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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

‘Google and Meta are essentially Amsterdam’s biggest property owners.’ How do TikTok, Instagram, Google Maps and ChatGPT shape tourism in Amsterdam, and determine which places get seen? Urban Geographer @uitermark.bsky.social on the growing power of digital platforms: aissr.uva.nl/shared/facul...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/08/2026

For two centuries, since Comte, scholars have tried to turn social science into physics. Will LLMs finally get us there? Are the social sciences facing a new marginal revolution? New essay with @uitermark.bsky.social in Sociologica doi.org/10.60923/iss...

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Social Physics in the Age of Generative AI: How, Exactly, Is Society Complex? | Sociologica

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

NEW: Anna Keuchenius, Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark, "Echo Chambers Are Defined by Conflict, Not Isolation" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 16/01/2026

🚨 We are entering the AI society. After two decades of platforms reshaping markets, communication, and governance, a new shift is underway: AI is transforming society. What should we expect from the 'AI society'? 🧵 📄 Our new paper faces this question: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

You can now submit abstracts for the RC21 conference, which will take place in Vienna on 20–22 July. Check out the sessions: rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abs.... If you work on cities and digital technologies, consider session #10, “The Digital Frontier,” organized by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and me.

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Call for Abstracts - RC21 Vienna 2026

Call for Abstracts is now open! The sessions for the RC21 Conference are set – now it’s your turn to contribute! See the accepted sessions below Call for Abstracts is now open! See the accepted sessio...

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It's been really interesting to dive deep into these literatures and to learn more about the intellectual histories of urban studies.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

By the end of the class, some students really like the Chicago School, most don’t. But I believe both proponents and critics have a lot to gain from a closer engagement with human ecology. A closer engagement with its various lineages can be inspiring or lead to more sophisticated critiques.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I believe this is important because the Chicago legacy includes some powerful insights. It’s also essential for understanding the genealogy of critical approaches, which are often articulated in opposition to the Chicago School.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The paper grew out of conversations in my Urban Debates course, part of the Research Master’s in Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In the course and the paper, I try to take the Chicago sociologists seriously.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Dialogues in Urban Research recently published my new paper: “Parsing the Legacy of the Chicago School: Towards a Critical Human Ecology.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 25/08/2025

🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. We offer freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — PhD Position on Improving Social Media Using Large Language Models

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position in the NWO VIDI project "Improving Social Media Using L...

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Nederland laat Palestijnen bewust verhongeren. Dat is geen hyperbool, het is de realiteit. Als staat heeft Nederland zowel een juridische als morele plicht om het internationaal humanitair recht te handhaven. Niets doen, is kiezen. Niets doen, is medeplichtig zijn.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I thoroughly enjoyed "Long Live Queer Nightlife" by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and learned a lot (including that sociology suffers from a "joy deficit"). Unfortunately, I can't attend this lecture. But if you are in Amsterdam, you can, and you should.

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Emily Miltenburg @emilymiltenburg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

📢 Ben of ken jij iemand die het @scponderzoek.bsky.social kan versterken? En draag jij straks bij aan het bepalen van onze inhoudelijke koers? Wij zoeken een programmaleider Sociale Samenhang. Leuke collega’s, belangrijk en mooi onderzoek én gegarandeerd impact! Deadline 21 mei tinyurl.com/2me6f676

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De Rijksoverheid zoekt: Programmaleider Sociale Samenhang

Programmaleider Sociale Samenhang in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Housing as a driver of inequality On June 4 (4pm), Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) & Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) present a seminar this topic with profs Rebecca Bentley (Melbourne) & Susan Smith (Cambridge). Join us! Info and registration here: amcis.uva.nl/content/even...

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Housing as a driver of inequality - AMCIS

Join our seminar to explore how housing drives health and economic inequality, with insights from global experts Rebecca Bentley and Susan Smith.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Op Bevrijdingsdag maakt Israël bekend wat allang te voorzien was: het voornemen om heel Gaza te bezetten. Geen rode lijn voor de Nederlandse regering. Hier is vooral ophef over protesten die ‘onze’ feestvreugde zouden verstoren.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Nevertheless, our study does suggest that there may be overlooked forces pushing cities toward greater equality. This is a hopeful for urbanites and an intriguing for scholars of inequalities and cities.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We do a lot of hedging in the paper. Our data doesn’t capture all forms of inequality nor the impacts of long-term threats like climate change, so we caution that our findings shouldn’t be read as a validation of current policies. Survey data come with many limitations.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Here’s what surprised us: Inequalities declined in most cities on most indicators. The middle class grew. Living standards converged. Educational inequality decreased. Although there are exceptions, the trend has been towards greater equality. The literature had not prepared us for for this finding.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We can’t offer a definitive answer since there are many ways to conceptualize and understand inequality. And despite Fred's heroic efforts to construct a comprehensive dataset with @ipums.bsky.social survey data, we lack consistent historical data.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Has inequality grown or declined in cities of the Global South? Together with Frederico R. Ramos, I tried to answer this question. Using a sample of 59 cities across three continents, we examined inequalities in labor markets, education, and living standards: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Has inequality grown or declined in global south Cities? Trends in occupational structure, education, and living standards

Urban inequality is widely debated but few studies examine developments over time and across cities. In this contribution, we develop a novel approach…

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 02/05/2025

Why does everything suddenly feel so unsettled? The economy, technology, geopolitics—everything seems to change It's more than a vibe shift. It's epistemic. In our new book, @uitermark.bsky.social and I explore this shift— and argue we're entering Digital Modernity 🧵 www.seeinglikeaplatform.com

