Aliakbar Akbaritabar
@akbaritabar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and @mpidr.bsky.social | Computational Social Science | Migration | Social Networks | Scientometrics | Sociology of Science | https://akbaritabar.github.io/
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Great to have a bit of time to polish the personal website, and update the CV. Here is the updated intro: I am Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Ali), Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Assistant Professor in Social Inequality
Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!
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👉 Check out the full story here: shorturl.at/vJWeZ 📃 Read the paper published in PNAS Nexus: shorturl.at/8jJVd
What Determines Where Scientists Go? The Role Of Networks And Institutional Prestige In Academic Mobility
A new study tracks the early-career mobility of 172,000 scientists to understand what drives where they go.
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Novelty and Inequalities in Science symposium Prague, Oct. 8–9, 2026 📆Extended deadline: June 30, 2026 👉Submit an abstract on the topics of recognizing and rewarding novelty in science or find more details: 🔗 stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026 #scienceofscience #metascience #sociologyofscience 🙏Repost🧪
Population and Social Data Science ☀️Summer ☀️Incubator Program 2026 Since the beginning of June, MPIDR has been hosting the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2026." Learn all: https://incubator.demogr.mpg.de/ Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Prepared a list of R packages, Python libraries, and other tools allowing to implement "demographic methods" for students. Added a few example reproducibility packages to learn from as well. If you know of other packages that I should include, please reply or send them as a direct message, thanks 🙏
The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...
World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology
Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.
SMD 2.0 @akbaritabar.bsky.social & @theiletom.bsky.social not only won the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award (www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...). They also updated the @smdatabase.bsky.social. More dissaggregations: Gender, field of science, subnational location. www.scholarlymigration.org
🎉Congratulations 🏅Henrik-Alexander Schubert was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for his doctoral thesis. https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/henrik_alexander_schubert_receives_otto_hahn_medal_15475 📸© David Ausserhofer / MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
It was a pleasure speaking on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" for the Center for Computational Social Sciences at Koç University. Thanks to everyone for the great discussion! Thank you for the invitation and for sharing the recording. youtu.be/OdgWQoSz2hc?...
Aliakbar Akbaritabar | Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars
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Late but still trying to watch part of the dissertation defense by @aschniedermann.bsky.social a former colleague at @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social ... Very articulated answers to pretty sharp questions, well done Alex (so far, I had to disconnect to attend another meeting)...
Welcome to Rostock! It is that time of the year again. The Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program 2026 just started this Monday. We hope you will have a good time and we did our best to secure a ☀️sunny summer ☀️ https://incubator.demogr.mpg.de/Program
#EPC2026 Open Science Workshop materials are publicly available here: Slides: github.com/jschoeley/ep... Hands-on course on git, GitHub, etc: github.com/akbaritabar/...
GitHub - jschoeley/epc26os
Contribute to jschoeley/epc26os development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ugofilippo Basellini@ugobas.bsky.social · 2mo agoThank you @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @jschoeley.com for an excellent workshop and thanks to all participants!
Viva Open Science and free access to data for research!
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd here is another Award for MPIDR! Congratulations! Aliakbar Akbaritabar and Tom Theile received the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award for Population Studies for the Scholarly Migration Database. www.scholarlymigration.org #OpenScience #EPC2026 European Association for Population Studies
And here is another Award for MPIDR! Congratulations! Aliakbar Akbaritabar and Tom Theile received the EAPS Open Science and Outreach Award for Population Studies for the Scholarly Migration Database. www.scholarlymigration.org #OpenScience #EPC2026 European Association for Population Studies
Looking forward to discussing out-migration of Ukrainian scholars this afternoon, if you are at #EPC2026! At 16:00, room D
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2mo agoMPIDR@EPC2026 Hello Bologna! MPIDR is still very busy. So grab breakfast, get ready! Nicole Hiekel Risto Aliakbar Akbaritabar Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal Sha Jiang Flavia Mazzeo Diego Alburez Amanda Martins de Almeida #EPC https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303
MPIDR@EPC2026 Hello Bologna! MPIDR is still very busy. So grab breakfast, get ready! Nicole Hiekel Risto Aliakbar Akbaritabar Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal Sha Jiang Flavia Mazzeo Diego Alburez Amanda Martins de Almeida #EPC https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303
Starting the second day of the #EPC2026 with the brain I got from IASA's booth related to their research on human capital which goes well with our Scholarly Migration Database (www.scholarlymigration.org)! @mpidr.bsky.social
See you tomorrow! #EPC2026
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2mo agoMPIDR@EPC2026 Have a chat with the team behind the Scholarly Migration Database 📅 Friday, June 4🕑10:30-11:00📍MPIDR booth #EPC2026 Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar Tom Theile European Association for Population Studies https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303
Thank you @akbaritabar.bsky.social and @jschoeley.com for an excellent workshop and thanks to all participants!
#EPC2026 workshops just kicked off with @ugobas.bsky.social starting the introduction to the @eaps.bsky.social working group on open science. Looking forward to four days of discussions and learning. @mpidr.bsky.social
We have a new major release! The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online! Working paper is here: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... Updated data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Website: www.scholarlymigration.org
The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online! Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna! See the working paper here: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID... @ezagheni.bsky.social @theiletom.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social
This is a very nice example of using the @smdatabase.bsky.social alongside other data to answer a societally relevant question. Asgari, Y., et al. Arab Spring’s impact on science through the lens of scholarly attention, funding, and migration. Scientometrics (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Arab Spring’s impact on science through the lens of scholarly attention, funding, and migration - Scientometrics
The 2010–2011 Arab Spring reverberated far beyond politics, reshaping how the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is studied. Analyzing 3.6 million Scopus-indexed articles published between 2002 and 2019, we find that mentions of ten of these countries in titles or abstracts rose significantly after 2011 relative to the global baseline, with Egypt receiving the greatest attention in the region. We link this surge to two intertwined mechanisms: an increase in research funding directed to the MENA region and the emigration of researchers who continued publishing about their countries of origin. Our analysis reveals that Saudi Arabia has emerged as a regional hub for research on the target countries, providing funding and attracting scholars and thereby playing a significant role in shaping the scientific narrative on the region. These findings demonstrate how political upheaval can reshape global knowledge flows by altering who studies whom, with what resources, and in which disciplines.
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Looking forward to EPC in Bologna to meet many of you!
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2mo agoMPIDR@EPC2026 Have a chat with the team behind the Scholarly Migration Database 📅 Friday, June 4🕑10:30-11:00📍MPIDR booth #EPC2026 Emilio Zagheni Aliakbar Akbaritabar Tom Theile European Association for Population Studies https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/press_6175/mpidr_epc2026_15303
Exciting new contributions on scientific mobility and collaboration! The literature on scientific mobility and collaboration has long been paradoxical about whether scholars form collaboration ties before moving to an institution, or if they start collaborating after relocating.
