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IUSSP @iussp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou iussp.org/en/iussp-paa... #demography #populationstudies

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You might find this report from UW/KCRHA helpful to understanding the number of people living in vehicles in Seattle and King County: csde.washington.edu/wp-content/u...

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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 · 24/08/2026

Thanks for posting these! It's a really great resources -- I use it in my undergrad classes and it is such important context for the students.

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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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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.

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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

This does involve using R, but I think you could get away with following the manual pretty closely, @adrianraftery.bsky.social's webpage on demographic projections is pretty thorough bayespop.csss.washington.edu

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BayesPop

Probabilistic Population Projections

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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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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hi Mark! Any chance you would be willing to share your slide deck on the role of science and policy with me? I am teaching a class in data science and policy in the fall and am always trying to collect material to build on.

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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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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Cool! Will follow up -- a bunch of the plots will make it into my slides assuming you are ok with it?

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Any chance you are cataloging the data and code for all these plots? I would love to grab a bunch of these for my class! I already use your demographic facts all undergrads show know regularly!

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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

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do you have data/code for that plot? I would love to use it in my class next quarter?

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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 · 30/11/2024

Any sense how much the average would be skewed by the tail in this case? I can imagine reading is like income, where the average is really affected by the people who read a lot and the median is much lower. So I can see 19 being a reasonable average, even if the mode is like 1 & median ~2.

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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 · 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!

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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 · 14/11/2024

Hi @emilioferrara.bsky.social can I get added to the computational social science starter pack! Thanks! Zack

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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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