In this new paper with @fisherdanar.bsky.social in Politics and Governance, we distinguish intrinsic and instrumental polarisation and analyse polarisation curves and phases in US climate politics. We also present new methods for discourse networks. doi.org/10.17645/pag... @cogitatiopag.bsky.social

📢My article with @leifeld.bsky.social, "Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates" is OUT at Politics & Governance. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17645/pag...

#Digital #Humanities #postdoc position at Kent, in the School of Computing, as part of the £2.9m ARISE project. Closing date: 7 August 2025. Full info: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx.... It's a 2.5yr position. #DigitalHumanities #AcJobs #AcademicJobs #CompSky #CS #compsci #CoastalCommunities #HCI

Mitchell Centre M Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences here at Manchester in September 2025. Register until 14 July here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen.... We have introductory, R-based, and statistical network analysis courses. #sna #NetworkAnalysis #socsky

Mitchell Centre Summer School on social network analysis: registration deadline extended until 14 July 2025. We have both basic and advanced courses. #sna #polisky #NetworkAnalysis #SummerSchool #netsci @socialstats.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social

#Postdoc senior research fellow opportunity in community engagement research on coastal community resilience at the University of East Anglia in our ARISE project. Application deadline next Monday! Job ad: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15.... Project homepage: easternarc.ac.uk/arise/.

New article published: "A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent #Policy #Subsystems toward Stable #Advocacy Coalitions, with Evidence From the UK's Response to #COVID‐19", with Kristijan Garic in the Policy Studies Journal: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #SNA #Discourse #ACF @psjeditor.bsky.social

More network analysis training available for external participants here at the Mitchell Centre, University of Manchester. In-person courses in Manchester 15-26 September 2025; registration deadline 30 June. www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen... #socialscience #sna @uomsoss.bsky.social

📢 Last 5 DAYS to level up your methods skills! Register for the MethodsNET Summer School at CEU @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna! Featured course: "Inferential Network Analysis" with Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social Boost your skills in ERGM, QAP & network modeling! Register here: bit.ly/4gLbv9V

"Inferential Network Analysis" @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School in Vienna is scheduled for 14-18 July. Details: methodsnet.org/course/d02-0.... Will cover ERGM, TERGM, REM, LSM, AMEN, QAP, SAOM, LOLOG, NAM; with stat theory, examples, R labs, student presentations. Registration deadline: 13 May

This ad is still open and closes on 18/4. I'd love to see some exciting work in environmental policy and collaborative governance (or other eligible topics). This is fully funded with stipend and fees covered, a great opportunity. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess #FindAPhD #envpol #PhD

Deadline for fully funded PhD at Manchester extended to 14/4. Start date 1 Sep 2025. Pls repost. The degree can be in any relevant discipline incl soc sci, soc stats, law, comp sci. The project can focus more on discourse #NetworkAnalysis or more on #TextAnalysis, tbd. #datascience #NetworkScience

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Quick, the early bird deadline ends tonight! You can still register until the end of April or so, but it will be slightly more expensive.

Quick, the early bird deadline ends tonight!

Jürgen Lerner (University of Konstanz) presenting on relational hyperevent models applied to citation and co-authorship networks in our Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. Great stuff! @mitchellsna.bsky.social #networks #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis

New article published: "When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions" with Kimberley Vandenhole and Kristijan Garic in Energy Research & Social Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.er.... #SNA #STS #SustainabilityTransitions #discourse

My favourite conference. Hope to see many of you there. #SNA #Polisky #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #Polisci #CSS

I'd like to hire a #postdoc to collect/analyse #environmental #policy #network data. The 2y post is part of a £3mio project on #resilience in #CoastalCommunities & based at the Univ of Essex and co-supervised by Gina Reinhardt. Info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ772/a... #SNA #NetworkAnalysis #PublicPolicy

How do political actors adjust their messaging to different communication arenas? This paper finds ideological communication on Twitter is most left-leaning, Congressional testimony is most right-leaning & surveys are in the middle, enhancing our understanding of systematic bias in data sources.

I teach on this MSc programme. You can learn inferential network analysis and agent-based modelling from me there.

