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Is Reddit a safe space for mental health?

Maria Grub @unijena explores how #Reddit users seek emotional support in forums on depression, anxiety, and mental health.

The study highlights how online communities offer both information and emotional connection, reducing isolation and providing alternative support.

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.3.3

#MentalHealth #OnlineCommunities #DigitalHealth #Research #Anxiety #Depression #SocialScience #HealthCommunication #Forschung #UniJena #Psychology

Grub, Maria F. (2025). Reddit as a “Safe Space”: Topic Modeling of Online Mental Health Communities for Depression and Anxiety. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(3)

📢 New data released!
The complete third #FReDA wave is now freely available via @GESIS – perfect for longitudinal studies.
👉 Get access: https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA7777
#SocialScience #PanelData #LongitudinalData

Agile Teambuilding: Seven great books on building agile teams! https://leanpub.com/b/agileteambuilding by Ben Linders, Heidi Helfand, Rob Lambert, Johanna Rothman, Mark Kilby, Bruce Scharlau, YvesHanoulle, and Jesús E. Méndez A. is the featured bundle of ebooks on the Leanpub homepage! https://leanpub.com heidihelfand@mastodon.social #Agile #BusinessAndManagement #SocialScience #Engineering #ComputerProgramming #Startups #Teamwork #books #ebooks johannarothman@mastodon.sdf.org

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🚩Job vacancy 🏘️ #Postdoctoral #ResearchFellow to work on #family and #housing #projections using #microsimulation as part of the #ERCfunded #MigrantLife project and the #ESRCfunded Centre for #Population Change & Connecting #Generations - based at the University of #StAndrews School of #Geography & #SustainableDevelopment.

Closing: 8 July 2025

Full info: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/6093/0/452949/889/research-fellow-geography-and-sustainable-development

#migration #demography #socialscience #housingprojections #phd #jobs #jobvacancy #phdjob

Image shows a picture of a hand holding a pen writing in a notebook. Text advertises job opportunity: Post-doctoral Research Fellow* to work on family and housing projections using microsimulation. This work is part of two research programmes: a) the MigrantLife project funded by the European Research Council (ERC); and 2) the ESRC Centre for Population Change & Connecting Generations (CPC-CG). The Research Fellow will use microsimulation: a) to project partnership and childbearing trajectories of migrants and their descendants in the UK (and elsewhere in Europe); and b) to investigate individuals’ and couples’ housing trajectories in the UK and to project future homeownership rates.

10th #Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference
July 9 + 10-12, 2025 – University of Trento
#socialScience
https://erq-conference.soc.unitn.it/panels/

Transnational Generations – #Memories and Knowledge Transmission of/in #Migration and #Exile, Part I (Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:00-12:45)
Session of the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology (Rabat, 6-11 July 2025)
#socialScience
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogram/Session20018.html

Come work with us !

Interesting (fully funded) PHD opportunity at Université catholique de Louvain in the field of digital extremist communication.

More information -> https://academicpositions.com/ad/universite-catholique-de-louvain/2025/1-full-time-phd-fellowship-in-social-sciences-digital-extremism/235273#apply

#communicationscience #PHD #socialscience

Professor McKenzie (Jason Alexander)'s new book - The Open Society as an Enemy - is out now via #OpenAccess publishing. 👁️‍🗨️ Free to read and download: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lsephilosophy.bsky.social #LSEEvents #KarlPopper #Truth #Philosophy #SocialScience #Populism #Communications #Journalism

https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/114697486520779984 #socialscience #socialsciences #economics #geography #psychology #Economicmodels #clinicalpsychology #cognitivepsychology #developmentalpsychology #economist #sociology #statistics #anthropology #datascience #SocialPsychology #politicalscience #austerity #recession #ECB #FED #IMF #WTO #psychotherapy #cognitivebehaviouraltherapy #CBT #pyschoanalysis #behaviorism #pyschology #neuroscience #DataVisualisation #geopolitics

#Authorship #Foucault #SocialScience #PhDMemes

A title card for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, except it read "Michel Foucault's Author Function"

Maximilian Maurer, a colleague here at @GESIS , just published a GESIS Guide on prompting for large language models.

