Having a great time @netsciconf.bsky.social. Presenting joint work with Tianyu Du, Raphael Heiberger, and Dan McFarland on conventionality and impact in biomedical science. Come by and check out my poster today if you are around. It's also available online: rwth-aachen.sciebo.de/s/aI1ICq6jtf...

Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.

📣 Extended Deadline March 15 for "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the @hadw-bw.bsky.social on May 8/9.

Amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Beautiful historical venue, no conference fee, free food.

Abstract to wittekm@ceu.edu

📣 Extended deadline: March 15

Workshop on online and/or offline data sources to study public opinion, crime, and immigration.

Cologne April 28/29. Two great keynotes by
@christian.czymara.com and @isabellevdv.bsky.social

Interested? Send us an abstract: project.public.opinion@gmail.com

🎺Join us in May 2025 for our conference on "Measuring Culture with Computational Methods" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences @hadw-bw.bsky.social

Including two amazing keynotes by @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social

Abstract (max. 750 words) to wittekm@ceu.edu
Deadline: 01.03.25

Join us for a workshop on Immigration, Public Opinion, and Crime in the Digital Age with a focus on combining online and offline data at University of Cologne in April 28/29 2025, two great keynotes by @christian.czymara.com and Isabelle van der Vegt @isabellevdv.bsky.social call below, pls share.

New study on networks, status, and gender in @sfjournal.bsky.social with Xinwei Xu. Girls receive fewer status ascriptions than boys, status is mostly granted within genders, and similar behaviors-e.g., drinking-are status-relevant for both genders among students: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at CEU in Vienna. I am deeply grateful to the scholars I met at University of Cologne, @unistuttgart.bsky.social, and Dan McFarland's Mimir Lab for their support, intellectual generosity and kindness. Thank you!

I'm deeply honored to receive the Best Paper Award from the German Sociological Association (DGS) Section Sociological Network Research for my work on increasing stratification and segregation in the scientific community of neuroblastoma researchers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Katharina Burgdorf and I thank all workshop participants! It was great to exchange ideas regarding analyzing culture. We created a mailing list and plan a follow-up. Send "subscribe" to the address below if you want to join. measuring-culture@listserv.dfn.de

We asked students to name and describe cliques in their peer ecology. One of our core findings is that the use of ethno-racial labels in clique perceptions was unrelated to the ethnic net segregation of friendship networks (“ethnic homophily”). The same was true for dislike networks.