@cometadata.bsky.social has been demonstrating it's possible to do big things! Matched over ~400K preprints 1/ ~2 MILLION authors to RORs—now in an openly available dataset. Come learn what we've been up to, what's next, and how to get involved. Next community call next week. Details below.

De Sociale Verzekeringsbank, één van de grootste verwerkers van privégegevens van miljoenen Nederlanders gaat volledig naar MICROSOFT AZURE. Dit is geen technische keuze, maar een politieke. Een gevaarlijke! Debat moet snel. Stopknop moet worden ingedrukt! #amerika Lees 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/svb/

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

Applications are open for the second annual Disinformation Summer Institute. This is a 4-day, intensive summer institute intended primarily for early career researchers. It will be held at IslandWood. Beautiful place! Applications short and due February 15th, 2026. More info: disinfoinstitute.org

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....

📰 The CWTS Leiden Ranking has been featured in @nytimes.com. Using the publication output indicator of the Leiden Ranking, the NYT piece explores changes of top positions of universities from the US and China over time. @unileiden.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>

How complex should network models be? 🚨 In our latest paper we quantify (if and) when higher-order interactions are informative versus reducible to pairwise structure without losing functional signal (e.g., diffusion behavior). 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Conference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

The program for the Perspectives on Scientific Error conference Februari 11 to 13 in Leiden is online! Registration is open! perspectivesonscientificerror2026.wordpress.com This is one of the most inspiring and fun metascience meetings around - lots of time to interact, great talks - so do come!

Mind the gap: Revealing sidewalk networks at scale pdf: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ae35b9/pdf Nice to see important research on the both most important and neglected mode of transport 🚶

Postdoc position in CSS/Sociology at @unidue.bsky.social: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... EG 13 TV-L for three years Please apply before Feb 5th 2026 Research cluster Anja Weiß, Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen #computationalsocialscience

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

#OA articles are cited more, help citizen scientists learn more about the topic they've helped on, but there’s little strong evidence they have other long-lasting effects on research, or many economic and social benefits www.science.org/content/arti... @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social @science.org

"Does the open science movement—the push to make research outputs such as articles, data, and software free to read and reuse—produce the benefits its supporters claim, such as accelerating discovery and promoting science literacy? The answer is a qualified yes."

#OpenScience costs money - think author fees/ APCs - but is assumed to provide benefits for academe, the public, and the economy. The PathOS study explored new ways to measure that. But proving a direct effect is tricky. #scientificpublishing #scicomm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

"hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free...little strong evidence of long-lasting and widespread effects [but] indicators remain to be fully developed" www.science.org/content/arti...

[1/3] Worth reading in @science.org: really important, comprehensive work on #OpenScience impact by the @pathos-project.bsky.social. Some benefits are well-documented (citations, citizen science), but strong evidence for broader economic/societal impacts still sparse. www.science.org/content/arti...

ODISSEI is hiring a Chief Technology Officer!📣 Shape the future of computational social science by building the technical infrastructure researchers need to understand society. 💡Unique role combining technology, data science & social research impact. Learn more and apply: edu.nl/cm9em

📣 First research seminar of 2026! @samuelmoore.org, scholarly communication specialist at Cambridge University Library, will give a talk on 'Publishing beyond the market'. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 16/1/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Kids: Study collider bias

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Leve de Ivoren Toren!

Top tier joke

The @ec.europa.eu response to US entry restrictions on EU individuals working on DSA, hate speech, and content moderation. “Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies” Merry Christmas 🎄 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

De biografie lezend van Pieter Zeeman, is het opvallend dat veel grote natuurkundigen de HBS hebben gedaan, niet het gymnasium. K. Onnes, Zeeman, Lorentz, Van der Waals. Maar om te concluderen dat de HBS een waardevolle opleiding was, moeten we eerst realiseren dat we conditioneren op een collider

Alle maskers vallen af. De EU moet kapot, vindt Trump-trouwe Denktank. Waarom? Omdat de EU als enige nog een vuist maakt in de westerse wereld tegen de techgiganten en Amerikaanse monopoliehouders. Als dat geen schallend compliment voor de kracht van de EU is! nos.nl/l/2595747

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Very good. All public institutions, like universities, should follow suit!

Every year at this time we make the long migration to 🇨🇿 for 🎄. We don’t fly so it normally takes 14 hours or more with two kids. However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!! This should be normal

📢 The ICA Publications Committee is seeking applications for the next editor(s) of the Journal of Communication (JOC). The four-year term begins with a transition in September 2026. Apply now and shape the future of communication research! 👉

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️ Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph. 🔁 Please repost!

📆 Mark your calendars! On January 13, our colleagues Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will give a webinar on how narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice. Sign up with the link below 👇

We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC! If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️ Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph. 🔁 Please repost!

Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Top conditions, environment & colleagues. Candidates welcome across places and disciplines. 🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A universal tool for visualisation of networks and trees in Python f1000research.com/articles/14-...

Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026) #academicsky #comsky

🔊#VacancyAlert: We are seeking an experienced Director to lead and coordinate @coalitions-oa.bsky.social work towards our goal for rapid, open, transparent, equitable #OpenAccess. Sound interesting? Application deadline: 31 Jan 2026. ➡️ www.coalition-s.org/vacancy-dire... #Plan_S #ScholarlyComms

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

🚨 A research staff position at my group at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! I’m recruiting a research Scientist (or postdoc scholar). You can apply here! bit.ly/ylab-researc... For more information: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Inquiries: [email protected] with [job] in the subject line.

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be