I am happy to announce that I will be starting this year's course on Social Network Analysis on Monday 30 March for political/social science PhD students at the University of Milan! Here's the syllabus: www.nasp.eu/images/Sylla...

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

A few days left to submit an abstract to our session on "Agent-based models of social networks" (co-org w/ Filip Agneessens Jen Badham Andreas Flache Takács Károly) at the EUSN - European Social Network Conference in Norrköping, Sweden, 11-15 August Deadline: 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...

A few days left to submit an abstract to our session on "Agent-based modeling and social networks" (co-org w/ Filip Agneessens, Jen Badham, Andreas Flache & Károly Takács) Sunbelt 2026 Conference in Daytona Beach (FL), USA, 22-28/6 Deadline: 27/2 Format: hybrid www.insna.org/events/sunbe...

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

For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Deadlines Extended abstracts: 1 April Full papers: 15 November

📢 Keynotes++: Milena Tsvetkova - @mtsvetkova.bsky.social London School of Economics and Political Science on how social networks, algorithms, and HCI shape collective behavior, inequality, cooperation, and social influence 👉 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! cs2italy.org

1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org

! NEW ISSUE OUT ! Our latest issue (and the last issue of this 2025) is OUT and ready for you to enjoy here: lnkd.in/euHFDNvZ Inside you will find a conversation between Edwin Amenta and Theda Skocpol on U.S. politics, higher education, and the relationship between sociology and political science.

Join our #BehaveSchool25 on #ABM agent-based #computational #modelling on 1-12 September 2025 in #Brescia #Italy with a fantastic faculty incl @tatianafilatova.bsky.social @federicobianchi.bsky.social and many others abmschool.behavelab.org

Final pics from our session on experiments, networks, & computational models at #ConvegnoSISEC2025 Thank you @sisec.bsky.social for organising!

More pics from our session on experiments, networks & computational models at #ConvegnoSISEC2025. @sisec.bsky.social

Pics from our session on experiments & computation at #ConvegniSISEC2025. Join us for some network analysis all afternoon! @sisec.bsky.social

If you're at #ConvegnoSISEC2025 and want to hear about computational studies, join us in Aula Bruna Leoni! @sisec.bsky.social

Back from #CS2Italy - 1st conference on Computational Social Science My presentation on complex contagion and negative influence --> federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

It's time to establish an Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences. Ivano Bison illustrates why we need it and the next steps to create it #CS2Italy

A pic from the symposium on Empirically-Calibrated Agent-Based Models at IAST/TSE in Toulouse - great to see you guys so often! Thank you @mrnkzr.bsky.social for being a great host! Here are my presentation slides on complex contagion & negative influence federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

Molto contento di tornare all'Università degli Studi di Torino per parlare del mio libro "Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli" www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815... Mercoledì 27/11 h. 14:00 --> www.dcps.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

I am adding this starter pack on "Social and Sociological Theory" to this feed. Thanks for setting this up! go.bsky.app/ByNfpie

For you Italy-based analytical/computational social scientists out there in the blue sky, here's a session I'm co-organising at the next SISEC Conference in Pavia sisec.it/wp-content/u... Here to submit an abstract by 15 November sisec.it/convegni/ix-...

I made a starter pack for computational sociologists. Please DM if you think you should be added (or taken off!) go.bsky.app/U1Wia61

It's the time of year when I teach research proposal writing to the new PhD students. Here is my 2 page PhD project template that we work with. Many people find it useful, so sharing again. LaTeX template (and PDF): github.com/rmcelreath/P...

Only few days left to apply! Don't forget!

Thanks to everyone who joined the QSSS seminar yesterday! Huge thanks to @federicobianchi.bsky.social for the fascinating insights from "Reti Sociali. Meccanismi e modelli" and for sharing his slides. Stay tuned for the next seminars! 📚✨ #QSSS #Unibo #PoliSci

The slides of the book presentation I've made yesterday at the University of Bologna on social network (agent-based) models federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation... Here for the book www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815... @paridecarrara.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @simonluck.bsky.social

A first starter pack on computational social science, that is, researchers who use computational methods (broadly defined) to answer social science questions. It's a vaguely defined field with blurry borders, so it's certainly incomplete; if you want to be on it, let me know! go.bsky.app/PCckf3C

🚨Excited for our upcoming QSSS Seminar featuring @federicobianchi.bsky.social! Don’t miss out—join us in-person or online (DM for the link)!

Happy to present my book on social network models tomorrow at the University of Bologna mulino.it/isbn/9788815... If you happen to be in Bologna, see you there at 1 am CEST - or see you online!

Academic ambitions can be contagious among early teens, even more so than actual achievements (beyond selection) Found strong evidence on network longitudinal data on 407 ~13-yr old Hungarian students (ML Bayesian SAOMs disentangling influence from selection) Open access doi.org/10.1177/0272...

🚨 Due to the weather alert and the cancellation of all in-person activities by the University of Bologna, we’ve postponed the QSSS seminar with @federicobianchi.bsky.social (originally Sept 19). We’ll announce the new date soon! 🌐 #QSSS #UniBo

So glad to present my book on social network models at such a prestigious institution! www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

Kicking off the 2024 Behave Summer School on agent-based modelling 2 weeks (intro + advanced) of hands-on training from concept to analysis through coding & data integration w/ opportunities for consultation with the faculty #BehaveSchool2024 abmschool.behavelab.org

Much on intergenerational (IG) ties, rarely backed by fine-grained data. We have looked into ego-net data of an Italian ageing community. IG ties are: - more active and integrated, despite low co-residence (left) - more prevalent with age and lower socio-econ status (right) doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

We're hiring one more post-doc researcher (20 months) to work on topic modelling & network analysis with PI Raffaele Vacca, Massimo Airoldi & myself. Cool project on conspiracy beliefs & personal networks at BehaveLab (University of Milan). Pvt for more info www.raffaelevacca.com/consnet-post...

We're hiring a post-doc on network modelling (inferring population from ego-nets + ABM) to study conspiracy beliefs & health at University of Milano-Bicocca in a project w/ BehaveLab at University of Milan w/ Viviana Amati, Raffaele Vacca & myself info PVT www.raffaelevacca.com/consnet-post...

Still not sure of the numbers of the Italian community on this platform, but here it is: I've just published a book in Italian on mechanisms and models of social networks www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

Such an inspiring workshop last week organised by the Institute for Analytical Sociology Thank you, @selcanmutgan.bsky.social and bsky.app/profile/did:... We definitely should do this again! Here my presentation slides on empirical ABMs for networks federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

Over the last 3 days, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Athens, Greece, bringing together 12 external researchers from Europe and the USA. 🌍 Summary: Outstanding presentations, engaging discussions, delicious food, sunny weather, and a splendid view of the Acropolis. 🤩🎉