People alive today are more likely to see their *grandchildren* reach their 20s than the average human in history was to see their *child* reach their teens

Time for the ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025! 🏆 @angelicamaineri.bsky.social and former ODISSEI scientific director @pdykstra.bsky.social are taking the stage — congratulations to @kturek.bsky.social and the team for winning the competition with their Comparative Panel File project! 🎉

Today, Diego Buitrago-Mora and @javiersanmillan.bsky.social (from the @erc-segue.bsky.social project at TU Delft) presented their work on urban economic segregation at the @odissei.bsky.social conference. A great way to get feedback and connect. Thank you to the organizers and participants 🍁

@drtomemery.bsky.social kicks off the day by sharing the news about the new funded project – the Macroscope! #ODISSEI2025

The world’s first Macroscope is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 NWO just awarded €16.8M to build this groundbreaking research infrastructure—co-led by @odissei-soda.bsky.social and CLARIAH, coordinated by @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social #Research #Innovation odissei-data.nl/2025/11/03/t...

@ec.europa.eu please double the MSCA fellowship budget, or this opportunity will become a disaster

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

I have said it before but it bears repeating. American psephologists play on easy mode.

🚀 1 week to go! Dive into the world of computational social science at ODISSEI Conference 2025 – workshops, demos & research projects that spark innovation. ⚡🧠 📍 Utrecht, 4 Nov → odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

Very excited to be using the new @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social log in portal!! Super Exciting 🤩🤩🤩 ......if you like this kind of thing.

Last day to get your application in for CBS data access.

Job Offer: PhD Student Position The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the @mpidr.bsky.social + @imprs-phds.bsky.social invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 & 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 #IPDLN2026! Deadline for Submissions December 14 IPDLN Conference: July 13–16, 2026 | Erasmus University, Rotterdam Visit: ipdln.org/call-for-pap... @drtomemery.bsky.social @ipdln.bsky.social @emma-gordon.bsky.social @kimmcgrail.bsky.social

The sound of thousands of demographers screaming...

Research using Administrative Data is rarely replicated. So we are going to do it at scale and increase the rigour and transparency. Want to learn more about the data and the research it supports whilst also advancing Open Science? Why not sign up?

Really Exciting to see Taiwan 🇹🇼 in the @ggp.bsky.social. There is now data from 3 Continents and 20 Countries. Well done to all involved!!

WORK! At Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) We're recruiting a PhD student in experimental sociology! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Try it yourself at the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 🧠 LLMs for data annotation 🗝️ SANE for sensitive data 💻 Software showcase with metasyn & SURF Cloud. Hands-on workshops to explore tools, ask questions & boost your research. Claim your spot 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

A very good list of questions. I would add "why does it have to be a physical card?" to the list though. Seems largely redundant and 99% of what they want to achieve by just having a centralized ID register which aligns NIN etc.

This is great news, but advocates should be making absolutely clear that the core purpose this is to improve service delivery and rights provision. It’s not about fraud and security. It’s about making society better. That’s it, no mission creep. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research? Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences. 🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n

Interested in using @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata for your research? 💻 The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant funds 6 projects per round and offers step-by-step support. Join the Q&A on 23 Sept (15:00–16:00 CET) to learn more & ask questions: odissei-data.nl/event/microd...

Academia is filled with missed meetings, deferred deadlines, vague promises half met, and obligations ducked. Marcel is, for my money, the most effective Director in Social Science. Always delivers, always clear, always diligent. Happy 25th Anniversary and I hope you are at Centerdata until 2050

Next week I am giving a talk at the ADR UK Conference. If you will be in Cardiff and want to grab a coffee then let me know.

✨ There’s still time to nominate for the ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025! ✨ Celebrate researchers making computational social science more open, reusable & impactful. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Sept. Nominate here 👉 odissei-data.nl/2025/06/26/c...

Open eScience Call 2025 is open for submissions to researchers from all disciplines for in-kind support from eScience Center research software engineers: www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-pr... Interested?`Register now for our information event on September 4th: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-inf...

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

3/ We find that social ties persist and resurface — former classmates become neighbors, colleagues become family. Connections across life stages create dense, overlapping social paths.

I have a job running on an allocation that is open until midnight and I am praying that it finishes. I have never felt more like Cinderella.

If you are attending #esra25 and wondering what to listen to on your journey home, why not listen to our podcast on how ODISSEI supports the implementation of SHARE in the Netherlands.

Nominate someone brilliant for the Open Science Awards

🔍 Nominations open: ODISSEI Open Science #Awards 2025! 🏆 Celebrating researchers & teams making social science more transparent, reproducible & reusable. Know someone making a difference? Or part of a project that should be recognised? 👉 edu.nl/48uy8 #OpenScience #FAIR

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🎓 What a ride! SICSS-ODISSEI 2025 brought together 20+ students for Python bootcamp, ML, and talks on ethics, corp networks & CSR. Week 2 = projects with FIRMBACKBONE data & SANE. Thanks to @esciencecenter.bsky.social, SoDa team, and all our brilliant speakers! 👏 #SICSS #SummerSchool

Just a few hours left to submit your abstract for the ODISSEI conference: odissei-data.nl/2025/06/26/o...

Its often hard for people to understand how Population Scale Network Data is structured, its scale, and its limitations. To give people a better sense of what it is I created some small and naïve R code to simulate it: github.com/temery86/Syn...

I would bet a good proportion of mid career academics end up in a conversation very much like this scene from the Founder. You spend your entire career trying to produce great papers and courses, only to find out that in actuality you are in the real estate business. youtu.be/8mQYcyxnFyE?...

How is the termination of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) impacting your work❓ Fill out this short questionnaire by #UNDESA by 30 June to inform future demographic and health data collection and dissemination! 📝 form.jotform.com/250913880478...

🔍 ODISSEI is drafting a proposal to make sensitive data available to the SSH community. We need your input: which datasets should we target, and how should we share them? 💬 Join our Q&A: 🗓 19 June, 12:00–12:45 🔗 Register: odissei-data.nl/event/input-...

#SICSS @odissei.bsky.social 2025 gets underway today!! Massive thanks to @chrisbail.bsky.social and the SICSS team for keeping this inspirational light on for international, collaborative and open science.

📝 FAIR in SSH needs your input! Join the Community Writing Sprint 📍 Utrecht or Online | 📅 Thu 25 Sept Let’s untangle the real bottlenecks in FAIR implementation & co-write the Action Plan for the Dutch SSH. Open to RDM pros, researchers, policy makers & more! 🔗 Info & registration: edu.nl/vbwxh

Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27

Join us to discuss the future of Data Collections in ODISSEI. Friday 13th June at 15:00, Utrecht University You can register here: odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

U Amsterdam has compiled a list of experts on 🇳🇱 politics & upcoming elections ⬇️ some on 🦋 fx: @favstats.eu @markboukes.bsky.social @hakhverdian.bsky.social @bnbakker.bsky.social @lizamugge.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/news-even...

Verkiezingsonderzoekers be like

Heads up. This is great for some people. But we need to have an honest conversation that EU academia did NOT get the memo about what it means to have very early-career folks with an ERC. Unfortunately, this will not open "tenure track" or permanent lines for those successful early = fancy precarity

Very important piece on building Research Infrastructure capacity in Low and Middle income countries. Excellent point but would say that the EU should be financially contributing to this capacity building and data collection.

Sociologists: Society is structured by institutions and cultures that perpetuate inequalities and dysfunctional hierarchies to the detriment of society as a whole. Sociologists when organizing sociology:

Green-Lib Alliance incoming....