Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin: 🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin: 🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory? @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future Out now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning [Special Issue in Theory and Society] Key Dates: Abstracts: June 1, 2026 Full papers: December 31, 2026 More info: link.springer.com/collections/...

Join us on Thursday, 19 March, at 13.00 CET (note the updated time) for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Daniel Little 🔹 Critical reflections on analytical sociology: A plea for pluralism 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Join us on Thursday, 12 March, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @katyborner.bsky.social 🔹 The Atlas of Macroscopes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

Join us on Thursday, 12 March, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @katyborner.bsky.social 🔹 The Atlas of Macroscopes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

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.

Join us on Thursday, 26 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social 🔹 Gendered careers in the social sciences: Evidence from Germany 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

🔥🔥 StanCon 2026 Oral Presentation Submission Deadline on the 25th of February 🔥🔥 discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...

Join us on Thursday, 19 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Sabahat Çiğdem Bağcı 🔹 Intergroup contact in the context of mass immigration: Empirical evidence from Türkiye 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @janalasser.bsky.social 🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

We’re excited to host @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social as a visiting SweCSS Fellow over the next two months! 🤩 Don’t miss her seminar on 26 February!

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

Join us on Thursday, 5 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Olof Ejermo 🔹 Motherhood penalty or daddy premium? Career effects of having children in Swedish academia 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Still a couple of days before the deadline to slot in an application👇🏼

Deadline for StanCon 2026 tutorials and workshops (@mc-stan) is today (anywhere on earth). More information here: discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...

Huge congratulations to @eliscl.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contagious Secularization: Social Influence and Membership Dynamics in Religious Organizations”! Excellent work, Dr. Carlberg Larsson 🥂

Join us on Thursday, 29 January, at *13:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli (NYU Abu Dhabi) 🔹 The Science of Science... and its Human Side 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

✨ 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

✨ 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

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

Join us on Thursday, 11 December, at 14:30 CET for the last Analytical Sociology Seminar of the term with @pengzell.bsky.social 🔹 Patrons, Protégés, and Peers: Workplace Mechanisms of Intergenerational Inequality 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Join us on Thursday, 4 December, at 17:00 CET (11 am EST) for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Jackelyn Hwang 🔹 Racialized Reshuffling: Gentrification and The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

📢 The deadline to submit workshop and session proposals to EUSN 2026 has been extended till 9 December! ℹ️ For more information, see: liu.se/en/event/eus... 📝 Please send your submissions to: [email protected]

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...

Romantic couples plan parenthood without emotion – and often talk about it in connection to household duties. This is among the findings of the paper by Júlia Galántai, Flóra Samu, and our colleague Károly Takács, recently published in Discourse & Society Published #OA:

Join us on Thursday, 27 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @anamacanovic.bsky.social 🔹 Limits to Gender Equity in Science Communication 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Grant season has come to an end in Sweden, and we’re excited to congratulate our researchers on an outstanding year of funded projects 🎉 This year’s competition was fierce, and we’re proud of all the teams who secured funding. Here’s an overview of this year’s successful projects: 👇

Join us on Thursday, 20 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Marshall A. Taylor 🔹Semantic Moorings: A Simulation-Based Metric for Anchor List Reliability in Word Embedding Spaces🔹 More info:

🚀 A warm welcome to Simon Walo @simonwalo.bsky.social who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

Join us on Thursday, 13 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Mirta Galesic 🔹Dynamics of belief networks🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow! A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow! A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

🧵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.

Join us on Thursday, 23 October, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Andrei Boutyline 🔹 Meaning in hyperspace: Word embeddings as tools for cultural measurement 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

🔈Job Alert! Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science (SWECSS) is hiring postdoctoral researchers. Positions are available at IAS and the Department of Computer Science (IDA). ⌛Deadline: 31 October IAS: liu.se/en/work-at-l... IDA: liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css

Huge congratulations to @hendrik-erz.de, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "On the Record: Understanding a Century of Congressional Lawmaking through Speech and Vote Behavior”! Excellent work, Dr. Erz 🥂

📢 Join the SweCSS Community! If you would like to stay informed about upcoming events, job opportunities, and news from The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS), you are welcome to join our mailing list. #css #academicsky 👉 Sign up here: liu.se/en/research/...

Join us on Thursday, 16 October, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with James Moody 🔹 Which Community Detection Method?: Cluster Recovery in Noisy Data Settings 🔹 More info:

New article w/ @jenjirayahirun.bsky.social: Exogamous 2nd gen immigrants in Sweden live further from parents than do endogamous immigrants, but closer than natives. But in terms of residential choices, exogamous immigrants are least likely to move near parents.

📄✨In a new article @jenjirayahirun.bsky.social & @benjarvis.bsky.social show that exogamous 2nd gen immigrants in Sweden live further from parents than do endogamous immigrants, but closer than natives. In terms of residential choices, exogamous immigrants are least likely to move near parents.

Join us on Thursday, 9 October, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social 🔹 Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Join us on Thursday, 2 October, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Andreas Wimmer 🔹 The Shadow Side of Rootedness: How Geographic Stability Across Generations Increases Radical-Right Attitudes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us on Thursday, 25 Sept, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Maria Abascal🔹Money Whitening in the United States 🔹More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us on Thursday, 18 Sept, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social 🔹Tackling harmful online comments on news platforms: three field experiments 🔹More info: liu.se/en/article/s...