We (@angelaguerrero.bsky.social @michelelbarnes.bsky.social @krivitsky.net) are looking a number of #PhD and paid #ResearchAssistant positions to work on #SocialNetworkAnalysis for #DisasterPreparedness. Details and links below. Please share with anyone potentially interested.

#rstats 📦 {ergm} 4.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It's mostly bug fixes and incremental improvements, but the one you're most likely to notice is that most long-running routines now provide nice progress bars via {cli}, so you aren't left hanging. Other major changes at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .

#rstats 📦 {ergm} 4.11.0 is now on #CRAN. It looks like I never posted the highlights for the 4.10.0 release, so I'll just list them together. As always, major changes at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... . Enjoy!

Initial release of #Rstats 📦 {piecemeal} for wrangling large simulation studies is now on #CRAN . A demo here: cran.r-project.org/package=piec... . I believe that brings me up to 10. 😅

#rstats 📦 {latentnet} 2.12.0 is now on #CRAN. It implements a long-requested feature for fitting count networks (interactions, co-occurrences, etc.) using a binomial model. Different pairs of actors can now have different binomial "trials". Full news at cran.r-project.org/package=late... .

Looking forward to this!

Alejandro Espinosa-Rada@aespinosarada.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to announce the Social Network Summer School 🇨🇱! 📅 Jan 12–16, 2026 | Santiago, Chile Keynotes: @estebanmoro.bsky.social & @krivitsky.net @insna.bsky.social & @netscisociety.bsky.social Apply by Oct 5 👉 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

To work around Whova app's apparent inability to actually tell you what talks (not sessions!) are coming up next, I've extracted the list of all upcoming @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social talks sorted by the talk's (not the session's!) start time: krivitsky.net/sunbelt2025/ . Feel free to share around.

Version 1.1.3 of {ergm.ego}, a #rstats 📦 for #ergm modelling of #egodata, is now on #CRAN. This is mostly a bugfix and optimisation release. Details at cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .

#ergm 4.9.0 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN . This release improves robustness, introduces or improves some valued ERGM terms, and provides a more flexible way to specify parameters and target statistics. As always, see cran.r-project.org/package=ergm... .

We're #hiring! This is a tenure-track #job in a #spatial #statistics cluster at #UNSW Maths & Stats. Applications close soon (1 July, Australian time!), so please share this with the spatial statisticians in your life! See external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53... for details.

Next #rstats 📦 up on #CRAN is {statnet.common} 4.12.0. It is, as always, a hodgepodge of functions and methods used throughout the #statnet project packages. @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy contributed to this release. Release notes are, as always, at cran.r-project.org/web/packages... .

{rle} 0.10.0 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN. {rle} aims to make run-length-encoded objects from base::rle() transparently behave as if they were the vectors they encode for arithmetic, indexing, summary, and other purposes. This release introduces subsetting by positive numeric indices.

Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n

While setting up yet another large #simulationstudy in which some replications result in an error, the total runtime is not completely predictable for an #HPC #parallelcomputing job, etc., I drafted an #rstats package for wrangling such simulations: github.com/krivit/piece... . Feedback appreciated!

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Network Analysis #rstats #dataviz By Fabio Ashtar Telarico, Pavel N. Krivitsky @krivitsky.net, James Hollway @jhollway.bsky.social URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Network...

Save the date for the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference 2025! When: 27-28 November 2025 (Workshops 26 November) Where: Byron Bay | Arakwal Bumberlin Country, NSW, Australia Venue: Byron Bay Community Centre Theater, 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay #ASNAC2025 #Socialnetworkanalysis

With abstract deadline for @insna.bsky.social Sunbelt2025.org conference coming up, Michael Schweinberger, Johan Koskinen, and I are welcoming submission to our organised session on Sampled and Missing Network Data. (See assets.noviams.com/novi-file-up... for description.)

Australian Network for Social Network Analysis is now on @bsky.app. Follow us for news about #networks down under! #SocialNetworks #SNA #SocialNetworkAnalysis #NetworkScience

#ergm 4.8.1 #rstats 📦 is on #CRAN, the first release since I started posting to @bsky.app. This release brings some interesting new network statistics, as well as bug fixes and API streamlining. As always, see cran.r-project.org/web/packages....

New year, new web site! After 3 years of neglect, I rewrote my krivitsky.net home page into something hopefully nicer looking, better organised, and more maintainable. A big thank you to everybody who provided feedback on earlier versions!

Pavel N. Krivitsky

I work with statisticians, social scientists, and epidemiologists to develop powerful techniques for understanding and predicting social structure, and I develop flexible and user-friendly open-source...

krivitsky.net

A product of an unexpected collaboration with @dddtc.bsky.social, David Krackhardt, and Pat Doreian (doi.org/10.1371/jour...) gets a press release. An excuse to name-check Jaynes (1957) was a nice bonus.

Balance correlations, agentic zeros, and networks: The structure of 192 years of war and peace

Social network extensions of Heider’s balance theory have led to a plethora of adaptations, often inconsistent with Heider and each other. We present a general model that permits the description and t...

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Heriot-Watt News@heriotwattnews.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Neutrality has played a pivotal, but under-examined, role in international relations, new research led by Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University shows. More here: tinyurl.com/4b2ws8ck #HeriotWattUni #Diplomacy #InternationalRelations #EduSky #AcademicSky

It appears that the 256 character limit for profiles has brought out my inner rebus composer.