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.

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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3 weeks left to register your interest in our workshop on urban segregation computation with R. @erc-segue.bsky.social @rbanism.bsky.social Please circulate to anyone who might benefit from it (early career, outside dominant institutions or with less developed networks). erc-segue.nl/Workshop

The Women’s Forum at INAS once again will take place on the first day of the INAS Conference 2026 and is open to all conference participants. This half-day event will feature flash talks by junior scholars, followed by a panel discussion on inclusion, representation, and academic life.

✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰

Chapter 13: @jsaramak.bsky.social & @pholme.bsky.social on temporal networks of social interactions. A fascinating chapter showing why static network snapshots often miss the most important thing: the timing and order of interactions. Social networks are dynamic processes, not just fixed structures.

Taha Yasseri@tahayasseri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chapter 12: @fedebotta.bsky.social from @exetercompsci.bsky.social on online images and computational social science. A fascinating chapter on how images shared online can help us study politics, misinformation, culture, & collective behaviour and why visual data deserves a much bigger place in CSS.

Latest project on urban segregation and R is brewing. Please reach out if you'd like to take part!

ERC Project SEGUE@erc-segue.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On 9-13th Nov. 2026, we are going to host a *workshop on urban segregation computation with R*. Together, we want to identify and prioritise the methodological and technical developments needed to address big theoretical questions in the field of urban segregation. erc-segue.nl/Workshop

On 9-13th Nov. 2026, we are going to host a *workshop on urban segregation computation with R*. Together, we want to identify and prioritise the methodological and technical developments needed to address big theoretical questions in the field of urban segregation. erc-segue.nl/Workshop

👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io

Why do some minority groups organize around their ethnicity, while others do not? In a new study just out in AJS @amjsoc.bsky.social (w/@mschaeffer.bsky.social, S. Carol and S. Böller), we crunched data on over 25000 immigrant organizations for an answer. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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....

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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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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🧵 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)

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

Join us on Thursday, 29 January, at *13:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli (NYU Abu Dhabi) 🔹 The Science of Science... and its Human Side 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Bedoor AlShebli

"The science of science... and its human side" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. The seminar is open to...

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JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Now out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!

Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline

Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026

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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

The Women’s Forum will meet on July 1st in the afternoon and will host flash talks for junior scholars as well as a panel on women in academia. We hope to see you there!

The Institute for Analytical Sociology@iasliu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!

AJ Alvero@ajalvero.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not? Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884

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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My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

A long time in the making! This literature review aims to: 1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s); 2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices; ...

ERC Project SEGUE@erc-segue.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new article "Economic inequality and economic segregation: a systematic review of causal pathways" is now out in @sfjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

I'm happy to share that our team (@lecoursonnais.bsky.social, Maria Brandén, @martinhallsten.bsky.social and myself) has received 6.8M SEK in funding from the Swedish Research Council for our project: “Paths of Inequality: Life-Course Segregation Across Multiple Domains.”

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

🎓 New paper accepted today, on the intergenerational educational mobility among immigrants in Denmark! At first glance, immigrants seem more mobile than natives – but this is largely a data illusion. Poor register data quality drives the pattern. w/ @rlandersoe.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

If you are at the ODISSEI conference, check out our poster (#47) from the netreg.se project. @eliscl.bsky.social

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The Complete Network of Sweden - Swereg.net - is a research project concerned with the extraction and analysis of the complete network of social exposure between all individuals in Sweden.

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ODISSEI@odissei.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today is the day! Our annual ODISSEI Conference at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht! We’re looking forward to the whole day of insightful and inspiring discussions✨🙌🏻 #ODISSEI2025

Grateful to have received 4.7M funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for our project on understanding preschool attendance and its effects on educational inequalities in Sweden. Excited to work with an excellent team of Eriks: @erikrosenqvist.bsky.social and Erik Liss.

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a SEK2.7M Project Grant from @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social to study the dynamics of meaning divergence! 🎉