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Laura Fürsich

@laurafursich.bsky.social
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Post Doc at the Institute for Analytical Sociology. Interested in mechanisms, cities, and networks. laurafursich.com

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
✨ We’re excited to announce the Fall 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Seminars take place every Thursday and are open to all! #AcademicSky #CSS #socsky #sociology
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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Don't miss the first NoSoccs conference! Abstract deadline in about a month nosocss.org/conference.h...
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CS2Nordics – Nordic Society for Computational Social Science
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clementinecttn.bsky.social @clementinecttn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Latest project on urban segregation and R is brewing. Please reach out if you'd like to take part!
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Elis @eliscl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social: Using Swedish full-population data, I show that exposure to religious pluralism through social ties is associated with a lower likelihood that parents baptize their child in the Church of Sweden 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions
A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro-level measure...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin: 🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: John Levi Martin
"Signaling, performing, and (occasionally) exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar parliament" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with John Levi Martin, University of Chic...
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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 23/03/2026
[Admin] Eie räumliche und soziale Strukturen Ungleichheit erzeugen und aufrechterhalten! Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @laurafursich.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2026/03/eie-...
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Eie räumliche und soziale Strukturen Ungleichheit erzeugen und aufrechterhalten! Laura Fürsich ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE
Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf unsere Kuratorin Laura Fürsich ( @laurafursich.bsky.social )! Sie ist bin Post Doc am Mansueto Institute for...
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Miriam Hurtado Bodell @mhbodell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory? @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future Out now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...
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haily merritt, phd @h-merritt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
the deadline to submit to the WiNS satellite & mentorship program at @netsciconf.bsky.social is this friday!!
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Postdoctoral researcher on applications of AI in sociological research
Are you able to lead sociological research into the AI age?
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
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Kathrin Kühn @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
„The costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.“ Überbordendes Antragswesen in der Wissenschaft - und die Folgen: Viel Geld für Bürokratie, wenig für Forschung. Interview mit Gerald Schweiger TU Wien. www.deutschlandfunk.de/buerokratie-... 1/2
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Bürokratie: Steuergelder fließen oft zu großem Teil in Anträge statt Forschung
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I'm presenting work on residential consolidation today at 12:30 CST @miurbanchicago.bsky.social Zoom available! events.uchicago.edu/event/colloq...
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Mansueto Colloquium: Laura Fürsich, Institute and Department of Sociology Postdoctoral Fellow
From Structure to Perception: How Consolidation Shapes Segregation and Social Distance Laura Fürsich, Institute and Department of Sociology Po...
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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences: Natural Language Processing (RISE-AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Social Science Research invites abstracts for an upcoming special issue on AI and Inequality Abstracts of 500 words are due by November 17, 2025. Final paper submission deadline is July 31, 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165
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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If you are at the ODISSEI conference, check out our poster (#47) from the netreg.se project. @eliscl.bsky.social
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The Complete Network of Sweden - Swereg.net - is a research project concerned with the extraction and analysis of the complete network of social exposure between all individuals in Sweden.
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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European Sociological Review @europeansocreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025 of @europeansocreview.bsky.social is out! A very nice collection of interesting papers (almost all open access). Browse the index and find your next read academic.oup.com/esr/issue
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Nina Glaeser @ninaglaeser.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Hey spatial bubble! My colleague created a women in spatial science / journalism starter pack for @bsky.app 🗺️ ☁️🙌🏼 Also, feel free to text her if you have other women to add to the list! ➕👳🏽‍♀️🧔🏼‍♀️🧕🏻👩🏾‍🍼👵🏽👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏼‍🔬👩🏿‍🎓📍 go.bsky.app/S85CdPy
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube
This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.
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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'm happy to be a part of netreg.se . . A project to use register data to study the entire social network of Sweden. Check out our poster at IC2S2 today.
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The Complete Network of Sweden - Swereg.net - is a research project concerned with the extraction and analysis of the complete network of social exposure between all individuals in Sweden.
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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Short piece about our @nature.com paper on the immigrant-native pay gap in The Conversation! Also broad coverage in (so far) German, Dutch, and Spanish central news outlets today!
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Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why
Immigrants struggle to access higher-paying jobs, meaning their skills often go to waste.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 10/07/2025
PhD position out at University of Amsterdam We’re looking for a computer scientist interested in LLMs, social media, and politics Offer a lot of freedom and an exciting environment! Please share! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...
