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🧪 arXiv began as a side project to share physics preprints. Now it underpins global science, with 2.6M+ papers and 5M users monthly. Its founder, Paul Ginsparg, still can’t walk away. or stop tinkering with it.

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Take that, Max Weber: Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Learn more about our ASA 2025 Annual Meeting host city, Chicago! Get the latest issue of ASA’s Footnotes Magazine, including the regional spotlight piece “The City at 100: A Volume and its Afterlives” by Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker, University of New Orleans @jnparker.bsky.social https://bit.ly/41ZRxTA

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Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against domestic travel -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

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Our paper is out now in @europeansocreview.bsky.social. We trace residential choices and find that proximity to old classmates matters—but other networks can displace their influence.

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Join us virtually for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with Loïc Wacquant on Thursday, March 6, at 14:30 CET 🔹A Historicist-Analytical Approach to Racial Domination 🔹More info: liu.se/en/event/202...

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Just wrapped up a week at CSH in one of my favorite cities. Until next time!

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🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.

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@hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Ergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen & den rund 4400 Gemeindeverbänden ausgewertet. Unsere Ergebnisse vom Montag und zahlreiche neue gibt es nun als Blogbeitrag für @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social. Thread 🧵👇. www.politik-wissenschaft.org/2025/02/28/a...

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Sehr beeindruckender Datenjournalismus: Die Zeitungen von Ippen haben bereits die Bundestagswahlergebnisse auf Gemeindeebene zusammengetragen (@fr-zeitung.bsky.social): www.fr.de/politik/alle...

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❄️ Halfway through the CSH Winter School – and what a journey it’s been! 26 participants from 20 institutions have explored topics from power laws to how cities shape economic diversity. But they’re not just learning—they’re applying complexity science! Looking forward to the presentations on Friday

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Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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Below is a thread of federal government data being taken down this week. 🧵 It’s a growing list. Feel free to add others I’ve missed. #federaldata #governmentdata #datapurge

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Retirement may be closer than I thought: If there’s no government data to analyze, econometrics becomes a lot less useful.

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If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

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The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago is now on Bluesky! Follow this account to stay in touch with our initiatives, programs, and research.

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I tried to lose the metaphor of levels in sociological theory, but apparently, the journal lost the paper's abstract. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

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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...

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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Join us as an Associate Professor in Social Demography, in association with @stjohnsox.bsky.social. We're open to a range of specialisations: family, fertility, gender, migration, population health, inequalities & more 🌍 Apply now ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

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How Do Social Network Features Shape Segregation? My new preprint is now out on SocArXiv: osf.io/preprints/so...

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How can social networks help us understand residential segregation? Learn more about my dissertation and postdoc work here: liu.se/en/news-item...

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I just found out today that there was not yet a starter pack for Analytical Sociology. With so many new people on the platform, I decided to create one so that you can follow analytical sociologists with one click! If you want to be added/removed, please send a DM/comment go.bsky.app/2X5b3ZL

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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 👏

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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/...

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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🥂🎓

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

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IAS made it over here. Follow along @iasliu.bsky.social and join the NSA conference in Norrköping next year

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Two great PhD opportunities with @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social

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CREST is hiring! Assistant or associate professor, any area of sociology, hmu if you want all the details. crest.science/wp-content/u...

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Just updated our preprint on causal inference and Bayesian modelling for complex panel data using Dynamic Multivariate Panel Models (DMPMs): osf.io/preprints/so... R package dynamite for estimating DMPMs: docs.ropensci.org/dynamite/ @invest-flagship.bsky.social #rstats #stats #metasci

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