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Vincent Traag
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Senior researcher at CWTS, Leiden University. Computational social science, science studies, modelling & networks.
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A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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lajello.bsky.social
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸

The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.
January 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Kids: Study collider bias
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3d
People are right to roll their eyes at this—another stupid and malicious effort to undermine universities. But don’t rest your opposition on the idea that scores “don’t predict outcomes”. Insofar as any measure is used to select a population, you have conditioned on it so it won’t predict outcomes.
THE JAMES G. MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL, Menu The Faculty Merit Act requires state universities to publish every higher-education standardized test score (SAT, ACT, CRT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, etc.) of every faculty member, as well as the standardized test score of every applicant for the faculty member's position —of every applicant selected for a first interview and every applicant selected for a final interview. It requires everyone in the hiring process, both applicants and administrators, to affirm under penalty of perjury that they have provided every standardized test score. An SAT score isn't the same thing as being able to write an interesting book or discover something interesting in a lab. But a standardized test score isn't a bad proxy for student merit in undergraduate admissions, and it isn't a bad proxy for faculty merit in the hiring process. If the public and policymakers can see that a faculty search had 300 applicants, that the standardized test scores dropped during each round of the selection process, and that the person who got the job had a lower SAT score than 290 other applicants, then they can see that something is wrong. If they see that a "cluster hire" search had only five applicants, or just one, they can tell that the search process was rigged. Requiring applicants, search committees, and university leaders to affirm they have provided full information, under penalty of perjury, ought to deter the education establishment's standard urge to bamboozle the public.
January 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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duncanbell.bsky.social
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

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Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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beatricedegraaf.bsky.social
Leve de Ivoren Toren!
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Top tier joke
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
The @ec.europa.eu response to US entry restrictions on EU individuals working on DSA, hate speech, and content moderation.

“Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies”

Merry Christmas 🎄

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Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
The European Commission strongly condemns the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.\nFreedom of expression is
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December 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
De biografie lezend van Pieter Zeeman, is het opvallend dat veel grote natuurkundigen de HBS hebben gedaan, niet het gymnasium. K. Onnes, Zeeman, Lorentz, Van der Waals. Maar om te concluderen dat de HBS een waardevolle opleiding was, moeten we eerst realiseren dat we conditioneren op een collider
December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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beatricedegraaf.bsky.social
Alle maskers vallen af. De EU moet kapot, vindt Trump-trouwe Denktank. Waarom? Omdat de EU als enige nog een vuist maakt in de westerse wereld tegen de techgiganten en Amerikaanse monopoliehouders. Als dat geen schallend compliment voor de kracht van de EU is! nos.nl/l/2595747
Trump-denktank pleit openlijk voor einde Europese Unie
"Ik zie geen enkel toekomstscenario waarin Europa beter af is mét het voortbestaan van de Europese Unie dan zonder", zegt Nile Gardiner, Europadirecteur van de Heritage Foundation.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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tahayasseri.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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nerdsitu.bsky.social
Very good. All public institutions, like universities, should follow suit!
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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drtomemery.bsky.social
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
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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icahdq.bsky.social
📢 The ICA Publications Committee is seeking applications for the next editor(s) of the Journal of Communication (JOC). The four-year term begins with a transition in September 2026. Apply now and shape the future of communication research! 👉
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December 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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hermwerf.bsky.social
Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview
OSF
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December 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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vtraag.bsky.social
❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️

Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph.

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igraph - Open Collective
igraph is a collection of network analysis tools with an emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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cwtsnl.bsky.social
📆 Mark your calendars! On January 13, our colleagues Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner will give a webinar on how narrative CVs reshape research assessment in practice. Sign up with the link below 👇
rorinstitute.bsky.social Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 21d
Upcoming RoRI webinar: Do Narrative CVs really change research evaluation?

Join us on 13 January as we discuss new data from funding panels at major European funders: tinyurl.com/ms7bkcd9
December 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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jakehofman.bsky.social
We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!

If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
vtraag.bsky.social
❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️

Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph.

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igraph - Open Collective
igraph is a collection of network analysis tools with an emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use.
opencollective.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Excellent job opportunity: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.

Top conditions, environment & colleagues.

Candidates welcome across places and disciplines.

🗓️ DL: March 15, 2026

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DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy
Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
vtraag.bsky.social
A universal tool for visualisation of networks and trees in Python

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F1000Research Article: A universal tool for visualisation of networks and trees in Python.
Read the latest article version by Fabio Zanini, at F1000Research.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
Here's a peek at our new Social Media Research Toolkit, a curated collection of more than 50 social media research tools. This toolkit is unique in that it only features tried and tested tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies. (ETA Jan 5, 2026) #academicsky #comsky
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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🔊#VacancyAlert: We are seeking an experienced Director to lead and coordinate @coalitions-oa.bsky.social work towards our goal for rapid, open, transparent, equitable #OpenAccess.
Sound interesting? Application deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
➡️ www.coalition-s.org/vacancy-dire... #Plan_S #ScholarlyComms
Vacancy alert: Director of cOAlition S
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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alessandronai.bsky.social
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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yyahn.bsky.social
🚨 A research staff position at my group at @uvadatascience.bsky.social!

I’m recruiting a research Scientist (or postdoc scholar). You can apply here! bit.ly/ylab-researc...

For more information: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Inquiries: yyahn@virginia.edu with [job] in the subject line.
Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Research Associate - School of Data Science
The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia and Professor Yong-Yeol (“YY”) Ahn, Quantitative Foundation Distinguished Professor, are excited to announce two professional research staff po...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM