Marga Torre
@mtorre.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Master in Computational Social Science at University Carlos III of Madrid. Labor markets, gender, inequality. Orophile. Winter lover. www.margatorre.com
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Marga Torre
@mtorre.bsky.social
· Jul 29
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…
www.sciencedirect.com
Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️
Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
‼️On Friday, Alberto López on "How Group Affinities Explain the Rise of Conservative Gays"‼️
Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
Join us at 12.30 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
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‼️Tomorrow, Nikoleta Yordanova on "Just to be clear? Strategic Vagueness of the European Parliament in EU Policy Negotiations"‼️
Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
‼️Tomorrow, Nikoleta Yordanova on "Just to be clear? Strategic Vagueness of the European Parliament in EU Policy Negotiations"‼️
Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗
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📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25)
A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience
A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience
October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📢 Exciting news! The Madrid Empirical Social Sciences Annual Conference (MESS 2025) takes place next week @ieuniversity.bsky.social (October 24-25)
A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience
A joint effort by several Madrilean research institutions, MESS brings together top work in empirical social sciences. #MESS2025 #SocialScience
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Wonderful news! 🎉
October 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Wonderful news! 🎉
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2025/2026 here we go... 🚀
Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!
Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!
October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
2025/2026 here we go... 🚀
Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!
Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!
The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT.
Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!
Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!
September 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The 4th edition of our Master in Computational Social Sciences (UC3M) kicks off! We had the pleasure of starting with Prof. Ana Tajadura (@anatajadura.bsky.social) and her inspiring ERC Project BODYinTRANSIT.
Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!
Big thanks to Ana and a warm welcome to our new students. Excited for a great year ahead!
💼 Oferta de trabajo!
Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:
- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)
👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...
¡Se agradece difusión!
Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:
- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)
👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...
¡Se agradece difusión!
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
💼 Oferta de trabajo!
Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:
- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)
👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...
¡Se agradece difusión!
Buscamos un Técnico de Investigación para el proyecto GENDERSEG:
- 20h/semana | 1.400€/mes
- Deadline: 18/09 (inclusive)
👉 Más info sobre requisitos y tareas a desarrollar: aplicaciones.uc3m.es/atenea/fiche...
¡Se agradece difusión!
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@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
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
August 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@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
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
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New article from Marga Torre and colleagues shows that gender homophily is most pronounced in fields at the intersection of male-dominated and gender-neutral areas and lowest in female-dominated fields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New article from Marga Torre and colleagues shows that gender homophily is most pronounced in fields at the intersection of male-dominated and gender-neutral areas and lowest in female-dominated fields. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
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Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity"
Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
July 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Recently presented at the CREST Sociology seminar, now published in @ssreditorial.bsky.social: @mtorre.bsky.social's "The uneven effects of gender parity"
Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.
🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
*JOB* join us at @gesis.org to work on new approaches for making data from online platforms usable for (computational) social science. Feel free to reach out to @sebstier.bsky.social or me for details about this position.
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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So happy to see this surprising work out. Terrific job by Amar D'Adamo and his supervisor @anatajadura.bsky.social, with the help of Lize de Coster and myself. We show that social support networks shape body perception: larger networks weaken the illusion and link to higher body image satisfaction!
iScience: Sound effects on body perception vary with the social support network of individuals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225013525
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225013525
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So happy to see this surprising work out. Terrific job by Amar D'Adamo and his supervisor @anatajadura.bsky.social, with the help of Lize de Coster and myself. We show that social support networks shape body perception: larger networks weaken the illusion and link to higher body image satisfaction!
Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
This study examines gender collaboration patterns across male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated fields. Using data from the Web of Scien…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Thrilled to share our paper with Iñaki Úcar (@enchufa2.es) and Jesús Prieto, just out in Social Science Research!
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📝 The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019
Free to download for the next 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Marga Torre
Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981.
@polarportal.bsky.social
@polarportal.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981.
@polarportal.bsky.social
@polarportal.bsky.social
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Good. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights will pay a heavy price for this, which is light as a feather
July 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Good. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights will pay a heavy price for this, which is light as a feather
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Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tenure and research trajectories | PNAS
Tenure is a cornerstone of the US academic system, yet its relationship to faculty
research trajectories remains poorly understood. Conceptually, t...
www.pnas.org
July 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Faculty publication rates peak before tenure. Post-tenure, output stays high in lab-based fields but drops in others (i.e. sociology) and faculty produce more novel work but fewer highly cited papers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
www.dropbox.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📢 *Call for Applications* / 📢 *Convocatoria abierta*
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
Join our project on Prejudice & Discrimination at the Spanish National Research Council (Madrid 🇪🇸)
Open to junior scholars at different stages (postdocs, predocs, or MSc grads considering a PhD)
🔗 ⬇️ www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zrur0...
Third graduating class of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M. Let’s celebrate!
July 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Third graduating class of the Master’s in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M. Let’s celebrate!
“Muchas personas que se oponen a las cuotas no lo hacen porque tengan claro sus efectos, sino porque imaginan que tienen un impacto mucho mayor del real”
Las cuotas de género no tienen el efecto que crees nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
Las cuotas de género no tienen el efecto que crees
Hace unas semanas asistí a la conferencia anual de la Asociación Francesa de Economía Experimental (ASFEE), que este año se celebró en la bella ciudad de Nancy. Confieso que sentí una envidia sana al ...
nadaesgratis.es
July 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“Muchas personas que se oponen a las cuotas no lo hacen porque tengan claro sus efectos, sino porque imaginan que tienen un impacto mucho mayor del real”
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Join us at the #EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections!
📅 June 25, 2025
📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) — Rooms 0.A.05 and 0.A.06
🕘 9 AM — 6 PM
10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of sharp insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more!
#EPSA2025
📅 June 25, 2025
📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) — Rooms 0.A.05 and 0.A.06
🕘 9 AM — 6 PM
10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of sharp insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more!
#EPSA2025
June 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Female academics are much more affected by the birth of a child than are male academics.
Academic mothers are much more likely to...
◾temporarily leave the labor force
◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.
scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...
Academic mothers are much more likely to...
◾temporarily leave the labor force
◾and, if they return, shift away from tenure-track positions.
scholar.harvard.edu/files/sdchen...
June 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid!
The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).
To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
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The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).
To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
1/n
n9.cl
June 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨🚨🚨🚨 EOI / talent attraction program in Madrid!
The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).
To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
1/n
The Dept. of Social Sciences @ UC3M is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Successful candidates get a job with us & great work conditions for 5 y (more below).
To express interest, complete form (by 06/24)
👉 n9.cl/qdjvz
1/n