IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April

I'm presenting work on residential consolidation today at 12:30 CST @miurbanchicago.bsky.social Zoom available! events.uchicago.edu/event/colloq...

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Social Science Research invites abstracts for an upcoming special issue on AI and Inequality Abstracts of 500 words are due by November 17, 2025. Final paper submission deadline is July 31, 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165

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

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out! A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read academic.oup.com/esr/issue

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies. Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

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

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.

Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!

PhD position out at University of Amsterdam We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment! Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Americans reacting to all the eurovision tweets

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

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.

Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!

🧪 arXiv began as a side project to share physics preprints. Now it underpins global science, with 2.6M+ papers and 5M users monthly. Its founder, Paul Ginsparg, still can’t walk away. or stop tinkering with it.

Take that, Max Weber: Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Learn more about our ASA 2025 Annual Meeting host city, Chicago! Get the latest issue of ASA’s Footnotes Magazine, including the regional spotlight piece “The City at 100: A Volume and its Afterlives” by Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, University of New Orleans @jnparker.bsky.social https://bit.ly/41ZRxTA

Our paper is out now in @europeansocreview.bsky.social. We trace residential choices and find that proximity to old classmates matters—but other networks can displace their influence.

Join us virtually for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Loïc Wacquant on Thursday, March 6, at 14:30 CET 🔹A Historicist-Analytical Approach to Racial Domination 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/202...

Just wrapped up a week at CSH in one of my favorite cities. Until next time!

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

@hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Ergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen & den rund 4400 Gemeindeverbänden ausgewertet. Unsere Ergebnisse vom Montag und zahlreiche neue gibt es nun als Blogbeitrag für @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social. Thread 🧵👇. www.politik-wissenschaft.org/2025/02/28/a...

Sehr beeindruckender Datenjournalismus: Die Zeitungen von Ippen haben bereits die Bundestagswahlergebnisse auf Gemeindeebene zusammengetragen (@fr-zeitung.bsky.social): www.fr.de/politik/alle...

❄️ Halfway through the CSH Winter School – and what a journey it’s been! 26 participants from 20 institutions have explored topics from power laws to how cities shape economic diversity. But they’re not just learning—they’re applying complexity science! Looking forward to the presentations on Friday

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago is now on Bluesky! Follow this account to stay in touch with our initiatives, programs, and research.

I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Join us as an Associate Professor in Social Demography, in association with @stjohnsox.bsky.social. We're open to a range of specialisations: family, fertility, gender, migration, population health, inequalities & more 🌍 Apply now ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

How Do Social Network Features Shape Segregation? My new preprint is now out on SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...

How can social networks help us understand residential segregation? Learn more about my dissertation and postdoc work here: liu.se/en/news-item...

I just found out today that there was not yet a starter pack for Analytical Sociology. With so many new people on the platform, I decided to create one so that you can follow analytical sociologists with one click! If you want to be added/removed, please send a DM/comment go.bsky.app/2X5b3ZL

Happy to announce also here: The 2025 INAS Conference will take place at Columbia University on June 5–6, 2025. The Women's Forum for Analytical Sociology is scheduled for June 4. analyticalsociology.com Thanks to the organizers James Chu & Gerard Torrats-Espinosa 👏

SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word! liu.se/en/research/...

We warmly congratulate @laurafursich.bsky.social who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘The Urban Tapestry: Essays on the Relationship Between Social Networks and Residential Segregation’! Brilliant work, Dr Fürsich🥂🎓

We are excited to share the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series in the spring of 2024 and welcome everyone to join!

IAS made it over here. Follow along @iasliu.bsky.social and join the NSA conference in Norrköping next year

Two great PhD opportunities with @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social

CREST is hiring! Assistant or associate professor, any area of sociology, hmu if you want all the details. crest.science/wp-content/u...

Just updated our preprint on causal inference and Bayesian modelling for complex panel data using Dynamic Multivariate Panel Models (DMPMs): osf.io/preprints/so... R package dynamite for estimating DMPMs: docs.ropensci.org/dynamite/ @invest-flagship.bsky.social #rstats #stats #metasci