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Eva Zschirnt @evazschirnt.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Looking forward to our AMCIS Kick-Off event on 10 April - join us in Amsterdam for a discussion on wealth and class inequality with @norawaitkus.bsky.social and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

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Tamar de Waal @tamardewaal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

'Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' H.G. Wells #doeheniet @woinactie.bsky.social

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Great article by @pettertornberg.bsky.social on how investors in Rio boost the online visibility of their establishments. The Instagrammable props, such as neon letters and graffiti, are merely the most striking expressions of a profound reshaping of places journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Social Media Imaginaries and the City: How the Attention Economy Is Reshaping Urban Built Environments - Petter Törnberg, 2025

Social media are becoming a growing presence in our cities, filtering our experience of urban place and enabling locations to “go viral.” This article examines ...

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Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Co-organizing this Winter Institute with dream team Sarah El Kazzaz, Rafeef Ziadah, Azadeh Mashayekhi & Noura Wahby. Pls consider applying if eligible and kindly share. beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/2...

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Beirut Urban Lab - Call for Applications: Winter Institute on “Urban, Ecological and Infr

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marije @marijepeute.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Luistertip! De nieuwe podcast van Roanne van Voorst en Michiel Baas "The Etic", over het begrijpen van de rare gedragingen van onszelf en de medemens. En dan vooral de episode 1, Je hele leven op Insta zetten. Want daar kom ik ook even aan het woord over de betekenis van Instagram voor jonge mensen.

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The Etic - Vreemd Gedrag Verklaard

Podcast · Roanne van Voorst en Michiel Baas · Waarom doen mensen dat? Haatberichten schrijven op sociale media; zoveel aan hun lichaam laten veranderen dat ze steeds meer op buitenaardse wezens lijke...

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Intriguing to read how local traditions, cultural icons, and social customs are created or revamped through (partly orchestrated, partly serendipitous) social media trends.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Central to the making of a wanghong city is a series of strategic actions involving speculation, hedging, and/or opportunity-taking—terms that are all too familiar to tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists"

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A fascinating study by Sheng Zou on wanghong urbanism, revealing the speculative investments and creative work behind the online prominence of places: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Department of Sociology at Koç University seeks to recruit an Assistant Professor with expertise in quantitative methods and computational social science: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29478

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Koç University, Sociology

Job #AJO29478, Full-time assistant professor faculty position in Sociology, Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul, Istanbul, TR

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 We are hiring a professor in political geography. Professorship is within geography department. Spread and apply: nl.jobs.zeit.de/lnk/BAAABqZ_...

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Professorship (W3) in Political Geography - Universität Münster

Universität Münster bietet Stelle als Professorship (W3) in Political Geography in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I just discovered video essayist Elliot Sang through this video on Third Places: www.youtube.com/@elliotsange... Careful and passionate exploration of a sociological concept--really brings it to life. Good to see this kind of social science on YouTube.

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Elliot Sang

written and produced by elliot sang, nellie karengo, and danae o

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Congratulations! Will read with interest. It seems you engage with some of the same questions and authors as @pettertornberg.bsky.social and I in our recent book on the epistemology of digital capitalism www.taylorfrancis.com/books/978103.... Would be interesting to discuss at some point.

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Seeing Like a Platform | An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Mode

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The theoretical takeaway is interesting too: to understand these types of volatile and political dynamics, we need a conjunctural analysis that is alive to crises, critical junctures, performativity, indeterminacy.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This piece on Tesla's "stock momentum" by Tobias Klinge, @reijer.bsky.social and @econgeo.bsky.social couldn't be more timely. Provides insight into the financial and discursive underpinnings of Musk's power. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla’s ups and downs in financialised capitalism | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core

Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla’s ups and downs in financialised capitalism

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The number 1 question students ask when I teach Randall Collins' Interaction Ritual Chains (2004) is how digital communication figures into his theory. Is "bodily co-presence" still essential? Fortunately, he recently gave an interview on just this question: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins - Theory and Society

This interview with Randall Collins explores the role of interaction rituals (IR) in our increasingly digital world. For Collins, IR is a micro-sociological mechanism that provides both the glue that ...

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Norma Schemschat @drnorma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join us for the first edition of the @aissr.bsky.social Social Science Cinema at the University of Amsterdam on February 27th! We invited filmmaker Lucy Kaye and lead researchers from the Northern Exposure project to chat with us about Lucy's documentary "From Where We Stand"

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Ah, ok, that's good to know! I myself had seen bits of it a long time ago but now I took the time to see the whole thing and it blew me away.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Warmly recommended. If you know of any other landmark debate that can be viewed on YouTube, I'm open to suggestions.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Then there is Buckley. Much more eloquent and sophisticated than most of today's conservative thinkers. But also so vile and petty.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And it is indeed a mind-blowing debate. I had seen Baldwin debate before but his performance in this setting is deeply impressive.

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The debate is significant enough to warrant a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin... (even though less than a million people viewed it on YouTube)

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Baldwin–Buckley debate - Wikipedia

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One of the debates I watched during the short, dark days around Christmas, is that between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek...

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James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We have 12 Bicentenary #Research Fellowships (3 yrs duration) for #postdoc within 4 yrs of their #PhD at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job.... Maybe you want to apply for a placement at the Mitchell Centre for #SNA or Dept of Social #Statistics #SocialScience #job

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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

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