Ramina Sotoudeh
Assistant Professor at Yale interested in health, culture, sociogenomics.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehWe have a cool post-doc opportunity in #HNL to study human social chemosignaling and olfaction: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676477/p... Please re-post.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehA 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange
- Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now! We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence. 🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒💸
- "Using data from the PSID’s Transition to Adulthood Study (2005–2021), we identify trajectories of financial and co-residential support between ages 18 and 28 and relate them to economic and partnership trajectories and events." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehJob! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehVery excited for our paper in @nature.com on what genes association studies discover and why. It was a privilege to work closely with @jeffspence.github.io, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our collaborators.
- How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals? In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck! 🧬🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehWe're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehI'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehA new and very accurate technique called mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity and AI tools. This could also be used to reveal what animals are thinking. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThe UNED inequality and social demography seminar is back, with @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social @l-sage.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @nicolettabalbo and @danieloesch If you are Madrid, come along! 👇the program for this academic year
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehPlease RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehSo happy to share that my book, Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement, will be out in March with @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/believ...
- So happy to be spending the fall in Florence/Fiesole. Thank you for having me, @eui-eu.bsky.social 😊
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehI 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👇
- 🚨 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...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThe first #metrics-and-models talk was fantastic🤗! Next: @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social on "Antenatal Selection: A novel approach for assessing the genetic and ecological drivers of who survives to birth". Details: metrics-and-models.github.io Sign up: metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
- Excited to be speaking at a very cool seminar series — Metrics & Models seminar organized by the brilliant Charlie and others at Oxford 🥳
- We have some absolutely frickin' fantastic speakers lined up, including @ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social, @klint.bsky.social, and @keyonv.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh🚀 Call for Papers! 🚀 I’m coordinating the sessions on AI, Big Data, and Demographic Challenges at the next Conference of the Association of Historical Demography of Spain! 🌍📊 📢 Got research to share? Submit your 300-word abstract by April 25 here: 🔗 adeh.org/untitled-pag... See you in Málaga! ☀️
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehNew paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social! Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh📢🎉🤖 Published today in natcomputsci.bsky.social /w @jiani-y.bsky.social📢🎉🤖: A new framework for (ir)reducible errors. We argue that it's impossible to know how 'predictable' things are (until we've collected every epsilon of information). ReadCube: rdcu.be/eb9IL arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2411.19223
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThe socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Paper forthcoming in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility by Associate Member @perblock.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Jan O. Jonsson #NuffSky
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehA sneak peek of the Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) I'm working on these days. At the rate at which the US is deteriorating, maybe this is the last data we see from this country. #demography #rstats #data #population #US
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh📢 Join us this Thursday 27 February to learn about mode effects in the UK cohort studies and discover methods for handling them. Sign up now for this free webinar: buff.ly/41A9Cbe
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThere are only three weeks left to apply for International Fellowships 2025. The scheme allows early career researchers from outside of the UK to collaborate on a research project alongside a UK partner. Learn more and apply now: buff.ly/42Dbd0o
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh📝Registration for events at the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship still open to all (March 3rd-13th, 2025)!📝 Great speakers like @briannosek.bsky.social & many others👀; looking forward to chairing a @pkp.sfu.ca / @elife.bsky.social session, too! Registration/Schedule: ⬇️ openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehIn an age when so much modern scientific conversation surrounds 'Artificial General Intelligence', lets not forget that René Descartes -- in De homine (1662) -- claimed that non-human animals could be explained reductively as automata.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehExtraordinary. We are stardust. The asteroid Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in living organisms (though Bennu contains equal amounts of these structures and their right-handed counterparts). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh"...life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 yrs during the first 12 months of the war, about half the prewar level..." Guillot, M, M Draidi, V Cetorelli, José HCM Da Silva, & I Lubbad. 2025. Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip during the Period Oct, 2023, to Sep, 2024. The Lancet.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehNow on arXiv! We design a new two-stage Individual Synthetic Control algorithm to cleanly identify causal estimates of the “caring penalty.” High-intensity unpaid carers face ~45% personal losses; households lose ~12%. 🏠📉 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10314 Blog: shorturl.at/IVQ6M
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehWe are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThrilled to contribute to a special issue dedicated to THE Viviana Zelizer and link of her #money research to #family studies. Check out the issue at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehCome join our international team studying whether we can simulate social media using LLMs to increase civility on our platforms.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehThe bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network around you. The microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social . 1/
- A very interesting piece by my colleague @nachristakis.bsky.social calling for a more up-to-date and interdisciplinary social sciences, with which I could not agree more.
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh"women are less likely to be tenured overall and in every field." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehIt’s striking that some of the most promising research on debilitating Long Covid was funded by a small patient group using the $5 million they got from @vitalik.ca — in cryptocurrency! That's why @patientled.bsky.social is my choice for this year's donation guide. Great way to make a difference.
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehA novel study by researchers in the UK and Denmark provides the first publicly accessible analysis of global downloads for menstrual tracking apps buff.ly/4eBfGmI @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social @sociologyoxford.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ramina Sotoudeh🚨Two Exciting DPhil\PhD Opportunities to join us at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social in Fall 2025!🚨 1️⃣ ABM project with 'Big Data' & LLMs (HDS CDT):👉 shorturl.at/wcMQo 2️⃣ Scientometrics project (DPhil PopHealth):👉 shorturl.at/qwsor 🕒⏳Deadline: ~10 days! Feel free to DM me w\ any Qs. Please share widely! 🙌
- Reposted by Ramina SotoudehVacancy at @ Trinity College Dublin, Dep. of Sociology: #tenuretrack Assistant Professor in Quantitative Sociology! Fantastic opportunity for a quant. social scientist. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. 🗓️Deadline: Dec 2 Apply 👉: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG430/a...
- New preprint with @gfloridi.bsky.social out 🥳 Parental support (both financial & co-residential) has been increasing over the past few decades. We are interested in what this means for young adults’ transition to adulthood. Read more here: osf.io/preprints/so...
