Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New DNA publication 🚨: Susha, Iryna, Louis Knüpfling and Philip Leifeld (2026): Mandating Business-to-Government Data Sharing for Public Interest: Coalitions and their Policy Beliefs in the Shaping of the EU Data Act. Government Information Quarterly 43(4): 102188. doi.org/10.1016/j.gi... 032
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Special issue on "Political Networks" in Network Science! Submission open now. Deadline 13 November 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Guest editors: Philip Leifeld, Shahryar Minhas, Monica Di Gregorio. #SNA #PoliSky #PolMeth #NetSci #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalNetworks #NWScambridge.orgSpecial Collection Call for Papers: Political NetworksNWS and the Political Networks Conference are calling for papers for a special collection in 0108
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Sign up for this to learn the basics of network analysis next semester through online classes. I will deliver 2 of the 10 sessions. Not sure how to start with your network analysis project? This is the right place. We have some of the leading SNA folks here at Manchester. #polisky #publicpolicy #sna 020
Reposted by Philip LeifeldAvner Kantor @avnerkantor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Great few days at the Political Networks Conference in Manchester, presenting "Information Environments and the Structure of Political Discussion Networks." Thank you @leifeld.bsky.social for this wonderful event. 031
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 11/08/2026How many of them reproduce observed macro-level emergent properties when simulated from the micro level? The "credibility revolution" will only be complete once generative emergence has been added as a requirement for empirical work. 020
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 11/08/2026New #AJPS paper 🚨: "Endogenous Coalition Formation in Policy Debates." doi.org/10.7910/DVN/.... Statistical modelling and forecasting of discourse networks, based on the policy learning strategies of actors. 12 years from first analysis to publication! 😅 #policy #polisky #SNA @ajpseditor.bsky.social 2131
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Professor em. Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Chair of Systems Design @ethz.ch), giving the keynote speech on #resilience (through a #ComplexSystems lens) at the Political #Networks Conference 2026 @socialstats.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk. Participants' minds were blown! 032
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Jungbae An (Ohio State University) receiving the Best Poster Prize at the Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk, announced with a laudatio by Professor Jennifer Victor (George Mason University) during the mentoring lunch. Big congratulations, Jungbae! And thanks to the committee. 062
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. My welcome address to the 114 participants, showing some key figures about the conference before introducing the keynote speaker. Check out the fantastic programme with abstracts for the 96 (!) presentations: sites.google.com/view/confpol... 052
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 at the University of Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Professor Adam D. Henry (University of Arizona) leading a featured session on "Network Analysis as a Measurement Tool for Policy Process Research". Learning from leaders in the field! #publicpolicy #policy #SNA 032
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/08/202619th Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @manchester.ac.uk, 4-7 August. Packed featured session on "Publishing on political networks" with Aisha Bradshaw (Nature Human Behaviour) and Martin Everett (Network Science) in the beautiful Boardroom of Oddfellows Hall. Audience on fire 🔥 042
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Laurence Brandenberger (U Zurich) teaching participants how to store complex political data in a graph DB and query the data effectively -- with everyone in the room actively contemplating doing the same with their own data. #POLNET2026 032
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk @socialstats.bsky.social. Professor Joris Mulder introducing relational event models and Bayes factors for nested and ordered hypotheses in network models in his workshops. Showcasing marvellous software implementations and polisci examples. #sna 032
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Dr. Silviya Nitsova @uompols.bsky.social discussing the promises and pitfalls of designing different ways of collecting network data. The workshop audience is buzzing with questions. #sna #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #PoliSky #polisci 053
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Lorien Jasny (University of Exeter) giving a workshop on Exponential Random Graph Models #ergm using R to our audience. #PoliSky #statnet #SNA #NetworkScience. So many good questions and happy faces all around! 042
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Professor Ingo Scholtes showing animated simulations of random walk diffusion on time-preserving vs temporally shuffled networks in his workshop on Causality-Aware Temporal Networks, in a packed room #NetworkScience #SNA #NetworkAnalysis #PoliSky 153
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.2 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... New functions: CSV importer, keyboard shortcuts. Lots of bug fixes, including statement type editor and using document-level variables in network export. 052
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Check out the full programme with abstracts for the Political Networks Conference at Manchester in a couple of weeks: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Exciting line-up with 90 presentations across 28 panel sessions in 4 parallel tracks! Registration has closed, but perhaps of interest. 023
