Stellenausschreibung (als Vertretung vorerst für 12 Monate) am RMZ der HU Berlin: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in in der Wissenschaftssoziologie / Wissenschaftsforschung. Infos hier […]

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️ Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph. 🔁 Please repost!

1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇

An analysis based on a global panel dataset covering 119 countries from 1996 to 2021 shows that academic freedom at the country level is associated with the citation impact of future papers published by researchers from that country www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎈 Happy Birthday, BAMF-Forschungszentrum! 💡 Seit 20 Jahren forscht das BAMF zu Migration und Integration. 📈 📽️ Dr. Susanne Worbs ist seit der ersten Stunde dabei. Mehr dazu im Video 👇

✍️🌎✈️ A new study shows global migration research is heavily skewed: some countries get disproportionate attention while many others are overlooked. Using 125k publications, researchers reveal persistent gaps, especially in lower-income regions. 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/lowe...

🔬 How has psychology contributed to achieving the 🇺🇳 SDGs? Our new preprint maps 230,000 psychology articles to the SDGs using our text2sdg R package (www.text2sdg.io) and analyzes historical trends in topics, national and gendered contributions, and citation patterns. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08628

Delighted to share this very important article with sobering results relevant for all migration researchers worldwide. Lead by @carrasco-jig.bsky.social, together with @mariegodin.bsky.social, @cvar-sil.bsky.social and yours truly. Open Access here: doi.org/10.1057/s415...

In the age of AI, with temptations to use it to do more and faster, we need more education on ethics and research integrity. If you used AI in your writing, coding, etc., and do not acknowledge it anywhere in your text/output, how should I trust the statement that you have done it all on your own?

Many thanks to everyone who took part in the 7th IMPRS-PHDS Academy at @mpidr.bsky.social, either in person or online, and helped to make it such a success. Big congratulations to Andrea Colasurdo, Chiara Micheletti and @lauraleone.bsky.social on winning the Best Poster Award!

This was my 5th PHDS Annual Academy and each year, it is the highlight of December to have this event right at my office's doorsteps. Brilliantly organized by @imprs-phds.bsky.social team, and already looking forward to the next year's edition and hoping to invite my students at uni to join + learn.

Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️ 📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" 📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️ 🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026 Apply here and learn more: incubator.demogr.mpg.de

🚅🛫🧳MPIDR on Tour" What a successful visit to Vienna looks like: In Nov, we joined the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century". Poster awards for @athinaanas.bsky.social & Julie Kim (former MPIDR summer incubator student & MPIDR guest)

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open! Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Topics/Teams: 1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production 2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities Check out the brand new website for information: www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

Interesting insights on Emigration of scientists from Ukraine, presented at #WIC2025.

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Reproductive Ageing Interview with D. Susie Lee 이수지 Leader of the Group: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RGRA Job: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_6122/jobs_fellowships_1910/postdoc_research_scientist_in_the_reproductive_ageing_research_group_14844/

Excited to be en route to Vienna for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2025 on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century". Looking forward to 2.5 days of conversations about all things migration! Let me know if you were around for a chat. www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...

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.