⏰ The abstract deadline for EUSN 2026 has been extended to March 5, 2026!
You now have a few extra days to submit your abstract: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...
⏰ The abstract deadline for EUSN 2026 has been extended to March 5, 2026!
You now have a few extra days to submit your abstract: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...
⏰ Reminder: The EUSN 2026 abstract deadline is March 1, 2026 — just around the corner. Submit your abstract now!
25.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate?
New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens.
We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often.
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?
We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.
Submit your work by March 10th!
causnets.github.io
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
12.02.2026 11:11 — 👍 17 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0
Chapter 5: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, Hedström, Jarvis & @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social on the intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science.
Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.
Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.
osf.io/preprints/so...
1/15
Huge congratulations to @eliscl.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contagious Secularization: Social Influence and Membership Dynamics in Religious Organizations”!
Excellent work, Dr. Carlberg Larsson 🥂
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣
📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden.
📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...
⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉
We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.
Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!
🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?
How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅
🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037
How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...
New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.
21.12.2025 19:01 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
📢 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
Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?
You can now find out in AJS.
Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📢 The deadline to submit workshop and session proposals to EUSN 2026 has been extended till 9 December!
ℹ️ For more information, see:
liu.se/en/event/eus...
📝 Please send your submissions to:
eusn2026@liu.se
The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025
More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...
Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
05.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 11 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷
Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social
Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le
6/6 Here's a link to the paper: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5/ Examining the macro-dynamics, we used agent-based simulations integrating prior models of homophily and decoupling, showing that network composition matters: a sufficient presence of partial-overlap ties is crucial for widespread diffusion of novelty and the emergence of the unexpected.
27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
4/ We find support for the hypothesized homophily trade-off: (a) stronger taste overlap → stronger peer influence, but also (b) stronger overlap → less exposure to novel content.
27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3/ To test this, we analyzed 1M Spotify users. Treating playlists as documents and artists as words, we used topic modeling to infer musical tastes, peer overlap, and exposure novelty. To distinguish selection & influence, we compared un/treated users with similar musical tastes—the key confounder.
27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2/ At the core is a hypothesized homophily trade-off: too much taste similarity→influence but no exposure to novelty; too little similarity→exposure to novelty but weak influence. Partial overlap strikes the balance, both exposing and influencing individuals toward content outside their repertoire.
27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.
🔈Job Alert!
Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science (SWECSS) is hiring postdoctoral researchers. Positions are available at IAS and the Department of Computer Science (IDA).
⌛Deadline: 31 October
IAS: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
IDA: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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How does behavior spread? New insights on complex contagion in social networks with causal evidence from a country-scale field experiment @davidlazer.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
16.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0