Tom Emery
@drtomemery.bsky.social
Exec Director of @odissei.bsky.social and Associate Professor of Sociology, @erc.europa.eu StG. Co-Director of @ipdln.bsky.social & Social Science Lead at the PDPC (https://edu.nl/hr9eh). See https://tomemery.eu/ for more detail
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Curious about what high-resolution geospatial LISS panel data enables for social science research? Join this online session 🧑💻
@drtomemery.bsky.social and Joris Mulder (LISS panel) will walk participants through using this data in SANE.
📆 18 February, 12-13 hours
🔗 odissei-data.nl/event/online...
@drtomemery.bsky.social and Joris Mulder (LISS panel) will walk participants through using this data in SANE.
📆 18 February, 12-13 hours
🔗 odissei-data.nl/event/online...
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Curious about what high-resolution geospatial LISS panel data enables for social science research? Join this online session 🧑💻
@drtomemery.bsky.social and Joris Mulder (LISS panel) will walk participants through using this data in SANE.
📆 18 February, 12-13 hours
🔗 odissei-data.nl/event/online...
@drtomemery.bsky.social and Joris Mulder (LISS panel) will walk participants through using this data in SANE.
📆 18 February, 12-13 hours
🔗 odissei-data.nl/event/online...
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Sometimes the smallest things tell the biggest stories 💡
@drtomemery.bsky.social explains in @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social latest feature how studying families reveals how society works.
Everyday choices ripple into culture, trust, and misinformation.
🔗 www.surf.nl/en/story/fam...
@drtomemery.bsky.social explains in @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social latest feature how studying families reveals how society works.
Everyday choices ripple into culture, trust, and misinformation.
🔗 www.surf.nl/en/story/fam...
Family and the Big Picture: A New Lens on Society
Zooming in on family life, which provides lots of inspiration for his research, and zooming out for a broad perspective on society, using advanced IT infrastructures. It characterises sociologist Tom Emery (40). In the coming years, he will oversee the building of the world’s first population-scale Macroscope, that will shed light on how societies change over time.
www.surf.nl
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Sometimes the smallest things tell the biggest stories 💡
@drtomemery.bsky.social explains in @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social latest feature how studying families reveals how society works.
Everyday choices ripple into culture, trust, and misinformation.
🔗 www.surf.nl/en/story/fam...
@drtomemery.bsky.social explains in @itcooperativesurf.bsky.social latest feature how studying families reveals how society works.
Everyday choices ripple into culture, trust, and misinformation.
🔗 www.surf.nl/en/story/fam...
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Great job available at @odissei.bsky.social: Chief Technology Officer. This position provides an opportunity to help create the future of computational social science: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Great job available at @odissei.bsky.social: Chief Technology Officer. This position provides an opportunity to help create the future of computational social science: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
What if you could combine the strengths of digital trace data and large scale representative surveys?
Really clear demonstration of the insights offered and new research lines that are opened up when infrastructure breaks structural barriers between data ecosystems.
Great paper
Really clear demonstration of the insights offered and new research lines that are opened up when infrastructure breaks structural barriers between data ecosystems.
Great paper
New paper out! Using data donation, we provide one of the first, if not THE first, assessment of the structure of the WhatsApp network with a population-wide probability sample (1/) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing mobile instant messenger networks with donated data - Social Network Analysis and Mining
Despite the increasing popularity and societal relevance of mobile instant messenger services (MIMSs) such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, the vast majority of the research on social media is focuse...
link.springer.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:27 PM
What if you could combine the strengths of digital trace data and large scale representative surveys?
Really clear demonstration of the insights offered and new research lines that are opened up when infrastructure breaks structural barriers between data ecosystems.
Great paper
Really clear demonstration of the insights offered and new research lines that are opened up when infrastructure breaks structural barriers between data ecosystems.
Great paper
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What can the past tell us about modern society? 🔎
Kristina Thompson from @w-u-r.bsky.social joins us for the latest episode of the ODISSEI podcast to discuss trends at the intersection of history and public health.
Listen to the episode here: edu.nl/uqf3f
Kristina Thompson from @w-u-r.bsky.social joins us for the latest episode of the ODISSEI podcast to discuss trends at the intersection of history and public health.
Listen to the episode here: edu.nl/uqf3f
January 19, 2026 at 1:06 PM
What can the past tell us about modern society? 🔎
Kristina Thompson from @w-u-r.bsky.social joins us for the latest episode of the ODISSEI podcast to discuss trends at the intersection of history and public health.
