Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend

Article: Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment | Sociological Science | Posted October 16, 2025

Entrevista a la cap de l’Àrea de Convivència i Seguretat Urbana de l’Institut Metròpoli, associat a la UAB

Threadle is a high-performance network engine built for large, structurally complex multilayer and multimode datasets — such as full-population administrative registers. Built in C#/.NET, it offers me...

Threadle is a high-performance network engine built for large, structurally complex multilayer and multimode datasets — such as full-population administrative registers. Built in C#/.NET, it offers me...

Linköping University has launched a new Excellence Centre in Analytical Sociology. The initiative will strengthen theory-driven research, international collaboration and long-term development in one o...

D’Adamo et al. report that fetal yawning increases selectively when mothers yawn, suggesting a possible prenatal form of contagion. True mother-fetus pairs exhibit stronger temporal coherence than rec...

TBA Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki. The seminar is open for the public. Language: English. Please contact elin.dahlstrom@liu.se for Zoom link.

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The

Nature Human Behaviour - Appel et al. found that deceptive networks reached over 37 million Facebook and 3 million Instagram users during the 2020 US elections, with the majority of this exposure...

US life expectancy remained essentially flat in the 2010s. This trend has occurred in the presence of advancing innovations in medical care, especi...

A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

YouTube video by Richard McElreath

PHILIP BALL | Science is often not a competition between theories but a process of narrative creation in which the paradigm tends to be set by the most persuasive narrative

Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Per Engzell from University College London. Patrons, protégés, and peers: Workplace mechanisms of intergenerational inequality. The seminar is open for th...

There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson (1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many years, Watson was one of the ...

This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…