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 28/06/2026DNA 3.1.1 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... It contains some critical bug fixes and better Java bindings and initialisation for the included rDNA R package.github.comRelease DNA 3.1.1 · leifeld-lab/dnaFiles dna-3.1.1.jar is the main DNA application. You need Java 11 or higher to use it, for example Adoptium Temurin OpenJDK 11. You can open the application with a double-click on the jar file or u... 010
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Political Networks Conference 2026, University of Manchester (4–7 Aug), open for registrations until 6 Jul 2026 midnight: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... First come, first served. Subsidised workshops and registration. #sna #networkanalysis #polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #polisci @manchester.ac.uk 197
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.0 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... Annotate actor-concept statements in documents and export networks. Updated document and statement management from the associated R package rDNA, polarisation, phase detection, backbone identification, IRT scaling, and bug fixes. 283
Reposted by Philip LeifeldJournal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Ideas don't simply appear and disappear in political debates. They evolve, transform and sometimes return in new forms. New in JCMS: Philip Leifeld and Kristijan Garic explore how framing contests change over time. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JCSM #UACES #Wiley 051
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026New paper 🚨: "Disentangling Social Contagion from Prior Similarity in Time-Ordered Behaviour Sequences" with Sebastián Martínez and Laurence Brandenberger in #JRSSA: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (doi.org/10.1093/jrss...). #networkanalysis #polisky #SNA @jrssa.bsky.social 020
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 29/05/2026New paper 🚨: "Fully Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Decay in Ordinal Relational Event Models" with Jackie Siaw Tze Wong in #CSDA: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...). #relevent #sna #networkscience #bayesian #rem #temporalnetworks #computational #statistics 000
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 29/05/2026New paper 🚨: "Measuring Frame Evolution: Smoothed Temporal Framing Trajectories in Complex Policy Debates" with Kristijan Garic in #JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (doi.org/10.1111/jcms...). #policystudies #networkanalysis #framing #polisky #sna #publicpolicy #policydebate #networkscience 000
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Submission deadline for the Political Networks Conference 2026 extended to 22 April following requests and to accommodate Easter breaks. Submission and full scope details: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Please RT. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA 056
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Registration deadline for the MethodsNet Summer School 2026 coming up in one week, on 20 April. Details on the Inferential Network Analysis course: methodsnet.org/course/d11-i... Please RT. #SNA #PublicPolicy #Polisky #NetworkAnalysis #NetSci @methodsnet.bsky.socialmethodsnet.orgD11: Inferential Network Analysis – MethodsNET 002
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Registration deadline for the MethodsNet Summer School 2026 coming up in one week, on 20 April. Details on the Discourse Network Analysis course: methodsnet.org/course/d05-d... Please RT. #SNA #PublicPolicy #Polisky #Discourse #NetworkAnalysismethodsnet.orgD05: Discourse Network Analysis – MethodsNET 000
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 06/04/2026🚨 Deadline approaching at the end of this week. Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Connecting research communities -- North America + Europe, different disciplines, methods, theories. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA 043
Reposted by Philip LeifeldPolicy Studies Journal @psjeditor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Submission Details & Form sites.google.com/view/confpol... 133
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Call for papers: 19th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Manchester, 4–7 Aug 2026. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Paper and poster submissions now open (deadline: 12 April). First time in Europe. Training workshops. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience 072
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Inferential Network Analysis: attend my MethodsNet Summer School 2026 course in Vienna 6 - 10 July. Early-bird registration until 25 Feb, normal registration until 20 Apr 2026. Will cover #ERGM, #TERGM, #SAOM, #REM, LSM, #QAP, CUG, LOLOG, NAM. #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PhDTraining 130
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Discourse Network Analysis: attend my MethodsNet Summer School 2026 course in Vienna 29 June - 3 July. Early-bird registration until 25 Feb, normal registration until 20 Apr 2026. Will cover software, annotation, DNA methods, inference, theory. #SNA #PublicPolicy #Polisky #Discourse #NetworkAnalysis 141
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 07/02/2026From my Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Yuanyuan Shang at BlackRock. We modelled #network effects in LP and GP matching across various asset classes in the alternative assets industry (real estate, private debt, #PrivateEquity, etc) using #TERGM. #SNA #AcFinance #ERGM #CSS #CompSocSci #NetSci 040
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Looking for a postdoc to collect and analyse policy network data in coastal communities in the east of England as part of the £3m ARISE project. Apply until 1 Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ781/ #sna #networkanalysis #acjobs #polisky #polisci #publicpolicy #policyanalysis #netsci #ergm #network #postdocjobs.ac.ukSenior Research Officer (ARISE) at University of EssexExplore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Officer (ARISE). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities. 026
