How does the latte-drinking-liberals idea play out in the Swedish multi-party context? Find out in our article recently published in Journal of CSS: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Created together with brilliant @felixlennert.bsky.social, Elida Izani Ibrahim & @mhbodell.bsky.social!

Partisan tastes or ideological divides? Everyday interests and political identities in a multi-party system - Journal of Computational Social Science

Everyday interests expressed in leisure, media consumption, or cultural practices, increasingly intersect with political orientations, making them strong signals of individuals’ political identities. ...

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Last week, I presented our joint work with @mbojan.bsky.social and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social on evaluating social cognitive biases in social capital measures at @eusnconference.bsky.social. It felt like coming back to the family, with so many lovely familiar faces and great presentations!

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.

Very pleased to announce Who Follows Whom, a bargain, free to download for the next 2 weeks, looking at patterns of following on Twitter. www.cambridge.org/core/element... The dominant driver of patterns of online attention, with no spatial constraints on who you can connect to, is...

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Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Who Follows Whom?

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Interested in studying social networks and/or social cohesion 🕸️🧑‍🤝‍🧑? We‘re at @coalescelab.bsky.social are interested in you 🫵 Two weeks left to apply for participation in the PATCHWORK Final Conference in Barcelona and early access to data ☀️

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

⏳ 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

⏳ 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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📢 New article out (co-authored w/ @mportosg.bsky.social), just published in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social): "Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... A 🧵 with the main takeaways from the article 👇

📢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

Call for Proposals: Early data access and conference

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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

The whole (still evolving!) collection of papers can be found at www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu..., with among others blueskyers @bashofstra.bsky.social, @rensec.bsky.social, @afdezanta.eurosky.social, @aespinosarada.bsky.social, @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social, ...

Dear anthropologists out there, why are men so bad at washing their hands after going to the bathroom?

Congratulations to @felixlennert.bsky.social who today defended his PhD at Institut Polytechnique Paris! Shout out also to his supervisor @eollion.bsky.social Well done, have a wonderful celebration in Paris 🎉👨‍🎓🍾 felix-lennert.netlify.app

Open online seminar on Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools Presenters: @nuriatargarona.bsky.social, Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1360... When: 20 March Organisers: EMCRs of SN & BSA-SNAG Registration: ethz.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data. Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

Interested in the social causes and consequences of weak ties and looking for your good academic deed before the weekend? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @mbojan.bsky.social and @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social at liu.se/en/event/eusn-2026

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...

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Interested in the social causes and consequences of interpersonal relationships and acquaintances? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.bsky.social and @pschuler.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...

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...

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Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods? We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus... See you in Sweden!

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...

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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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Among the chapters in the book is a study into network-scientific aspects of social cohesion. Together with Alla Loseva, @pschuler.bsky.social , Susanne Böller, and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social investigate the structure societal-level social networks. 🧵3/4

@jimiadams.bsky.social, I saw your post regarding software that logs your writing activity, but couldn’t reply directly. If you’re open to writing in markdown, Zettlr (www.zettlr.com) is great open source software that has a ‚writing statistics‘ tool built in which might serve your purpose.

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench - Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.

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Interested in people's acquaintances, their determinants and consequences for social cohesion, integration or inequality? Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @pschuler.bsky.social liu.se/en/event/eus...

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...

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📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025 More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...

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 conference brings together scholars and ...

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New Paper! A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trends of Friends – Time dynamics of Surface- and Deep- level traits in friendship formation and maintenance

People become friends with one another primarily due to things they have in common, like shared demographic characteristics or shared interests. But o…

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Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky

Nuria Targarona Rifa@nuriatargarona.bsky.social · last yr.

Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...

📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks

Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling

Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…

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If I go to the UK and an old colleague at university recognises me does that make me a internationally-recognised scholar?

Great new lineup of analytical & computational sociology speakers, with Zoom link available to anyone.

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS