Great long-term postdoc opportunity UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG for blending computational & qualitative methods! Open not just to CSS or DH people, but also to other fields like digital journalismn and related.

Plus: great colleagues, engaged students, and a highly supportive environment.

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods uni-leipzig.de/en/university/… Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5

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

Please send in your abstracts for the Nordic Sociological Association Conference in Norrköping, organized by Analytical Sociology this year! liu.se/en/research/ns…

It is this time of the year again:
The International Network of Analytical Sociology is inviting nominations for the *2024 Robert K. Merton Award*
🧠Neha Gondal of Boston University chairs the committee🙂
analyticalsociology.com/?view=article&…

The conference will feature a women’s event on May 29 to establish a Women’s Forum for Analytical Sociology----organized by Amalia Alvarez @[email protected], Selcan, and Eva Vriens

The 2024 Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists will take place May 30–31, 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. Please visit our conference website sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/en/inas-confer…
The call for submissions is now open (until Feb. 16). Happy to hear from you!

This is the second job I've seen at the intersection of qual and comp methods 🔥❤️

'Bridging the gap between [qual] and [quant] social research is more important than ever, as is addressing new ethical challenges in research and teaching in the age of artificial intelligence.'

Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative methods and computational social science
uni-leipzig.de/en/university/…
Fans of Laura K. Nelson | @[email protected], Achim Edelmann, Sophie Mützel, Simon Lindgren, Étienne Ollion etc, please get in touch with me. Deadline Oct 15

Sweden’s excellence initiative grants Analytical Sociology 2.4 million euros to strengthen *theory-driven computational social science* vr.se/english/just-n…
Excited applicants Peter Hedstrom, Maria Brandén, Marc Keuschnigg, Marco Kuhlmann, Jose Peña, Jacob Habinek thank Vetenskapsrådet

I am pleased to announce that #INAS24 will take place in Leipzig, Germany.
Stay tuned analytical sociologists!

Grateful for the wonderful 2 days we spent in Princeton thanks to Filiz Garip and Delia Baldassarri. At #INAS I always feel part of a great community

We started an awesome-list for computational social science GESIS. Everyone can contribute and help to make this list truly awesome! github.com/gesiscss/aweso…

Courses + networking for PhD students interested in analytical sociology + computational social science

Research Highlights out today! We highlight a Nature Human Behaviour study by Martin Arvidsson 🇺🇦, Niclas Lovsjö and Marc Keuschnigg on how the city heavy tails contribute to urban scaling laws. nature.com/articles/s4358…

👉rdcu.be/c6uUA

Nominations for the Merton Award for best analytical sociology paper are open until April 15.

“Nominations, including self-nominations, are encouraged for papers on any topic related to analytical sociology, published … during 2021 and 2022”

Our new research (with Marc Keuschnigg and Arnout van de Rijt) was covered in this interesting piece by Simon Kuper for the Financial Times: 'The one per cent are not as clever as they think'

ft.com/content/f716be…

Our experiment created networks with and without political echo chambers. Echo chambers helped false info spread, and impeded true info.

Open access: doi.org/10.1038/s41598…
Joint work w Jonas Stein & Marc Keuschnigg

Thank you all for your interest in our wage & cognitive ability study.
Here's our press release: eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
Open access article: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jc…
And the replication package: osf.io/8tdfu/
ESR | Marc Keuschnigg | Arnout van de Rijt | Thijs Bol

What an honor to see the team behind BBC‘s comedy show QI [Quite Interesting] interested in our research: