Zack Almquist

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

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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.
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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.

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...

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 ...

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....

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!

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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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...

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/...

New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!

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.

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

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

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!

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

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

Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
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Amazing! Thank you!

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

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-...

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!

Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

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.

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.

I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!

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...

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...

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.

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...

#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

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, ...

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!

Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
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For timeline zen...

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...