NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Happy to have finished my PhD! 🎓 If you’re interested, the dissertation can be found here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=... Looking ahead to the next steps!

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣 📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden. 📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu... ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026

✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

🎓 My PhD thesis is now submitted and published! I study how social influence shapes membership dynamics in religious organizations. 🔗 doi.org/10.3384/9789...

We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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...

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

🧵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.

📢 In a new study in #SocialNetworks, David Kretschmer and I examine how religious #segregation in #adolescent #friendship networks develops from 11 to 17 📈, focusing on #gender 🚹🚺. We find an increase in in‑group friends only among highly religious #Muslim girls 💡. More 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS. ⌛Deadline: September 30th Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css

✨ 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

🧮 ~8M nodes, 330M relationships across family, household, school & work. 🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country. 📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415... cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++

New study in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z): "3 stages of religious decline around the world." We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious: 1. Participation 2. Importance 3. Belonging

🚨🎓 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...

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

Reminder that I have created a starter pack for Analytical Sociologists with great colleagues! I‘m also updating it as people join Bluesky. If you want to be part of the AS bundle, just send me a message! 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 👏

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

IAS will host the 31st Nordic Sociological Association Conference next year! NSA 2024 | Sociology in a Digital World 🗓️ 14-16 Aug 2024 🔗 nsa2024.se 📍 Norrköping, Sweden

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Please visit our conference website www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf... The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16). Happy to hear from you!