It was nice to see multiple international groups working on country-scale individual-level social networks!

We’re hiring 2 PhD candidates in computational social science / (social) network science! Do interdisciplinary research, translate insights into policy, and contribute to real-world impact in Amsterdam at PLANET-NL and Urban Impact Lab. Learn more:

📣We’re pleased to (re)introduce the PLANET-NL group! (formerly POPNET) Our researchers are continuing to collaborate to provide expertise, tools, and opportunities for large-scale social network analysis. Be ready to get to know more about us in the coming days!

We are hiring a PhD candidate in AI for network analysis. Think of agentic LLMs for network generation, AI algorithms for network analysis, and other interesting recombinations. Interested? It's a 4-year position at LIACS @unileiden.bsky.social Details: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

We're back at UrbanSys with our next keynote speaker, Eszter Bokányi, discussing the role of urban highways in shaping segregation #CCS2025

Check out our latest manuscript which shows the effect of social capital on economic mobility at the individual level!

It was such a great experience to finally present this piece of research for the first time ever with all coauthors being present in the same room at @ic2s2.bsky.social 🙂 @mszell.bsky.social, @lajello.bsky.social, @sandorjuhasz.bsky.social and Anastasia Vybornova

Our PhD student @g-adel.bsky.social presenting his work on community dynamics in the TENET satellite of NetSci 2025 @netsciconf.bsky.social!

Very excited to talk here, come submit an abstract!

Highways originally built to connect actually separate people at short spatial scales. We quantify this effect for the first time ever using urban social networks of the top 50 metropolitan areas of the US. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Image credit Karo Berghuber (@kariot.lines)

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS! The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.