Network of the day: Network of lemurs from Japan Monkey Center. The edges represent the inter-monkey sentiments and can be very different:

Thread of people and their prejudices about Spain. I’d guess none of them has actually been here?

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last mo.

The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable. “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.” [bloomberg.com]

When I move to another university, I'd like one that has beautiful meeting rooms if it´s not too much to ask, and a feeling of community. That´s my negotiation plan. On a more serious note: What a wonderful research network, looking forward to learn what´s coming from your group!

Linus Westheuser@lwestheuser.bsky.social · last mo.

Last week, we had a lovely launch of the DFG Research Network "Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion" that I coordinate with Lena Röllicke & Anna Berg. Over the next three years, we want to add to the current revival of qualitative political research. More here: linuswestheuser.com/dfg-network-...

@ageinves.bsky.social cuántos días tenemos que contar para recibir una respuesta a nuestra instancia? Gracias!

It‘s still insane to me that there are men (maybe also women) who are forever enraged by the disappointment that a woman they had thought of as inferior (not my words) is, in fact, not. And willing to use whatever they can to backstab you, while you just go about your business like it’s Tuesday.

Every time I get caught up in the silliness of bureaucracy or the frustration of evaluating AI generated texts I regain inspiration by reading some spectacular work written by one of you. Following your arguments and evidence is so regenerating, I cannot imagine one lets AI do the reading. 🫶

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

📢 New article out in Social Networks (co-authored w/ @corneliusholler.de, @snannabell.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, and Cristiano Vezzoni): "Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers" 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2026.05.003 A 🧵 with the main takeaways 👇

Together with @damjantomic.bsky.social, we are organising a new edition of this wonderful workshop at UAB. Register by June 14 and join us!

Barcelona Network of Political Science (BANPS)@bcnpolisci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 XIV Barcelona PhD Workshop on Empirical PoliSci 🎉 Save the date for a day of discussion in political science by PhD researchers! Registration 👉 tuit.cat/4wFkI More info 👉 tuit.cat/25omg 📅 3 July 📍UAB @politiquesuab.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social

⏳ Only two weeks left to apply! 📣 Call for Proposals | PATCHWORK Final Conference & Data Workshop Deadline: June 15, 2026 Barcelona, Feb 24–26, 2027 Use cross-national network data (N=6,000) + get funding & early access patchwork-erc.eu/en/16/call-f... #SocialNetworks #SNA #Sociology #SocNet

Call for Proposals: Early data access and conference

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Yes! Thank you so much for coming over @jimiadams.bsky.social!

COALESCE Lab@coalescelab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From May 26th to 30th, we had the pleasure of @jimiadams.bsky.social visiting, Professor of Sociology at the @sc.edu. His research addresses how networks constrain or promote the diffusion of information and/or diseases through populations, and he is also active in the area of network methodologies.

Started a linkedin account. My coeditor said “our book is out” and as a blueskyer, I expected 4 likes and that’s it, but man, the life on that oh-so-serious place! 🤯

“For too long, we ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Ideas with enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from classrooms.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots

“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...

mcsweeneys.net

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

Very nice to see this book chapter on "7: Gender dynamics in international migration and social networks" with @carrasco-jig.bsky.social and @athinaanas.bsky.social and edited by Başak Bilecen and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Preprint: dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPID...

Our Handbook of International Migration and Social Networks was published today @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 🍾🎉! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks

‘This Handbook is a superb manifestation that network research has matured from being invoked only as a metaphor to being a methodology of embeddedness and social fields. The truly collective effort h...

