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Miranda Lubbers

@mirandalubbers.bsky.social
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Professor of Anthropology; UAB Barcelona; Director COALESCE lab (coalesce-lab.com/en). ICREA Acadèmia fellow; ERC Advanced Grant holder “A #network #science approach to #social #cohesion in #European #societies”. European Academy of Sociology.

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Joshua Livestro @joshualivestro.bsky.social · 1h
Amen. Ban his companies already, show some backbone. It’s our free societies that he’s trying to undermine, you were elected to defend them!
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come explore social networks with @coalescelab.bsky.social this Friday (5–10 PM) at European Research Night at @uab.cat! Fun, interactive activities for both kids and adults to discover how your network works 👇https://webs.uab.cat/nitrecercat/
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Nit Europea de la Recerca – UAB
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just to say it went well. Mr came to my office, said I lied about applying for new projects (I am not), implied I was stupid and pesada, and offered we can rent the room for 1000 euros per month. Because you can either give an office to your employees or have them pay rent #toomuchplasticinheads
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you’re ever going to interrupt a reporter, this is the only way
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suppose someone-of-innovation of your uni in charge of office space told you that on the day your ERC Advanced Grant ends you must deliver the key to the office that your group is using because your group (10 uni employees) no longer needs an office, even if still employed, what would you say?
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Janet Laible @janet-laible.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In the name of all that is holy, I am begging you to PLEASE JUST PACK PAJAMAS. I can never unsee some of what I saw on that fateful night. . .
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Now THAT’S solid career advice!
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Marc Alcalà-i-Rams @alcalaramsmarc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
..."Personal Networks, National Identifications and Belonging: The Case of Koreans in Catalonia through Mixed Methods", and I co-chaired the session "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" with @nuriatargarona.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social. 2/4
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This
Cartoon by  Gautami Reddy 

