We'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.

Call for Papers! Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll. Deadline: 21 January 2026 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026! We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation? Want to answer these questions? details below!

Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

Very glad to see this collaborative work w/ Robin Haunschild and @lutzb.bsky.social published in Journal of Informetrics "A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented" Open Access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

The leidenalg package is now also updated and now supports igraph 1.0. github.com/vtraag/leide... You can download and install using pip. The conda package will be updated shortly.

3 full-time positions on Probabilistic Migration Modeling at University of @helsinki.fi in collaboration with @mpidr.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä. DM me if you want to know more, as I'm part of the project. Definitely DM me if you heard of conformal prediction www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...

Watch: archive.org/details/the-...

This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...

📣 Special seminar on 'Perspectives on the evaluation of science', with Emanuel Kulczycki, @alesiazuccala557.bsky.social, and Jochen Gläser. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 31.10.2025 🕐 1:00-3:00 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS More information 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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...

Fantastic discussion lecture at @mpidr.bsky.social by @rmcelreath.bsky.social 😍 I cannot agree more with @ezagheni.bsky.social who introduced the guest as a true renaissance scientist of today 💎 Very thought provoking. I hope it will add to the collection of those "embarrassing" YouTube footage 🙃

💻Join online! 🎧 Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Putting Science Before #Statistics 🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig 📅Oct 21, 2025 🕒3 pm CEST ✏️Sign up now: https://ow.ly/uxfc50Xb5Yx

Can confirm this was a very interesting talk and the set of tools and infrastructure offered by GESIS is fascinating.

🎉Congrats Aliakbar Akbaritabar🎉We are happy to announce that @akbaritabar.bsky.social took up his new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock. His position is a collaboration between the University and @mpidr.bsky.social. ow.ly/XI4Z50X7zEO

I am delighted to share that as of October 1, 2025, I have started my new position as an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor in German) of Computational Social Science with a joint appointment at the University of Rostock's Institute of Sociology and Demography and MPI-DR @mpidr.bsky.social .

📢 Job: @loraulet.bsky.social and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on fertility (including through technology), human capital, and employment trajectories in comparative perspective. Econ/demg/soc. Expertise with online surveys, RCTs, experiments. apply.interfolio.com/174663

Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...

In the afternoon, @theiletom.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) guided participants through a hands-on tutorial on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager, where everyone had the chance to set up and run their own data collection.

On the third day of SICSS Saarbrücken, we had the pleasure of learning from @ezagheni.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social), who shared his expertise on “𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎”.

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity

In preparation for teaching in the winter semester (October onwards) at the University of Rostock, here is my plan and syllabus for the course on "Computational approaches to migration research". Comments and suggestions are welcome and highly appreciated: akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...

🚨Open Positions!🚨 Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 See job description here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... #Postdoc #Jobs @ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025. Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

📢Publication alert 📢 @berndweiss.bsky.social and my new OA article is out in Comparative Migration Studies: "Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research" 👉 rdcu.be/ezhZf #MigrationResearch #SurveyResearch [1/5]

The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis doi.org/10.1162/qss.... This paper provides a very helpful overview of the data infrastructure of @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social.

Nights are filled with sirens, days with research tasks that demand focus. It’s difficult to write, analyse data, or prepare papers when missiles keep interrupting sleep. But nothing stops, life, and with it science, goes on. #Ukraine #Kyiv #StandWithUkraine #AcademicLife #ScienceUnderAttack

📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.

✨ 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

We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

To coauthors/collaborators in ongoing projects, After 3 PAAs, I will not submit anything (as in last year), since no hybrid/online participation option has been announced #PAA2026 If you can attend and present our work, plz let me know, and I'll be happy to take the lead in preparing a submission!

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

(just heard in @ic2s2.bsky.social) -> nice article measuring the prevalence of *linear models* in social science, with a call to more diversity (extending classic criticisms that Bourdieu or Abbott raised) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

This hegemony is more apparent in some fields, as indicated by OpenAlex, and even more so in Global South countries. We have previously noted these patterns using Web of Science Data. doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

This is the % of articles reporting linear models among articles reporting statistical methods according to first author's country of affiliation.

I am delighted to see this paper by myself and @akbaritabar published. "The hegemonic use of linear models in quantitative social sciences." I will present it on Tuesday at #IC2S2 in a session on Theory and Methodology. doi.org/10.1177/0759...

Overjoyed to see that the structured training plan paid off immensely. I could improve my last year's half-marathon time by ~14 minutes and the pace by ~40 seconds per KM.

Just published in Scientometrics: "Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences." Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Heading out of the office to visit the supermarket before going home and saw this nice surprise! #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social

A Swedish summer and a conference! Our colleagues enjoyed the IC2S2 in Norrköping, and also seized the opportunity to catch up with former colleagues and guests of the MPIDR: @afcastr0t.bsky.social, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Xinyi Zhao, @akbaritabar.bsky.social, Egor Kotov, Ole Hexel & Johannes Mast.

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science – IC2S2 in Norrköping, Sweden started. We are there! Look out to meet Carolina Coimbra Vieira, @olhxl.bsky.social, @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @ekotov.pro. #IC2S2 www.ic2s2-2025.org 📸 iStockphoto.com / Marcus Lindstrom

First run at Norrköping for IC2S2 conference. I guess it is already obvious that I really liked this city's first impression. A walk/run beside the water is highly recommended! Thanks #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social for giving me an excuse to visit!

Early morning train from Rostock to Berlin, flight to Stockholm, awaiting the last hop and train to Norrkoping. Looking forward to a great #ic2s2 #IC2S22025 @ic2s2.bsky.social conference. My fifth conference (that is equal to the N of times it has been in Europe, 2021 was virtual of course)

🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society" @saarland-informatics-campus.de/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas: