So much outstanding work is happening so quickly in the research area "What, exactly, has gone so wrong with US mortality?" This is one really good intervention in that vein by @leahrabrams.bsky.social @alysonvanraalte.bsky.social & colleagues

Se vuelve a escribir mucho sobre Habermas. Hace 20 años publiqué esto argumentando las debilidades de su teoría: 1) ¿Es la racionalidad comunicativa conceptualmente diferente de la estratégica? 2) ¿Es plausible como principio explicativo de la acción? 3) ¿Es normativamente más defendible?

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

🧵ESR (@europeansocreview.bsky.social) just published this article where Anna Rotkirch and I explore the parenthood transition across several migrant descendant groups using Finnish register records—with clear but perplexing results! doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcag009 #Väestöliitto #NetResilience #NordInt

On the uses of computational text analysis methods in sociology. Excited to share 🙌 Huge thanks to my co-authors for such a rewarding collaboration doi.org/10.1007/s115...

🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents? We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial. We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists. 👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...

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

🚀 Oportunitat professional a l’Institut Metròpoli! Busquem un/a Responsable de Serveis Jurídics per incorporar-se al nostre equip! 📣 Coneixes algú que pugui encaixar amb aquest perfil? Comparteix la publicació o etiqueta’l/la! 📌 Més informació: lnkd.in/eJXj42UC

✨ 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

The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

📢 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

I wrote a piece for Marginalia Review of Books, based on a talk earlier this year, about the role of narratives in science - something that I think deserves more attention than it gets. www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/theory-...

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...

I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A long time in the making! This literature review aims to: 1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s); 2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices; ...

It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?" lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w... #philsky 💙📚

I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years. But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic... So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead

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

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

@joanchecarius.bsky.social i jo hem publicat a Population, Space and Place un article que analitza com la distribució territorial de l’oferta educativa i la mobilitat de l’alumnat construeixen desigualtats i oportunitats a la metròpolis de Barcelona: 🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107 Obrim fil...

🙌 Polítiques de #barri i eines de planificació local de #seguretat, sumar esforços o sectorialitzar? Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat". 🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

🙌 Com incorporem els indicadors de #seguretat i #convivència als instruments de planificació local i de #barris? En parlem a la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat", moderada per Àlex Giménez de la Prada. 🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

La revista @jpdemocracia.bsky.social nos publica un artículo sobre juzgados especializados en violencia de género y la necesaria territorialización del sistema público de justicia Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y + www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...

🔝 Acabem de publicar la revista #Papers 67!!! Aquesta edició posa el focus en els #barris i les polítiques públiques de #seguretat. 📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online: 🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67

My thesis is now published! liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

+++ NEW PREPRINT +++ I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990. You can read it here 🎉 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.

Happy to see my paper with @andershtrolle.bsky.social on "The different sources of intergenerational income mobility in high- and low-income families" online before print in Journal of Applied Econometrics: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

✨ 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

I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it. This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.

🔝Ja tenim aquí el butlletí de juliol! Últimes novetats en #recerca a la #metròpoli. Hi trobaràs: 📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB 🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids 📈 #GEM 🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25

📢S’apropa la jornada “Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat”! Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️ No t’ho perdis! 📅30 de setembre 🕑9:30 h 📍Hub Social Barcelona 🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25

Même pour un @nature.com , il ne va pas chez le coiffeur ! Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Neat field experiment providing evidence for a tendency towards triadic closure in social networks, net of homophily and shared opportunities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?

IC2S2: Posters and talks are scheduled, check out this summer's program at www.ic2s2-2025.org/program/

🚨🎓 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...

Self-graded R and stats exercises for beginners! Test your understanding of the material in our textbook (bit.ly/dss_textbook): - Intro to R: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch1 - Intro to causal inference: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch2

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++ I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026). If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV! More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

The intricate folds of your lungs, gut, and brain are each the result of pattern formation. Tune in to my conversation with L. Mahadevan on "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...

🌍 One rule may explain how life is organised across ecosystems, from deep oceans to dry savannas. Rubén Bernardo Madrid IceLab postdoc at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social is first author of a new study in @natecoevo.nature.com identifying this pattern in biodiversity. www.umu.se/en/news/one-...