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Sophie Mützel
@sophiemuetzel.bsky.social
Sociologist
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#Call for Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 17. November 2025.

➡️ sohub.io/51a4
🗓️Submission deadline: 3 February 2026
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Interested in understanding #bias in #CSS?

✨Here's our Special Issue editorial in Communication Methods and Measures:

"Critical, but constructive: defining, detecting, and addressing bias in Computational Social Science"

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1931... (with @bachl.bsky.social & Nathan TeBlunthuis)
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Und gleich gibt’s dazu den Hintergrundbericht im Stern 😎 @stern-recherche.bsky.social
🚨 Erfolg für #EqualPay! 💪⚖️ Heute hat das Bundesarbeitsgericht unserer Klägerin gegen #Daimler recht gegeben: 👉 Kein einziger Kollege darf ohne objektiven Grund mehr verdienen für die gleiche Arbeit. Eine Angleichung an den Medianlohn reicht nicht. 🙌 freiheitsrechte.org/equal-pay-daimler
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🔈Job Alert!
Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science (SWECSS) is hiring postdoctoral researchers. Positions are available at IAS and the Department of Computer Science (IDA).

⌛Deadline: 31 October
IAS: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
IDA: liu.se/en/work-at-l...

#academicsky #css
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📣𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗬

November 5, 2025
at the European University Institute, Fiesole/Florence

Join us in honoring Peter Bearman (Kohli Prize) and SocArXiv (Infrastructure Prize for Sociology)!

@eui-eu.bsky.social @socarxivbot.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @incitecolumbia.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗

📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Come be my colleague! We are indeed casting a wide net in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY search. **All** fields, areas, and periods of the History of Technology will be considered! #historyoftechnology #STS
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Kulturkämpfe sind allgegenwärtig. In Universitäten, Parlamenten, Theatern - überall wird über Identität, Freiheit, "Cancel Culture" und das gute Leben gestritten. Es sind keine Einzelphänomene, sondern Konflikte um die Moderne. Kommt vorbei zu unserer interdisziplinären Konferenz! gegenmoderne.de
July 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
PhD student in Analytical Sociology
liu.se
June 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Comment les IA génératives répondent-elles aux sondages d’opinions ?

Lors de la conférence du 5 mai, @eollion.bsky.social, chercheur au @cnrs.fr, présentera son travail sur le « biais machine » et expliquera pourquoi les LLM ne sont pas prêts de remplacer les chercheurs pour les études d'opinion.
Social Science and Generative AI: Inquiries, Instruments, Consequences | médialab Sciences Po
Cette conférence d'une journée examinera de manière réflexive l'IA générative en tant que dispositif sociotechnique, en discutant de ses effets sur le travail scientifique et de ses implications épist...
medialab.sciencespo.fr
May 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Warm congratulations to Anastasia Menshikova who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Cultural change: Studying social interdependencies in public discourse with computational text analysis’!

We are so proud of you, Dr Menshikova!🥂🎓
May 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science!
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it
📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...
May 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖

May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields.

jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...
Professor (m/w/d) (Open Rank: W3 oder W2 mit Tenure-Track zu W3) im Themenfeld Politische Kommunikation und digitale Medien
jobs.utn.de
April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Dept of Humanities, Social & Political Sciences (D-GESS; www.gess.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for two profs, one History of Technology, other in Philosophy of Science. Language English or German. Apply by 15 June 2025:
www.bi.id.ethz.ch/recruiting_a...
#HPS #PhilJobs 🗃️ #STS #histech
Departement Geistes-, Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften
www.gess.ethz.ch
April 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...

#research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics
www.yorku.ca
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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🚨Fulbright Call now open: University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences in the academic year 2026/27!

The call is aimed at researchers with US citizenship from all disciplines of the Faculty of Social Scienes.
➡️ Apply by 15 Sep. 2025 ➡️ t.ly/R5Gi5
@univie.ac.at
Fulbright-University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences
Generously funded by the University of Vienna
t.ly
April 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🚀 Hiring a Postdoc in Political Communication @ikmz.bsky.social for my SNSF project. Seeking a researcher with experience in computational methods to explore negative news, political knowledge, and well-being.

Apply by: 11 May 2025
Start: 1 Sept 2025 (or by agreement)

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
UZH: Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) in Political Communication Research with a Focus on News Audience Research
The Political Communication Division, led by Prof. Dr. Anne Schulz, at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking to fill the position of a postdoctoral...
jobs.uzh.ch
April 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Harrison White a contribué de façon décisive à développer l’analyse des réseaux sociaux. Sa synthèse théorique et sa compréhension des formations sociale irriguent divers champs comme la sociologie de l’art et la sociologie économique
Harrison White, pionnier de l’analyse des réseaux
Le sociologue américain Harrison White a contribué de façon décisive à développer l'analyse des réseaux sociaux. Outre ses travaux dans ce domaine, sa synthèse théorique et sa compréhension des…
laviedesidees.fr
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Registration is now open for PhD/postdocs to the course "Performativity and post-humanist traditions (ANT, STS)" (3ECTS)
taught by Prof. Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) and me. The first part of the course will be in Lugano, 8-10 Sept, the rest online.
 www.usi.ch/en/education...
Performativity and post-humanist traditions (ANT, STS)
Register Now!   Instructors Prof. Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh)  Prof. Léna Pellandini-Simanyi (Università della Svizzera italiana)   Description This course introduces students to the po...
www.usi.ch
April 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM