📢We are hiring a PhD student to work on social networks and health behaviors. Deadline: Jan 17. Please re-tweet 🙏 DM me or email me if interested. (PI: me @karolinskainst; Co-PI: Karoly Takacs @IAS_LiU , Catarina Almqvist, Paul Lichtenstein) https://t.co/rZlr5pi5Mo
Warm congratulations to Károly Takács and the team for being awarded 5M SEK by @Vetenskapsradet to study mechanisms behind ethnic differences in school achievement 🎒🏅
Co-applicants: @selcanmutgan@ErikRosenqvist@ChSteglich@MartaRado Dorottya Kisfalusi
& Maria Brandén
New paper is out in @SociologicalSci! @selcanmutgan and @JonathanMijs study income inequality and segregation in Sweden 🇸🇪 to examine if they are as strongly related as the US-based 🇺🇸 empirical evidence suggests
Read the paper: 🔗https://t.co/WFsxax8xrY
An application round for the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science based at IAS is now open!
- Elective courses & networking in the emerging field of CSS
- 10.5 ECTS
- Deadline: April 3
Apply here:
https://t.co/pYdzFvSEqf
As a part of the Research School in CSS*, IAS is running a Norrköping branch of SICSS!
- on 12-22 June 2023
- for PhD students, postdocs & untenured faculty
- apply before April 3
More info: https://t.co/pmdaEq2AXY
A new paper by @MarcKeuschnigg, Jonas Stein & @arnoutvanderijt is out in Nature Scientific Reports!
Based on the evidence from online experiments, the study shows that ideologically aligned networks facilitate the spread of misinformation
Read here: https://t.co/I9dEQasHuF
⚡️The International Network of Analytical Sociology has announced the call for abstracts for the 15th INAS conference!
The event will take place on 8-9 June 2023 at Princeton University, USA
Abstracts due February 26: https://t.co/B6JUBcbaNp
More info: https://t.co/jEG3pwmU83
In the LLM-science discussion, I see a common misconception that science is a thing you do and that writing about it is separate and can be automated. I’ve written over 300 scientific papers and can assure you that science writing can’t be separated from science doing. Why? 1/18
-Pls RT-
Registration is still open for the 13th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis in Groningen, The Netherlands. It will take place 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2023; teacher will be me & Tom Snijders.
https://t.co/MyHBogqpG7
Open yourself up to the idea that Bach wrote a comic mini-opera about coffee and café culture. A German friend sent me this excellent performance of the Coffee Cantata. I thrust it into your timeline to push back the darkness. Tea drinkers are excused. https://t.co/rlDsFTjN9s
Finally, we release the fish into the big pond!
We're thrilled to announce package goldfish is on CRAN!
This results from several years of development at @sn_ethz with @marion_hof, @c_stadtfeld, and James Hollway.
Check it out #RStats#Network
@em_lazega A very good question, Emmanuel! Disarray on my part plays a big role, I am sad to admit. The manuscript of the textbook is the bottleneck, to be finished this summer, finally. Then the edited volume will be taken up again.
"Stochastic network modeling as generative social science" : I am happy that this chapter with #TomSnijders is out now, part of the open-access Gërxhani/deGraaf/Raub-edited "Handbook of Sociological Science". https://t.co/tFJ2TkC5g8