Next week (March 30th) we'll have another review round for our traineeship programme! It's not too late to apply for this round! More info & apply: odissei-soda.nl/traineeship/

Here are 13 sociology PhD studentships in 4 Dutch universities. Projects include educational inequality, ethnic discrimination, intergenerational transmission of gender inequality, boardroom quotas and gender. ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

Applying for an NWO XS grant? Wondering how your plans can benefit from the digital research infrastructure for social sciences? Feel free to reach out to us! ODISSEI offers grant application support to help you further improve your proposal: odissei-data.nl/en/grant-appli…

📢 ODISSEI is HIRING! 🥁 We are looking for a Project Manager who, in close collaboration with the rest of the Coordination Team, will have a key role in strategically developing ODISSEI and the social sciences. Find the vacancy below and please share! academictransfer.com/en/326969/odis…

📢 CfP for our Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2023 in Utrecht, NL! We are very pleased to share that confirmed keynote speakers are professors David Lazer and Linnet Taylor. Proposals for papers should be submitted by 30 June: odissei-data.nl/en/2023/04/cal…

Are you interested in learning about Network Science? Join our summer school July 10-14th utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/social…

Really enjoying this session!

📢ODISSEI Conference 2023 Call for Papers still open! 📝Social scientists of all career stages and disciplines, submit your proposals now and be part of this exciting event! 🔑Keynote speakers: Professors David Lazer & Linnet Taylor. Deadline: 30 June. odissei-data.nl/en/2023/04/cal…

Had a fantastic time teaching this workshop on methods for estimating causal effects of policy interventions with Erik-Jan van Kesteren for @SoDa_nl ODISSEI. All materials are available online at causalpolicy.nl Thanks to all of the participants for the lively discussions!

Quick recap of day 4⃣ at the #SICSS - ODISSEI summer school! Participants received a workshop on causal impact analysis and a comprehensive introduction to network analysis by @SoDa_nl's Erik-Jan van Kesteren & Javier Garcia-Bernardo (@javiergbe.bsky.social). #sicss2023

Follow us here and on our new #akademienl social account!!! akademienl.social/@odissei_soda

Nice example of Bayesian multi-level modelling with well-articulated links between real-world narrative and mathematical model. Implementation is in Stan. degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Official ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

📰 Quick announcement! Carlos has joined our team as Team assistant. That means that we will be increasing our activity on social media! 📈 So if you don’t still follow us, we invite you to do it! Stay tuned for social science content, blogposts and other announcements.

📊 Digital trace data is everywhere. For instance, data recorded by platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, or online sellers. ❓ Ever wondered how to use this data for your own research? 👉 Check out our new blogpost! odissei-soda.nl/tutorials/post… 🧵

📝Do you want to carry out your own social science project? Are you an early career researcher? (recently finished master, PhD candidate or early-career Postdoc) ➡You should check out the SoDa fellowship! odissei-soda.nl/fellowship/ 🧵

📢From December, we have a new team member: Nadya Ali, who joins our team as a SoDa Fellow. 📚Nadya is doing a PhD in Neuropsychology at Tilburg University. During her stay at ODISSEI SoDa , she'll be working on the effects of poverty on children's brain development. 👫Welcome, Nadya!

New #rstats package! For a project, I had to implement penalized #SyntheticControl; I thought it'd be nice to do it "properly" so others could use it too. github.com/vankesteren/pe… Also has basic cross-validation to determine the penalty parameter. #CausalInference #Statistics