Aliakbar Akbaritabar

My sincere condolences, dear Miranda. Wishing you and your family strength and patience to stay strong.

Can confirm this was a very interesting talk and the set of tools and infrastructure offered by GESIS is fascinating.

🎉Congrats Aliakbar Akbaritabar🎉We are happy to announce that @akbaritabar.bsky.social took up his new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock. His position is a collaboration between the University and @mpidr.bsky.social.
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Looking forward to continuing teaching at the University of Rostock (this semester I will offer a master level course on "Computational approaches to migration research" Syllabus here: akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...) and research collaborations at both MPIDR and the Universität Rostock.

I am delighted to share that as of October 1, 2025, I have started my new position as an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor in German) of Computational Social Science with a joint appointment at the University of Rostock's Institute of Sociology and Demography and MPI-DR @mpidr.bsky.social .

📢 Job: @loraulet.bsky.social and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on fertility (including through technology), human capital, and employment trajectories in comparative perspective. Econ/demg/soc. Expertise with online surveys, RCTs, experiments.
apply.interfolio.com/174663

Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...

The pre-AI era "feature" that I could never stop being shocked by was "Do you want to download PDFs of all papers in this issue?!"

I always wondered, why?! I searched for specific words and found this to download! If all papers in the issue are similar, why were they not in the search results!?!

In the afternoon, @theiletom.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) guided participants through a hands-on tutorial on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager, where everyone had the chance to set up and run their own data collection.

On the third day of SICSS Saarbrücken, we had the pleasure of learning from @ezagheni.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social), who shared his expertise on “𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎”.

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅3-7 November 2025
💻Online 💸no tuition fee
📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025

@imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity

In this link, you can also find the syllabus for the previous semester's course on "Introduction to Computational Social Science":
akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...

In preparation for teaching in the winter semester (October onwards) at the University of Rostock, here is my plan and syllabus for the course on "Computational approaches to migration research".

Comments and suggestions are welcome and highly appreciated: akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...

🚨Open Positions!🚨
Postdoc/Research Scientist Positions
Migration | Population Dynamics | Computational Demography
Application Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
See job description here:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
#Postdoc #Jobs
@ezagheni.bsky.social @perrottadaniela.bsky.social @ugobas.bsky.social

Apply now for our five-day doctoral course on Topics in Digital and Computational Demography, which will take place in hybrid format from November 3-7, 2025.

Details: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Application deadline is September 28, 2025.

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

📢Publication alert 📢 @berndweiss.bsky.social and my new OA article is out in Comparative Migration Studies: "Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research"

👉 rdcu.be/ezhZf

#MigrationResearch #SurveyResearch

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The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis Abstract. Academic data infrastructures facilitate bibliometric research and reporting, as they link bibliometric data with research interests. In Germany, the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie (KB), a n...

The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis doi.org/10.1162/qss....

This paper provides a very helpful overview of the data infrastructure of @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social.

Nights are filled with sirens, days with research tasks that demand focus. It’s difficult to write, analyse data, or prepare papers when missiles keep interrupting sleep. Conversations abroad about “peace” sound abstract, while here the routine is air raids and unfinished work. But nothing stops, life, and with it science, goes on.

Nights are filled with sirens, days with research tasks that demand focus. It’s difficult to write, analyse data, or prepare papers when missiles keep interrupting sleep. But nothing stops, life, and with it science, goes on. #Ukraine #Kyiv #StandWithUkraine #AcademicLife #ScienceUnderAttack

📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization

We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.

Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!

#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

a poster announcing the programme of the upcoming Jour Fixe at the RMZ Berlin

We're super excited to announce the programme for our Jour Fixe in the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, guest speakers will present their current work on science and we are thrilled to welcome fantastic colleagues! Everyone is welcome, zoom links on our website. @ibi-hu.bsky.social

To coauthors/collaborators in ongoing projects,

After 3 PAAs, I will not submit anything (as in last year), since no hybrid/online participation option has been announced #PAA2026

If you can attend and present our work, plz let me know, and I'll be happy to take the lead in preparing a submission!

The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings - Austin C. Kozlowski, Matt Taddy, James A. Evans, 2019 We argue word embedding models are a useful tool for the study of culture using a historical analysis of shared understandings of social class as an empirical c...

Kozlowski, A. C., Taddy, M., & Evans, J. A. (2019). The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings. American Sociological Review, 84(5), 905–949. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

A network approach to topic models A new approach to topic models finds topics through community detection in word-document networks.

Gerlach, M., Peixoto, T. P., & Altmann, E. G. (2018). A network approach to topic models. Science Advances, 4(7), eaaq1360. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

A network approach to topic models A new approach to topic models finds topics through community detection in word-document networks.

I would recommend 2, some might doubt if they are strictly topic modelling studies. One proposing interesting methods and one a great substantive example, but of course, there are a ton more:

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide