Roberto Velázquez-Quiroz
@rovelazq.bsky.social
Lecturer & Researcher @ Sociology, UC-Chile | My work integrates: #computationalsocialscience #statisticalmethods #socialnetworks #textdatamining #culturalsociology #socialtheory
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🚨 Final reminder — Applications close Nov 5!
The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R.
📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
📅 November 5 deadline
🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R.
📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
📅 November 5 deadline
🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🚨 Final reminder — Applications close Nov 5!
The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R.
📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
📅 November 5 deadline
🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R.
📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
📅 November 5 deadline
🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
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After a brief hiatus, we’re thrilled to bring Knitting Networks back on air 🎧
Our new episode features Omar Lizardo, one of the most influential scholars connecting culture, cognition, and social networks..
Listen here:
🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/5zpC...
#NetworkScience #CulturalSociology #SocNet
Our new episode features Omar Lizardo, one of the most influential scholars connecting culture, cognition, and social networks..
Listen here:
🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/5zpC...
#NetworkScience #CulturalSociology #SocNet
83.Omar Lizardo
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November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
After a brief hiatus, we’re thrilled to bring Knitting Networks back on air 🎧
Our new episode features Omar Lizardo, one of the most influential scholars connecting culture, cognition, and social networks..
Listen here:
🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/5zpC...
#NetworkScience #CulturalSociology #SocNet
Our new episode features Omar Lizardo, one of the most influential scholars connecting culture, cognition, and social networks..
Listen here:
🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/5zpC...
#NetworkScience #CulturalSociology #SocNet
It’s both fascinating and unsettling to realize that in a world flooded with images, we’ve lost the ability to truly see. Interesting experiment! Reminds me of Foucault’s text on Las Meninas.
The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a... @nytimes.com
The Three-Hour Challenge: 180 Minutes with ‘Las Meninas’
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s both fascinating and unsettling to realize that in a world flooded with images, we’ve lost the ability to truly see. Interesting experiment! Reminds me of Foucault’s text on Las Meninas.
Python and R code editing works flawlessly here! 📊📈📉
📣 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Introducing Positron, a free code editor built specifically for data science.
Learn more about what you can do with Positron: posit.co/blog/positro...
Introducing Positron, a free code editor built specifically for data science.
Learn more about what you can do with Positron: posit.co/blog/positro...
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Python and R code editing works flawlessly here! 📊📈📉
Diving in! My very first attempt at reading art theory in Portuguese 🇧🇷 🇵🇹📚. Also, such beautiful edition by ubueditora.com.br !
September 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Diving in! My very first attempt at reading art theory in Portuguese 🇧🇷 🇵🇹📚. Also, such beautiful edition by ubueditora.com.br !
Just finished this book in preparation for the graduate course I’m teaching this term! A solid intro if you are interested in the evolution of sociological theories of art in recent years.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Sociology about Art | An Introduction to How Sociologists Study the Ar
For sociologists, making, distributing, and using art and cultural products constitute social practices, yet, sociologists disagree on how to investigate these
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Just finished this book in preparation for the graduate course I’m teaching this term! A solid intro if you are interested in the evolution of sociological theories of art in recent years.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
The art market never sleeps: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
Christie’s Consigned to Sell Works From Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Including a $40 M. Monet Painting
The Japanese museum's consignment with Christie's includes works by Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Pierre-August Renoir, and Henri Matisse.
www.artnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The art market never sleeps: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...
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If, like me and many democratic theorists, you believe social status is what we ought to equalize to fight contemporary inequality, this is an article (and interview) for you:
www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...
Thanks for featuring it alongside so much great research.
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www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...
Thanks for featuring it alongside so much great research.
faculti.net/the-architec...
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies | Faculti
How do the structural properties of status hierarchies, separate from individuals’ positions within them, influence inequality in material rewards?
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January 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If, like me and many democratic theorists, you believe social status is what we ought to equalize to fight contemporary inequality, this is an article (and interview) for you:
www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...
Thanks for featuring it alongside so much great research.
faculti.net/the-architec...
www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj...
Thanks for featuring it alongside so much great research.
faculti.net/the-architec...
Las meninas 📷!
La visita virtual al Museo del Prado permite moverse libremente por las salas de la colección y ver con gran detalle muchas de las obras, como este "Nacimiento de san Juan Bautista" de Artemisia Gentileschi www.museodelprado.es/visita-virtu... #NextGenerationEU #PlandeRecuperación
September 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Las meninas 📷!
