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Sociologist. Researching @institutmetropoli.cat. Pre @SociumBremen. PhD in Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social. Segregation dynamics, cities, complex systems.

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🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social

Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data.

Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

02.03.2026 16:15 👍 48 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
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Attention is all we have A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

open.substack.com/pub/davidbes...

05.02.2026 11:07 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tutorials and Resources – CSS @ IP-Paris Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.

What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents?

We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.

We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...

27.01.2026 15:16 👍 48 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 4
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Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

19.12.2025 16:37 👍 58 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 7
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🚀 Oportunitat professional a l’Institut Metròpoli!

Busquem un/a Responsable de Serveis Jurídics per incorporar-se al nostre equip!

📣 Coneixes algú que pugui encaixar amb aquest perfil? Comparteix la publicació o etiqueta’l/la!

📌 Més informació: lnkd.in/eJXj42UC

23.01.2026 07:09 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

19.01.2026 10:42 👍 38 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford.

The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology.

Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

15.12.2025 12:33 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) 2026

The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/

09.12.2025 15:13 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

13.01.2026 15:38 👍 661 🔁 283 💬 25 📌 60
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B01 - Multilevel Models
Statistical Rethinking 2026 - Lecture B01 - Multilevel Models YouTube video by Richard McElreath

Statistical Rethinking 2026 Lecture B01 Multilevel Models is online. This is the first lecture of the "experienced" section, in which we start with multilevel models and venture into vast covariance spaces. Full lecture list still here: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

09.01.2026 10:34 👍 97 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
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We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

08.01.2026 20:26 👍 121 🔁 58 💬 10 📌 9
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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 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

12.12.2025 17:14 👍 44 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 4
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Theory, Metaphor, Narrative: How Science Creates the Stories it Tells PHILIP BALL | Science is often not a competition between theories but a process of narrative creation in which the paradigm tends to be set by the most persuasive narrative

I wrote a piece for Marginalia Review of Books, based on a talk earlier this year, about the role of narratives in science - something that I think deserves more attention than it gets.
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/theory-...

08.12.2025 21:52 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 4
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Analytical Sociology Seminar: Per Engzell Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with Per Engzell from University College London. Patrons, protégés, and peers: Workplace mechanisms of intergenerational inequality. The seminar is open for th...

Join us on Thursday, 11 December, at 14:30 CET for the last Analytical Sociology Seminar of the term with @pengzell.bsky.social 🔹 Patrons, Protégés, and Peers: Workplace Mechanisms of Intergenerational Inequality 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

05.12.2025 09:21 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3
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James D Watson: a cautionary tale There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson (1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many years, Watson was one of the ...

I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

03.12.2025 18:47 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 4
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Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?

You can now find out in AJS.

Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

24.11.2025 12:03 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0

A long time in the making!

This literature review aims to:
1/ illuminate the (multi-)causal connection between economic inequality and economic segregation in the current (segmented) literature(s);
2/ foster the use of up-to-date comparable indices;
...

25.11.2025 11:21 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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What Good Are the Humanities? This is the title of a recorded talk (2017) and essay by Talbot Brewer, professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia. He proceeds to answer this question by first elucidating what the huma…

It's been three (!) years since I last posted something on my blog, but you still gotta love cells, as they say... so here's a little piece discussing philosopher Talbot Brewer's talk/essay "What Good Are the Humanities?"
lovecells.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/w...
#philsky 💙📚

25.11.2025 09:52 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

I was going to ask if someone knows of a comprehensive archive of US state policies that changed over the last 50 years.

But then I remembered there's this: ippsr.msu.edu/public-polic...

So now I'm posting it here for everyone's benefit instead

21.11.2025 09:05 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165

13.11.2025 08:23 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way
🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

24.10.2025 14:04 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations, Hendrik! 🥳

20.10.2025 11:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

🧵 1/7

10.10.2025 09:01 👍 992 🔁 194 💬 24 📌 94
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@joanchecarius.bsky.social i jo hem publicat a Population, Space and Place un article que analitza com la distribució territorial de l’oferta educativa i la mobilitat de l’alumnat construeixen desigualtats i oportunitats a la metròpolis de Barcelona:
🔗https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70107

Obrim fil...

01.10.2025 08:21 👍 14 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2
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🙌 Polítiques de #barri i eines de planificació local de #seguretat, sumar esforços o sectorialitzar?

Taula de luxe, moderada per @tinainalaina.bsky.social en la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat".

🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

22.09.2025 07:46 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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🙌 Com incorporem els indicadors de #seguretat i #convivència als instruments de planificació local i de #barris? En parlem a la jornada "Barris i polítiques públiques de seguretat", moderada per Àlex Giménez de la Prada.

🔗https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/noticias/jornada-barris-seguretat-25/

25.09.2025 08:05 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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La revista @jpdemocracia.bsky.social nos publica un artículo sobre juzgados especializados en violencia de género y la necesaria territorialización del sistema público de justicia

Con @jmartinoy.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @institutmetropoli.cat y +

www.academia.edu/144128065/Ju...

24.09.2025 18:38 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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🔝 Acabem de publicar la revista #Papers 67!!! Aquesta edició posa el focus en els #barris i les polítiques públiques de #seguretat.

📍 El 30/09, la @mmurri.bsky.social presenta el monogràfic en la jornada que celebrem al Hub Social. Si vols, però, ja pots consultar-la online:

🔗 bit.ly/Papers-67

18.09.2025 09:55 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
On the Record: Understanding a Century of Congressional Lawmaking through Speech and Vote Behavior

My thesis is now published!

liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

17.09.2025 10:48 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0