I found it to be a helpful, concise overview of different techniques and also of potential pitfalls.

https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25025.1.0

#llm #socialscience #sociology #psychology

My notes do look weird if you don't know that MF = Michel Foucault and AF = Author-Function

#Foucault #SocialScience #Authorship

Promuovere società interculturali tra italiani e #rifugiati
Seminario Escapes intorno al libro “Uno più uno non fa due” di Chiara Marchetti con l'autrice e rappresentanti di Refugees Welcome e Intersos
#socialscience
Università di Milano (via Conservatorio 7), 17 giugno 2025 ore 16.30
https://escapes.unimi.it/

Locandina del Seminario Escapes Uno più uno non fa due. PROMUOVERE SOCIETÀ INTERCULTURALI TRA ITALIANI E RIFUGIATI, Università di Milano, 17 giugno 2025 ore 16.30-18.30, via Conservatorio 7, Aula seminari SPS (II piano, stanza 2015) e in diretta su Teams Si discuterà l’integrazione dei rifugiati guardando al concetto con una prospettiva critica che ci permetta di mettere in luce dei processi dinamici, bidirezionali, complessi basati su una partecipazione attiva di tutti gli attori coinvolti; rifugiati, istituzioni locali, e società civile. A partire dal libro “Uno più uno non fa due” di Chiara Marchetti si creerà uno spazio di discussione tra l’autrice e altre esperienze locali di attori della società civile come Refugees Welcome e Intersos. Chair: Eleonora De Stefanis – Università degli Studi di Milano Introduce: Elena Fontanari – Università degli Studi di Milano Intervengono: Chiara Marchetti – Ciac Parma, Viola Macchi Cassia – Refugees Welcome Italia e Università di Milano-Bicocca, Cosimo Verrusio – Intersos Discussant: Paola Bonizzoni – Università degli Studi di Milano

"The influence of digital multimedia technology and its spectrum are like Ebola, which endemically ruins the social and political order and destroys the social order and political relations through freedom of thought, freedom of speech, human rights, information transparency and ‘misunderstood’ democracy." (Tualeka and Bungin, 2020)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2120783

#SocialScience #BigTech #AcademicChatter

🔖 NEW findings from the ESRC-funded FertilityTrends project

The first study to examine how having children in Britain has changed over 3 decades, by child order (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), and to compare these changes between England & Wales and Scotland

➡️Article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2491354

#fertility #birthorder #demography #population #populationstudies #socialscience #family #havingchildren #birthrates

Image shows web page for the Population Studies: A Journal of Demography article on Long-term fertility trends by birth order in Britain: Comparison between England & Wales and Scotland
Hill Kulu, Bernice Kuang, Sarah Christison & Ann Berrington
Received 11 Mar 2024, Accepted 10 Dec 2024, Published online: 12 Jun 2025

Abstract
This study uses census-linked administrative data to investigate childbearing trends by birth order in Britain over three decades. This is the first study to investigate longer-term changes in fertility dynamics in Britain by birth order and to compare parity-specific fertility by country. First-birth rates declined in the 1990s, slightly increased in the first decade of this century, and decreased thereafter, with changes in timing of parenthood responsible for these changes. Second- and third-birth rates declined in the 1990s but remained relatively stable in the early twenty-first century. Birth intervals remained unchanged, meaning that changes in quantum are responsible for trends in higher-order birth rates. Time trends are similar in England & Wales and Scotland but with significantly lower second- and third-birth rates in Scotland. Changes in population composition by education and ethnicity explain little of the aggregate fertility trends or between-country differences. Both countries have seen rapid declines in first-birth rates, especially among low-educated women.

Is Britain really an Island of Strangers? #Migration and #racism in a global authoritarian moment
2025 Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment in person conference, 19-20 jun in London #socialScience
https://ssahe.net/2025/05/16/2025-ssahe-in-person-conference-june/