12 cartoon images under the caption How To Live In The Age of AI 
read slowly
make ugly thing
don't believe everything
eat together
get bored
avoid instant replies
call your grandma/grandpa
fall in love
cry every now and then
memorize a poem
trust your gut
take your time
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If life gives you a box of sun-kissed tomates rosas from Barbastro, just add some good olive oil and flaky sea salt and enjoy, and maybe move to Barbastro for good.
A box with 10 “tomates rosas” from Barbastro in Huesca, Spain.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Also, parents?? For what reason in the world would you give your sons (or daughters) those glasses?
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lovely to see! I recognize @pschuler.bsky.social in the back :-)
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Again: Science policy worldwide/regionally should support collective investment in university-led infrastructure for journals,surveys,open science platforms,knowledge transfer, indexing services, so that academia no longer depends on highly profitable private corporations & controls quality & access
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yes, Ceuta lies in Africa, but it’s not Spain’s southernmost part. Apart from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Malta have parts of their territories (or their entire territory) further south than Ceuta that are part of the EU. #perspective
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/0e9c...
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The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse
Drawn by wild landscapes and an eccentric president, executives are building a refuge
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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Network of the day: Network of lemurs from Japan Monkey Center. The edges represent the inter-monkey sentiments and can be very different:
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Thread of people and their prejudices about Spain. I’d guess none of them has actually been here?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When I move to another university, I'd like one that has beautiful meeting rooms if it´s not too much to ask, and a feeling of community. That´s my negotiation plan. On a more serious note: What a wonderful research network, looking forward to learn what´s coming from your group!
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It‘s still insane to me that there are men (maybe also women) who are forever enraged by the disappointment that a woman they had thought of as inferior (not my words) is, in fact, not. And willing to use whatever they can to backstab you, while you just go about your business like it’s Tuesday.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Every time I get caught up in the silliness of bureaucracy or the frustration of evaluating AI generated texts I regain inspiration by reading some spectacular work written by one of you. Following your arguments and evidence is so regenerating, I cannot imagine one lets AI do the reading. 🫶
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
“The bathroom of the future will have “embedded levels of technology,” says Kohler’s design vice president Michael Seum. Bathrooms will become beauty and wellness consultants, advising homeowners on everything from their hydration levels to warning signs in their stool. The American bathroom, he says, will become “a health coach.” On a more mundane level—but perhaps a leap in reducing marital strife—he expects AI-assisted toilets to do tasks like automatically lift a toilet seat for a man.”
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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📢 New article out in Social Networks (co-authored w/ @corneliusholler.de, @snannabell.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, and Cristiano Vezzoni): "Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers" 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.05.003 A 🧵 with the main takeaways 👇
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Rubén García del Horno @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Together with @damjantomic.bsky.social, we are organising a new edition of this wonderful workshop at UAB. Register by June 14 and join us!
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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
⏳ Only two weeks left to apply! 📣 Call for Proposals | PATCHWORK Final Conference & Data Workshop Deadline: June 15, 2026 Barcelona, Feb 24–26, 2027 Use cross-national network data (N=6,000) + get funding & early access patchwork-erc.eu/en/16/call-f... #SocialNetworks #SNA #Sociology #SocNet
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Call for Proposals: Early data access and conference
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Yes! Thank you so much for coming over @jimiadams.bsky.social!
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Started a linkedin account. My coeditor said “our book is out” and as a blueskyer, I expected 4 likes and that’s it, but man, the life on that oh-so-serious place! 🤯
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“For too long, we ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Ideas with enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from classrooms.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!
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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Very nice to see this book chapter on "7: Gender dynamics in international migration and social networks" with @carrasco-jig.bsky.social and @athinaanas.bsky.social and edited by Başak Bilecen and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Preprint: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our Handbook of International Migration and Social Networks was published today @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 🍾🎉! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
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Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks
‘This Handbook is a superb manifestation that network research has matured from being invoked only as a metaphor to being a methodology of embeddedness and social fields. The truly collective effort h...
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IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network @imiscoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📣 CfP for the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference (10-12 March) 💫 Studying Migration in the Digital Era: Innovation, Regulation, Ethics, and Rights 📍Global Migration Institute atT oronto Metropolitan University Full call: shortlink.uk/1pfd0 @globalmigrationtmu.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
non academics be like what are your plans for the weekend
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Thomas Hegghammer @hegghammer.net · 09/05/2026
This new @eurosky.social project looks really interesting. Aside from providing EU hosting of your Bluesky data, it gives you a convenient Single Sign-On to a range of open-source apps. Most are new to me, but I am intrigued by tangled.org (GitHub alternative) and leaflet.pub (Substack alternative)
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Dan Rodriguez-Garcia @danrodriguezgarcia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Thank you very much @uab.cat DIVULGA for this wonderful feature (trilingual) report on our knowledge-transfer conference! 🌍💫 www.uab.cat/web/news-det... #immigration #minorities #racism #diversity #interculturalism #mixedness #inclusion #socialcohesion
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The "Catalunya Barreja" knowledge-transfer conference highlights immigration, diversity and mixedness as constitutive facts of Catalan society
In a European context marked by the questioning of immigration, research into diversity and social cohesion becomes more necessary than ever. Last December, the INMIX research group of the UAB organiz...
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
so how much longer until the US finally dethrones the grifter-war-criminal-daily-human-rights-offender-asset-to-other-authoritarians-and-in-all-aspects-an-absolute-disaster to this whole world? He and his regime already created so much harm and trauma and think of all that is still to come.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We'll be adding clarification questions about the call to the document (FAQ). 👇
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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Can Europe adapt fast enough to a changed global order? In this #EUIResearch interview, the report’s editors, Marco Buti, Giancarlo Corsetti & Anna Peychev, present The Florence Report: a new agenda for Europe in a changing world. Read the interview here 🔗 loom.ly/BvFr-4o
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Gonzalo Franetovic @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to share this from our lab. If you work on social networks or cohesion and are looking for rich cross-national data to work with, this is a great opportunity. Happy to chat if you have questions!
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Very lucky to have been able to collaborate on this Annual Review piece on luck with @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social. We propose that the role of luck in life can be upper-bounded with machine learning and lower-bounded by adding up causal effects of random events.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We published this call👇 to invite early data users to work with our 1-hour long, F2F interviews with 6000 people in 🇭🇺🇳🇱🇵🇱🇸🇪 and to present their analyses at a fully funded conference in Barcelona🌴with a keynote by Mario Small! Details in our call!👇🫶 #ERC #networks
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next? AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Are you coming to the @epssnet.bsky.social conference this year? The programme is live 👏 @antvalentim.bsky.social and I were in charge of constructing the Climate Politics section. Check out the 19 panels crossing fields and subdisciplines! Details here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...
epss 2026 climate politics section panels
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Intro to our Special Issue on #NetworkScaleUpMethod & #AggregatedRelationalData, w. Beate Völker & @mbojan.bsky.social: we reviewed 300 studies (full list available), mapped how the field evolved, summarized survey practice & proposed a reporting checklist & a cool new graph on biases bit.ly/4czhEoz
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Trump: 51st state 51st state 51st state governor governor governor tariffs fentanyl Carney blow up NAFTA blow up USMCA blow up bridge 51st state National Review: Why is Canada so obsessed with Trump? www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/cana...
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Canada’s Dangerous Obsession with Donald Trump | National Review
A fixation on Trump and American politics is blinding Canada and its allies to the challenges that will define the next quarter century.
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wow 🇭🇺!!!! 🫶
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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I miss the Netherlands most when I write an incredibly polite and kind email with a reasonable request and someone bites my head off with venom because of what am I thinking to even remotely suggest something that could be understood as insulting if it were written entirely differently. #iamguiri
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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New open access paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies about interactions in which legal citizens are othered on ethnic grounds by individuals within their personal networks and the strategies they use to contest this ethnic boundary-making doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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‘Othering interactions’ and strategies contesting everyday ethnic boundary-making: a relational approach to the othering of citizens
Despite extensive research on the symbolic and institutional dimensions of othering, its relational foundations – how relationship characteristics and their embeddedness in wider networks shape exp...
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