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👀 Call for Papers 👀
The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
British Journal of Sociology Conference
Find out more about the BJS conference 2026, which will provide an in-person platform for academics across the discipline to advance their research.
www.lse.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
👀 Call for Papers 👀
The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
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It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!
The August issue posted last week--5 notes, 9 articles & a note from the new Editors in Chief. This issue includes research on mobility-based segregation, child migration in Africa, educational inequality in biological aging, and inequalities in dementia risk. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...
Volume 62 Issue 4 | Demography | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!
The new regimes of visibility call for the invention of updated styles and forms of gatekeeping. We may be witnessing the dawn of a new era of tastemaking in highbrow cultural institutions.
The National Gallery in London is expanding its influencer network, launching an open call for content creators after last year’s “200 Creators” programme generated 42 million views and 2.2 million engagements.
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September 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The new regimes of visibility call for the invention of updated styles and forms of gatekeeping. We may be witnessing the dawn of a new era of tastemaking in highbrow cultural institutions.
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Inside our latest issue, you will find a terrific Special Feature on Harrison White. Here is a snippet of the introduction by Peter Bearman (@incitecolumbia.bsky.social) and Ronald L. Breiger. Enjoy!
Read the whole issue here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
Read the whole issue here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Inside our latest issue, you will find a terrific Special Feature on Harrison White. Here is a snippet of the introduction by Peter Bearman (@incitecolumbia.bsky.social) and Ronald L. Breiger. Enjoy!
Read the whole issue here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
Read the whole issue here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...
Great idea for a network of networks perspective!
Wonderful to listen to Dr Karen Attar, co-editor of Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction, discussing the book on Radio NZ!
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
The book is available #OpenAccess.
Published by us in association with @ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
The book is available #OpenAccess.
Published by us in association with @ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social.
Books in books: When fictional characters are readers
Dr Karen Attar is the curator of rare books at the Senate House Library in the University of London, and author of new book Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great idea for a network of networks perspective!
À force de passer d’une langue à l’autre, je constate que les liens entre l’art et la sociologie naissent d’une tentative de rapprocher deux mondes trop souvent perçus comme antagonistes 📚💭 #cequelartfaitalasociologie
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
À force de passer d’une langue à l’autre, je constate que les liens entre l’art et la sociologie naissent d’une tentative de rapprocher deux mondes trop souvent perçus comme antagonistes 📚💭 #cequelartfaitalasociologie
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August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here:
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World
Culture & Inequality Podcast · Episode
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June 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here:
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
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“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .”
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
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simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
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June 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .”
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
buff.ly/RIU6ngh
simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social .
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Great work by @pablogerbas.bsky.social! Loved the clear, causal lens on educational mobility — such a productive framework. The insights on Chile’s 2015 tuition-free policy were especially compelling. Thanks @mebucca.bsky.social @andreacanales.bsky.social @taniahutt.bsky.social for the workshop!
August 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Great work by @pablogerbas.bsky.social! Loved the clear, causal lens on educational mobility — such a productive framework. The insights on Chile’s 2015 tuition-free policy were especially compelling. Thanks @mebucca.bsky.social @andreacanales.bsky.social @taniahutt.bsky.social for the workshop!
This is fascinating! I wonder if one could do the same for visual art patterns in art history.
From love songs to lullabies, songs spanning the globe—despite their diversity—exhibit universal patterns, according to the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the similarities and differences of music across societies around the world.
Learn more on #WorldMusicDay: scim.ag/4kiHXkZ
Learn more on #WorldMusicDay: scim.ag/4kiHXkZ
June 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is fascinating! I wonder if one could do the same for visual art patterns in art history.
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I’m very pleased to announce that a preview of the 3rd Edition of Deep Learning with R is now available! mng.bz/X7xa
The book is 50% off through July 8!
The book is 50% off through July 8!
Deep Learning with R, Third Edition
Deep learning from the ground up using R and the powerful Keras library!</b>
Deep Learning with R, Third Edition</i> introduces deep learning from scratch with examples that use the R language and th...
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June 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m very pleased to announce that a preview of the 3rd Edition of Deep Learning with R is now available! mng.bz/X7xa
The book is 50% off through July 8!
The book is 50% off through July 8!
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Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. @gregbarber.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathemati...
Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? | Quanta Magazine
Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. @gregbarber.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathemati...