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Alejandro Ciordia

@alexciordia.bsky.social
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Social scientist 🔍 contentious politics, social network analysis, (climate) activism Maastricht Sustainability Inst @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social & Centre on Social Movement Studies @sns.it‬ Previously: @coalescelab.bsky.social‬ | PhD: Univ of Trento

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Special issue on "Political Networks" in Network Science! Submission open now. Deadline 13 November 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Guest editors: Philip Leifeld, Shahryar Minhas, Monica Di Gregorio. #SNA #PoliSky #PolMeth #NetSci #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalNetworks #NWS
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Special Collection Call for Papers: Political Networks
NWS and the Political Networks Conference are calling for papers for a special collection in
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are following the discussion of how/ if climate change is accelerating, worth noting that we have known for a long time that scientists have consistently UNDER-estimated the threat of climate change: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?
Over the past two decades, skeptics of the reality and significance of anthropogenic climate change have frequently accused climate scientists of “ala…
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Far too absent from public debate is a basic truth: until we actually mobilize to dramatically expedite the transition off fossil fuels, we will never get ahead of the curve. No amount of fire preparation will save us from an escalation in these horrors. sethdklein.substack.com/p/we-mobiliz...
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We mobilize to put fires out, but not yet to prevent them
While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to the Second World War, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action.
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Mikel López Iturriaga @mikeliturriaga.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Los negacionistas o retardistas del cambio climático no son “gente que opina diferente”. Son una amenaza grave para nuestra supervivencia, y los muertos y damnificados por su culpa no van a dejar de crecer en los próximos años.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Out today at the Annual Review of Political Science, my article with @alicexu.bsky.social and Audrey Sacks "The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is just the abstract of the paper.
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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.0 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... Annotate actor-concept statements in documents and export networks. Updated document and statement management from the associated R package rDNA, polarisation, phase detection, backbone identification, IRT scaling, and bug fixes.
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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📢 New article out in Social Networks (co-authored w/ @corneliusholler.de, @snannabell.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, and Cristiano Vezzoni): "Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers" 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.05.003 A 🧵 with the main takeaways 👇
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Max Bradley @maxbradley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We have a new paper out in PNAS. Susanna’s thread outlines our findings. The big picture takeaway is that well-designed climate education (active, personally relevant, science-based) can complement fiscal and regulatory instruments by building public support for ambitious policy!
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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📢 New article out (co-authored w/ @mportosg.bsky.social), just published in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social): "Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... A 🧵 with the main takeaways from the article 👇
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our Handbook of International Migration and Social Networks was published today @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 🍾🎉! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
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Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks
‘This Handbook is a superb manifestation that network research has matured from being invoked only as a metaphor to being a methodology of embeddedness and social fields. The truly collective effort h...
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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
📢We invite original research using the cross-national PATCHWORK survey (N=6000) on core & fabulous acquaintances networks & ideational cohesion. Pre-public release access to data+funded presentation at conference in Barcelona, w. Prof. Mario Small 👉 bit.ly/4t4HdnN #OpenData #ERC #NetSci #Sociology
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Call for Proposals: Early data access and conference
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Intro to our Special Issue on #NetworkScaleUpMethod & #AggregatedRelationalData, w. Beate Völker & @mbojan.bsky.social: we reviewed 300 studies (full list available), mapped how the field evolved, summarized survey practice & proposed a reporting checklist & a cool new graph on biases bit.ly/4czhEoz
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Robert Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today, the European parliament is likely to approve rules that would make it easier to deport rejected asylum seekers including to countries they have no connection to. This reform of the Return Regulation is a compromise backed by the centre and far right.
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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New open access paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies about interactions in which legal citizens are othered on ethnic grounds by individuals within their personal networks and the strategies they use to contest this ethnic boundary-making doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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‘Othering interactions’ and strategies contesting everyday ethnic boundary-making: a relational approach to the othering of citizens
Despite extensive research on the symbolic and institutional dimensions of othering, its relational foundations – how relationship characteristics and their embeddedness in wider networks shape exp...
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Jorge Tamames @jorgetamames.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sonaré como un abuelo avinagrado pero: cuando entramos al mercado laboral el paro por debajo de 30 años superaba el 50%. Tu primer salario rondaba los 700€. Casi nadie decidió culpar a migrantes, pensionistas o el feminismo. Igual hay que ser menos llorón y pensar un poco antes de hablar.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/03/2026
By popular demand, I'm sharing my preprint discussing the implications of large language models for qualitative sociology research. Advocates emphasize the efficiency gains of LLMs: "interviews in minutes for pennies". This paper asks: But at what (epistemic) cost? doi.org/10.31235/osf... 🧪
Uses and Misuses of Large Language Models in Qualitative Research