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Sander Wagner @sanderwagner.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Americans reacting to all the eurovision tweets
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
Norrköping campus at sunset
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Women's Forum @ INAS @womensforuminas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This year’s INAS will be hybrid – and so will the Women’s Forum! We will offer online and offline activities so you can join in even if you are not travelling to NYC. Sign up for the Women’s Forum for updates and join our Slack channel for more information.
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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 15/04/2025
Hey postdocs, here’s an opportunity to develop your research plan with us - and eventually relocate to Turku with your own grant!
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 27/03/2025
🧪 arXiv began as a side project to share physics preprints. Now it underpins global science, with 2.6M+ papers and 5M users monthly. Its founder, Paul Ginsparg, still can’t walk away. or stop tinkering with it.
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
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Per Block @perblock.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Take that, Max Weber: Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility
There has recently been renewed interest in occupational mobility over the life-course. We argue that such studies should place greater emphasis on or…
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Learn more about our ASA 2025 Annual Meeting host city, Chicago! Get the latest issue of ASA’s Footnotes Magazine, including the regional spotlight piece “The City at 100: A Volume and its Afterlives” by Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, University of New Orleans @jnparker.bsky.social bit.ly/41ZRxTA
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our paper is out now in @europeansocreview.bsky.social. We trace residential choices and find that proximity to old classmates matters—but other networks can displace their influence.
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Join us virtually for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Loïc Wacquant on Thursday, March 6, at 14:30 CET 🔹A Historicist-Analytical Approach to Racial Domination 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/202...
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Loïc Wacquant
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just wrapped up a week at CSH in one of my favorite cities. Until next time!
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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Ergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen & den rund 4400 Gemeindeverbänden ausgewertet. Unsere Ergebnisse vom Montag und zahlreiche neue gibt es nun als Blogbeitrag für @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social. Thread 🧵👇. www.politik-wissenschaft.org/2025/02/28/a...
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sehr beeindruckender Datenjournalismus: Die Zeitungen von Ippen haben bereits die Bundestagswahlergebnisse auf Gemeindeebene zusammengetragen (@fr-zeitung.bsky.social): www.fr.de/politik/alle...
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Alle Gemeinden und Städte im Blick in unserer Live-Karte zu Ergebnissen der Bundestagswahl
Unsere interaktive Live-Karte ermöglicht Ihnen den Zugriff zu den Ergebnissen der Bundestagswahl aus sämtlichen 11.000 Gemeinden und Städten.
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Complexity Science Hub @csh.ac.at · 26/02/2025
❄️ Halfway through the CSH Winter School – and what a journey it’s been! 26 participants from 20 institutions have explored topics from power laws to how cities shape economic diversity. But they’re not just learning—they’re applying complexity science! Looking forward to the presentations on Friday
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.
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View of Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
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Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation @miurbanchicago.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago is now on Bluesky! Follow this account to stay in touch with our initiatives, programs, and research.
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Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
IAS celebrates its first 10 years as an institute. Read more about what made founder Peter Hedström start up the institute, and thoughts from current director Maria Brandén on the future for IAS. liu.se/en/news-item...
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IAS celebrates 10 years
It all started with taking risks. Now, ten years have passed since the Institute for analytical sociology (IAS) was founded."It feels like we have achieved a lot," comments Maria Brandén, senior assoc...
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Join us as an Associate Professor in Social Demography, in association with @stjohnsox.bsky.social. We're open to a range of specialisations: family, fertility, gender, migration, population health, inequalities & more 🌍 Apply now ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
How Do Social Network Features Shape Segregation? My new preprint is now out on SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Laura Fürsich @laurafursich.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
How can social networks help us understand residential segregation? Learn more about my dissertation and postdoc work here: liu.se/en/news-item...
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Social networks can affect our choices
How can people's choices in life be linked to social networks, such as family, schoolmates and neighbours? Laura Fürsich studies how segregation occurs and factors that can counteract it.
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 12/11/2024
I just found out today that there was not yet a starter pack for Analytical Sociology. With so many new people on the platform, I decided to create one so that you can follow analytical sociologists with one click! If you want to be added/removed, please send a DM/comment go.bsky.app/2X5b3ZL
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Happy to announce also here: The 2025 INAS Conference will take place at Columbia University on June 5–6, 2025. The Women's Forum for Analytical Sociology is scheduled for June 4. analyticalsociology.com Thanks to the organizers James Chu & Gerard Torrats-Espinosa 👏
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International Network of Analytical Sociology - Home
The International Network of Analytical Sociology is an association of sociologists who identify with the Analytical Sociology approach to social explanation.
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