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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Jackelyn Hwang Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Jackelyn Hwang från Stanford University. Racialized reshuffling: Gentrification and the persistence of segregation in the twenty-first century. The semina...

Join us on Thursday, 4 December, at 17:00 CET (11 am EST) for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Jackelyn Hwang 🔹 Racialized Reshuffling: Gentrification and The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

📢 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) The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The conference brings together scholars and ...

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...

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Romantic couples plan parenthood without emotion – and often talk about it in connection to household duties. This is among the findings of the paper by Júlia Galántai, Flóra Samu, and our colleague Károly Takács, recently published in Discourse & Society
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Seminars and lectures at IAS Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

Join us on Thursday, 27 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @anamacanovic.bsky.social
🔹 Limits to Gender Equity in Science Communication 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Congratulations to all research teams, and best of luck with their exciting projects! 🤩🎉

7) The team examines how social and geographical distance shape partnering patterns in Sweden. Using Swedish register data, the team will disentangle opportunity structures from social preferences and trace how ethnic boundaries have shifted over the past three decades.

7) VR Grant (Segregation Call) — (5 M SEK)
PI: Siddartha Aradhya, with Jesper Lindmarker, Sarah Valdez, Benjamin Jarvis & Carl Nordlund
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Understanding Social Boundaries through Partner Choice: The Role of Residential Segregation”

6) The project will focus on understanding how unequal exposure to affluence and poverty in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces reinforces segregation over the life course and across generations, and how some groups manage to break these patterns.

6) VR Grant (Segregation Call) — (6.8M SEK)
PI: @selcanmutgan.bsky.social, with Maël Lecoursonnais, Maria Brandén & Martin Hällsten
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains”

5) The project maps how common it is for local politicians to have ties to PR firms, consultancies, or publicly funded private companies, and examines what these potential conflicts of interest mean for local politics and governance.

5) VR Grant —(4.7M SEK)
PI: Gissur Erlingsson (LiU, CKS), with Emanuel Wittberg (IAS), Richard Öhrvall, Andreas Bergh & Anna Tyllström
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “Ties that Bind? Politics, Lobbying, and Corruption in Local Government”

4) The project will investigate how differences in preschool access and quality across Sweden shape early educational inequalities, especially for children from different socioeconomic and migration backgrounds.

4) VR Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: @erikrosenqvist.bsky.social, with Selcan Mutgan & Erik Liss
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Project: “From Cradle to Classroom: Preschool Attendance, Context, and Educational Inequality”

3) The project will investigate how leading political roles at the local level affect health and well-being, and identify ways to make these demanding but important positions more sustainable and attractive over time.

3) Forte Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: Gissur Erlingsson (LiU, CKS), with Emanuel Wittberg (IAS), Elin Frögéli & Brjann Ljotsson (KI)
Funder: Forte
Project: “Local politicians' working conditions and health”

2)The project team, in collaboration with Elis Carlberg Larsson, will examine how names spread through social networks, gain social status, and shape life outcomes from education to career and family.

2) RJ Project Grant —(4.8M SEK)
PI: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, with Peter Hedström & Maria Brandén
Funder: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Project: “The Social Life of Names: Their Network Origins and Life-course Consequences”

1) The project explores a new dimension of political polarization, focusing on how different groups attach distinct meanings to shared political concepts and how these interpretative divergence shapes social division over time.

1) RJ Project Grant —(2.7M SEK)
PI: @mhbodell.bsky.social (IAS), with Amir Goldberg (Stanford University)
Funder: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Project: “Interpretative wars: Division beyond attitudes”

Grant season has come to an end in Sweden, and we’re excited to congratulate our researchers on an outstanding year of funded projects 🎉 This year’s competition was fierce, and we’re proud of all the teams who secured funding. Here’s an overview of this year’s successful projects: 👇

Seminars and lectures at IAS Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

Join us on Thursday, 20 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Marshall A. Taylor 🔹Semantic Moorings: A Simulation-Based Metric for Anchor List Reliability in Word Embedding Spaces🔹 More info:

5 minutes with Simon Walo Meet Simon Walo, new postdoc specialising in sociology of work, sociology of culture, and sociology of science. Besides his interest in research, he also has a soft spot for music.

🚀 A warm welcome to Simon Walo @simonwalo.bsky.social who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

Seminars and lectures at IAS Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

Join us on Thursday, 13 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Mirta Galesic 🔹Dynamics of belief networks🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Seminars and lectures at IAS Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Seminars and lectures at IAS Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.

Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

5 minutes with Sabrina Mai Meet Sabrina Mai, an expert in fields including Disasters and Risk, and Social Networks. Her research focuses on organisational behavior in the context of risk and disasters. In her free time she grea...

🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow!
A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

Research reveals the link between language and lawmaking New research from Linköping University shows that words in the U.S. Congress don’t just reflect politics – they predict it. Hendrik Erz reveals how speech and voting together shape American democracy.

You can read more about @hendrik-erz.de's dissertation in this recent press release:

5 minutes with Sabrina Mai Meet Sabrina Mai, an expert in fields including Disasters and Risk, and Social Networks. Her research focuses on organisational behavior in the context of risk and disasters. In her free time she grea...

🚀 Introducing our new Postdoctoral Fellow!
A warm welcome to Sabrina Mai who joins SweCSS as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Social Science:

Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

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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.