Mark Wittek

Networks, Migration, Climate, and lots of exciting Statistical Models: Come work with on a potpourri of these topics as a POSTDOC in a joint project between TOULOUSE and ZURICH: it'll be even more exciting than it sounds: tinyurl.com/climatenetmig

Having a great time @netsciconf.bsky.social. Presenting joint work with Tianyu Du, Raphael Heiberger, and Dan McFarland on conventionality and impact in biomedical science. Come by and check out my poster today if you are around. It's also available online: rwth-aachen.sciebo.de/s/aI1ICq6jtf...

Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

New paper out in Social Science History about elite networks in the American administrative state

doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.

✨ Deadline Extended – Submit by May 7! ✨

We're still accepting poster submissions for Data Stories, CEU's annual celebration of data visualization in research.

If you’re crafting a compelling, data-driven story, there’s still time to share your work!

🔗 networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories

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Does your research tell a story through data? Share it with us! 👀

🗓️ Submit your visualizations by April 30:
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Join us May 20 at CEU Vienna (or online!) to celebrate the power of data viz.

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Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)

🚀 Postdoc Opportunity!
Join us in Vienna for a 22-month postdoc on the COLINE project, studying the 15-minute city & urban mobility.
💰 €49,700/year + benefits
📅 Starts Sept 1, 2025
🔗 Apply by May 1: shorturl.at/e3zDJ
Be part of cutting-edge computational social science! 🧠🌍

I'm happy to announce a Ph.D. position open working with Letty Koopman & me at the SNA cluster in Groningen! Application deadline is March 31st. The project will develop multiplex network models that estimate & adjust for measure biases related to friendship. Please share!
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Networks and Artistic Status Orders in Cultural Fields: The Evolution of Hollywood Filmmaking How do status orders emerge in cultural fields? Our study sheds new light on this question by investigating the interplay of networks and status among…

🎥 New publication on networks and status in filmmaking with Katharina Burgdorf:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Collaborations and references among filmmakers are distributed more unequally over time. Artistic status and collaborations are linked more strongly during the New Hollywood era.

Open postdoc position at @ceu-dnds.bsky.social in Vienna in the Computational Human Dynamics Lab of @martonkarsai.bsky.social on inequalities in 15-minutes cities in collaboration with www.dut-coline.org. Check it out: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-P...
@ic2s2.bsky.social @netscisociety.bsky.social

Two days left to apply! Join us for the Measuring Culture mini-conference; many highlights: extraordinary keynotes, dialog across disciplinary boundaries, springtime in picturesque Heidelberg, free food, and the possibility to visit Max Weber's grave. 👇🏻

📣 Extended Deadline March 15 for "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the @hadw-bw.bsky.social on May 8/9.

Amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Beautiful historical venue, no conference fee, free food.

Abstract to wittekm@ceu.edu

📣 Extended deadline: March 15

Workshop on online and/or offline data sources to study public opinion, crime, and immigration.

Cologne April 28/29. Two great keynotes by
@christian.czymara.com and @isabellevdv.bsky.social

Interested? Send us an abstract: project.public.opinion@gmail.com

🎺Join us in May 2025 for our conference on "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences @hadw-bw.bsky.social

Including two amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Abstract (max. 750 words) to wittekm@ceu.edu
Deadline: 01.03.25

Lecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526 We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ...

UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.

– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social

CEU Department of Network and Data Science on LinkedIn: #weareceu #dndsatceu #networkdatascience #socialdatascience #seeuatceu 👏 On Wednesday, Jonas Wiedner, presented at our Research Seminar Series. In his talk, "Ethno-Religious Minority Infrastructures," the quantitative…

Last week, I presented our work on Ethno-Religious Minority Infrastructures at @weareceu.bsky.social. Many thanks to @markwittek.bsky.social for the invitation and to the Department of Network and Data Science for a great stay in Vienna!

www.linkedin.com/posts/ceu-ne...

