You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer). www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?

Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too! www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...

Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities

Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.

Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵

Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy

August 1941 issue

2.9 percent in

3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS

Tonight's album open.spotify.com/album/24E6rD...

Really good album, basically for anything open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...

Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.

+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++ Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!

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Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA." #McSweeneysTop24of24

2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² and 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ How beautiful

Happy new year! Ad astra, ad astra!

Xmas = #crocheting, amirite? crochetedpixels.com

🧵New paper out in Social Networks doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Many social, political, and economic systems have a core-periphery structure. Borgatti & Everett’s model has been the go-to for identifying them in network data. Here, @carln.bsky.social & I build on this classic model with two refinements.

If you’ve ever been mildly annoyed by the way Borgatti-Everett handled inter-categorical densities for core-periphery structures—despite no one ever caring about it —then YES, this paper is for you! You're welcome. Think of it as scratching a decades-old itch with a flamethrower: Socnet.se

Beneath the overcast skies, freedoms once unfurled, Where echoes of past struggles shape this vibrant world. A city of gold, with whispers of Sisulu near, And bustling streets alive, where hope conquers fear. #GuessThePlace

My favorite bsky account: guess the place, all in the form of short poems. Beautiful!

Join us virtually on Thursday at 14.30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @drtomemery.bsky.social 🔹Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

Website spring cleaning: carlnordlund.net

New publication! Proposing a novel approach to compare national production structures, adapted to the contemporary transnational regime.

IAS will host the 31st Nordic Sociological Association Conference next year! NSA 2024 | Sociology in a Digital World 🗓️ 14-16 Aug 2024 🔗 nsa2024.se 📍 Norrköping, Sweden