Listen to the episode here: edu.nl/uqf3f
Kristina Thompson from @w-u-r.bsky.social joins us for the latest episode of the ODISSEI podcast to discuss trends at the intersection of history and public health.
Listen to the episode here: edu.nl/uqf3f
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ODISSEI Summer School 2026 is now open for applications📣
8–19 June | @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social | 5 ECTS.
Learn to work with high-resolution, sensitive data in a secure environment and apply your skills in group research projects.
Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
Participation is free
🔗 edu.nl/3t8pc
8–19 June | @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social | 5 ECTS.
Learn to work with high-resolution, sensitive data in a secure environment and apply your skills in group research projects.
Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
Participation is free
🔗 edu.nl/3t8pc
January 16, 2026 at 9:34 AM
ODISSEI Summer School 2026 is now open for applications📣
8–19 June | @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social | 5 ECTS.
Learn to work with high-resolution, sensitive data in a secure environment and apply your skills in group research projects.
Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
Participation is free
🔗 edu.nl/3t8pc
8–19 June | @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social | 5 ECTS.
Learn to work with high-resolution, sensitive data in a secure environment and apply your skills in group research projects.
Deadline: 28 Feb 2026
Participation is free
🔗 edu.nl/3t8pc
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27 & 28 January: Introduction to Deep Learning. This workshop covers the basics of deep learning in a practical and hands-on manner. Upon completion, you will be able to train your first neural network and understand what next steps to take to improve the model.
Register now! buff.ly/vr9Tdi8
Register now! buff.ly/vr9Tdi8
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
27 & 28 January: Introduction to Deep Learning. This workshop covers the basics of deep learning in a practical and hands-on manner. Upon completion, you will be able to train your first neural network and understand what next steps to take to improve the model.
Register now! buff.ly/vr9Tdi8
Register now! buff.ly/vr9Tdi8
Come and help build the next generation of Computational Social Science Infrastructure @odissei.bsky.social as our new CTO. DM's open if you have questions. Please share far and wide.
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
Chief Technology Officer
ODISSEI is looking for a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead its strategic development and ensure it supports groundbreaking, world-leading research.
www.eur.nl
January 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Come and help build the next generation of Computational Social Science Infrastructure @odissei.bsky.social as our new CTO. DM's open if you have questions. Please share far and wide.
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
This is a very interesting paper for me in so may ways:
1) using Dutch admin data without any Dutch affiliations on the paper is a sign of good accessibility
2) linking details in CAOs with individual level admin data is really powerful
docs.iza.org/dp17957.pdf
1) using Dutch admin data without any Dutch affiliations on the paper is a sign of good accessibility
2) linking details in CAOs with individual level admin data is really powerful
docs.iza.org/dp17957.pdf
docs.iza.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is a very interesting paper for me in so may ways:
1) using Dutch admin data without any Dutch affiliations on the paper is a sign of good accessibility
2) linking details in CAOs with individual level admin data is really powerful
docs.iza.org/dp17957.pdf
1) using Dutch admin data without any Dutch affiliations on the paper is a sign of good accessibility
2) linking details in CAOs with individual level admin data is really powerful
docs.iza.org/dp17957.pdf
Every year at this time we make the long migration to 🇨🇿 for 🎄. We don’t fly so it normally takes 14 hours or more with two kids.
However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!!
This should be normal
However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!!
This should be normal
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Every year at this time we make the long migration to 🇨🇿 for 🎄. We don’t fly so it normally takes 14 hours or more with two kids.
However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!!
This should be normal
However the @europeansleeper.eu gods have smiled on us and we can now get a direct sleeper train from The Hague to Prague!!
This should be normal
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What does "AI-ready" research infrastructure look like?
In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape
Listen here: edu.nl/a966w
In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape
Listen here: edu.nl/a966w
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
What does "AI-ready" research infrastructure look like?
