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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Last week, I presented our joint work with @mbojan.bsky.social and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social on evaluating social cognitive biases in social capital measures at @eusnconference.bsky.social. It felt like coming back to the family, with so many lovely familiar faces and great presentations!

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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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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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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Interested in studying social networks and/or social cohesion 🕸️🧑‍🤝‍🧑? We‘re at @coalescelab.bsky.social are interested in you 🫵 Two weeks left to apply for participation in the PATCHWORK Final Conference in Barcelona and early access to data ☀️

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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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Alejandro Ciordia @alexciordia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 New article out (co-authored w/ @mportosg.bsky.social), just published in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social): "Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... A 🧵 with the main takeaways from the article 👇

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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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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Dear anthropologists out there, why are men so bad at washing their hands after going to the bathroom?

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Congratulations to @felixlennert.bsky.social who today defended his PhD at Institut Polytechnique Paris! Shout out also to his supervisor @eollion.bsky.social Well done, have a wonderful celebration in Paris 🎉👨‍🎓🍾 felix-lennert.netlify.app

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Felix Lennert

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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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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Interested in the social causes and consequences of weak ties and looking for your good academic deed before the weekend? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @mbojan.bsky.social and @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social at liu.se/en/event/eusn-2026

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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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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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Nuria Targarona Rifa @nuriatargarona.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods? We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus... See you in Sweden!

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

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Michał Bojanowski @mbojan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵1/4

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Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization

This open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS)

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Michał Bojanowski @mbojan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Among the chapters in the book is a study into network-scientific aspects of social cohesion. Together with Alla Loseva, @pschuler.bsky.social , Susanne Böller, and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social investigate the structure societal-level social networks. 🧵3/4

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

@jimiadams.bsky.social, I saw your post regarding software that logs your writing activity, but couldn’t reply directly. If you’re open to writing in markdown, Zettlr (www.zettlr.com) is great open source software that has a ‚writing statistics‘ tool built in which might serve your purpose.

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Your One-Stop Publication Workbench - Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.

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

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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Daniel Cowen @dncwn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New Paper! A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance

People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…

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

Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky

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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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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If I go to the UK and an old colleague at university recognises me does that make me a internationally-recognised scholar?

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Great new lineup of analytical & computational sociology speakers, with Zoom link available to anyone.

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Yes, I love networks, and yes, I am a tea addict.

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Maël Lecoursonnais @lecoursonnais.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here! (1/6)

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I’m very excited to announce that in September, I will start working in the @coalescelab.bsky.social with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and so many other amazing and lovely people 😊 Barcelona here I come! (Please spare me any Freddie Mercury references, my parental generation is taking care of that)

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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

📢 Reminder: Buchpremiere in Berlin 📢 Am 15. Juli stelle ich im Gespräch mit Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social (SPIEGEL) mein neues Buch »Die Exponentialgesellschaft« vor. Ort: Publix, Hermannstr. 90, 12051 Berlin Eintritt: frei Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/2r7tcvwe

Buchpremiere. Emanuel Deutschmann präsentiert sein neues Buch "Die Exponentialgesellschaft". Moderation: Jonas Schaible (SPIEGEL). 15.07.2025, 18:30, Publix, Berlin. Eintritt: frei / Anmeldung erforderlich

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

That moment at a conference when you’re being reduced to your data

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Simona Bisiani @simonabisiani.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

don’t these look pretty? when I did my MSc at @iasliu.bsky.social’s then-just-begun CSS program many of these early graduates were our (very friendly and patient) TAs. Nice to see what they were up to beyond dealing with us, and the pool of graduates from IAS growing.

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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 24/06/2025

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++ I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026). If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV! More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

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Hendrik Erz

PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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PhD student in Analytical Sociology

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Completing the acknowledgments for my dissertation feels like writing my will before putting myself at the mercy of the examiners.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science! 📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS) 📅 Apply by June 3 🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Paul Schuler @pschuler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Running large models on a remote computer cluster is like a quant researcher’s Tamagotchi, only without the fun. You feed it (with some data and a script), return the next day and wonder why it was killed. At least one insight today. That counts!

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Dutch universities and knowledge institutes are planning to collectively secure American research data that are under threat by the Trump administration

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