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Carl Nordlund

@carln.bsky.social
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Associate professor in analytical sociology, management consultant and strategist at Governo Insikt AB, C# coder, crocheter, blockmodeler. www.carlnordlund.net

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🗳️ Valkalkylatorn 2026 är live! Min alternativa version av SVT:s Valkompass – samma frågor, men: 🎚️ kontinuerliga skalor + hur viktig frågan är 🔍 helt öppen algoritm 📊 se exakt vad som skiljer dig från varje parti Testa & dela 👉 valkalkylatorn.se
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Valkalkylator 2026
Valkalkylator 2026 är ett algoritm-transparant verktyg för att mäta hur dina politiska åsikter är i förhållande till de partier som ställer upp till valet 2026. Med utgångspunkt i de frågor och partis...
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It works so well! Let's get it on the Danish servers too! No problem storing the complete multilayer networks anymore!
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pleased to introduce Threadle, an open-source network analysis built for population-scale multilayer networks. Native 2-mode layers, integrated node attributes, the equivalent of trillions of edges stored without full projection. Already on SCB Mona microdata servers. 🔗 threadle.dev
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Threadle - Population-scale network data management system
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...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer). www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
miamiherald.com
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...
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Ben Jarvis @benjarvis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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?
strategiska.se
Sök SSF Individual Grants 2025 Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic - Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning
Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, ger 45 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag till USA-baserade forskare som vill …
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
liu.se
PhD student in Analytical Sociology
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 21/06/2025
+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too! www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
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I Built an Interactive Schedule for my Field's Largest Conference (and yours, too)
How do you communicate the what and where of various events at large conferences? This seems to be still a relatively unsolved problem, at least in …
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities
newyorker.com
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Did this in a couple of classes as well: each one got the class roster and asked to indicate who in the class they know on an ordinal scale (never seen, met, knows etc) as well as asking for some attributes (major, gender, age). Subsequently used when introducing various network metrics etc
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy
theverge.com
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
theguardian.com
What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more
I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on Earth
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
August 1941 issue
harpers.org
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Funny! Though they do acknowledge that yeah, something went wrong with the labels, and that Putin indeed is the president of Russia and nothing else etc.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
2.9 percent in
youtu.be
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS
wapo.st
Opinion | The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience
A new book raises unsettling questions about the social implications of a smartphone-saturated world.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tonight's album open.spotify.com/album/24E6rD...
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Evil Empire
Rage Against The Machine · Album · 1996 · 11 songs
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really good album, basically for anything open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
open.spotify.com
Is This What We Want?
1,000 UK Artists · Album · 2025 · 12 songs
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
snyder.substack.com
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
desis.osu.edu
In Poznan, Poland, eight mussels get to decide if people in the city get water or not | Desis: Senior Thesis
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 06/02/2025
Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 14/01/2025
+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++ Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
sciencedirect.com
Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses
Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hey, hey, hey! You just lit up the way, So I know what to say! I'll say: Bombay!
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yes indeed many potential ties between two actors. But they would all still be related to the same "ordered pair" (of actors), which might not make the notion suitable in a multiplex setting
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
...and as there could be many types of ties (e.g. friendship, admiration, kinship etc) between an "ordered pair" (of actors/nodes), that is missed when describing the potential/existing tie (i.e. the matrix cell) by its row/column. So I would say "potential tie".
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Ordered pairs" works, sure, but hm - that refers to the two actors on either side of the potential or existing tie, i.e. the corresponding row and column headers of said matrix, rather than the actual potential or existing tie itself, i.e. the corresponding cell in the matrix! :-)
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/01/2025
"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA." #McSweeneysTop24of24
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The Millennial CAPTCHA
Our 3rd most-read article of 2024. - - -
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Rob Hughes @huzee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² and 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ How beautiful
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy new year! Ad astra, ad astra!
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A quiz of cities, guess by guess, A final guess, voila, success. Each guess is bright, a simple thing, That makes the quiz a joy to bring.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Xmas = #crocheting, amirite? crochetedpixels.com
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Nineteen degree does not make any sense, But why be a chicken and sit on the fence? If Haile is Selassie that ruled from this town, I place an Addis Ababa wager down
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José Luis Estévez @jlestevez.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🧵New paper out in Social Networks doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Many social, political, and economic systems have a core-periphery structure. Borgatti & Everett’s model has been the go-to for identifying them in network data. Here, @carln.bsky.social & I build on this classic model with two refinements.
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Pirates that sail along Nordic shores, Or profitable business that's pulling the oars, Its towers and walls make its enemies weak, Is Visby on Gotland the town that we seek?
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
If you’ve ever been mildly annoyed by the way Borgatti-Everett handled inter-categorical densities for core-periphery structures—despite no one ever caring about it —then YES, this paper is for you! You're welcome. Think of it as scratching a decades-old itch with a flamethrower: Socnet.se
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Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores
Borgatti and Everett's model (2000) remains the prevailing standard for identifying categorical core-periphery structures in empirical networks, yet t…
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Two hours ago when I went through this town, I guess I was just at my phone looking down, I totally missed all these boats from the past, I saw neither viking, nor sail nor a mast
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Aivery Turin @aiveryturin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Beneath the overcast skies, freedoms once unfurled, Where echoes of past struggles shape this vibrant world. A city of gold, with whispers of Sisulu near, And bustling streets alive, where hope conquers fear. #GuessThePlace
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I know the guesses from before, I feel an urgent urge, to guess although I am not sure, Is this Johannesburg?
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Plenty of places with winters so cold, Plenty of places could fit in this mold, But steel towers, stars and industrial noise, I'm thinking chicago is likely my choice
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My favorite bsky account: guess the place, all in the form of short poems. Beautiful!
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Join us virtually on Thursday at 14.30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @drtomemery.bsky.social 🔹Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/int...
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Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics
Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Tom Emery from Erasmus University Rotterdam & ODISSEI. The seminar is open for the public. Language: English. Please contac...
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Maybe not Midlands but not far away, With human-made clouds that were likely just gray, by historical carbon that we should sequester, in the industrial town of Manchester?
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I try this quiz with a noun and a verb: Is it Johannesburg?
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Website spring cleaning: carlnordlund.net
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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
New publication! Proposing a novel approach to compare national production structures, adapted to the contemporary transnational regime.
journals.plos.org
Transformations, trajectories, and similarities of national production structures: A comparative fin...
This article proposes a network-analytical framework for the comparative study of national production structures in global production networks. Conceptualizing such structures as the linked networks o...
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