In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape
Listen here: edu.nl/a966w
In our new podcast episode, we talk with @mercecrosas.bsky.social from Barcelona Supercomputing Center about how AI is transforming social science infrastructure and what researchers need in an AI-driven landscape
Listen here: edu.nl/a966w
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⏳ 4 days left to submit your abstract for the 2026 @ipdln.bsky.social Conference, organised by ODISSEI at
@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
✨ Empirical studies
🔗 Population sata linkage
🧪 Methods
⚖️ Ethics
Deadline: 14 Dec. Submit 👉 edu.nl/yjnhc
#PopulationData #Research #SocialScience
@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
✨ Empirical studies
🔗 Population sata linkage
🧪 Methods
⚖️ Ethics
Deadline: 14 Dec. Submit 👉 edu.nl/yjnhc
#PopulationData #Research #SocialScience
Call for Abstracts International Population Data Linkage Network 2026 - IPDLN
Call for Abstracts The Call for Abstracts is now open for oral, poster, and rapid-fire presentations. Submissions are invited until December 14, 2025. The 2026 IPDLN Conference will place particular e...
edu.nl
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
⏳ 4 days left to submit your abstract for the 2026 @ipdln.bsky.social Conference, organised by ODISSEI at
@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
✨ Empirical studies
🔗 Population sata linkage
🧪 Methods
⚖️ Ethics
Deadline: 14 Dec. Submit 👉 edu.nl/yjnhc
#PopulationData #Research #SocialScience
@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
✨ Empirical studies
🔗 Population sata linkage
🧪 Methods
⚖️ Ethics
Deadline: 14 Dec. Submit 👉 edu.nl/yjnhc
#PopulationData #Research #SocialScience
One more week to submit your abstracts for @ipdln.bsky.social 2026!!
We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming
ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming
ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
2026 IPDLN Conference - IPDLN
2026 IPDLN conference Erasmus University Rotterdam “This conference brings together people from around the world, all working on some aspect of data linkage. Insights shared can spark ideas to ultimat...
ipdln.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
One more week to submit your abstracts for @ipdln.bsky.social 2026!!
We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming
ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
We are very excited to be welcoming everyone to Rotterdam and have seen so many interesting submissions already. Keep them coming
ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
Help shape the future of @odissei.bsky.social
ODISSEI is launching a Early Career Network 🌱 to support #PhD candidates & #postdocs! Lead events, shape strategy & spot training/data needs. Board applications open for ECRs until 9 Dec 📅
Apply 👉 forms.gle/fSrWiMqDeEvP...
Apply 👉 forms.gle/fSrWiMqDeEvP...
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Help shape the future of @odissei.bsky.social
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We're hiring a Junior Researcher Data Management 🔎
Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers.
Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers.
Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
Junior researcher Data Management
Do you have a hands-on mentality and technical and community building skills? Please join our team to develop a strong profile in Research Data Management.
www.eur.nl
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We're hiring a Junior Researcher Data Management 🔎
Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers.
Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers.
Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟
www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
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ODISSEI is leading the 2026 IPDLN Conference!
📢 Call for papers is open for talks, posters & workshops until 14 Dec 2025.
Join a global community on population & administrative data.
📍@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️13‑16 July 2026
Submit your abstract 👉 ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
📢 Call for papers is open for talks, posters & workshops until 14 Dec 2025.
Join a global community on population & administrative data.
📍@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️13‑16 July 2026
Submit your abstract 👉 ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
ODISSEI is leading the 2026 IPDLN Conference!
📢 Call for papers is open for talks, posters & workshops until 14 Dec 2025.
Join a global community on population & administrative data.
📍@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️13‑16 July 2026
Submit your abstract 👉 ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
📢 Call for papers is open for talks, posters & workshops until 14 Dec 2025.
Join a global community on population & administrative data.
📍@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️13‑16 July 2026
Submit your abstract 👉 ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...
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10 days left to apply for the CBS Replication Games, organised by ODISSEI & the @i4replication.bsky.social. Reproduce recent economics papers with @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata.
📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.
Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn
📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.
Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
10 days left to apply for the CBS Replication Games, organised by ODISSEI & the @i4replication.bsky.social. Reproduce recent economics papers with @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata.
📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.
Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn
📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.
Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn
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Kiesraad published a pre-release of the 2025 election results, but the data isn't analysis-friendly.
Our @odissei-soda.bsky.social team turned it into an easy-to-use database for researchers. It’s open data and ready to explore. Download & code 👉 github.com/sodascience/...
Our @odissei-soda.bsky.social team turned it into an easy-to-use database for researchers. It’s open data and ready to explore. Download & code 👉 github.com/sodascience/...
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kiesraad published a pre-release of the 2025 election results, but the data isn't analysis-friendly.
Our @odissei-soda.bsky.social team turned it into an easy-to-use database for researchers. It’s open data and ready to explore. Download & code 👉 github.com/sodascience/...
