Do teens become more tolerant because they make friends across #ethnic lines — or because of #socialinfluence from coethnic friends? 📝 Both matter, and neither personal dislike nor strong #ethnicidentity block these effects. New #SAOM study of #networks and attitudes of 380 German #adolescents:

Dynamics of outgroup attitudes in peer networks: Testing the effects of socialization, contact, and selection - Alla Loseva, Andreas Flache, Christian Steglich, Sabine Otten, Michael Mäs, 2026

Intergroup attitudes can be positively influenced by peers, but it remains unclear whether this occurs primarily through ingroup socialization or outgroup conta...

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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... 🧵1/4

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)

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Jonas Stein? Doctor Jonas Stein! R&S former Managing editor, now Dr. Jonas Stein, in the midst of brilliantly defending his thesis, supervised by R&S Editor in Chief, Prof. Andreas Flache. 🔗 Reconciling epistemic and identity diversity share.google/s9XwzsqS84CK...

🎙️ New episode of Knitting Networks! Tom A. B. Snijders, emeritus at Oxford & Groningen, and a key figure in statistical models for networks. A journey from math to sociology, theory to method. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mrB... @aespinosarada.bsky.social @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social

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Academic housekeeper (she/her) With #EqualPay and no #GenderInequality in workload, is #labor #discrimination in #academia overcome? No, say Yabut & Arapoc. Low-promotable academic housework – committee, community, admin – falls more on the shoulders of married women. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1043...

...she posted incidentally on #PeerReviewWeek. 🤌 more to the point, I saw yday someone signing their review, regardless of double-blindness. never occurred to me you can do this; considering signing mine from now on, for the fun of it

Alla Loseva@aloseva.bsky.social · 11mo ago

let the feedback season start

let the feedback season start

@celsenbroich.bsky.social's talk with a nod to Sakoda pushed #ssc2025 keynote bar through the roof. During the talk about generative processes, context realism, and modeller's agency in #ABM, a number of agents were generated which might or might not be turtles, gremlins or paper planes

🚨 3-year postdoc opening in Brno (Czechia)! Join Sylvie Graf and me to study polarization & intergenerational relations. Start: Sept 2025 (flexible) 📅 Deadline: June 30 More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/349285 Please help spread the offer. #postdoc #psychology

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno Deadline: June 30...

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managing editor's personal pick ☺️ for those unfamiliar with the topic, a compelling historical account; for scholars, a strong example of theoretical argument tested with a qualitative case; and an enjoyable read overall. would fit well in an applied political science curriculum.

Rationality & Society@rss-journal.bsky.social · last yr.

By denying asylum to refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1978, Thailand shocked the world. Populism or strategic necessity in negotiations with the US? How were the fates of “boat people” decided? #ThrowbackThursday paper by Zeager on the eve of #WorldRefugeeDay: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...