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📣 CfP for the 2027 IMISCOE Spring Conference (10-12 March) 💫 Studying Migration in the Digital Era: Innovation, Regulation, Ethics, and Rights 📍Global Migration Institute atT oronto Metropolitan University Full call: shortlink.uk/1pfd0 @globalmigrationtmu.bsky.social @researchtmu.bsky.social

non academics be like what are your plans for the weekend

This new @eurosky.social project looks really interesting. Aside from providing EU hosting of your Bluesky data, it gives you a convenient Single Sign-On to a range of open-source apps. Most are new to me, but I am intrigued by tangled.org (GitHub alternative) and leaflet.pub (Substack alternative)

Thank you very much @uab.cat DIVULGA for this wonderful feature (trilingual) report on our knowledge-transfer conference! 🌍💫 www.uab.cat/web/news-det... #immigration #minorities #racism #diversity #interculturalism #mixedness #inclusion #socialcohesion

The "Catalunya Barreja" knowledge-transfer conference highlights immigration, diversity and mixedness as constitutive facts of Catalan society

In a European context marked by the questioning of immigration, research into diversity and social cohesion becomes more necessary than ever. Last December, the INMIX research group of the UAB organiz...

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so how much longer until the US finally dethrones the grifter-war-criminal-daily-human-rights-offender-asset-to-other-authoritarians-and-in-all-aspects-an-absolute-disaster to this whole world? He and his regime already created so much harm and trauma and think of all that is still to come.

We'll be adding clarification questions about the call to the document (FAQ). 👇

COALESCE Lab@coalescelab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢We invite original research using the cross-national PATCHWORK survey (N=6000) on core & fabulous acquaintances networks & ideational cohesion. Pre-public release access to data+funded presentation at conference in Barcelona, w. Prof. Mario Small 👉 bit.ly/4t4HdnN #OpenData #ERC #NetSci #Sociology

Can Europe adapt fast enough to a changed global order? In this #EUIResearch interview, the report’s editors, Marco Buti, Giancarlo Corsetti & Anna Peychev, present The Florence Report: a new agenda for Europe in a changing world. Read the interview here 🔗 https://loom.ly/BvFr-4o

Excited to share this from our lab. If you work on social networks or cohesion and are looking for rich cross-national data to work with, this is a great opportunity. Happy to chat if you have questions!

COALESCE Lab@coalescelab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢We invite original research using the cross-national PATCHWORK survey (N=6000) on core & fabulous acquaintances networks & ideational cohesion. Pre-public release access to data+funded presentation at conference in Barcelona, w. Prof. Mario Small 👉 bit.ly/4t4HdnN #OpenData #ERC #NetSci #Sociology

Very lucky to have been able to collaborate on this Annual Review piece on luck with @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social. We propose that the role of luck in life can be upper-bounded with machine learning and lower-bounded by adding up causal effects of random events.

Fabrizio Bernardi@fabriberna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We published this call👇 to invite early data users to work with our 1-hour long, F2F interviews with 6000 people in 🇭🇺🇳🇱🇵🇱🇸🇪 and to present their analyses at a fully funded conference in Barcelona🌴with a keynote by Mario Small! Details in our call!👇🫶 #ERC #networks

COALESCE Lab@coalescelab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢We invite original research using the cross-national PATCHWORK survey (N=6000) on core & fabulous acquaintances networks & ideational cohesion. Pre-public release access to data+funded presentation at conference in Barcelona, w. Prof. Mario Small 👉 bit.ly/4t4HdnN #OpenData #ERC #NetSci #Sociology

PabloReports: Who do you think Trump should fire next? AOC: Is he out of women? Trump only seems to have the capability to fire female secretaries. If you’re a man in the Trump administration, it seems that they reward misconduct.

Are you coming to the @epssnet.bsky.social conference this year? The programme is live 👏 @antvalentim.bsky.social and I were in charge of constructing the Climate Politics section. Check out the 19 panels crossing fields and subdisciplines! Details here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...

Intro to our Special Issue on #NetworkScaleUpMethod & #AggregatedRelationalData, w. Beate Völker & @mbojan.bsky.social: we reviewed 300 studies (full list available), mapped how the field evolved, summarized survey practice & proposed a reporting checklist & a cool new graph on biases bit.ly/4czhEoz