This was a really interesting read from @sarayeatman.bsky.social but feel like it only tells part of the WFS story. Maybe a bit of a thread: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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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𝐀𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 list is live since a few weeks! Access and share it with others: opensciencedemography.github.io/awesome-demo... Several colleagues generously added their suggestions (Thanks). You can contribute to it by adding new items here github.com/OpenScienceD...

🎙️ New episode of the ODISSEI podcast is out now! @drtomemery.bsky.social speaks with Lana Fani, Managing Director of the Netherlands Cohorts Consortium, about how linking data across cohorts could open up findings that a single study could seldom reach on its own. 🔗 Listen here: edu.nl/gef8x

IPDLN 2026 Conference Proceedings are now Published! Explore the innovative research being presented, discover new ideas, and start planning your conference. Happy reading! 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘: ijpds.org/issue/view/47 @drtomemery.bsky.social @kasiakarpinska.bsky.social

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🎓 That’s a wrap on SICSS-ODISSEI 2026! Two weeks of computational social science, community, and hands-on research at Erasmus University Rotterdam. A big thank you to everyone who taught, organised, and showed up! See you in 2027 👋

Happy to have the CBS Replication Games (and my replication research more broadly) featured on the ODISSEI Podcast! Tune in if you're interested in hearing @drtomemery.bsky.social and I nerd out over replication!

ODISSEI@odissei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How can games change research culture? 🧩 On this month's ODISSEI podcast, @drtomemery.bsky.social talks with Jack Fitzgerald about replication, and why it needs to be more embedded in research. That's why the Replication Games were developed, Jack explains. 🎧 Tune in to learn more: edu.nl/eqhuc

Last week to apply for the *Behave Summer school on Agent Based Modelling*. Very happy to be involved this year by presenting works from @erc-segue.bsky.social and other collaborations on the last day... behavelab.org/behave-summe...

BEHAVE Summer School on Agent Based Modelling

University of Brescia, Department of Information Engineering via Branze 38, Brescia, Italy, 31 August-11 September 2026 (hybrid) Jointly organised by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, ...

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🌟 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD positions 🌟 at TU Delft (NL) on how #climate #risks impact our #homes, property #prices, #inequality, #mortgage portfolios and eventually #systemic economic and social #stability. What can different ‘climate risk owners’ do to reduce adverse impacts? Details 👇

NEW: Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas, "Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach

Article: Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach | Sociological Science | Posted June 2, 2026

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Our @iasamsterdam.bsky.social Festival session was a hit! Thanks to @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social (Complexity Science Hub), Laure Michon (City of Amsterdam), & @drtomemery.bsky.social (ODDISEI) for their insights on how network science can evolve to meet the challenges of the next decade.

📣 Submit your paper to the ODISSEI Conference! We're celebrating 10 years of advancing Dutch social science research infrastructure. Open to all (computational) social science researchers, in the Netherlands and beyond. 🔗 Submit your abstract: edu.nl/hyyyk

I talked to @chrisbail.bsky.social about all things #SICSS for the ODISSEI podcast. We are running our 5th edition of SICSS which Chris founded alongside @msalganik.bsky.social Chris explained how he was there right from the beginning of analyzing social media data odissei-data.nl/odissei-podc...

ODISSEI Podcast - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI podcast is your introduction to the ODISSEI research infrastructure and how it facilitates the development of computational social sciences in the Netherlands.

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We’re excited to share the Action Plan Towards FAIR Implementation in Dutch SSH 🎉 FAIR principles are widely endorsed, but implementation is hard. This plan identifies key challenges and points to actionable solutions. Many thanks to all contributors who shaped it! 📄 Read more: edu.nl/x847c

Nominations for the ODISSEI Open Science Award 2026 are now open! We’re looking for researchers or teams in computational social science who are leading by example: making their research outputs open, FAIR, and impactful. ⏱️ Deadline to nominate: 30 September 2026 👉 edu.nl/nxcmy

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

The sociology of sociologists is fascinating

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sociologists, I haven’t seen a thread talking about what’s going on in the ASA, and I would like to My thoughts are contradictory and sad. I think: - the ASA “reform” limiting member resolutions was a disaster (I campaigned against it, basically by myself, last time, & I did make some enemies) 1/

🎧 New episode! How do you make social science research more accessible? @kturek.bsky.social tells @drtomemery.bsky.social about the Comparative Panel File, an open-source project bringing together survey data from across the world. 🌍 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/the...

The worst type of review request is being called in on 2nd or 3rd round. What is the point? There are normally two or three reviewers already and the authors have responded. Surely the editor can just take a position, especially with a shallow reveiwer pool. What am I missing here?

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Just one day left for Early Bird Registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 - don’t miss the chance to secure your spot! Find more information about the conference programme and registration below 👇

ODISSEI@odissei.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Early Bird registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 closes March 31 — just one week left! ⏳ Join 11 workshops on linked data, trusted research environments, data governance, community engagement, and more. 🔗 Register now: edu.nl/mrnvv

Early Bird registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 closes March 31 — just one week left! ⏳ Join 11 workshops on linked data, trusted research environments, data governance, community engagement, and more. 🔗 Register now: edu.nl/mrnvv

Amazing work

Katrin Auspurg@kauspurg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

🎧 New podcast episode: making use of ODISSEI infrastructure! @drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @kasiakarpinska.bsky.social about how ODISSEI can improve your research and make it easier 💡 ➡️ They also introduce the ODISSEI Early Career Board 🔗 Listen to the podcast episode here: edu.nl/dvdcf

I’ve been working with population scale networks for a while now and there are now versions in 🇳🇱🇸🇪🇩🇰 But I want one in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 so we can validate Ellis James Cymru Connects. FWIW the average degrees of separation in the NL is about 4.5 so it’s not surprising. youtu.be/omONxHtQAyg?...

Cymru Connection: Elis' best work yet? | Elis James and John Robins

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Just over one week left to apply ⏱ Make sure to submit your proposal for MAG 2026-1 by March 26th at 15:00. Researchers at ODISSEI member organisations are eligible to apply, and we particularly encourage those in their early-career to do so. 🔗 Find out more here: edu.nl/ecpnr

The wording of this title is an interesting choice: “The Mortality Risk of Raising Grandchildren in the United States” Homicidal grandchildren everywhere journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ODISSEI is excited to launch the Early Career Board, an initiative to strengthen the voice and engagement of early career researchers in our community. Please welcome the members of the 2026 Board: @elenacandellone.bsky.social, Oskar Veerhoek, Goan Booij, and Tilbe Atav. Read more about them below 👇