COALESCE Lab
@coalescelab.bsky.social
Laboratory for the Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion, and Exclusion at UAB Barcelona. We conduct mixed-methods research on personal networks, migration, cohesion, exclusion, and polarization: http://coalesce-lab.com/en.
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📣 I am thrilled to announce this Hybrid Open Seminar on November 27th at 3PM co-organised by @coalescelab.bsky.social @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and INMIX - UAB Research Group featuring leading expert in migration studies Prof. Louise Ryan ☘️
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 I am thrilled to announce this Hybrid Open Seminar on November 27th at 3PM co-organised by @coalescelab.bsky.social @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and INMIX - UAB Research Group featuring leading expert in migration studies Prof. Louise Ryan ☘️
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
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📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
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This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
Measuring distributional preferences: opportunities and challenges - The Journal of Economic Inequality
This article introduces, and puts in context, the fourteen papers in the special issue, "Inequality perceptions and fairness judgments."
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October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
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We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
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Very glad to join the COALESCE Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona!
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
Welcome new lab members!
We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!
coalesce-lab.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Very glad to join the COALESCE Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona!
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks
Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling
Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
Welcome new lab members!
We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!
coalesce-lab.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
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🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
Work from our lab published in the European Sociological Review
My new paper doi.org/10.1093/esr/... explains that personal networks expose us to different degrees to economic distress, which shapes public opinion (here, institutional trust). Yet institutional trust research has largely overlooked networks. #sociology #netsky
The role of social networks in institutional trust during economic downturns
Abstract. Citizens’ trust in institutions is crucial for the proper functioning of societies. While national economic performance is a key predictor of ins
doi.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Work from our lab published in the European Sociological Review
“Parlar de política amb tothom? Sí, d'acord, però...”
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“Parlar de política amb tothom? Sí, d'acord, però...”
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
“¿Hablar sobre política con cualquiera? Sí, de acuerdo, pero…”
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“¿Hablar sobre política con cualquiera? Sí, de acuerdo, pero…”
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
“Talk about politics with everyone? Yes, I agree, but…”
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“Talk about politics with everyone? Yes, I agree, but…”
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
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There are new social network groups and researchers joining Bluesky! I have just updated this starter pack (for example: @socialnetworkslab.bsky.social @coalescelab.bsky.social @ansna.org.au @networkscijournal.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social )
I created a starter pack for social network researchers.
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There are new social network groups and researchers joining Bluesky! I have just updated this starter pack (for example: @socialnetworkslab.bsky.social @coalescelab.bsky.social @ansna.org.au @networkscijournal.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social )
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📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
Post-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24)
Job position
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
We joined Bluesky! Starting in 2021, we are a research team dedicated to studying processes of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization from a social network perspective. We aim to connect micro-level relationships to macro-level outcomes by conducting interdisciplinary mixed-methods research.
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We joined Bluesky! Starting in 2021, we are a research team dedicated to studying processes of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization from a social network perspective. We aim to connect micro-level relationships to macro-level outcomes by conducting interdisciplinary mixed-methods research.