September 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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ewabatyra.bsky.social
I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
sociologyoxford.bsky.social Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · Aug 20
🚨 New Job Alert! 🚨

Join Dr @ewabatyra.bsky.social as a Postdoc Researcher in Demography!

Contribute to a global study on disparities in reproductive behaviour, focusing on childbearing age & fertility levels 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

Apply now 👉 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
We're hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Demography, deadline: 30 September 2025
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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evazschirnt.bsky.social
@bramlancee.bsky.social and I are organising the 3rd AMCIS Workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences", 1-2 October 2025 in Amsterdam.
We are looking for Papers and/or Research Designs. Please email your submission to me and Bram, submission deadline is 27/08/2025.

@aissr.bsky.social
Call for Papers and/or research designs for a workshop on "Survey Experiments in the Social Sciences" at the University of Amsterdam in October.
August 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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andreasmdiemer.bsky.social
I recently had some fun mapping access to urban amenities in Sweden at a granular scale. It's work in progress, but I decided to share some of it on my website today. Check it out!

sites.google.com/view/andreas...

#EconSky #GeoSky #GISChat
Andreas Diemer - Other
Other Materials
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August 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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femquant.bsky.social
EVENT: Please join us for our first FemQuant event of the 2025/26 academic year!

‪‪@crowold.bsky.social‬ will present "Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults"

📆 Thurs 18 Sept, online

Sign-up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
Photo of speaker and seminar details. Invisible Biases, Unequal Outcomes: Uncovering Gender Biases in Quantitative Research on Older Adults. Dr. Carla Rowold, Hertie School Berlin. Thursday 18 September 2025, 10:00 EDT/15:00 BST/16:00 CEST
August 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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mfreino.bsky.social
This report by Lee Mordechai👇🏼👇🏼 witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...
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July 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM