International Conference on Computational Social Science
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The 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Norrköping, Sweden, July 21-24, 2025.
Website: https://www.ic2s2-2025.org/
Website: https://www.ic2s2-2025.org/
Congrats to these awardees!
July 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congrats to these awardees!
That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!
Sarah Williams capped our keynote series with a powerful call: make data a force for empowerment and public good. What insight resonated most with you? #ic2s2
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sarah Williams capped our keynote series with a powerful call: make data a force for empowerment and public good. What insight resonated most with you? #ic2s2
Last chance to catch our parallel sessions! Today’s lineup spans polarization, media and online discourse, governance policy, and more. Pick your track, join the discussion, and make the most of this final day. #ic2s2
July 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Last chance to catch our parallel sessions! Today’s lineup spans polarization, media and online discourse, governance policy, and more. Pick your track, join the discussion, and make the most of this final day. #ic2s2
The final day’s lightning round offered another eight sharp takes on media bias, science of science, etc. Which talk stood out to you? #ic2s2
July 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The final day’s lightning round offered another eight sharp takes on media bias, science of science, etc. Which talk stood out to you? #ic2s2
Prediction and explanation, together. Duncan Watts opened our final day with a keynote on “Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science,” showing how pairing causal insight with predictive testing can push computational social science forward. #ic2s2
July 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Prediction and explanation, together. Duncan Watts opened our final day with a keynote on “Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science,” showing how pairing causal insight with predictive testing can push computational social science forward. #ic2s2
Want to keep the conversations flowing at #ic2s2? A crowd is heading to a focal bar: Arbis Kafé & Salonger (outside), a short walk from the conference venue. maps.app.goo.gl/ekmuCNQeWy4e...
July 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Want to keep the conversations flowing at #ic2s2? A crowd is heading to a focal bar: Arbis Kafé & Salonger (outside), a short walk from the conference venue. maps.app.goo.gl/ekmuCNQeWy4e...
Arnout van de Rijt gave Day 2 a strong ending with his keynote, “Luck and success in millions of life courses.” Do early strokes of luck widen life-course income gaps? This keynote offered fresh causal evidence on chance and inequality. #ic2s2
July 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Arnout van de Rijt gave Day 2 a strong ending with his keynote, “Luck and success in millions of life courses.” Do early strokes of luck widen life-course income gaps? This keynote offered fresh causal evidence on chance and inequality. #ic2s2
Day 2 Keynotes. How can computational methods sharpen our grasp of culture? In Amir Goldberg’s inspiring keynote, he showed how computational methods reveal hidden cultural patterns. #ic2s2
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Day 2 Keynotes. How can computational methods sharpen our grasp of culture? In Amir Goldberg’s inspiring keynote, he showed how computational methods reveal hidden cultural patterns. #ic2s2
Afternoon parallel sessions are in progress—join the discussions!
July 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Afternoon parallel sessions are in progress—join the discussions!
Day 2 and the momentum at #ic2s2 ’25 keeps building. Parallel sessions are running across multiple tracks: network science, social media, economics, science of science, and more.
July 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Day 2 and the momentum at #ic2s2 ’25 keeps building. Parallel sessions are running across multiple tracks: network science, social media, economics, science of science, and more.
Eight lightning talks just delivered rapid-fire insights on human–LLM interactions, mobility, and inequality. Which one impressed you most? Share your thoughts! #ic2s2
July 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Eight lightning talks just delivered rapid-fire insights on human–LLM interactions, mobility, and inequality. Which one impressed you most? Share your thoughts! #ic2s2
Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2
July 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2
Hope your first day of #ic2s2 ‘25 was fruitful. Reminder: afternoon keynotes begin at 4:30 pm sharp, please arrive promptly so you don’t miss a moment. See you tomorrow!
July 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hope your first day of #ic2s2 ‘25 was fruitful. Reminder: afternoon keynotes begin at 4:30 pm sharp, please arrive promptly so you don’t miss a moment. See you tomorrow!
Dinner at 19:00 for those who have yellow tickets: head to Värmekyrkan, Holmengatan 3, 602 32 Norrköping—just a five-minute walk from the conference venue. See you there soon! #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Dinner at 19:00 for those who have yellow tickets: head to Värmekyrkan, Holmengatan 3, 602 32 Norrköping—just a five-minute walk from the conference venue. See you there soon! #ic2s2
Day 1 keynote - Continuing the LLM conversation, Lisa P. Argyle presented “Arti-fickle’ Intelligence: Using LLMs as a Tool for Inference in the Political and Social Sciences.” Which guidelines do you resonate with the most to establish the failure and success of LLMs? #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Day 1 keynote - Continuing the LLM conversation, Lisa P. Argyle presented “Arti-fickle’ Intelligence: Using LLMs as a Tool for Inference in the Political and Social Sciences.” Which guidelines do you resonate with the most to establish the failure and success of LLMs? #ic2s2
Day 1 Keynote “Design-Based Supervised Learning (DSL): A General Framework for Using LLM Annotations and Other Predicted Variables in Downstream Analyses” by Brandon Stewart. Try DSL in your research? Available at dsl.software #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Day 1 Keynote “Design-Based Supervised Learning (DSL): A General Framework for Using LLM Annotations and Other Predicted Variables in Downstream Analyses” by Brandon Stewart. Try DSL in your research? Available at dsl.software #ic2s2
Parallel sessions are underway, with multiple tracks covering network dynamics, LLMs, mobility and urban science, political narratives, and more. Scan the program, join the talks that excite you, and share your insights with the community #ic2s2.
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Parallel sessions are underway, with multiple tracks covering network dynamics, LLMs, mobility and urban science, political narratives, and more. Scan the program, join the talks that excite you, and share your insights with the community #ic2s2.
Poster Session 1 is live in the Atrium! Explore the work and cast your daily vote—just scan the QR code to submit your favorite poster ID. Everyone has one vote per day. #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Poster Session 1 is live in the Atrium! Explore the work and cast your daily vote—just scan the QR code to submit your favorite poster ID. Everyone has one vote per day. #ic2s2
Day 1 Keynote “Computational analysis of social and organizational systems” by Kathleen M. Carley. Who is influencing whom online, how, and to what effect? This keynote showed how BEND framework is operationalized by combining network science and AI. #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Day 1 Keynote “Computational analysis of social and organizational systems” by Kathleen M. Carley. Who is influencing whom online, how, and to what effect? This keynote showed how BEND framework is operationalized by combining network science and AI. #ic2s2
Day 1 Keynote by Dean Eckles: Effect sizes and decisions. How are your effect-size metrics actually decision-relevant, or just convenient to compute? #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Day 1 Keynote by Dean Eckles: Effect sizes and decisions. How are your effect-size metrics actually decision-relevant, or just convenient to compute? #ic2s2
July 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
