RDS for LA Youth Homeless! -- See Randall Kuhn's nice write up on my joint work with the USC team led by Amanda Landrian Gonzalez, PhD, MPH, the 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 team led by Robin Petering and Fatine Ait-Haddou and @ihsankahveci.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/posts/engbia...

L.A. County Tests New Approach to Counting Homeless Youth

L.A. County officials have a new approach for counting homeless youth: paying them to fill out a survey and then refer their peers.

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Congrats! UW PhD student Brandon Morande in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social: Seattle clears encampments and impounds vehicle residences not where homelessness is prevalent, but where property values rise, complaints climb, and (for vehicles) more Black residents live. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Check it out! www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/post... Data and methods/applied demography poster winner! 39 - Forced Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness: Housing and Movement Outcomes After Encampment Clearances Brandon Morande*; Kim Serry, Amy Hagopian, Zack Almquist

New paper with @ihsankahveci.bsky.social, Amy Hagopian and others at Social Networks - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... check it out!

Understanding the personal networks of people experiencing homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate relational data

Personal networks among people experiencing homelessness are vital but often overlooked. Drawing on a unique three-year data set (2022–2024) from over…

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If you are applying to ASA (@asanews.bsky.social), consider applying to my session - "Recent Advances in Mathematical Sociology"!! #mathsoc

Home page | American Sociological Association

Registration now openJoin us August 7-11 in New York City for the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting. Early Bird registration ends June 15.Our Plan for the FutureASA's

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📢 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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Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)? Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR... ▪️ All career stages welcome ▪️ All fields welcome ▪️ Be compensated for your time

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM. www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61... @ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️ Topics in Digital and Computational Demography 📅3-7 November 2025 💻Online 💸no tuition fee 📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025 www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025 @imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS! Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · last yr.

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL

Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out! Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation

The global response to climate change is negotiated through the UNFCCC’s Conferences of the Parties (COPs). Initially focused on reducing emissions from developed countries, the UNFCCC has shifted ...

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Does space matter? This week we are hosting an IMPRS-PHDS elective course on GIS and spatial analysis, led by our experts Stefan Leyk and @alekberg.bsky.social and attended by PHDS researchers and guests. We wish everyone a productive and exciting week of study!

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Zack Almquist@zalmquist.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS

Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...

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New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR)@vypr.bsky.social · last yr.

‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers. 🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053... #demography @oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social

Join @obi-belonging.bsky.social, @capolicylab.bsky.social and the Terner Center next Wednesday, March 12, at 4:30pm for "Rebuilding after Disaster." Experts will discuss the housing and equity implications of catastrophic events, disaster reconstruction and community resilience: lnkd.in/gpyZUVwW

The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience. You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

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Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting: rc28.soc.ucla.edu

The first draft of work co-authored on the sleep experience of people living unhoused is available on BioArxiv! This an important study on the sleep of different temporary housing for those experiencing homelessness -- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check it out!

Sleep in People Experiencing Homelessness Under Different Conditions and Seasons

Poor sleep represents a central health disparity for people experiencing homelessness, and any intervention to alleviate the impacts of homelessness should aim to improve sleep. We measured actimetry-...

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Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

Happy that @lausterna.bsky.social and my article "Housing shortages and doubled up households" for PlanCanada’s winter issue is out today. TL;DR: Prevalence of doubling up and high rents are two sides of the same coin: our housing shortage.

Housing shortages and doubled up households

Tracking doubled up households is useful in better understanding housing shortages, as well as benchmarking how much more housing is needed to fix them.

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I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!

Dilek Yildiz@dyildiz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna? Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis! YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️ iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...

I'm organizing a CenSoc Users Conference this Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider tuning in (all are welcome) to hear about some of the fascinating mortality research being done with these data. Full program and Zoom link: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CenSoc Users Conference Program

CenSoc Users Conference Meeting Information In-person: Demography Seminar Room, 310 Social Science Building Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95559957196 Date: December 6th Organizers Casey...

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#academicsky New preprint on the Social Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness. We surveyed more than 3k people experiencing homelessness, and included in this was a lot of detail about their social networks -- read about it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13517

Understanding the Personal Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate Relational Data

The social networks of people experiencing homelessness are an understudied but vital aspect of their lives, offering access to information, support, and safety. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Housin...

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New #publication by my student Larisa and her co-authors on trends in health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway in BMC Public Health - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Check it out!

Trends in the health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway according to month of arrival during 2022 - BMC Public Health

Background More than 35 000 refugees from Ukraine applied for temporary collective protection in Norway during 2022. Previous studies have shown that the refugees have poor health in several domains, ...

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Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8

For timeline zen...

New #publication out in SSR led by my recently graduated student Junhe Yang and co-authored with @juemos.bsky.social, "Political and educational dynamics behind the Evangelicals’ stance against mask mandates during COVID-19 in the U.S." find it here at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d