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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Friday, you can find us at the European Researchers' Night at @uab.cat, from 17:00 h at booth 12, where participants can get to know more about their networks through some fun activities for all ages! Informative materials will also be available on the spot for those curious.

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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This week I had the pleasure to attend #EUSN2026, where I co-chaired a session on Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis and presented a paper co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social: “Rethinking Homophily: Comparing Researcher-Defined Categories with Lived Perceptions of (Dis)Similarity”.

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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This week I had the opportunity to present the third paper of my PhD thesis, “Beyond ethnic and migrant categories: From analytical classifications to lived social perceptions of similarity”, co-authored by @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, at the @imiscoe.bsky.social conference in Girona! #IMISCOE

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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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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Very pleased to announce Who Follows Whom, a bargain, free to download for the next 2 weeks, looking at patterns of following on Twitter. www.cambridge.org/core/element... The dominant driver of patterns of online attention, with no spatial constraints on who you can connect to, is...

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Who Follows Whom?

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Who Follows Whom?

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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

From May 26th to 30th, we had the pleasure of @jimiadams.bsky.social visiting, Professor of Sociology at the @sc.edu. His research addresses how networks constrain or promote the diffusion of information and/or diseases through populations, and he is also active in the area of network methodologies.

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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢We invite original research using the cross-national PATCHWORK survey (N=6000) on core & fabulous acquaintances networks & ideational cohesion. Pre-public release access to data+funded presentation at conference in Barcelona, w. Prof. Mario Small 👉 bit.ly/4t4HdnN #OpenData #ERC #NetSci #Sociology

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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

You can now watch our presentation at the seminar 'Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools' hosted by EMCRs & SNAG: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQO9... (co-presented with Prof. Louise Ryan) This presentation was based on a published open-access paper: doi.org/10.1177/1360...

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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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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Open online seminar on Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools Presenters: @nuriatargarona.bsky.social, Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1360... When: 20 March Organisers: EMCRs of SN & BSA-SNAG Registration: ethz.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Gonzalo Franetovic @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Interested in the social causes and consequences of interpersonal relationships and acquaintances? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.bsky.social and @pschuler.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026)

The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The...

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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I will be presenting at an open online seminar hosted by TripleS (Maastricht University) on March 12th (16:00-17:00 CET). Title: Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work in Relationally-Oriented Semi-Structured Interviewing

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Gonzalo Franetovic @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Interested in people's acquaintances, their determinants and consequences for social cohesion, integration or inequality? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @pschuler.bsky.social liu.se/en/event/eus...

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Dan Rodriguez-Garcia @danrodriguezgarcia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📣 I am thrilled to announce this Hybrid Open Seminar on November 27th at 3PM co-organised by @coalescelab.bsky.social @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and INMIX - UAB Research Group featuring leading expert in migration studies Prof. Louise Ryan ☘️ @teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat See U there! ✨

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COALESCE Lab @coalescelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks

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Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling

Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…

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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This article might be particularly appealing for people interested in: 🧩 the biographical consequences of activism 🌐 personal network analysis ⚖️ the tension between social cohesion and polarization

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Our findings show how political involvement transforms individuals' social environments in complex ways and complicate the view that civil society participation always builds bridges ➡️ In polarized contexts, activism may expand mostly ideologically homogeneous ties but also erode cross-cutting ones.

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

BUT, interestingly, when asked about the consequences, activists were less troubled (although not unaffected) by these ruptures than non-activists. This is why we call this a "relational toll", a common but acceptable cost of political engagement, likely due to lower aversion to social discomfort.

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Why does this happen? We explore this qualitatively. When contrasting activists' and non-activists' accounts of their experiences, three dynamics stood up: 1️⃣ Greater identity exposure 2️⃣ Urge for self-disclosure 3️⃣ Need for ideological alignment

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

👉 82% of activists (vs 55% for non-activits) reported at least one damaged/broken tie due to political disagreements 👉 After controlling for many dyadic and individual social & political covariates through multi-level regressions, activists were 6-7 times more likely to experience relationship decay

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Drawing on 76 personal network interviews and 806 relationships in Catalonia (Spain), a highly polarized context, we found that YES, politicaly-motivated relationship decay is significantly more common among activists 👇

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We usually think of political engagement and activism as opportunities for new connections and expanding personal networks. But what about the risks of pre-existing relationships being damaged? Our study asks: are activists more likely to experience politically-motivated relational strain?

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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist: “The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...

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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New paper in Sociological Methodology with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @alexciordia.bsky.social, & @nuriatargarona.bsky.social about the measurement properties of aggregated relational data (responses to "how many people do you know who..?") and NSUM estimates: doi.org/10.1177/0081...

This figure shows the distribution of the estimated acquaintanceship network size for the two measurements, and compares the individual estimates for all participants between the measurements. It shows that the estimates are pretty stable for more common sizes, but those with high network sizes ("hubs") fluctuate heavily

This figure shows the colorful response card we used for the data collection as a visual aid for respondents. It says "acquaintances are all the people that you know and who know you by SIGHT and by NAME. For instance, you can think of..." followed by 16 boxes for "partner", "family", "friends", "neighbors"; "at work"; "in clubs or associations", "religious community", "education", "people to whom you provide a service"; "social media"; and "other acquaintances". In each box, there is some more help, like "at work" is followed by coworker, boss, employee, client etc. Each box has 1 or 2 icons for further visual aid.

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