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Roberto Velázquez-Quiroz
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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/
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
83.Omar Lizardo
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November 3, 2025 at 3:04 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.
September 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Python and R code editing works flawlessly here! 📊📈📉
posit.co Posit @posit.co · Sep 17
📣 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...
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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
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...
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
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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.

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?
faculti.net
January 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
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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...
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
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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
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September 2, 2025 at 6:23 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.
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
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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...
July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great idea for a network of networks perspective!
August 31, 2025 at 11:57 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
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3...

#useR2025
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...
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
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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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June 19, 2025 at 10:02 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!
August 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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
June 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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!
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
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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