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Zack Almquist

@zalmquist.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks zalmquist.github.io

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 12h
We are excited to share the first-ever LA Youth Count report! youthcount.org/2026-report -- LA became one of first communities to adopt cutting-edge respondent-driven sampling methods to estimate the prevalence of unsheltered young people and better understand their experiences.
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Audrey Dorelien @audreydorelien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Are you interested in presenting in @uwcsde.bsky.social Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG)? CDWG meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research. csde.washington.edu/computationa... #demography
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Computational Demography Working Group
About The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdi
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
RDS for LA Youth Homeless! -- See Randall Kuhn's nice write up on my joint work with the USC team led by Amanda Landrian Gonzalez, PhD, MPH, the 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 team led by Robin Petering and Fatine Ait-Haddou and @ihsankahveci.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/posts/engbia...
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L.A. County Tests New Approach to Counting Homeless Youth
L.A. County officials have a new approach for counting homeless youth: paying them to fill out a survey and then refer their peers.
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Congrats! UW PhD student Brandon Morande in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social: Seattle clears encampments and impounds vehicle residences not where homelessness is prevalent, but where property values rise, complaints climb, and (for vehicles) more Black residents live. doi.org/10.1093/socp...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Check it out! www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/post... Data and methods/applied demography poster winner! 39 - Forced Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness: Housing and Movement Outcomes After Encampment Clearances Brandon Morande*; Kim Serry, Amy Hagopian, Zack Almquist
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Poster Winners from PAA 2026 - PAA 2026 Annual Meeting
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New paper with @ihsankahveci.bsky.social, Amy Hagopian and others at Social Networks - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... check it out!
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Understanding the personal networks of people experiencing homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate relational data
Personal networks among people experiencing homelessness are vital but often overlooked. Drawing on a unique three-year data set (2022–2024) from over…
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you are applying to ASA (@asanews.bsky.social), consider applying to my session - "Recent Advances in Mathematical Sociology"!! #mathsoc
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Home page | American Sociological Association
Registration now openJoin us August 7-11 in New York City for the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting. Early Bird registration ends June 15.Our Plan for the FutureASA's
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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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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)? Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR... ▪️ All career stages welcome ▪️ All fields welcome ▪️ Be compensated for your time
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GRAND Recruitment
Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
facultypositions.stanford.edu
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
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Zach Brown @zachthebrown.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out! Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation
The global response to climate change is negotiated through the UNFCCC’s Conferences of the Parties (COPs). Initially focused on reducing emissions from developed countries, the UNFCCC has shifted ...
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IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Does space matter? This week we are hosting an IMPRS-PHDS elective course on GIS and spatial analysis, led by our experts Stefan Leyk and @alekberg.bsky.social and attended by PHDS researchers and guests. We wish everyone a productive and exciting week of study!
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS
Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
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Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley @ternerhousing.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join @obi-belonging.bsky.social, @capolicylab.bsky.social and the Terner Center next Wednesday, March 12, at 4:30pm for "Rebuilding after Disaster." Experts will discuss the housing and equity implications of catastrophic events, disaster reconstruction and community resilience: lnkd.in/gpyZUVwW
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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience. You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
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Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting: rc28.soc.ucla.edu
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UCLA RC28 Conference
Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) field of social stratification and social mobility
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The first draft of work co-authored on the sleep experience of people living unhoused is available on BioArxiv! This an important study on the sleep of different temporary housing for those experiencing homelessness -- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check it out!
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Sleep in People Experiencing Homelessness Under Different Conditions and Seasons
Poor sleep represents a central health disparity for people experiencing homelessness, and any intervention to alleviate the impacts of homelessness should aim to improve sleep. We measured actimetry-...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Happy that @lausterna.bsky.social and my article "Housing shortages and doubled up households" for PlanCanada’s winter issue is out today. TL;DR: Prevalence of doubling up and high rents are two sides of the same coin: our housing shortage.
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Housing shortages and doubled up households
Tracking doubled up households is useful in better understanding housing shortages, as well as benchmarking how much more housing is needed to fix them.
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!
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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm organizing a CenSoc Users Conference this Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider tuning in (all are welcome) to hear about some of the fascinating mortality research being done with these data. Full program and Zoom link: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CenSoc Users Conference Program
CenSoc Users Conference Meeting Information In-person: Demography Seminar Room, 310 Social Science Building Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95559957196 Date: December 6th Organizers Casey...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#academicsky New preprint on the Social Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness. We surveyed more than 3k people experiencing homelessness, and included in this was a lot of detail about their social networks -- read about it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13517
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Understanding the Personal Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate Relational Data
The social networks of people experiencing homelessness are an understudied but vital aspect of their lives, offering access to information, support, and safety. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Housin...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New #publication by my student Larisa and her co-authors on trends in health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway in BMC Public Health - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Check it out!
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Trends in the health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway according to month of arrival during 2022 - BMC Public Health
Background More than 35 000 refugees from Ukraine applied for temporary collective protection in Norway during 2022. Previous studies have shown that the refugees have poor health in several domains, ...
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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · 16/11/2024
Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For timeline zen...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New #publication out in SSR led by my recently graduated student Junhe Yang and co-authored with @juemos.bsky.social, "Political and educational dynamics behind the Evangelicals’ stance against mask mandates during COVID-19 in the U.S." find it here at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is cool! NYT www.nytimes.com/interactive/... wrote an article using my long-time colleague (Ben Bagozzi) data UN Climate Summits (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Take look!
nytimes.com
Who’s Attending COP29, the International Climate Summit?
The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying for influence.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/11/2024
Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...
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GitHub - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience: Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data
Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For students at the University of Washington, I will be teaching a course on people experiencing homelessness this coming winter quarter -- we will bring in people with lived experience and other experts. We will engage with TC3 on campus! It is going to be a great class! shorturl.at/nVLX6
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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate! go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK
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Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Check out our new paper, "Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials," now published in Network Science! We guide researchers on sharing network data responsibly while balancing transparency, ethical considerations, and privacy concerns. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
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Michael S. Pollard @sociologian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Applications are now open for RAND's 2025 Graduate Student Summer Associate Program, a paid internship that pairs students with RAND mentors to collaborate on research projects. 🗓️ Apply by December 2. www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...
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Graduate Student Summer Associate Program
Graduate students can apply to work with RAND experts on developing solutions to today's public policy challenges. Summer associates gain practical research experience in areas such as security, healt...
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Check out my new paper on migration systems, published with @SpringerNature in @SceintificReports www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Uncovering migration systems through spatio-temporal tensor co-clustering - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Uncovering migration systems through spatio-temporal tensor co-clustering
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
See this great work from Aja Sutton, on the relationship between tent encampment locations, emergency shelters and renters compare with access to amenities! osf.io/preprints/so...
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OSF
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
"Recommendations for sharing network data and materials” is now published in Network Science at doi.org/10.1017/nws.... led by Zachary Neal on recommendations for data sharing in the network science and social networks field!
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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Interview by UW News with my colleague Amy Hagopian (UW Public Health) on our work to improve how we count people living unsheltered in King County. www.washington.edu/news/2024/10...
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Q&A: After developing a better way to count homelessness, UW researchers discuss how more accurate data can help providers and people
America’s homeless services system relies on a massive amount of data, and at first glance, that data is exacting. Federal reports describe the country’s unhoused population in granular detail,...
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Berkeley Population Sciences @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Our next Brownbag is Wed, Oct 9 w/ Peter Catron, Assoc Prof of Soc at Univ. of Washington: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building, w/ zoom option. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migrat...
Join us for the Fall 2024 Demography Brown Bag Series, with guest Peter Catron from University of Washington. Peter Catron is Associate Professor o...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
A discussion of our work being funded by the UW Population Health Initiative and the current state of affairs on how this changed how we do the people experiencing homelessness Point-in-Time count here in King County can be found in this UW News release - www.washington.edu/news/2024/09...
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Over 8 years, UW Population Health Initiative has turned ideas into impact
In just eight years, the UW Population Health Initiative has funded 227 innovative, interdisciplinary projects. With the Initiative now a third of the way into its 25-year vision, UW News checked in.....
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
My work with KCRHA is finally live at the American Journal of Epidemiology -- Using network methods to estimate the population size of people living unsheltered on a given night in King County, see paper can be found here: academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Innovating a Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A Network Sampling Approach for the HUD-Mandated Point-in-Time Count
Abstract. To enumerate people experiencing homelessness in the U.S., the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) mandates its designated
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
New paper out in International Journal on Homessness, "Norms of Fairness and Generosity Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Dictator Game Field Experiment," with Mc Anderson, Ashley Hazel, and Jessica Perkins! ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ij...
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Norms of Fairness and Generosity Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Dictator Game Field Experiment | International Journal on Homelessness
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
My team has been awarded a UW PHI Grant to further our work on improving the HUD PIT -- www.washington.edu/populationhe...
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Initiative announces awardees of spring quarter 2024 Tier 3 pilot research grants
The University of Washington Population Health Initiative has announced the award of five Tier 3 pilot grants to interdisciplinary teams of population health researchers. The total value of this round...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
#ASA2024 - I am organizing the General Session on Mathematical Sociology. If your work is in the area of Math Soc, Data Science, etc you should consider sending your ASA paper here! www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
New paper, "Network Sampling Methods for Estimating Social Networks, Population Percentages, and Totals of People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness." Available on arxiv.org/abs/2309.03875.
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