Dear anthropologists out there, why are men so bad at washing their hands after going to the bathroom?

Congratulations to @felixlennert.bsky.social who today defended his PhD at Institut Polytechnique Paris! Shout out also to his supervisor @eollion.bsky.social Well done, have a wonderful celebration in Paris 🎉👨‍🎓🍾 felix-lennert.netlify.app

Open online seminar on Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools Presenters: @nuriatargarona.bsky.social, Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1360... When: 20 March Organisers: EMCRs of SN & BSA-SNAG Registration: ethz.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🧵 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)

Interested in the social causes and consequences of weak ties and looking for your good academic deed before the weekend? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @mbojan.bsky.social and @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social at liu.se/en/event/eusn-2026

Interested in the social causes and consequences of interpersonal relationships and acquaintances? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.bsky.social and @pschuler.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...

Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods? We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus... See you in Sweden!

Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵1/4

Among the chapters in the book is a study into network-scientific aspects of social cohesion. Together with Alla Loseva, @pschuler.bsky.social , Susanne Böller, and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social investigate the structure societal-level social networks. 🧵3/4

@jimiadams.bsky.social, I saw your post regarding software that logs your writing activity, but couldn’t reply directly. If you’re open to writing in markdown, Zettlr (www.zettlr.com) is great open source software that has a ‚writing statistics‘ tool built in which might serve your purpose.

Interested in people's acquaintances, their determinants and consequences for social cohesion, integration or inequality? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @pschuler.bsky.social liu.se/en/event/eus...

📢 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

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! A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky

📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks

If I go to the UK and an old colleague at university recognises me does that make me a internationally-recognised scholar?

Great new lineup of analytical & computational sociology speakers, with Zoom link available to anyone.

Yes, I love networks, and yes, I am a tea addict.

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here! (1/6)

I’m very excited to announce that in September, I will start working in the @coalescelab.bsky.social with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and so many other amazing and lovely people 😊 Barcelona here I come! (Please spare me any Freddie Mercury references, my parental generation is taking care of that)

📢 Reminder: Buchpremiere in Berlin 📢 Am 15. Juli stelle ich im Gespräch mit Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social (SPIEGEL) mein neues Buch »Die Exponentialgesellschaft« vor. Ort: Publix, Hermannstr. 90, 12051 Berlin Eintritt: frei Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/2r7tcvwe

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

That moment at a conference when you’re being reduced to your data

don’t these look pretty? when I did my MSc at @iasliu.bsky.social’s then-just-begun CSS program many of these early graduates were our (very friendly and patient) TAs. Nice to see what they were up to beyond dealing with us, and the pool of graduates from IAS growing.

+++ 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

🚨🎓 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...

Completing the acknowledgments for my dissertation feels like writing my will before putting myself at the mercy of the examiners.

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Running large models on a remote computer cluster is like a quant researcher’s Tamagotchi, only without the fun. You feed it (with some data and a script), return the next day and wonder why it was killed. At least one insight today. That counts!

Dutch universities and knowledge institutes are planning to collectively secure American research data that are under threat by the Trump administration