✨ We’re excited to announce the Fall 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Seminars take place every Thursday and are open to all! #AcademicSky #CSS #socsky #sociology

Kicking off #EUSN2026 here in Norrköping! 🇸🇪 We're so excited to welcome everyone for the pre-conference day. Registration is running smoothly, and attendees are already participating in some fantastic workshops to bridge their knowledge gaps! You can find full program at liu.se/en/event/eus...

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.

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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...

⏰ Early-bird registration for EUSN 2026 closes April 30, 2026. Still time to secure the discounted rate — register now!

A new paper w Manzo, Birkelund & Raub is out in Rationality and Society: 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... Taking the opportunity of the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology (www.european-academy-sociology.eu), the statement assesses current challenges for the discipline ...

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Shaping the Future of european Sociology The European Academy of Sociology is a distinguished fellowship of scholars dedicated to advancing excellence in sociology. Bringing together expertise from di...

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📢 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.... 🧵👇

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026

How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

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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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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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How does social influence shape collective outcomes? When does it lead to lock-in on inferior options? In our 🚨 new preprint 📝 osf.io/preprints/so... we make three contributions w/ @alexgelas.bsky.social Alex Jochim @leostnbrk.bsky.social Peter Steiglechner & @pantelispa.bsky.social 🧵1/4

🧵 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)

⏰ The abstract deadline for EUSN 2026 has been extended to March 5, 2026! You now have a few extra days to submit your abstract: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...

⏰ Reminder: The EUSN 2026 abstract deadline is March 1, 2026 — just around the corner. Submit your abstract now!

EUSN Conference 2026@eusnconference.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣 📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden. 📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu... ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026

Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate? New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens. We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often. www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io

CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science

A NetSci 2026 Satellite

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📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Chapter 5: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, Hedström, Jarvis & @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social on the intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science. Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In Chapter 4, Ralph Schroeder of @oii.ox.ac.uk argues that CSS needs a stronger theory, not just better data. He proposes an AI-driven model of media agenda-setting that links media visibility, public attention, and political change. A big step toward cumulative media theory.

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

Huge congratulations to @eliscl.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contagious Secularization: Social Influence and Membership Dynamics in Religious Organizations”! Excellent work, Dr. Carlberg Larsson 🥂

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣 📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden. 📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu... ⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉 We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics. Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!

🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist? How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅 🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆 👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects 🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

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 · 11mo 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...

📢 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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Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021? You can now find out in AJS. Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📢 The deadline to submit workshop and session proposals to EUSN 2026 has been extended till 9 December! ℹ️ For more information, see: liu.se/en/event/eus... 📝 Please send your submissions to: eusn2026@liu.se