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The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters.
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INAS 2025 at Columbia University: Don’t miss the February 17 deadline for abstract submission. inas.sociology.columbia.edu Organizers: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa & James Chu @womensforuminas.bsky.social

Join us virtually today at 15.30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: with Jürgen Pfeffer 🔹From Manipulated Data to Manipulated Democracy 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/202...

New research from Jesper Lindmarker PhD student at IAS together with @sd.se & @martinkolk.bsky.social. The study examines how marriage and cohabitation shape longevity across the life course, using Swedish register data. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New study by @hendrik-erz.de and Manika Lamba! Where they analyze acknowledgement sections of Master- and PhD-theses to determine which support systems get acknowledged, utilizing large language models to annotate a corpus of 1200 theses between 1960 and 2021 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

New study in Social Networks by @jlestevez.bsky.social & @carln.bsky.social

The call for the 2025 INAS conference at Columbia University is now open. Don’t forget to submit your abstract before February 17! inas.sociology.columbia.edu

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Tutorials deadline is just around the corner—Jan 17, 2025 Don’t miss your chance to shape the computational social science conversation in Norrköping, Sweden. Submit your tutorial proposal now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-tutorial Keynote announcements are coming soon!

IAS celebrates its first 10 years as an institute. Read more about what made founder Peter Hedström start up the institute, and thoughts from current director Maria Brandén on the future for IAS. liu.se/en/news-item...

Join us virtually on Thursday at 14.30 CET for the Analytical sociology seminar with Coren Apicella 🔹Evaluating the mechanisms that support the evolution of human cooperation: Data from Hadza hunter-gatherers 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

A new article by Eszter Vit, Federico Bianchi, Marco Castellani, and our colleague Károly Takács confirms that academic ambitions of students are influenced by friends and they try to adjust school achievement to match their friends’ achievement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join us virtually on Thursday at 14.30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @drtomemery.bsky.social 🔹Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/int...

Next week I am presenting at the IAS webinar on "Data infrastructure for the study of societal dynamics" @iasliu.bsky.social Subscribe to their webinar, its a fantastic series

We are hosting the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science in Sweden 🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN! 📍Norrköping | July 21-24, 2025 Call for Abstracts (until Feb 24) Call for Tutorials (until Jan 17) 🔗Explore details & submit: ic2s2-2025.org

We are excited to announce the call for contributions to the CSS and Language Technology workshop (part of SLTC2024) organized by SweCSS! 📍date & place: November 29, Linkoping 📆deadline: October 25 🗒️info and submission form: sites.google.com/view/css-lan...

Join us virtually today at 14.00 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Michèle Lamont from Harvard University! 🔹Seeing others: How recognition works and how it can heal a divided world🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Happy to announce also here: The 2025 INAS Conference will take place at Columbia University on June 5–6, 2025. The Women's Forum for Analytical Sociology is scheduled for June 4. analyticalsociology.com Thanks to the organizers James Chu & Gerard Torrats-Espinosa 👏

Join us virtually or on-site today at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Joseph Salukvadze from Tbilisi State University! 🔹Urban Transition in a Post-Communist City: The Case Study of Tbilisi, Georgia🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

📢 I am organising 2 sessions @ ISA forum in Rabat (6-11jul25). 1st endorsed by European Academy of Sociology is on open science. 2nd on micro-explanations of violence. Abstract deadline Oct15. Details 👇 Open science: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru... Violence: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru...

We are excited to share the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series in the fall of 2024 and welcome everyone to join!

⚡️New paper out in Sociological Methods & Research! Read the article on Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives by @mhbodell.bsky.social, @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Måns Magnusson here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring! IAS and Media & Information Technology division at LiU are hiring a PhD student to develop visualization techniques for understanding and mitigating segregation and urban inequality Apply before July 15: liu.se/en/work-at-l... More info: bit.ly/45Gugqj

Many of us from IAS had the pleasure of joining the INAS 2024 conference in Leipzig last week!

