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Aliakbar Akbaritabar
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Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock and @mpidr.bsky.social | Computational Social Science | Migration | Social Networks | Scientometrics | Sociology of Science | https://akbaritabar.github.io/ | #firstgen
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Aliakbar Akbaritabar @akbaritabar.bsky.social · Apr 11
I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org:

“Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025
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tahayasseri.bsky.social
We're hiring 2 Assistant Professors of Sociology: Gender and Sexuality and Environmental Sociology. At @tcdsociology.bsky.social, we aspire to be a method-agnostic group of solution-oriented sociologists. Join our welcoming community at @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social. Deadline 1 Dec. Link in the comment.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
Call for Papers!

Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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dakotamurray.bsky.social
I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab at UAlbany for Fall 2026!

We are data scientists studying the creation, flow, and impact of information. How do scientists collaborate? How does AI shape information access? What drives local innovation?

Want to answer these questions? details below!
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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aaronclauset.bsky.social
Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week

I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital

aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...
Slide title: "network effects in scientific labor" networks mediate most scientific activities: 1. scientific training, hiring, collaboration, teaching, attention, peer review, etc. 2. networks act like a form of unequally distributed social capital a productive collaborator --> increases your productivity a prominent collaborator --> increases your prominence How much does who you work with impact your productivity and prominence? Slide title: "model checking". Shows the results of applying our probabilistic generative from Li et al. Nature Communications (2022) for estimating individual productivity and prominence parameters from observed collaboration network data. This "nets out" the network, and estimates individual levels of activity. Left figure is joint distribution of productivity lambda and prominence theta, showing productivity is tightly concentrated around 0.42 papers/year, while prominence has a long tail, with most mid-career scientists (we studied 200,000 from 6 STEM fields) have very low prominence. Right figure shows pairwise correlation matrix of measures like number of papers, number of citations, lambda, theta, having a high-lambda coauthor, and having a high-theta coauthor. Strong correlation between your own number of papers and having a high-lambda (very productive) coauthor, etc. Good sanity checks for the model. Slide title "gender vs. productivity & prominence" Notes decades of past work showing a "productivity gap" between men and women, in which men publish more papers and receive more citations over time. But, after "netting out" their collaboration networks, we find no gender difference at all between individual productivity and individual prominence, implying that it's difference in who men and women work with (the size and composition of their collaboration networks) that drives the observed gap in productivity, not differences at the individual level. Slide title "how important is who you work with?" This is a wrap-up slide from the end of the talk: networks act like unequally distributed social capital in science they mediate our scientific attention, evaluation, and collaboration differences in collaboration networks can explain gendered differences in productivity & prominence early-career productivity & prominence what else? can we intervene in these networks to mitigate inequalities? funds for new collaborations, eg, after parenthood? early-career fellowships to work with elite senior coauthors?
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
akbaritabar.bsky.social
Very glad to see this collaborative work w/ Robin Haunschild and @lutzb.bsky.social published in Journal of Informetrics

"A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented"

Open Access here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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vtraag.bsky.social
The leidenalg package is now also updated and now supports igraph 1.0. github.com/vtraag/leide... You can download and install using pip. The conda package will be updated shortly.
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jschoeley.com
3 full-time positions on Probabilistic Migration Modeling at University of @helsinki.fi in collaboration with @mpidr.bsky.social and Mikko Myrskylä.

DM me if you want to know more, as I'm part of the project. Definitely DM me if you heard of conformal prediction

www.vaestoliitto.fi/en/news/post...
Postdoctoral Researchers in Demography and Population Projections
The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Väestöliitto – Family Federation of Finland and the University of Helsinki invite applications for three positions as Postdoctoral research fellow to study…
www.vaestoliitto.fi
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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archive.org
Watch: archive.org/details/the-...
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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ekotov.pro
This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...
tutorial screenshot: flow map shows migration of scientists on a world map tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio scholarly migration database
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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cwts.nl
📣 Special seminar on 'Perspectives on the evaluation of science', with Emanuel Kulczycki, @alesiazuccala557.bsky.social, and Jochen Gläser.

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday, 31.10.2025
🕐 1:00-3:00 PM (CET)
📌 Online & at CWTS

More information 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Special Seminar: Perspectives on the evaluation of science
We are delighted to host a special seminar featuring the members of Eleonora Dagiene’s external PhD committee, held the day after her PhD defence. This session will bring together three distinguished ...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
Job Offer: PhD Student Position
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the
@mpidr.bsky.social +
@imprs-phds.bsky.social
invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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ikashnitsky.phd
Fantastic discussion lecture at @mpidr.bsky.social by @rmcelreath.bsky.social 😍

I cannot agree more with @ezagheni.bsky.social who introduced the guest as a true renaissance scientist of today 💎

Very thought provoking. I hope it will add to the collection of those "embarrassing" YouTube footage 🙃
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
💻Join online! 🎧
Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Putting Science Before #Statistics
🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig
📅Oct 21, 2025
🕒3 pm CEST
✏️Sign up now:
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October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
akbaritabar.bsky.social
Can confirm this was a very interesting talk and the set of tools and infrastructure offered by GESIS is fascinating.
gesis.org GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Oct 9
#ASConference25
Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data.

as25.sociology.uni-m...
October 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🎉Congrats Aliakbar Akbaritabar🎉We are happy to announce that @akbaritabar.bsky.social took up his new position as Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Rostock. His position is a collaboration between the University and @mpidr.bsky.social.
ow.ly/XI4Z50X7zEO
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
akbaritabar.bsky.social
I am delighted to share that as of October 1, 2025, I have started my new position as an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor in German) of Computational Social Science with a joint appointment at the University of Rostock's Institute of Sociology and Demography and MPI-DR @mpidr.bsky.social .
October 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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lucampesando.bsky.social
📢 Job: @loraulet.bsky.social and I are hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join us at #NYUAD to work on fertility (including through technology), human capital, and employment trajectories in comparative perspective. Econ/demg/soc. Expertise with online surveys, RCTs, experiments.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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vtraag.bsky.social
Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived! 🎉 This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can rely on with confidence. For more detail, see igraph.org/2025/09/20/i...
C/igraph 1.0.0
Nearly twenty years after the first igraph release, igraph 1.0 has finally arrived. This release focuses on providing a stable and more consistent interface that users and downstream maintainers can r...
igraph.org
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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i2sc.net
In the afternoon, @theiletom.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social) guided participants through a hands-on tutorial on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager, where everyone had the chance to set up and run their own data collection.
September 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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i2sc.net
On the third day of SICSS Saarbrücken, we had the pleasure of learning from @ezagheni.bsky.social (@mpidr.bsky.social), who shared his expertise on “𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎”.
September 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅3-7 November 2025
💻Online 💸no tuition fee
📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025

@imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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imprs-phds.bsky.social
Mentoring & advising doctoral researchers is at the very heart of the PHDS School. We are much indebted to PHDS faculty for their invaluable services in mentoring predocs as well as to Thomas Koch for leading a two-day workshop on "Supervising Doctoral Researchers" @mpidr.bsky.social. Thank you all!
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity
September 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
akbaritabar.bsky.social
In preparation for teaching in the winter semester (October onwards) at the University of Rostock, here is my plan and syllabus for the course on "Computational approaches to migration research".

Comments and suggestions are welcome and highly appreciated: akbaritabar.github.io/Courses_Syll...
September 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM