Àlex 🐢

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Congratulations, Hendrik! 🥳

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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@joanchecarius.bsky.social i jo hem publicat a Population, Space and Place un article que analitza com la distribució territorial de l’oferta educativa i la mobilitat de l’alumnat construeixen desigualtats i oportunitats a la metròpolis de Barcelona:
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107

Obrim fil...

🙌 Polítiques de #barri i eines de planificació local de #seguretat, sumar esforços o sectorialitzar?

Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".

🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

🙌 Com incorporem els indicadors de #seguretat i #convivència als instruments de planificació local i de #barris? En parlem a la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat", moderada per Àlex Giménez de la Prada.

🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

La revista @jpdemocracia.bsky.social nos publica un artículo sobre juzgados especializados en violencia de género y la necesaria territorialización del sistema público de justicia

Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +

www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...

Come work with us @crestsociology.bsky.social

We are looking for a post-doc with a background in social sciences, interested in NLP and in media & journalism studies.

Details here: www.css.cnrs.fr/post-doctora...

🔝 Acabem de publicar la revista #Papers 67!!! Aquesta edició posa el focus en els #barris i les polítiques públiques de #seguretat.

📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:

🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67

My thesis is now published!

liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

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I have decided to make one of my PhD thesis chapters available as a preprint on #SocArXiv: Policymaking in Times of Crisis: Discursive Dynamics in U.S. Congress, 1960–1990.

You can read it here 🎉

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The "Upended" section of Scientific American, Sept 2025

Philip Ball's article in Scientific American on the rise of noncoding RNA

The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.

The Different Sources of Intergenerational Income Mobility in High‐ and Low‐Income Families This paper studies intergenerational income mobility using register data for 630,000 Danish children and their parents. We document substantial mobility differences across parents' income levels. Dec...

Happy to see my paper with @andershtrolle.bsky.social on "The different sources of intergenerational income mobility in high- and low-income families" online before print in Journal of Applied Econometrics:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!

#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

out of academia Out of Academia

I've had a few other former astronomers reach out to me lately about transitioning into data science/ML, and I decided to write about it.

This is my personal journey from astro to ocean, and the most useful steps I took along the way.

🔝Ja tenim aquí el butlletí de juliol! Últimes novetats en #recerca a la #metròpoli. Hi trobaràs:

📊 Discriminació racialitzada #ECAMB
🚸 Mobilitat infantil #Click-Kids
📈 #GEM

🔗 bit.ly/recerca-metropolitana-juliol-25

📢S’apropa la jornada “Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat”!

Parlarem de planificació local de la #seguretat i l’ús d’indicadors a escala de #barri per millorar les #polítiquespúbliques 🏘️

No t’ho perdis!

📅30 de setembre
🕑9:30 h
📍Hub Social Barcelona
🔗 bit.ly/barris-seguretat-25

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.

Même pour un @nature.com , il ne va pas chez le coiffeur !
Félicitations à @lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Le voilà l'égal du fleuron, qui fait aussi Nature pour raconter ses fraudes criminelles
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tendencies toward triadic closure: Field experimental evidence | PNAS Empirical social networks are characterized by a high degree of triadic closure (i.e., transitivity, clustering): network neighbors of the same ind...

Neat field experiment providing evidence for a tendency towards triadic closure in social networks, net of homophily and shared opportunities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?

IC2S2: Posters and talks are scheduled, check out this summer's program at www.ic2s2-2025.org/program/

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

🚨🎓 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...

Self-graded R and stats exercises for beginners!

Test your understanding of the material in our textbook (bit.ly/dss_textbook):

- Intro to R: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch1
- Intro to causal inference: bit.ly/dss_ex_ch2

Hendrik Erz PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)

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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

Does Form Really Shape Function? | Quanta Magazine From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment.

The intricate folds of your lungs, gut, and brain are each the result of pattern formation. Tune in to my conversation with L. Mahadevan on "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...

One single rule helps explain life on Earth The discovery will help to understand why species are spread the way they are across the planet.

🌍 One rule may explain how life is organised across ecosystems, from deep oceans to dry savannas.
Rubén Bernardo Madrid IceLab postdoc at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social is first author of a new study in @natecoevo.nature.com identifying this pattern in biodiversity.
www.umu.se/en/news/one-...

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

New OA article in ESR 📄✨
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social @phedstrom.bsky.social @martinarvidsson.bsky.social show how residential segregation 🏘️ constrains opportunities and limits the effects of preferences on school segregation 🎓.
Read more at: @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

🚨 Just published !!

How to extract a *scalar time series* that accurately captures the dynamics of a whole temporal network ?

#netsci2025 too bad I missed you.

Great Collab w/ Lluís Arola, Naoki Masuda and F. Javier Marín

Open access --> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨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...