Immigration, Public Opinion, and Crime in the Digital Age - Leveraging online data sources with insights from traditional survey methods How can social scientists leverage the potential of online data sources in the light of lessons learned from survey research and qualitative interviews to inform societal and scientific debates on immigration and crime? In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have shown a growing interest in using online data sources—such as social media platforms and discussion forums—to study public opinion and political discourse concerning immigration and crime. The rise of right-wing populist political actors and the increasing threats of political polarization around the globe sparked a novel literature that applies computational methods to analyze public opinion in the digital realm. In parallel, social scientists have been studying political attitudes, voting behavior, radicalization, social movements, polarization, and crime with quantitative and qualitative interviews as well as administrative data for nearly a century. Yet, these strands of literature mainly operate independently and follow different methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. This workshop aims to bring together scholars from various research communities using online and offline data sources to inform shared research questions concerned with immigration, public opinion, and crime. Presentations may cover topics such as the influence of media coverage of events triggering negative outgroup sentiments (e.g., terror attacks or crime) on political discourse, individual hate speech, crime, and voting behavior, political radicalization on online platforms and in offline spaces, or the influence of political actors on public opinion. We encourage scholars who combine online and offline data or would like to learn more about research paradigms outside of their own research area to send an abstract (max. 750 words) by the 1st of February 2025 to project.publ…

If you use online or survey data to study immigration, public opinion, or crime, consider sending an abstract for our workshop on April 28/29 2025 at the University of Cologne. We will have great keynotes by @christian.czymara.com and @isabellevdv.bsky.social! See the call below:

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

🎺 Open Assistant Professor position in Social Data Science at our Department (DNDS). Great research, supportive social atmosphere, willingness to communicate across disciplinary boundaries, and a beautiful city with affordable rents.
For details see: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

🎺 Open Assistant Professor position in Social Data Science at our Department (DNDS). Great research, supportive social atmosphere, willingness to communicate across disciplinary boundaries, and a beautiful city with affordable rents.
For details see: careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

The University of Rhode Island is hiring for *two* faculty positions in computational social science this year, associate or advanced assistant. Deadline December 15: jobs.uri.edu/postings/14232

Join us for a workshop on Immigration, Public Opinion, and Crime in the Digital Age with a focus on combining online and offline data at University of Cologne in April 28/29 2025, two great keynotes by @christian.czymara.com and Isabelle van der Vegt @isabellevdv.bsky.social call below, pls share.

New study on networks, status, and gender in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Xinwei Xu. Girls receive fewer status ascriptions than boys, status is mostly granted within genders, and similar behaviors-e.g., drinking-are status-relevant for both genders among students: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU in Vienna. I am deeply grateful to the scholars I met at University of Cologne, @unistuttgart.bsky.social, and Dan McFarland's Mimir Lab for their support, intellectual generosity and kindness. Thank you!

I just started a new postdoc position at the University of Stuttgart in Raphael Heiberger's Computational Social Science group. I thank everyone at the ISS Cologne for the beautiful years and look forward to pursuing research at the intersection of sociology and CSS.

I'm deeply honored to receive the Best Paper Award from the German Sociological Association (DGS) Section Sociological Network Research for my work on increasing stratification and segregation in the scientific community of neuroblastoma researchers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us tomorrow for Daniel McFarland's talk on the university as a strategic action field: "Homo Academicus Stanfordiensis." Via Zoom or in person in Cologne at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology. Wed, Dec 13, 5.45 PM. For the abstract, zoom link & details, visit t.co/8ImcPu73ZQ

Katharina Burgdorf and I thank all workshop participants! It was great to exchange ideas regarding analyzing culture. We created a mailing list and plan a follow-up. Send "subscribe" to the address below if you want to join. measuring-culture@listserv.dfn.de

There has been tremendous expansion of education over the last 70 years. Was it too much? What happened to the people who got more education? In a new paper sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I engage with this question using a somewhat unorthodox methodology.

Association between net ethnic segregation in friendship networks and the use of ethno-racial labels. Positive values on the x-axis indicate above-average ethnic homophily in a grade’s friendship network. Values on the y-axis indicate the share of students using ethno-racial labels in their clique descriptions. The figure shows no systematic association between ethnic homophily and the usage of ethno-racial labels.

We asked students to name and describe cliques in their peer ecology. One of our core findings is that the use of ethno-racial labels in clique perceptions was unrelated to the ethnic net segregation of friendship networks (“ethnic homophily”). The same was true for dislike networks.