🎉It's been a long time coming but our new paper on ground-truthing elite perspectives in the public sphere is finally published! We explain why relying on only one source to understand political perspectives on climate is problematic. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Arena effects in climate politics: We fit an item response model to US climate elites with the same items/beliefs across 3 data sources/arenas and examine how the arena you speak in moves your ideological position to left or right doi.org/10.1177/2053... #PoliSky #ideology #polbehavior #publicpolicy

Early-bird registration for my Inferential Network Analysis course open now until 11 March. Register at methodsnet.org/course/d02-0.... #SNA #ERGM #NetworkAnalysis #NetworkScience #ComplexSystems #Polisky #LatentSpace #NetworkFormation #PolicyNetworks #ResearchMethods #statnet #CSS #RStats #methods

Early-bird registration for my Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) course open now until 11 March. Register here: methodsnet.org/course/d01-0... #PublicPolicy #PublicAdministration #Discourse #PolicyProcess #PolicyLearning #SNA #Polisky

Advanced #postdoc opportunity to establish independence. I'd love to see applications in social #statistics or #NetworkScience for UKRI Future Leader projects here at Manchester. Expressions of interest due Friday. Happy to chat. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... #SNA #NetworkAnalysis

Funded #MSc and #PhD #studentship in our #ARISE project at @universityofessex.bsky.social: You are interested in the #Resilience of #CoastalCommunities and #EnvironmentalPolicy, belong to an underrepresented minority, and are a UK resident? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM976/p... #jobs #governance #SNA

Designing Empirical Social Networks Research by Jennifer M. Larson An introduction to the study of social networks, with a focus on theory-building to guide empirical research design. New in the Methods for Social Inquiry series #ResearchMethods 📚 cup.org/3VDut9L

Simon #Fellowship, for 3yr #postdoc #SocialScience #research at the U of Manchester. Deadline 7 Mar 2025. I'd love for one of these to be hosted by our Dept of Social #Statistics or Mitchell Centre for Social #Network Analysis. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... #SNA #NetworkScience

Interested in a 3yr #postdoc #research opportunity on #PoliticalEconomy (or Chinese #PolEcon) at Manchester? Apply for a prestigious Hallsworth #Fellowship by 7 March 2025. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun.... #polisky #econsky #postdocjobs #polisci #economics #econ #MoneyInPolitics

We have 12 Bicentenary #Research Fellowships (3 yrs duration) for #postdoc within 4 yrs of their #PhD at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job.... Maybe you want to apply for a placement at the Mitchell Centre for #SNA or Dept of Social #Statistics #SocialScience #job

Call for nominations for #APSA Political #Networks Section awards 2025. We have 5 awards. More details with award committee contact details on the awards page: apsanet.org/section41. Please spread the word and send us your nominations. #polnet #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #polisky #polisci

"Inferential #Network Analysis". One-week course. 14-18 July 2025 in Vienna. @methodsnet.bsky.social #SummerSchool hosted by @weareceu.bsky.social. More info: methodsnet.org/summer-schoo.... Registration open now #NetworkAnalysis #SNA #ERGM #statnet #CSS #DataScience #DataAnalytics #QuantMethods

We have a #job opening for a #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social #Statistics at Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Closing date 16/3. Looking across #quantitative #SocialScience, ideally focus on social stats #AcademicJobs #jobs #academia #css #survey #quant

Funded #PhD opportunity on Digital & Computational #Demography. I did parts of my #PhD at @mpidr.bsky.social and am now a faculty member in Social #Statistics at @uomsoss.bsky.social, the two institutions offering the #studentship. Both are amazing places to do #research #FindAPhD #jobs #PhDPosition

"Discourse Network Analysis". One-week course. 7-11 July 2025 in Vienna. @methodsnet.bsky.social Summer School hosted by @weareceu.bsky.social. More info: methodsnet.org/summer-schoo.... Registration open now #NetworkAnalysis #SNA #PublicPolicy #PoliticalDiscourse #ContentAnalysis #DiscourseNetworks

Great PhD opportunity at the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester in collaboration with GCHQ: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #FindAPhD #PhD #jobs #criminology #NetworkAnalysis #SNA #NetworkScience

Mitchell Online Spring School 2025. Sign up for "Introduction to Social Network Analysis", 3-17 March held remotely on selected days. Faculty: Everett/Crossley/Basov/Agneessens/Bellotti/Diviák/Leifeld/Genkin. Full info linked on our events page: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen...

First info on the @methodsnet.bsky.social summer school, this year being held at @weareceu.bsky.social in early July. I'll be teaching my usual course in Critical Discourse Analysis. Earlybird registration starts in Feb methodsnet.org/summer-schoo...

Happy the announcement is out, spread the word! This is an awesome lineup

⚠️Job⚠️ Deadline to apply to our postdoc at the Polarization Research Lab is Jan. 15! We study democratic attitudes and behaviors. Postdocs have the opportunity to lead and propose projects and get a lot of writing experience. Join our group! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

Funded PhD opportunity (incl. DNA) in "Computational Legal Analysis - Classifying and Understanding Remedies in Comparative Labour Law". Start Sep 2025. University of Manchester @official-uom.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #jobs #NLP #TextAnalysis #ComputationalSocialScience #CSS