At our annual Sunbelt conference in Paris last week, INSNA honored Beate Völker with the Simmel Award. This lifetime achievement award is given to an INSNA member for their significant contributions to the study of social networks. Thank you for a wonderful keynote presentation, Prof. Völker!

This year, the INSNA Freeman Award, which is given annually to a young distinguished scholar in the field of social networks, goes to goes to Zsófia Boda!

The biannual INSNA Richards Award, to honor the creation of outstanding publicly available social network analysis software, goes to the Network Canvas team! This open source software is available here: networkcanvas.com

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

INSNA endorses the new Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials. There is significant and valuable diversity in how social network research is conducted; we encourage researchers to consider benefits and concerns to data sharing articulated in this paper. doi.org/10.1017/nws.2024.16

#SunBelt2025 (25-29, workshop 23-24), THE leading international conference on social network analysis, organized by @insna.bsky.social Theme 2025 “ #SocialNetworks, #Mechanisms, and #Algorithms”. Deadline: March 16, 2025 (abstract) Information: sunbelt2025.org

After the 2024 Olympics, this summer the next stunning event will come to Paris: the 2025 Sunbelt: sunbelt2025.org One week left to submit your abstract and compete (present) in classic SNA disciplines (sessions), such as Social Influence, Networks and Culture, or Social Networks and Climate Change!

Set the agenda for the network research community next year: The deadline to submit workshops and organized sessions to the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt in PARIS is extended to 2nd December

After the 2024 Olympics, Paris will host an even more fascinating event next summer: the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt. There are still a few days left to qualify by proposing a workshop or organized session! (qualification for presenters opens soon) sunbelt2025.org/deadlines