December 26, 2024

After ten and a half years at Utrecht University, I will be moving on to take up a new position at my alma mater. As from February 1, 2025, I will hold the position of Professor of Sociology, with a Focus on Sustainable Society, at the Institute of Sociology in Bern. I very much look forward to meeting my new colleagues, attending to my new tasks, pursuing new research projects, and developing new courses.
The website of the Institute of Sociology can be accessed here: »»

November 3, 2024

Cutting one billion EUR for higher education (per year!), stopping the influx of international students and banning English taught courses will catapult Dutch higher education and research into the 1950s (read more here »» or here »»). These measures are not only utterly shortsighted but also unnecessary considering how much Dutch higher education and research is spurred to serve economy and society.
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October 2, 2024

Excited to present a recently published paper co-authored with Ana Macanovic (EUI) on “text mining methods for short texts”. The conference brings together sociologists to discuss the methodological challenges of computational social science for research and teaching in sociology.
See the full program here »»
Our paper is available (open access) here »»

June 19, 2024

My colleague Annelie Brüning and I look forward to presenting our work on social norm measurement and enforcement. The first presentation will feature a comprehensive survey experiment on the role of question sequence, reference group and context in the measurement of work-related gender norms. The second presentation will report results from a field experiment on sanctioning of free-riding in public transport.
The workshop website can be accessed here »»

June 18, 2024

This is the result of an ad hoc collaboration with Andreas Schneck (LMU). Our joint paper is now out and will be part of the special issue on “Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data”, edited by Bernd Weiß, Heinz Leitgöb and Claudia Wagner.
Open access to full paper here »»

February 9, 2024

I am honored to be part of the faculty at the summer school on “The Human Mind and the Open Society”. The two-week course takes place at the Central European University in Budapest and focuses on the adaptability of the human mind to the quirks of contemporary human social environments (or the other way round).
Course dates are July 8–19. Find more information here »»