iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Professor 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!

Early warning signals predict project collapse.

I introduce the keynote speaker with an intro slide.

Jungbae 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

Political 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

Political 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

Adam Henry calling me out for taking a photo because he is recording the session anyway

19th 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

Political 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

Dr. Laurence Brandenberger pointing at her slides.

Dr. Laurence Brandenberger addressing the audience with reference to the network shown on her slides.

Political 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

Professor Joris Mulder lecturing in front of a whiteboard with diagrams and equations and next to his slides projected onto the wall.

Professor Joris Mulder explaining diagnostic plots to the audience.

Political 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

Dr. Silviya Nitsova lecturing about surveyss and sampling in the context of network data collection, with slides in the background and participants in the foreground.

Dr. Alexandra Sadler, one of the participants, asking a question.

053

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's an in-person conference. No recordings, unfortunately.

000

Political 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!

Dr. Lorien Jasny presenting on ERGMs using R.

053

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Political 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

Professor Ingo Scholtes pointing at the screen, where two identical networks are shown, with a large audience.

Professor Ingo Scholtes pointing at the screen, where two networks are shown, one with time-preserving paths and one with permuted edge sequences, with a large audience.

153

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Discourse 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 · 18/07/2026

Check 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 · 22/06/2026

If you are based at Manchester, check out the CMI Conference Stipends as a way to secure free participation in the conference and training workshops, sponsored by the Cathie Marsh Institute: sites.google.com/view/confpol...

000

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thanks to generous support by the Hallsworth Conference Fund, Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, and Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research. Organised in partnership with the APSA Political Networks Section and ECPR Standing Group on Political Networks. It promises to be a great event!

110

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Political 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 · 16/06/2026

Yes, there are functions for retrieving, adding and deleting documents and statements. This enables batch-import of documents and external AI annotation pipelines. The new function for setting attributes is very powerful and can batch-recode statements, add/delete entities & edit attribute variables

010

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Discourse 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 Leifeld

Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) @jcms-eu.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ideas 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

Promotional graphic for a new JCMS article. The graphic features the headline “How Do Political Debates Change Over Time?” with the subtitle “Tracking the changing narratives that shape political debate.” A network-style visual of interconnected nodes appears in the top right. Three key patterns identified by the study are highlighted with icons: gradual shifts, sudden transformations, and re-emerging narratives. A quote from the article states: “Political debates are shaped by shifting ways in which actors frame problems and solutions.” The graphic is branded with the JCMS and UACES logos and a badge reading “New in JCMS.”

051

Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New 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 · 29/05/2026

New 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 · 29/05/2026

New 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 · 16/05/2026

We already have this in place. It's called an APC, but somehow reviewers never see any of the APC credit paid out to them. There is also a danger that people respond by cutting other service instead, such as grant reviews, tenure and promotion letters, section leadership roles in associations, etc.

010

Submission 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

D11: Inferential Network Analysis – MethodsNET

Registration 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.social

methodsnet.org

002

D05: Discourse Network Analysis – MethodsNET

Registration 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 #NetworkAnalysis

methodsnet.org

000