The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

A special issue of Social Networks on Agent-based modelling for social network research www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... The deadline to submit an 800-word extended abstract is approaching (1 April) forms.gle/BqTts4hEQjEB... Edited by me, Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács

How does social influence shape collective outcomes? When does it lead to lock-in on inferior options? In our 🚨 new preprint 📝 osf.io/preprints/so... we make three contributions w/ @alexgelas.bsky.social Alex Jochim @leostnbrk.bsky.social Peter Steiglechner & @pantelispa.bsky.social 🧵1/4

1/ Why do inferior but popular things remain popular? Excited to share our new paper with @pantelispa.bsky.social, @glemens.bsky.social & @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social "The marginal majority effect: When social influence produces lock-in" www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Travel grants 📣 For the 13th Toulouse Economics & Biology Workshop (June 1–2, 2026, @IAST) we have travel fellowships for PhDs & early-career researchers presenting a poster. Apply by Feb 27! Details: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

📖 Our book is out! 🎉 Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization is published, openly and freely available at doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6 (1/3) #ComputationalSocialScience #Polarization #SocialCohesion #NetworkScience #ABM #TextAnalysis

Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵1/4

How do parties debate minorities? New study based on all parliament speeches in Germany and the UK 1980-2021, with @younghyunlee52.bsky.social , F. #Piñeyrúa, & @max-web.bsky.social, published in the edited volume Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization:

Our annual post-doctoral research fellowships campaign at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) is now open. We welcome applications from researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Please share! www.iast.fr/research-fel...

As a PhD student, there are worse places than the (fully funded) interdisciplinary Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences at IAST and TSE, next June 🇫🇷☀️🎓 Two sessions: evolution & identity Few days left to apply. Please share with all talented, broadly interested social scientists you know! 🙏