The Political Networks Online Colloquium aims to bring together a community of scholars to provide feedback on ongoing research about political networks. Each month we will meet for one hour to discus...

European Consortium for Political Research

Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnon

In this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ...

What happens when we go from replication crisis to robustness extremes?

I read with interest Mansournia et al.’s article ‘Balancing scores and causal diagrams’ [1]. While their effort to use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to il

A new paper finds anti-system sentiment — not left-right ideology — decided the 2016 and 2024 elections

A NetSci 2026 Satellite

From December 10–12, computer scientists, folklorists, physicists, marketing experts, cognitive neuroscientists, economists, mathematicians, psychologists, and other researchers convene at SFI to conn...

AbstractStudy Objectives. To examine the changes in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across prepregnancy, pregnancy, and the pos

If you’ve been following along, I’ve been thinking a lot (too much?) about political polarization and baby naming practices in the U.S. See HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE for my progress in…

Over the past few months, I’ve been writing about political polarization and baby naming practices in the United States (see HERE for the most recent piece). A consistent pattern kept showing up: s…

Abstract. Is American government becoming authoritarian, and if so, how? Converting a nonautocratic state to authoritarian ends requires at least three tra

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

Uncovering Bias in Split Ticket’s WAR Scores

The oeuvre of Charles Tilly provides a helpful model of how to conduct social science. Nevertheless, most readers are familiar only with a subset of his works. ...

The Trump administration has influenced data used by researchers, economists and scientists — an effort that drew more attention after the president fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

ChatGPTに課金していると自作のGPT（AIチャットボット）を作ることができる。夏に勉強しようとは思っているんだけど、他大学の授業でレポートの初期添削にこChatGPTのAPIを使っている話を聞いて、自分のクラスだけならととりあえず試作してみることにした。 今の授業で困りごととまではいかないのだけど、添削してもそこから直して提出まで数日だとちょっと難しいとか、何度も見れないとかあり、それなら...