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The Institute for Analytical Sociology

@iasliu.bsky.social

The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters. https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/iei/ias

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...

World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology

Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The confirmed programme of the lecture series on Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology is now available online. The lectures will take place between September 2 and December 11, 2026. Please find the full programme, and short bios of the lecturers here: liu.se/en/news-item...

World-leading researchers to headline new lecture series in analytical sociology

Some of the world's most influential researchers in analytical sociology, network science, and computational social science will visit Linköping University this autumn as part of a new international l...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

*Upcoming lecture series and PhD course at IAS* 📚 In Fall 2026, IAS will host an online lecture series featuring many of the scholars whose work has been instrumental in the development of analytical sociology.

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/3 🧵 Introducing Threadle, an open-source framework for network analysis at population scale, developed by @carln.bsky.social @iasliu.bsky.social. Built for multilayer networks with native support for 2-mode data structures. 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...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 28 May, at 14:30 CET for the last Analytical Sociology Seminar of the term with Lucas G. Drouhot 🔹Once in a Blue Moon: Barriers to Mixed Partnership Among Second-Generation Muslims in France, 2008-2020🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Lucas G. Drouhot

"Once in a blue moon: Barriers to mixed partnership among second-generation Muslims in France, 2008–2020" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Lucas G. Drouhot, New York University (NYU) Shan...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 21 May, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social 🔹 The Gender Dimension. The Use of Gender as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary French Social Sciences 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Étienne Ollion

"The gender lens. On the use of gender as an analytical tool in contemporary social sciences" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Étienne Ollion, Centre nation...

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Elis@eliscl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social: Using Swedish full-population data, I show that exposure to religious pluralism through social ties is associated with a lower likelihood that parents baptize their child in the Church of Sweden 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro-level measure...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 7 May, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Petri Ylikoski @ylikoskip.bsky.social 🔹Analytical sociology and the toolbox of social mechanisms🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Petri Ylikoski

TBA Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki. The seminar is open for the public. Language: English. Please contact elin.dahlstrom@liu.se for Zoom link.

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 30 April, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @tahayasseri.bsky.social 🔹 A New Sociology of Humans and Machines 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Taha Yasseri

"A new sociology for humans and machines" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Taha Yasseri, Trinity College Dublin. The seminar is open to the public. Language...

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Martin Arvidsson@martinarvidsson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 New paper with @pablobellode.bsky.social and @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social in Network Science. We study how population structure can generate asymmetric exposure to cross-cutting media content in online networks. doi.org/10.1017/nws.... 🧵👇

The structural origins of the conservative online media niche, US Twitter 2022 | Network Science | Cambridge Core

The structural origins of the conservative online media niche, US Twitter 2022 - Volume 14

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 23 April, at 17:00 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Hannah Druckenmiller 🔹Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Hannah Druckenmiller

TBA Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Hannah Druckenmiller, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The seminar is open to the public. Language: Englis...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 16 April, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Marion Hoffman 🔹 Micro-foundations of group formation: When do statistical models reflect social mechanisms? 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Marion Hoffman

"Statistical network models with clear micro-level foundations: Insights from game theory" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Marion Hoffman, Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Study ...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 9 April, at 17:00 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with @annowens.bsky.social : 🔹 Inequality in Context: How Neighborhood Effects Vary Across Place 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Ann Owens

"Inequality in context: How neighborhood effects vary across place" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Ann Owens, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The seminar is open for the p...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin: 🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: John Levi Martin

"Signaling, performing, and (occasionally) exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar parliament" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with John Levi Martin, University of Chic...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin: 🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: John Levi Martin

"Signaling, performing, and (occasionally) exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar parliament" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with John Levi Martin, University of Chic...

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Miriam Hurtado Bodell@mhbodell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory? @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future Out now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning [Special Issue in Theory and Society] Key Dates: Abstracts: June 1, 2026 Full papers: December 31, 2026 More info: link.springer.com/collections/...

Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning

When does a theory genuinely explain how a social phenomenon has come about? Much sociological theory invokes general causal categories – norms, institutions, ...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 19 March, at 13.00 CET (note the updated time) for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Daniel Little 🔹 Critical reflections on analytical sociology: A plea for pluralism 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Daniel Little

Critical reflections on analytical sociology: A plea for pluralism Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Daniel Little, University of Michigan-Dearborn. The seminar is open for the public. Lan...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 12 March, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @katyborner.bsky.social 🔹 The Atlas of Macroscopes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Katy Börner

"The atlas of macroscopes" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Katy Börner, Indisna University in Bloomington. The seminar is open to the public. Language: Eng...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 12 March, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @katyborner.bsky.social 🔹 The Atlas of Macroscopes 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Katy Börner

"The atlas of macroscopes" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Katy Börner, Indisna University in Bloomington. The seminar is open to the public. Language: Eng...

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Ben Jarvis@benjarvis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA@readdemography.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility & Segregation”: @benjarvis.bsky.social, @kchihaya.bsky.social & @eduardotapia.bsky.social examine ancestry & segregation; they find ancestry sorting effects are 3X greater than kin propinquity effects. @iasliu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 26 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social 🔹 Gendered careers in the social sciences: Evidence from Germany 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Isabel M. Habicht

"Gendered careers in the social sciences" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Isabel M. Habicht, University of Wuppertal. The seminar is open to the public. La...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 19 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Sabahat Çiğdem Bağcı 🔹 Intergroup contact in the context of mass immigration: Empirical evidence from Türkiye 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Çiğdem Bağcı

"Intergroup contact in the context of mass immigration: Empirical evidence from Turkey" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Çiğdem Bağcı, Sabancı University. The seminar is open for the publ...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 12 February, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @janalasser.bsky.social 🔹 Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Jana Lasser

"Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Jana Lasser, University of Graz and Complexi...

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us on Thursday, 5 February, at 14:30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Olof Ejermo 🔹 Motherhood penalty or daddy premium? Career effects of having children in Swedish academia 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

Analytical Sociology Seminar: Olof Ejermo

"Motherhood penalty or daddy premium? Career effects of having children in Swedish academia" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Olof Ejermo, Lund University. The seminar is open for the pub...

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