Roberta Sinatra

Our first invited speaker Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social just kicked off the conference with a great talk on: Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment
#ICSSI2025

16.06.2025 07:37 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The conference was just opened by @hckongsted.bsky.social. Welcome everyone in Copenhagen, and enjoy the next 3 days at #ICSSI2025!

16.06.2025 07:33 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Today is the (hard) deadline for the postdoctoral call listed below! Join us #postdoc #scienceofscience #AI #networkscience

01.04.2025 11:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

📢 Meet the keynote speakers of the upcoming #ICWSM Workshop on #Data for the Wellbeing of the Most #Vulnerable

👉 Paddy Brock at World Bank & UNHCR Joint Data Center
👉 @robysinatra.bsky.social at University of Copenhagen

Join us! Submission deadline: March 31 sites.google.com/view/datafor...

10.03.2025 10:39 — 👍 23    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success Trainees in big research groups tend to go on to greater academic success than their small-group counterparts ― but are more likely to quit academia altogether.

How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success - Coverage of our recent paper by @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

10.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Stylized map of Detroit (MI) showing the highway network, and the network of social connections between urban residents. The connections intersecting highways are sparser than elsewehere. Image credit Karo Berghuber (Insta: @kariot.lines)

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

05.03.2025 07:08 — 👍 114    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 4

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science.

I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science.

📍 Start: flex summer 2025
📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

04.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 80    🔁 57    💬 1    📌 3

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

Dive into our findings and see how mentorship structures shape scientific careers. First author and driving force behind the paper the awesome @yanmeng0705.bsky.social
Story quoted above and direct link to the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.03.2025 10:51 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Ever wonder if it’s better to join a large or small research group when looking for a mentor 🔬? In our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper we show that large labs can supercharge early-career impact but come with a higher dropout risk, while smaller groups better support researcher retention.

03.03.2025 10:50 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Join us in Copenhagen in June!

04.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Profile shots of the 5 organizers

This year's ICSSI is organized by @robysinatra.bsky.social, @hckongsted.bsky.social, @mathiaswullum.bsky.social, James Evans, and Ben Steyn.

We will announce more information on this channel, and are all looking forward to a great event in Copenhagen! #ICSSI2025
www.icssi.org

31.01.2025 08:06 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!

15.11.2024 13:39 — 👍 46    🔁 53    💬 0    📌 6