Our @odissei-soda.bsky.social team turned it into an easy-to-use database for researchers. It’s open data and ready to explore. Download & code 👉 github.com/sodascience/...
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🎙️ New ODISSEI Podcast episode!
Flavio Hafner & @maltelueken.bsky.social from @esciencecenter.bsky.social discuss how Research Software Engineers support social science research, share examples from projects, and explore collaboration and future opportunities.
🎧 Listen: edu.nl/8bf7m
Flavio Hafner & @maltelueken.bsky.social from @esciencecenter.bsky.social discuss how Research Software Engineers support social science research, share examples from projects, and explore collaboration and future opportunities.
🎧 Listen: edu.nl/8bf7m
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🎙️ New ODISSEI Podcast episode!
Flavio Hafner & @maltelueken.bsky.social from @esciencecenter.bsky.social discuss how Research Software Engineers support social science research, share examples from projects, and explore collaboration and future opportunities.
🎧 Listen: edu.nl/8bf7m
Flavio Hafner & @maltelueken.bsky.social from @esciencecenter.bsky.social discuss how Research Software Engineers support social science research, share examples from projects, and explore collaboration and future opportunities.
🎧 Listen: edu.nl/8bf7m
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People alive today are more likely to see their *grandchildren* reach their 20s than the average human in history was to see their *child* reach their teens
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
People alive today are more likely to see their *grandchildren* reach their 20s than the average human in history was to see their *child* reach their teens
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Time for the ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025! 🏆
@angelicamaineri.bsky.social and former ODISSEI scientific director @pdykstra.bsky.social are taking the stage — congratulations to @kturek.bsky.social and the team for winning the competition with their Comparative Panel File project! 🎉
@angelicamaineri.bsky.social and former ODISSEI scientific director @pdykstra.bsky.social are taking the stage — congratulations to @kturek.bsky.social and the team for winning the competition with their Comparative Panel File project! 🎉
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Time for the ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025! 🏆
@angelicamaineri.bsky.social and former ODISSEI scientific director @pdykstra.bsky.social are taking the stage — congratulations to @kturek.bsky.social and the team for winning the competition with their Comparative Panel File project! 🎉
@angelicamaineri.bsky.social and former ODISSEI scientific director @pdykstra.bsky.social are taking the stage — congratulations to @kturek.bsky.social and the team for winning the competition with their Comparative Panel File project! 🎉
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Today, Diego Buitrago-Mora and @javiersanmillan.bsky.social (from the @erc-segue.bsky.social project at TU Delft) presented their work on urban economic segregation at the @odissei.bsky.social conference. A great way to get feedback and connect. Thank you to the organizers and participants 🍁
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today, Diego Buitrago-Mora and @javiersanmillan.bsky.social (from the @erc-segue.bsky.social project at TU Delft) presented their work on urban economic segregation at the @odissei.bsky.social conference. A great way to get feedback and connect. Thank you to the organizers and participants 🍁
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@drtomemery.bsky.social kicks off the day by sharing the news about the new funded project – the Macroscope!
#ODISSEI2025
#ODISSEI2025
November 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@drtomemery.bsky.social kicks off the day by sharing the news about the new funded project – the Macroscope!
#ODISSEI2025
#ODISSEI2025
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The world’s first Macroscope is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱
NWO just awarded €16.8M to build this groundbreaking research infrastructure—co-led by @odissei-soda.bsky.social and CLARIAH, coordinated by @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
#Research #Innovation
odissei-data.nl/2025/11/03/t...
NWO just awarded €16.8M to build this groundbreaking research infrastructure—co-led by @odissei-soda.bsky.social and CLARIAH, coordinated by @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
#Research #Innovation
odissei-data.nl/2025/11/03/t...
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The world’s first Macroscope is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱
NWO just awarded €16.8M to build this groundbreaking research infrastructure—co-led by @odissei-soda.bsky.social and CLARIAH, coordinated by @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
#Research #Innovation
odissei-data.nl/2025/11/03/t...
NWO just awarded €16.8M to build this groundbreaking research infrastructure—co-led by @odissei-soda.bsky.social and CLARIAH, coordinated by @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
#Research #Innovation
odissei-data.nl/2025/11/03/t...
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Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect?
The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded.
EU should turn on the tap
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded.
EU should turn on the tap
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals
This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM