Friedolin Merhout
Sociologist and Social Data Scientist at University of Copenhagen. Duke University PhD. Intergroup relations & computational social science. He/him/his. https://fmerhout.github.io
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutDo ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutComputational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutFinally listened to this lecture -- highly recommended if you've ever been confused about fixed effects vs. random effects models. Love that the framing starts from group-level confounding -- here's a problem, what could be solutions (rather than: here's a model, what are its features).
- This time I try to explain group-level confounding and some ways to deal with it. Lecture B04 of Statistical Rethinking 2026 - fixed effects, Mundlak machines, latent Mundlak machines, intro to social network analysis and the social relations model. Full lecture list: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWhat are the main issues discussed in a set of documents? We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial. We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists. 👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutMy department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science for an open position! I really enjoy working here and recommend all who are interested in a PhD in Political Science to apply. Deadline is 6 February 2026! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutThe UNC Sociology department is hiring a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor. The review of applications begins 2/26/26. To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312....
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutNow out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutAt this year's ASA meeting in NYC, I'm organizing a session called Causal Inference for Sociology. Please consider submitting your methodological work! Submissions from other disciplines with sociological relevance are also welcome. www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutI'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutIt's been just over a year since many academics and sociology folks came over to Bluesky. Thought Id share for some more community building and the later arrivals. Feel free to add other sections and areas to the list and or request to be added to any packs!at://did:plc:7wjt4mhnq3md4oml3u7ditqw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l47kj2vyqi2u
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutOlder generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutI started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutPlease forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
- A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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- Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026
- Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWe’d like to believe that effort matters to what we attain in life. In fact our belief in meritocracy depends on that. But what if how much effort people spend itself depends on your social background? “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWe are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutPLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutBest experimental sociology paper you've read in the last five years?
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutHow can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆 👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects 🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
- Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutTenure-track Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin Call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Sociology, commencing on 3 August 2026. Application deadline: 26 January 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutNew postdoc position in Computational Social Science (80%) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. Part of the Digital Society Lab. Start April 2026. Apply by Jan 31, 2026. Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutCEU DNDS is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join us in #Vienna! If you work in #NetworkScience or #ComputationalSocialScience, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 bit.ly/44lfXb4
- Reposted by Friedolin Merhout📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
- Merde! I was looking forward, at fejre min hundertfünfzigsten Geburtstag.
- Reposted by Friedolin Merhout1 Assistant Professor in Sociology position at TCD, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutThis week Wednesday! Still time to sign up to join: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
- Join us in December for our last event in 2025, an informal online Meet & Mingle. There's a loose structure, but in brief: we hang out for about an hour and chat about feminist quantsy stuff we're working on/ thinking about. More info + link to sign up: femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutI’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutRemember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWhy did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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- Reposted by Friedolin Merhout🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare
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- Had the pleasure of presenting @mauromartinelli.bsky.social and my work on making online search data suitable for longitudinal, comparative research funded by DFF dff.dk/en/ at the Danish Centre for Social Science Research www.vive.dk/en/ yesterday. Thanks to Frederik Thuesen for the invitation.
- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutOK, #socsky, I'm looking for songs about intergenerational mobility (up or down) or class reproduction. E.g., Whiskeytown's Jacksonville Skyline ("I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness"). Or, in a lighter vein, Musgraves' "Merry Go-Round." Examples notwithstanding, the genre is open.
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWe'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 Friedolin MerhoutIf you only read one thing today - a Q&A with Patricia Kingori, a remarkable scholar who uncovered a remarkable story about a huge ‘fake essay industry’. 🧪 #academicSky @nature.com @ox.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Friedolin MerhoutWe have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Friedolin Merhout🎓 We’re hiring! Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺 🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments 🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇 #AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch
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