(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!

The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025 More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

A long time in the making! This literature review aims to: 1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s); 2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices; ...

I'm happy to share that our team (@lecoursonnais.bsky.social, Maria Brandén, @martinhallsten.bsky.social and myself) has received 6.8M SEK in funding from the Swedish Research Council for our project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains.”

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

If you are at the ODISSEI conference, check out our poster (#47) from the netreg.se project. @eliscl.bsky.social

Grateful to have received 4.7M funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for our project on understanding preschool attendance and its effects on educational inequalities in Sweden. Excited to work with an excellent team of Eriks: @erikrosenqvist.bsky.social and Erik Liss.

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a SEK2.7M Project Grant from @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social to study the dynamics of meaning divergence! 🎉

🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow! A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

🧵1/6 New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.

NYU Abu Dhabi is recruiting a 3-year Postdoctoral Associate for a Computational Social Science project on the coevolution of ingroup bias and group boundaries. For more details and to apply, please visit: apply.interfolio.com/173544.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

In this article, @javiersanmillan.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social and Maarten van Ham compare the spatiotemporal patterns of income vs. wealth segregation, affluence and poverty in the Netherlands. Using geo-coded register microdata, they show that... doi.org/10.1002/psp....

✨CREST Sociology is hiring ✨ Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology Details here: www.shorturl.at/E57le

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

New article w/ @jenjirayahirun.bsky.social: Exogamous 2nd gen immigrants in Sweden live further from parents than do endogamous immigrants, but closer than natives. But in terms of residential choices, exogamous immigrants are least likely to move near parents.

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure). You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented! #sociology More 👇 jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring

✨ 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

📢 IAS is looking for new PhD students! There are still 3 more weeks to apply! deadline: August 31st. Read more: liu.se/en/work-at-l... #Sociology #AcademicSky

I'm happy to be a part of netreg.se . . A project to use register data to study the entire social network of Sweden. Check out our poster at IC2S2 today.

🤔 Curious how religion & gender shape teens’ free time? In @sociusjournal.bsky.social, David Kretschmer and I show: Muslim girls do more housework 🏠, but are least active in sports 🏃‍♀️ and going out 🎉 than Muslim boys and non-Muslims. Gaps shrink as they enter adulthood. 🔄 👉 doi.org/10.1177/2378...

@selcanmutgan.bsky.social et al. find that ethnic school segregation in Sweden is largely a downstream consequence of “the ethnic segregation of the housing market and the geographic distribution of schools.” @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

The Women’s Forum for analytical Sociology will begin at 2:30 pm at the Interchurch center at Columbia University. Looking forward!

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Warm congratulations to Anastasia Menshikova who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Cultural change: Studying social interdependencies in public discourse with computational text analysis’! We are so proud of you, Dr Menshikova!🥂🎓

I'm presenting tomorrow (early morning for me in Colorado; afternoon for Sweden). This is a Zoom talk, so anyone is welcome!

This year’s INAS will be hybrid – and so will the Women’s Forum! We will offer online and offline activities so you can join in even if you are not travelling to NYC. Sign up for the Women’s Forum for updates and join our Slack channel for more information.

Hi everyone! We are also on Bluesky! With the Women's Forum, we aim to enhance recognition of the work, perspectives, and expertise of women within the analytical sociology community. Find out more on our webpage and join our mailing list: analyticalsociology.com/womens-forum

How do our school friendships shape where we choose to live as adults? In a new ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social publication @laurafursich.bsky.social and @benjarvis.bsky.social examines how educational networks influence residential choices later in life. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Are you interested in learning computational social science methods? If so, you now have the opportunity to apply for the second round of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science (SIRCSS) at @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛Apply by 31st of March! liu.se/en/research/...

People usually overestimate the share of immigrants in their country. However, in this new #openaccess paper, I show that survey respondents who do not use round numbers like 10% or 20% in their guesses collectively estimate the share with astounding precision. #crowdwisdom doi.org/10.1177/0001...

Excited to be part of this lineup and share work later this spring.

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

A baker's dozen. 12 books published in 2023-2024 that I have found especially valuable in understanding positive and normative dimensions of inequality plus the book that had the largest implicit effect on my thinking published in the last decade.

📢 Job: Sabino Kornrich and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on parenting, childhood inequalities, and parenting norms in international and comparative perspective using experimental methods. Deadline to apply: February 14, 2025. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/160976

My new blog on substack. Avoiding the causality trap. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Based on our recent IZA working paper (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf ◀️), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I have written an opinion piece for IZA summarizing our main findings in short form ✒️ #EconSky #SocSky

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

Last week, we organized the Symposium and the 2nd Workshop on Empirically Calibrated Agent-Based Models for Mechanism-Based Research. The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) was an excellent host! @mrnkzr.bsky.social

IAS celebrates its first 10 years as an institute. Read more about what made founder Peter Hedström start up the institute, and thoughts from current director Maria Brandén on the future for IAS. liu.se/en/news-item...

Next week I am presenting at the IAS webinar on "Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics" @iasliu.bsky.social Subscribe to their webinar, its a fantastic series

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