✨ 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 🥰
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
New paper out in Network Science🧵Why are conservative online news a niche phenomenon? Historical study of pre-Musk Twitter with
@martinarvidsson.bsky.social
@pablobellode.bsky.social
👇 doi.org/10.1017/nws....
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...
link.springer.com
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...
💰⚠️ Sedan förmögenhetsskatten avskaffades 2007 har vi inte kunnat mäta förmögenhetsojämlikheten i Sverige. Vi har ägnat det senaste decenniet åt att bygga upp ett nytt förmögenhetsregister. Nu vet vi hur det ser ut! Läs om våra resultat på DN Debatt 📈📉 - www.dn.se/debatt/allt-...
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social
"Luck and Predictability in the Life Course"
We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning
[Special Issue in Theory and Society]
Key Dates:
Abstracts: June 1, 2026
Full papers: December 31, 2026
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
A special issue of Social Networks on Agent-based modelling for social network research
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
The deadline to submit an 800-word extended abstract is approaching (1 April)
forms.gle/BqTts4hEQjEB...
Edited by me, Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács
www.annualreviews.org
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social:
Using Swedish full-population data, I show that exposure to religious pluralism through social ties is associated with a lower likelihood that parents baptize their child in the Church of Sweden 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
*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.
