COALESCE Lab

We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!

👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses

Read more and find the link below🔽

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

Very glad to join the COALESCE Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona!
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)

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

Welcome new lab members! We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!

We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...

🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:

“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...

Work from our lab published in the European Sociological Review

“Parlar de política amb tothom? Sí, d'acord, però...”

Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.

Un fil curt 🧵

“¿Hablar sobre política con cualquiera? Sí, de acuerdo, pero…”

Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.

Un hilo corto 🧵

Inclusive dialogue? “Yes, but…” - INCLUSIVITY - Inclusivity Norms to Counter Polarization in European Societies Exceptions to the principle of inclusive dialogue Authors: Noé Gras-Aura, Marc Alcalà-i-Rams, Alejandro Ciordia & Miranda J. Lubbers As part of the INCLUSIVITY research project, we interviewed 76 citi...

Want to read more about this? Check the original post here: inclusivitynorms.com/inclusive-di.... Find versions in Spanish (coalesce-lab.com/en/news/32/e...) and Catalan (coalesce-lab.com/en/news/33/e...) in our website too.

Funding from a @volkswagenstiftung.de grant.

(3) Yes, but not with you: justification for avoiding dialogue with social contacts who differ in political views (for example, independentists and Spanish nationalists with each other), or with any intolerant (mainly in political terms), uneducated or disrespectful individual.

(2) Yes, but not about this: feeling it is impossible to talk about certain sensitive topics such as the debate over Catalan independence or something against the law; but also avoiding diverse forms of hate speech and tricky issues that should be avoided to prevent discomfort.

(1) Yes, but not like this: situations where participants believed that the conditions for genuine political dialogue were lacking; lack of a possible agreement or shared outcome for those expecting something out of such dialogue, or the impossibility of changing someone’s mind.

As part of the INCLUSIVITY research project, we asked 76 citizens of Catalonia (between 2022 and 2023) their views on a general and abstract principle of inclusive dialogue. Most agreed, but then revealed how their actions contradicted their opinions. This is what we found:

“Talk about politics with everyone? Yes, I agree, but…”

Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.

A short thread 🧵

There are new social network groups and researchers joining Bluesky! I have just updated this starter pack (for example: @socialnetworkslab.bsky.social @coalescelab.bsky.social @ansna.org.au @networkscijournal.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social )

Post-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24) Job position

📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci

The lab, directed by @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, is embedded within the larger GRAFO research group at @uab.cat, sharing our passion for research into personal networks and relatedness. The lab is also part of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the university. Follow us!

We joined Bluesky! Starting in 2021, we are a research team dedicated to studying processes of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization from a social network perspective. We aim to connect micro-level relationships to macro-level outcomes by conducting interdisciplinary mixed-methods research.