Reposted by Philip LeifeldDavid Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Political Networks is crossing the ocean, to the UK August 4-7!! Should be great. 052
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/12/20252026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci 088
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 18/12/2025New publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining with Yuanyuan Shang. 🚀 #SNA Coming out of a collaboration with #BlackRock, the asset management firm. Paper title: Applying a Panel Network Formation Model to Limited Partnership Matching in the Private Capital Market. doi.org/10.1007/s132... 020
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 27/11/2025www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN511/l...jobs.ac.ukLecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at The University of ManchesterRecruiting now: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board 012
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 27/11/2025We would like to hire a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (permanent) in AI in our Department of Social Statistics at Manchester. Deadline: 5 Jan 26. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Possibly in combination with #multiagent #ABM, #SocSci, #SocialStats. #academicjobs #psminfo #AIresearch #agenticjobs.manchester.ac.ukLecturer / Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence:Oxford RoadAs an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit. 020
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 28/10/2025www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie... #phd #phdfunding #stipend #studentship #sna #networkanalysis #socialscience #socsci #polisky #socialresearch #socialstats #acjobsstuarthallfoundation.orgApplications open for University of Manchester / SHF studentship (2026) - Stuart Hall FoundationThe Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to continue working with the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester to offer a studentship for a PhD candidate starting in September 2026. Th... 000
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 18/09/2025In this new paper with @fisherdanar.bsky.social in Politics and Governance, we distinguish intrinsic and instrumental polarisation and analyse polarisation curves and phases in US climate politics. We also present new methods for discourse networks. doi.org/10.17645/pag... @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Philip LeifeldDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025📢My article with @leifeld.bsky.social, "Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates" is OUT at Politics & Governance. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 0113
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 31/07/2025#Digital #Humanities #postdoc position at Kent, in the School of Computing, as part of the £2.9m ARISE project. Closing date: 7 August 2025. Full info: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx.... It's a 2.5yr position. #DigitalHumanities #AcJobs #AcademicJobs #CompSky #CS #compsci #CoastalCommunities #HCIjobs.kent.ac.uk 020
Reposted by Philip LeifeldMitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis @mitchellsna.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Mitchell Centre M Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences here at Manchester in September 2025. Register until 14 July here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen.... We have introductory, R-based, and statistical network analysis courses. #sna #NetworkAnalysis #socsky 064
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Mitchell Centre Summer School on social network analysis: registration deadline extended until 14 July 2025. We have both basic and advanced courses. #sna #polisky #NetworkAnalysis #SummerSchool #netsci @socialstats.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social 122
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 27/06/2025#Postdoc senior research fellow opportunity in community engagement research on coastal community resilience at the University of East Anglia in our ARISE project. Application deadline next Monday! Job ad: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15.... Project homepage: easternarc.ac.uk/arise/.vacancies.uea.ac.ukSenior Research Associate (RA2321) in University of East Anglia | UEAView details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2321) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science, in collaboration with Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Ar... 000
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 09/06/2025New article published: "A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent #Policy #Subsystems toward Stable #Advocacy Coalitions, with Evidence From the UK's Response to #COVID‐19", with Kristijan Garic in the Policy Studies Journal: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #SNA #Discourse #ACF @psjeditor.bsky.social 062
Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 03/06/2025More network analysis training available for external participants here at the Mitchell Centre, University of Manchester. In-person courses in Manchester 15-26 September 2025; registration deadline 30 June. www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen... #socialscience #sna @uomsoss.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Philip LeifeldMethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · 08/05/2025📢 Last 5 DAYS to level up your methods skills! Register for the MethodsNET Summer School at CEU @weareceu.bsky.social in Vienna! Featured course: "Inferential Network Analysis" with Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social Boost your skills in ERGM, QAP & network modeling! Register here: bit.ly/4gLbv9V 022