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Weiqian Xia
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Wenner-Gren Research Fellow @Åbo Akademi & Stocholm Univeristy. Demography of religion, migration and ethnic relations.
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Our new project got funding from the Swedish Research Council!

"Structural Change, Education, and the Radical Right". It will explore how gender, place, and structural change intersect to shape young rural men’s changing political behavior in Sweden.

With @zethis.bsky.social & Sirus Dehdari.
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations.
Read more and apply
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INVEST Fellowship Programme - INVEST Research Flagship Centre
What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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When more people in Sweden can name the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York than the Prime Minister of neighbouring Finland…maybe — just maybe — there’s a little too much coverage of US politics in Europe.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.
Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data
Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025
sociologicalscience.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🚨Postdoc! Join us to develop #AI (#LLM) tools for research, governance & lawmaking.

📅 Apply by Oct 21, 16.15 (Finnish time)
⏳ fixed-term 2026–2028

🔗 valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/seni...

@thlfi.bsky.social #openpositions #Hiring
#ResearchJob #AcademicJob #AIResearch #Postdoc #ResearchCareers
Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project) - National Institute for Health and Welfare
Open job: Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project), National Institute for Health and Welfare - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
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October 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Do register-based research? 🔎 #FIRE Fellowships offer 1–2 month visits to Finland for postdocs & senior researchers.

Apply now 👉
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@utu.fi @stat.fi @aalto.fi #TampereUniversity @helsinki.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @vatt-tutkimus.bsky.social
FIRE Visiting Fellow Programme - FIRE
FIRE fellowships are 1–2 months visits to the Finnish Infrastructure for Register-Based Research (FIRE) to collaborate with our researchers.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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👋 Research Fellow @weiqianxia.bsky.social xia.bsky.social is visiting us through the #INVESTFellowship program. Welcome!

🔹“I am deeply impressed by the high quality of research produced at INVEST and look forward to collaborations.”

Read more: invest.utu.fi/news/invest-...

#demography #sociology
INVEST Visitor: Weiqian Xia - INVEST
In the “INVEST visitors” series, we present visiting professors and fellows who have arrived at the flagship INVEST. This time...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Happy to have the chance to visit @invest-flagship.bsky.social ! Look forward to fruitful collaborations!
September 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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At Deer Park, New Delhi, I saw a Mama with her little naughty monkey.
新德里鹿野苑的猴子。
July 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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has anybody seen coverage of this on Chinese social media? most of his (unidentified) victims were in China, and he's also obviously the scion of some well-off family

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Serial rapist Zhenhao Zou facing second trial as more women come forward
Prosecutors weigh possibility Chinese student who treated his victims as ‘sex toys’ could face further action
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June 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The introductory chapter (Kappa in Swedish) of my doctoral dissertation, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and its Consequences among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden, is available online (3/3): su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
February 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Open Ph.D. student position calls in Sociology and Sociological Demography at Stockholm University:

Ph.D. student position in Sociology: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Ph.D. student position in Sociological Demography: su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

The closing date is March 1.
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PhD student in Sociology (A)
The Department of Sociology , founded 1954, offers a lively and collaborative research environment with a strong international research profile. The department is especially competitive in the areas o
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February 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM