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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I am happy to announce that I will be starting this year's course on Social Network Analysis on Monday 30 March for political/social science PhD students at the University of Milan! Here's the syllabus: www.nasp.eu/images/Sylla...

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A special issue of Social Networks on Agent-based modelling for social network research www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... The deadline to submit an 800-word extended abstract is approaching (1 April) forms.gle/BqTts4hEQjEB... Edited by me, Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A few days left to submit an abstract to our session on "Agent-based models of social networks" (co-org w/ Filip Agneessens Jen Badham Andreas Flache Takács Károly) at the EUSN - European Social Network Conference in Norrköping, Sweden, 11-15 August Deadline: 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...

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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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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A few days left to submit an abstract to our session on "Agent-based modeling and social networks" (co-org w/ Filip Agneessens, Jen Badham, Andreas Flache & Károly Takács) Sunbelt 2026 Conference in Daytona Beach (FL), USA, 22-28/6 Deadline: 27/2 Format: hybrid www.insna.org/events/sunbe...

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Sunbelt 2026 - Daytona Beach - International Network for Social Network Analysis

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Michał Bojanowski @mbojan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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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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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Deadlines Extended abstracts: 1 April Full papers: 15 November

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Social Networks | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Social Networks | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Social Networks at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

📢 Keynotes++: Milena Tsvetkova - @mtsvetkova.bsky.social London School of Economics and Political Science on how social networks, algorithms, and HCI shape collective behavior, inequality, cooperation, and social influence 👉 Submit your abstract by Jan 30! cs2italy.org

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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org

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Sociologica - International Journal for Sociological Debate @sociologica.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

! NEW ISSUE OUT ! Our latest issue (and the last issue of this 2025) is OUT and ready for you to enjoy here: lnkd.in/euHFDNvZ Inside you will find a conversation between Edwin Amenta and Theda Skocpol on U.S. politics, higher education, and the relationship between sociology and political science.

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Final pics from our session on experiments, networks, & computational models at #ConvegnoSISEC2025 Thank you @sisec.bsky.social for organising!

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

More pics from our session on experiments, networks & computational models at #ConvegnoSISEC2025. @sisec.bsky.social

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Pics from our session on experiments & computation at #ConvegniSISEC2025. Join us for some network analysis all afternoon! @sisec.bsky.social

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you're at #ConvegnoSISEC2025 and want to hear about computational studies, join us in Aula Bruna Leoni! @sisec.bsky.social

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Back from #CS2Italy - 1st conference on Computational Social Science My presentation on complex contagion and negative influence --> federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It's time to establish an Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences. Ivano Bison illustrates why we need it and the next steps to create it #CS2Italy

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

A pic from the symposium on Empirically-Calibrated Agent-Based Models at IAST/TSE in Toulouse - great to see you guys so often! Thank you @mrnkzr.bsky.social for being a great host! Here are my presentation slides on complex contagion & negative influence federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Molto contento di tornare all'Università degli Studi di Torino per parlare del mio libro "Reti sociali. Meccanismi e modelli" www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815... Mercoledì 27/11 h. 14:00 --> www.dcps.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I am adding this starter pack on "Social and Sociological Theory" to this feed. Thanks for setting this up! go.bsky.app/ByNfpie

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For you Italy-based analytical/computational social scientists out there in the blue sky, here's a session I'm co-organising at the next SISEC Conference in Pavia sisec.it/wp-content/u... Here to submit an abstract by 15 November sisec.it/convegni/ix-...

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IX Convegno SISEC – PAVIA 2025 - SISEC

Convegni 29 gennaio - 1 febbraio 2025 Il convegno Il convegno annuale si propone di essere un luogo di riflessione, approfondimento e contaminazione tra approcci diversi, che utilizza tali chiavi di l...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I made a starter pack for computational sociologists. Please DM if you think you should be added (or taken off!) go.bsky.app/U1Wia61

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

It's the time of year when I teach research proposal writing to the new PhD students. Here is my 2 page PhD project template that we work with. Many people find it useful, so sharing again. LaTeX template (and PDF): github.com/rmcelreath/P...

$Department of Full Luxury Galactic Metascience PhD Plan for CANDIDATE Committee: Prof. MEMBER1 Dr. MEMBER2 Dr. MEMBER3 October 23, 2023 Phenomenon ! The subject matter to be addressed. What is the question? Citation for background are useful, but don’t do a full lit review (yet).1 Ad- ditional references can be included at the end bibliography by using \nocite. Theoretical Perspective The framework for explaining the phenomenon. What are the impli- cations of theory? If more than one theory is relevant, how do the implications differ? What are the current holes in the theory or theo- ries? Approach Modeling and empirical research approach to address the theory/ies nominated above. Important thing is to justify the approach in terms of theory. Specifics of Approach Outline any special skills, equipment, or techniques that will be re- quired. This includes, in the case of field research, a paragraph on the background of the field location. Data analysis approach needs a sketch. Can use citation2 for further detail. Expected Products A list of the (usually 3) articles expected for completion of the PhD. Think of each as a fantasy abstract. 1. The Evolution of Human Uniqueness. There is wide agreement that humans are unique. But it is rarely asked: Have they always been unique? In this paper, we derive a general uniqueness theorem$

that states that any unique species must have been less unique at some point in the past. This theorem has implications for the achievement of world peace.
2. Niche Construction, Disease Transmission, and Global Warming: Chaos Deconstructs the Block Chain. How many buzz words can be combined in a title? In this paper, we find that the natural limit
on buzz words in any specific scholarly field is always given by the triangular number Tn where n is one more than the number of tenured faculty in the field.
3. A Bayesian Hierarchical Survival Analysis of Counting Sheep. Just like all those other models of counting sheep, but this one will be Bayesian.
Schedule
Outline of the calendar for the subject to change.
work. This is necessarily rough and
Comment
First wave of being awesome Write papers #1 and #2 Second wave of awesomeness Write paper #3
phd plan for candidate 2
Date (Duration)
Jan 2019 (1 year)
Jan 2020 (1 year)
Jan 2021 (6 months)
Jun 2021 (6 months)
References

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

go.bsky.app/PCckf3C

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Moris Triventi @mtriventi.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Only few days left to apply! Don't forget!

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Paride Carrara @paridecarrara.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Thanks to everyone who joined the QSSS seminar yesterday! Huge thanks to @federicobianchi.bsky.social for the fascinating insights from "Reti Sociali. Meccanismi e modelli" and for sharing his slides. Stay tuned for the next seminars! 📚✨ #QSSS #Unibo #PoliSci

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

The slides of the book presentation I've made yesterday at the University of Bologna on social network (agent-based) models federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation... Here for the book www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815... @paridecarrara.bsky.social @marcoalbertini.bsky.social @simonluck.bsky.social

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

A first starter pack on computational social science, that is, researchers who use computational methods (broadly defined) to answer social science questions. It's a vaguely defined field with blurry borders, so it's certainly incomplete; if you want to be on it, let me know! go.bsky.app/PCckf3C

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Paride Carrara @paridecarrara.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

🚨Excited for our upcoming QSSS Seminar featuring @federicobianchi.bsky.social! Don’t miss out—join us in-person or online (DM for the link)!

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Happy to present my book on social network models tomorrow at the University of Bologna mulino.it/isbn/9788815... If you happen to be in Bologna, see you there at 1 am CEST - or see you online!

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Academic ambitions can be contagious among early teens, even more so than actual achievements (beyond selection) Found strong evidence on network longitudinal data on 407 ~13-yr old Hungarian students (ML Bayesian SAOMs disentangling influence from selection) Open access doi.org/10.1177/0272...

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Paride Carrara @paridecarrara.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

🚨 Due to the weather alert and the cancellation of all in-person activities by the University of Bologna, we’ve postponed the QSSS seminar with @federicobianchi.bsky.social (originally Sept 19). We’ll announce the new date soon! 🌐 #QSSS #UniBo

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Kicking off the 2024 Behave Summer School on agent-based modelling 2 weeks (intro + advanced) of hands-on training from concept to analysis through coding & data integration w/ opportunities for consultation with the faculty #BehaveSchool2024 abmschool.behavelab.org

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Much on intergenerational (IG) ties, rarely backed by fine-grained data. We have looked into ego-net data of an Italian ageing community. IG ties are: - more active and integrated, despite low co-residence (left) - more prevalent with age and lower socio-econ status (right) doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

We're hiring one more post-doc researcher (20 months) to work on topic modelling & network analysis with PI Raffaele Vacca, Massimo Airoldi & myself. Cool project on conspiracy beliefs & personal networks at BehaveLab (University of Milan). Pvt for more info www.raffaelevacca.com/consnet-post...

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

We're hiring a post-doc on network modelling (inferring population from ego-nets + ABM) to study conspiracy beliefs & health at University of Milano-Bicocca in a project w/ BehaveLab at University of Milan w/ Viviana Amati, Raffaele Vacca & myself info PVT www.raffaelevacca.com/consnet-post...

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ConsNet postdoc recruiting: network modeling and ABM

We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to join the ConsNet project's team at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Bicocca) and the University of Milan (Unimi) in Milano, Italy.

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Still not sure of the numbers of the Italian community on this platform, but here it is: I've just published a book in Italian on mechanisms and models of social networks www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Such an inspiring workshop last week organised by the Institute for Analytical Sociology Thank you, @selcanmutgan.bsky.social and bsky.app/profile/did:... We definitely should do this again! Here my presentation slides on empirical ABMs for networks federico-bianchi.github.io/presentation...

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Over the last 3 days, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop in Athens, Greece, bringing together 12 external researchers from Europe and the USA. 🌍 Summary: Outstanding presentations, engaging discussions, delicious food, sunny weather, and a splendid view of the Acropolis. 🤩🎉

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