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Abstract: Researchers are now considering how to incorporate large language models (LLMs) into qualitative data collection and analysis—domains where the researcher's evolving interpretive judgment cannot be separated from the method. This article considers various, increasingly ambitious applications of LLMs, distinguishing amplification of human analytical capacity from substitution. For analysis of human-collected data, I argue that the discipline lacks epistemic frameworks to evaluate what LLM-assisted coding means—whether it constitutes an informal thinking tool, a robustness check, or a source of confirmation bias. Turning to data collection, I suggest that LLM-administered “interviewing” sacrifices the iterative linkage between data collection and theory development that gives qualitative methods their distinctive inferential leverage, producing output closer to adaptive surveying than to fieldwork. I conclude by addressing institutional incentives that make these tools structurally tempting and arguing that professional evaluation standards should account for the epistemic costs of LLM-accelerated productivity norms on fieldwork-intensive research.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/03/2026
These betting markets pose a threat not only to journalists who refuse to comply with bettors' demands, but also to democracy, from journalists who alter what they report in response to bettors' promise to share a portion of the winnings.
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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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...
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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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!
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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026)
The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The...
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 12/02/2026
Just found five AI-generated, completely fraudulent submissions to the journal that I edit. Submitted rapid-fire by a gmail address affiliated with researcher who does not exist. The era of AI slop in academic journals is here, right now. The fraudsters will only get better from here.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I cannot wait to see the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against this in EUrope's streets.... 🙄
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EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers
MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list
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Marijn Keijzer @mrnkzr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📖 Our book is out! 🎉 Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization is published, openly and freely available at doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6 (1/3) #ComputationalSocialScience #Polarization #SocialCohesion #NetworkScience #ABM #TextAnalysis
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Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization
This open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS)
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
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In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.
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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I will be presenting at an open online seminar hosted by TripleS (Maastricht University) on March 12th (16:00-17:00 CET). Title: Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work in Relationally-Oriented Semi-Structured Interviewing
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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice
There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. 

Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.
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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Stop calling this an “administration.” It’s a fascist regime. Stop calling Trump “president.” He’s a dictator. Stop calling ICE “federal agents.” They are the gestapo. We need to collectively wake up and rise up
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Sebastian Haunss @sehaunss.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa @sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26: www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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Antonio Giraldo @giraldeo.es · 04/01/2026
Dato: el 71,2% de los propietarios de viviendas de uso turístico en Madrid (legales + ilegales) tienen más de 1. La gran mayoría de éstos multi-propietarios tienen más de 10. Algunos más de 300. No es esa familia que obtiene unos ingresos extra. Son fondos inversores y empresas.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 04/01/2026
COLUMNA | "La explicación es digna de su nivel mental: sus compatriotas drogadictos no lo son porque tengan problemas ni porque vivan en un país que produce esos problemas sino porque unos extranjeros malvados los drogan" social.elpais.com/ct3…
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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A must-read on the policies that can counter (or reinforce) the finance-driven housing crisis unfolding across much of the world, by @jaimepalomera.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera
While the country’s capital is loosening regulations, the Catalan city is strengthening social housing. Their outcomes will affect all our futures, says author and researcher Jaime Palomera
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social 3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa. Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January. more info below:
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César Guzmán-Concha @guzmancesar9.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Next Friday Florence Argentina & Chile Far Right Javier Sajuria @sajuria.com
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Javier Gil @javigil.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
1. La vivienda no sube porque falten casas, sino porque las familias compiten contra inversores que tienen más dinero y se quedan con las casas. Los precios los dispara la demanda especulativa, no la residencial. Antes que construir, hay que regular. Escribo en @elpais.com 🧵
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Since I've got a lot of new followers debating the incremental and failed policies of the climate regime and the COP process, here's a reminder to check out the #COPOut Podcast, which focuses on apocalyptically optimistic climate conversations cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
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Emanuela Lombardo @elombardo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
✨Join us today at @sns.it Palazzo Vegni to discuss feminist, antigender politics, and societal democratization from the perspective of gender regimes theory! 👉🏽https://www.sns.it/it/evento/do-feminist-institutional-responses-address-anti-gender-regime
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Do feminist institutional responses address the ‘anti-gender regime’? | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
New pre-print out! 🤩 Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social). A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah
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Food Charities @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We are pleased to share that Alejandro @alexciordia.bsky.social gave a presentation, "Reconstructing the emergence of charitable food provision fields through ESA: Goals, challenges and prospects." at the ARS’25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples on 30-31 October 2025.
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Food Charities @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Last week, our urban ethnography reading group met to discuss influential works 📚 — Sidewalk (Duneier, 1999), Code of the Street (Anderson, 1999), No Shame in My Game (Newman, 1999), and Wacquant’s (2002) review of these studies on urban poverty.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/
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