A great group of researchers from Hungary have joined Analytical Sociology You can read their story here: liu.se/en/news-item/r…

Fresh Keuschnigg-stuff on 'scaling trajectories of cities': pnas.org/content/pnas/e… #scaling #urbanscaling

Sunsets over Santa Fe are the best

The paper I did with anders holm and Mads Meier Jæger on the signalling effects of GPA has hit the ESR. MZ twin diffs suggest that students, especially low-SES ones base educational decisions in part on grades, regardless of underlying ability.

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Very cool stuff, and more to come, from the dj!

Articles in high-impact journals are highly cited. But why? Are they somehow "better"? Or is it just because they are published in a high-impact journal? The causality is difficult to establish, but in my latest preprint I find: it's both. arxiv.org/abs/1912.08648 (1/8)

"An excellent opportunity to think beyond the narrow domains of your research interests..." - Ketika Garg, PhD Student, UC Merced Applications are open for the 2020 SFI Graduate Workshop in Computational #SocialScience: santafe.edu/gwcss #Research #Science #Economics

As a premier tool to find latent structures in #networks, #blockmodeling struggles with valued networks. Using an adaptive correlation measure, Carl Nordlund proposes a novel solution in a recent SocNetJ article doi.org/10.1016/j.socn…

My team shows that complex economic activities increasingly concentrate in large cities Nature Human Behaviour. Spatial inequality is a defining feature of complex economic systems. It's time to re-think policy actions for the 4th industrial revolution. tinyurl.com/vmfrw3c

quantamagazine.org/steven-strogat…

My op-ed at FT: Moneyball was never about data analytics as many assumed, but about taking advantage of other's misattribution of luck. ft.com/content/5f0afa…

scientificamerican.com/article/how-di…

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Thrilled and proud that PNASNews published our study Today: The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science. Find it here: pnas.org/content/early/…. GitHub: github.com/bhofstra/diver…. Short primer: bashofstra.com/diversity-inno…. 1/n

This was the last week for my network epistemology class (sad emoji). We focused on models of citation networks, the network formed by how papers cite other papers. This is an enormous literature, so we focused on one question: why might citations fail to track quality?

We are proud to announce that IAS researcher Selcan is scheduled to present on this very impressive @ASANews computational sociology panel. Although #ASA2020 will not meet in #SanFrancisco, social science goes on!

We’re currently recruiting a PhD student in Computational Social Science. This is full-time, fully-funded, four-year position in our research group. Deadline: 30 June. More info: liu.se/en/work-at-liu… Enquiries welcome.