Carl Nordlund
@carln.bsky.social
Associate professor in analytical sociology, management consultant and strategist at Governo Insikt AB, C# coder, crocheter, blockmodeler. www.carlnordlund.net
🗳️ Valkalkylatorn 2026 är live! Min alternativa version av SVT:s Valkompass – samma frågor, men: 🎚️ kontinuerliga skalor + hur viktig frågan är 🔍 helt öppen algoritm 📊 se exakt vad som skiljer dig från varje parti Testa & dela 👉 valkalkylatorn.se
Valkalkylator 2026
Valkalkylator 2026 är ett algoritm-transparant verktyg för att mäta hur dina politiska åsikter är i förhållande till de partier som ställer upp till valet 2026. Med utgångspunkt i de frågor och partis...
valkalkylatorn.se
Pleased to introduce Threadle, an open-source network analysis built for population-scale multilayer networks. Native 2-mode layers, integrated node attributes, the equivalent of trillions of edges stored without full projection. Already on SCB Mona microdata servers. 🔗 threadle.dev
Threadle - Population-scale network data management system
Threadle is a high-performance network engine built for large, structurally complex multilayer and multimode datasets — such as full-population administrative registers. Built in C#/.NET, it offers me...
threadle.dev
You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer). www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...
miamiherald.com
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?
Sök SSF Individual Grants 2025 Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic - Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning
Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, ger 45 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag till USA-baserade forskare som vill …
strategiska.se
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
PhD student in Analytical Sociology
liu.se
+++ NEW ARTICLE +++ I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too! www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
I Built an Interactive Schedule for my Field's Largest Conference (and yours, too)
How do you communicate the what and where of various events at large conferences? This seems to be still a relatively unsolved problem, at least in …
hendrik-erz.de
Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
newyorker.com
Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.
Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.
theverge.com
3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS
Opinion | The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience
A new book raises unsettling questions about the social implications of a smartphone-saturated world.
wapo.st
Really good album, basically for anything open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
Is This What We Want?
1,000 UK Artists · Album · 2025 · 12 songs
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Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.
The Onion@theonion.com · 2y agoFBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++ Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses
Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…
sciencedirect.com
Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311
"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA." #McSweeneysTop24of24
The Millennial CAPTCHA
Our 3rd most-read article of 2024. - - -
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2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² and 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ How beautiful
🧵New paper out in Social Networks doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Many social, political, and economic systems have a core-periphery structure. Borgatti & Everett’s model has been the go-to for identifying them in network data. Here, @carln.bsky.social & I build on this classic model with two refinements.
If you’ve ever been mildly annoyed by the way Borgatti-Everett handled inter-categorical densities for core-periphery structures—despite no one ever caring about it —then YES, this paper is for you! You're welcome. Think of it as scratching a decades-old itch with a flamethrower: Socnet.se
Revising the Borgatti-Everett core-periphery model: Inter-categorical density blocks and partially connected cores
Borgatti and Everett's model (2000) remains the prevailing standard for identifying categorical core-periphery structures in empirical networks, yet t…
sciencedirect.com
