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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters. https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei/ias

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New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Isabel M. Habicht "Gendered careers in the social sciences" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Isabel M. Habicht, University of Wuppertal. The seminar is open to the public. La...

Join us on Thursday, 26 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with
@isabelmhabicht.bsky.social
🔹 Gendered careers in the social sciences: Evidence from Germany 🔹

More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

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StanCon 2026 Oral presentation deadline (25th of February) Hi all, Just a quick reminder for StanCon 2026 (Uppsala, 17–21 August): if you’re planning to give an oral presentation, the submission deadline is 25 February (AoE). If you have a talk in mind, plea...

🔥🔥 StanCon 2026 Oral Presentation Submission Deadline on the 25th of February 🔥🔥

discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...

18.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Çiğdem Bağcı "Intergroup contact in the context of mass immigration: Empirical evidence from Turkey" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Çiğdem Bağcı, Sabancı University. The seminar is open for the publ...

Join us on Thursday, 19 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Sabahat Çiğdem Bağcı 🔹 Intergroup contact in the context of mass immigration: Empirical evidence from Türkiye 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

16.02.2026 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Jana Lasser "Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jana Lasser, University of Graz and Complexi...

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with
@janalasser.bsky.social

🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

09.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We’re excited to host @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social as a visiting SweCSS Fellow over the next two months! 🤩
Don’t miss her seminar on 26 February!

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks 2026

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣

📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden.

📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...
⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026

28.01.2026 18:13 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Olof Ejermo "Motherhood penalty or daddy premium? Career effects of having children in Swedish academia" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Olof Ejermo, Lund University. The seminar is open for the pub...

Join us on Thursday, 5 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Olof Ejermo 🔹 Motherhood penalty or daddy premium? Career effects of having children in Swedish academia 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

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Still a couple of days before the deadline to slot in an application👇🏼

29.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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StanCon 2026 Tutorials and Workshop deadline today (AoE) Hi everyone, The submission deadline for contributing tutorials and workshops is today (anywhere on earth). Tutorial Tutorials provide hands-on learning experiences to help attendees build practica...

Deadline for StanCon 2026 tutorials and workshops (@mc-stan) is today (anywhere on earth). More information here:
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20...

28.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge congratulations to @eliscl.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contagious Secularization: Social Influence and Membership Dynamics in Religious Organizations”!

Excellent work, Dr. Carlberg Larsson 🥂

28.01.2026 13:17 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Bedoor AlShebli "The science of science... and its human side" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. The seminar is open to...

Join us on Thursday, 29 January, at *13:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with
Bedoor AlShebli (NYU Abu Dhabi)

🔹 The Science of Science... and its Human Side 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

26.01.2026 09:38 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.

The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.

Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

15.12.2025 12:33 — 👍 18    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.

The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.

Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

15.12.2025 12:33 — 👍 18    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Per Engzell Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Per Engzell from University College London. Patrons, protégés, and peers: Workplace mechanisms of intergenerational inequality. The seminar is open for th...

Join us on Thursday, 11 December, at 14:30 CET for the last Analytical Sociology Seminar of the term with @pengzell.bsky.social 🔹 Patrons, Protégés, and Peers: Workplace Mechanisms of Intergenerational Inequality 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

05.12.2025 09:21 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
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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...

01.12.2025 10:20 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

📢 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

28.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

26.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 17    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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

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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.

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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”

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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.

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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”

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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.

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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”

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