Paul Schuler

Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization This open access book explores the decay of social cohesion in democratic societies through the lens of Computational Social Science (CSS)

Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Among the chapters in the book is a study into network-scientific aspects of social cohesion. Together with Alla Loseva, @pschuler.bsky.social , Susanne Böller, and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social investigate the structure societal-level social networks. 🧵3/4

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Deadline 1st March!

See you there 🤗 #EUSN2026 #SNA #LiU #IAS

P.S. Those who ask good questions in the session, I will show the best Kanelbulle in town.

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...

Interested in people's acquaintances, their determinants and consequences for social cohesion, integration or inequality?

Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @pschuler.bsky.social

liu.se/en/event/eus...

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

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...

Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…

New Paper!

A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering!

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

Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky

Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…

📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks

Great to hear, congratulations! All the best for your new chapter :)

If I go to the UK and an old colleague at university recognises me does that make me a internationally-recognised scholar?

Great new lineup of analytical & computational sociology speakers, with Zoom link available to anyone.

Yes, I love networks, and yes, I am a tea addict.

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here!
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Thanks everyone! Very much looking forward to it :)

I’m very excited to announce that in September, I will start working in the @coalescelab.bsky.social with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and so many other amazing and lovely people 😊

Barcelona here I come!
(Please spare me any Freddie Mercury references, my parental generation is taking care of that)

Buchpremiere. Emanuel Deutschmann präsentiert sein neues Buch "Die Exponentialgesellschaft". Moderation: Jonas Schaible (SPIEGEL). 15.07.2025, 18:30, Publix, Berlin. Eintritt: frei / Anmeldung erforderlich

📢 Reminder: Buchpremiere in Berlin 📢

Am 15. Juli stelle ich im Gespräch mit Jonas Schaible
@beimwort.bsky.social (SPIEGEL) mein neues Buch »Die Exponentialgesellschaft« vor.

Ort: Publix, Hermannstr. 90, 12051 Berlin

Eintritt: frei
Anmeldung: tinyurl.com/2r7tcvwe

👩‍🎓 Work in Sweden: The Institute for Analytical Sociology offers 2 fully funded PhD positions! liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Don’t recommend it 😄 And when you’re travelling by Interrail you’ll get 24€ compensation.

That moment at a conference when you’re being reduced to your data

don’t these look pretty? when I did my MSc at @iasliu.bsky.social’s then-just-begun CSS program many of these early graduates were our (very friendly and patient) TAs. Nice to see what they were up to beyond dealing with us, and the pool of graduates from IAS growing.

Got almost 7 h delay on an Eurostar. Several people from the UK, Belgium and Netherlands didn’t make it to the conference in Paris at all

Hendrik Erz PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)

+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++

I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).

If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!

More info: www.hendrik-erz.de

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Completing the acknowledgments for my dissertation feels like writing my will before putting myself at the mercy of the examiners.

🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science!
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Running large models on a remote computer cluster is like a quant researcher’s Tamagotchi, only without the fun.
You feed it (with some data and a script), return the next day and wonder why it was killed.

At least one insight today. That counts!

Dutch universities and knowledge institutes are planning to collectively secure American research data that are under threat by the Trump administration