Join us virtually or on-site tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with Julie Vallée from CNRS, Paris! 🔹Daytime changes in urban segregation and neighbourhood composition according to people's daily mobility🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Congratulations to Miriam and the proud advisors✨

Warm congratulations to @mhbodell.bsky.social, who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘Mining for Meaning: Using Computational Text Analysis for Social Inquiry’! We are so proud of you, Dr Hurtado Bodell🥂🎓

The registration for NSA2024 is now open! 🔗Registration form: nsa2024.se 🥁Keynote speakers: Delia Baldassarri (New York University) & Jen Schradie @schradie.bsky.social (SciencesPo) 🗓️Early-bird deadline: June 10

SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word! liu.se/en/research/...

Join us virtually or on-site today at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Ronald S. Burt from the University of Chicago & Bocconi University! 🔹Guanxi and structural holes: Strong bridges from relational embedding🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually or on-site tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with @lewan.bsky.social from the University of Bristol! 🔹When liars are considered honest: The many faces of truth and honesty🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually or on-site tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Klarita Gërxhani from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! 🔹Competition and gender inequality: A comprehensive analysis of effects and mechanisms🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Stephen Raudenbush from the University of Chicago! 🔹All Causal Inference is Local: Sociological Thinking About Social Experiments🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually today at 15.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with Abdullah Almaatouq from the MIT Sloan School of Management! 🔹Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

We warmly congratulate @laurafursich.bsky.social who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis ‘The Urban Tapestry: Essays on the Relationship Between Social Networks and Residential Segregation’! Brilliant work, Dr Fürsich🥂🎓

Join us virtually or on-site tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Erin E. Leahey from the University of Arizona! 🔹Novelty and scientific influence🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually today at 14.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with Naja Hulvej Rod from the University of Copenhagen! 🔹Navigating Health Complexity: Insights from the Danish Life Course Cohort Study🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually today at 15.30 CET (note the time!) for the international roundtable on CSS with Lisa P. Argyle from Brigham Young University! 🔹Large Language Models in social science research🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Huge congratulations to Rodrigo Martínez Peña, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Complex Causality. Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research"! Excellent work, Dr. Martínez Peña🥂

Join us virtually today at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with @martinkolk.bsky.social from Stockholm University! 🔹Kinship, heritage and ethnic choice: Ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually today at 14.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with Katherine A. Keith from Williams College! 🔹Melding NLP and Causal Inference🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

Join us virtually or on-site tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the international roundtable on CSS with Marco Kuhlmann from Linköping University! 🔹Democratising Trustworthy and Efficient Large Language Model Technology for Europe🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

INAS 2024 in Leipzig: Submit your abstract until Feb. 16 www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-conf... We welcome quantitative, qualitative, experimental, and simulation-based research on social mechanisms and dynamics.

Join us virtually or on-site today at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with @kbkarlson.bsky.social from the University of Copenhagen! 🔹 Marriage and Intergenerational Inequality: Evidence from US Sisters and Brothers 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...

The Call for Abstracts for NSA 2024 is now open for submissions! ⌛️ Deadline | 29 February 2024 🔗 To submit: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/ns... 📄 More info about NSA 2024: www.nsa2024.se We are excited to see you in Norrköping this summer!

We are proud to announce that yesterday Erik Liss successfully passed his PhD defence! Huge congratulations to the newly-made Dr. Liss 🥂 📘 The Taller the Ladder, the Tougher the Climb? Essays on the impact of Income Inequality on intergenerational Mobility 🔗 liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

We are excited to share the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series in the spring of 2024 and welcome everyone to join!

⚡️New paper by Carl Norldund is out in PLOS ONE! Transformations, trajectories, and similarities of national production structures: A comparative fingerprinting approach 🔗 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

INAS is now inviting nominations for the Robert K. Merton Award of 2024!

New publication in the Research in Social Stratification and Mobility journal! Benjamin Jarvis, Monica Nordvik, and the late Rob Mare show how ethnic assortative mating both shapes and is shaped by residential segregation. 🔗 Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...