Per Block

I heard it's organised by some really dedicated people, who got a location overlooking zürich with a lovely terrace... should be nice in may

«Deviant Behaviour and Social Status: Dynamics of resistance behaviour in classrooms» - Keynote by Isabel Raabe at ARS 2025 Isabel Raabe gave the keynote at this year's ARS'25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples.

Isabel Raabe gave the keynote at this year's ARS'25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples.

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...

It's in Norrköping, I think announcements should be out soon? liu.se/en/event/eus...

Less than a week to apply for this POSTDOC on climate migration with network models! In the sunniest and most joyful places in Europe!

Peer reviewers please don't interpret your job as making the paper as good as it can possibly be.

I have 6 other projects to attend to. The very, very marginal improvement to this paper your taxing demands constitute is not worth the marginal cost of me not finishing a whole other project.

Networks, Migration, Climate, and lots of exciting Statistical Models: Come work with on a potpourri of these topics as a POSTDOC in a joint project between TOULOUSE and ZURICH: it'll be even more exciting than it sounds: tinyurl.com/climatenetmig

Thank you! I held that pose for most of the presentation, waiting for somebody to take a picture

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

The biannual INSNA Richards Award, to honor the creation of outstanding publicly available social network analysis software, goes to the Network Canvas team! This open source software is available here: networkcanvas.com

At our annual Sunbelt conference in Paris last week, INSNA honored Beate Völker with the Simmel Award. This lifetime achievement award is given to an INSNA member for their significant contributions to the study of social networks. Thank you for a wonderful keynote presentation, Prof. Völker!

Keynote by Per Block at INSNA Sunbelt 2025: «Networks of Social Positions»

@perblock.bsky.social gave the Freeman keynote at this year's @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social conference organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (@insna.bsky.social) in Paris. Read more:
www.suz.uzh.ch/de/forschung...

This year, the INSNA Freeman Award, which is given annually to a young distinguished scholar in the field of social networks, goes to goes to Zsófia Boda!

Romanes eunt domum

Come to my presentation tomorrow - it'll district from your muscle pain by creating a thorough sense of confusion

The socio-organisational embeddedness of work-life mobility There has recently been renewed interest in occupational mobility over the life-course. We argue that such studies should place greater emphasis on or…

Take that, Max Weber:

Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly!

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

Yes! Come to Paris this summer and take part in the most important event happening there since the storming of the Bastille! sunbelt2025.org

Yes, glad we agree! But this answer was meant for the (hopefully decreasing) number of network interested people under the faulty impression that power law = preferential attachment

Interesting finding, but there are lots of processes other than preferential attachment that lead to a power law degree distribution, so making inference about mechanisms from an overall degree distribution comes with a grain of salt

Set the agenda for the network research community next year: The deadline to submit workshops and organized sessions to the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt in PARIS is extended to 2nd December

Looking for Social Scientists like me: I would like to create the starter pack "Social Scientists named Per", but I don't know enough of them. Suggest and share widely, please, so I can also determine the degree of separation between Pers on bsky!
@pengzell.bsky.social

I guess that half the twitter researchers are still bemoaning the death of their research topic - but the other half already followed us and are giddily APIing bsky...

After the 2024 Olympics, Paris will host an even more fascinating event next summer: the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt. There are still a few days left to qualify by proposing a workshop or organized session! (qualification for presenters opens soon) sunbelt2025.org/deadlines

Yes, agree. I think I was thinking more about Tom Emery's post and mushed it together with what you said! bsky.app/profile/drto...

I don't want to generalise, but I'm not sure how well SNA fits; I think network analysts are united by a conceptual approach (relations matter) the require developing new tools, because obs are not independent etc. So using particular hardware is a byproduct not a defining feature of SNA I would say

Gender & Occupation researchers: I'm looking for lit. on systematic differences in social rewards women and men get from working in the same occupation (like male engineers have high prestige while female engineers are treated as out of place).
Any ideas? Self-promotion welcome.