The website is now up for one of my two favourite meetings – the biannual International Conference on Social Dilemmas. Abstracts due 22 December.
sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
(My other favourite is @ehbea.bsky.social, but I often miss both these years. @ic2s2.bsky.social also rocks.)
sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
(My other favourite is @ehbea.bsky.social, but I often miss both these years. @ic2s2.bsky.social also rocks.)
October 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The website is now up for one of my two favourite meetings – the biannual International Conference on Social Dilemmas. Abstracts due 22 December.
sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
(My other favourite is @ehbea.bsky.social, but I often miss both these years. @ic2s2.bsky.social also rocks.)
sites.google.com/view/icsd2026
(My other favourite is @ehbea.bsky.social, but I often miss both these years. @ic2s2.bsky.social also rocks.)
Mark your calendar! IC2S2 2026 will happen on July 28–31 in Burlington, Vermont.
youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
IC2S2 2026 | Burlington, Vermont
YouTube video by UVM Office of Research
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Mark your calendar! IC2S2 2026 will happen on July 28–31 in Burlington, Vermont.
youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc
Since the first release in December 2024, the 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 ( ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddata/ ) was downloaded 2200+ times. Over the summer we conducted two workshops on the package and the data: at AGIT Conference (www.ekotov.pro/agit-2025-sp... ) and at IC2S2 (www.ekotov.pro/spanish-open... )
Get Spanish Origin-Destination Data
Gain seamless access to origin-destination (OD) data from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, hosted at <https://www.transportes.gob.es/ministerio/proyectos-singulares/estudios-de-movilidad-con-big-dat...
ropenspain.github.io
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Since the first release in December 2024, the 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 ( ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddata/ ) was downloaded 2200+ times. Over the summer we conducted two workshops on the package and the data: at AGIT Conference (www.ekotov.pro/agit-2025-sp... ) and at IC2S2 (www.ekotov.pro/spanish-open... )
By coincidence, my Computational Story Lab research partner, working on LLM issues, is one Julia Z. She just got her PhD and has just started as a post-doc at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute.
I will be ordering your book today.
I will be ordering your book today.
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
By coincidence, my Computational Story Lab research partner, working on LLM issues, is one Julia Z. She just got her PhD and has just started as a post-doc at the Vermont Complex Systems Institute.
I will be ordering your book today.
I will be ordering your book today.
The SOCKS team was well-represented at IC2S2 2025, and we look forward to IC2S2 2026 in Burlington, VT!
www.uvm.edu/socks/node/209
www.uvm.edu/socks/node/209
September 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The SOCKS team was well-represented at IC2S2 2025, and we look forward to IC2S2 2026 in Burlington, VT!
www.uvm.edu/socks/node/209
www.uvm.edu/socks/node/209
Presenting SIBling at @ic2s2.bsky.social was super enjoyable. Thanks to everyone who dropped by and for the thoughtful discussions!
August 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Presenting SIBling at @ic2s2.bsky.social was super enjoyable. Thanks to everyone who dropped by and for the thoughtful discussions!
Discover how randomness shapes our life trajectories.
Our Head of Department, @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social gave a thought-provoking keynote ‘Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses’ from @ic2s2.bsky.social 2025.
#Sociology #IC2S2
Watch the full talk here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG...
Our Head of Department, @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social gave a thought-provoking keynote ‘Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses’ from @ic2s2.bsky.social 2025.
#Sociology #IC2S2
Watch the full talk here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG...
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Discover how randomness shapes our life trajectories.
Our Head of Department, @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social gave a thought-provoking keynote ‘Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses’ from @ic2s2.bsky.social 2025.
#Sociology #IC2S2
Watch the full talk here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG...
Our Head of Department, @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social gave a thought-provoking keynote ‘Luck and Success in Millions of Life Courses’ from @ic2s2.bsky.social 2025.
#Sociology #IC2S2
Watch the full talk here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG...
This is an exciting topic, pioneered by the PopNet team (led by @franktakes.bsky.social and Eelke Heemskerk) and Statistics Netherlands (Jan van der Laan and Edwin de Jonge's poster at the #IC2S2 conference in 2019 is where we got the idea).
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is an exciting topic, pioneered by the PopNet team (led by @franktakes.bsky.social and Eelke Heemskerk) and Statistics Netherlands (Jan van der Laan and Edwin de Jonge's poster at the #IC2S2 conference in 2019 is where we got the idea).
Next was an intriguing talk by @lpargyle.bsky.social on using LLMs as an inference tool at @ic2s2.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X2... (3/13)
Lisa Argyle: Arti-"fickle" Intelligence. — IC2S2 2025 Keynote
YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Next was an intriguing talk by @lpargyle.bsky.social on using LLMs as an inference tool at @ic2s2.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X2... (3/13)
Next was a slate of @ic2s2.bsky.social talks:
Brandon Stewart - LLM annotations www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T68...
Duncan Watts - integrating explanation & prediction - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BB...
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social - luck & success www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG... (4/17)
Brandon Stewart - LLM annotations www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T68...
Duncan Watts - integrating explanation & prediction - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BB...
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social - luck & success www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG... (4/17)
Brandon Stewart: Design-Based Supervised Learning — IC2S2 2025 Keynote
YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Next was a slate of @ic2s2.bsky.social talks:
Brandon Stewart - LLM annotations www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T68...
Duncan Watts - integrating explanation & prediction - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BB...
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social - luck & success www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG... (4/17)
Brandon Stewart - LLM annotations www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T68...
Duncan Watts - integrating explanation & prediction - highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7BB...
@arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social - luck & success www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLG... (4/17)
Of course! we also have two others showing LDA is better than some newer models, but not BERTopic specifically:
aclanthology.org/2022.finding...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Also: been watching your IC2S2 keynote and am learning a lot!
aclanthology.org/2022.finding...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Also: been watching your IC2S2 keynote and am learning a lot!
Are Neural Topic Models Broken?
Alexander Miserlis Hoyle, Rupak Sarkar, Pranav Goel, Philip Resnik. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022. 2022.
aclanthology.org
August 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Of course! we also have two others showing LDA is better than some newer models, but not BERTopic specifically:
aclanthology.org/2022.finding...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Also: been watching your IC2S2 keynote and am learning a lot!
aclanthology.org/2022.finding...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
Also: been watching your IC2S2 keynote and am learning a lot!
A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...
Laura Nelson: Qualitative Methods for Computational Social Science — IC2S2 2025 Keynote
YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...
Another unforgettable summer!
I was glad to present some of my recent work on "the impact of LLMs in society" at ACL (*3+1), IC2S2 (*2), ESRA, Youth in HD, and ICSSI.
Here are the papers and posters:
I was glad to present some of my recent work on "the impact of LLMs in society" at ACL (*3+1), IC2S2 (*2), ESRA, Youth in HD, and ICSSI.
Here are the papers and posters:
August 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Another unforgettable summer!
I was glad to present some of my recent work on "the impact of LLMs in society" at ACL (*3+1), IC2S2 (*2), ESRA, Youth in HD, and ICSSI.
Here are the papers and posters:
I was glad to present some of my recent work on "the impact of LLMs in society" at ACL (*3+1), IC2S2 (*2), ESRA, Youth in HD, and ICSSI.
Here are the papers and posters:
I wrote up my #IC2S2 2025 takeaways. If you’re into computational social science, mobility data, or urban analytics, I’d love your thoughts.
🔗 Read: yuan-liao.com/post/ic2s22025
#ComputationalSocialScience #UrbanScience #MobilityData #Transport #Segregation #DataScience
🔗 Read: yuan-liao.com/post/ic2s22025
#ComputationalSocialScience #UrbanScience #MobilityData #Transport #Segregation #DataScience
Mobility and Urban Science in Computational Social Science | Yuan Liao
Organizing the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (Norrköping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025).
yuan-liao.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I wrote up my #IC2S2 2025 takeaways. If you’re into computational social science, mobility data, or urban analytics, I’d love your thoughts.
🔗 Read: yuan-liao.com/post/ic2s22025
#ComputationalSocialScience #UrbanScience #MobilityData #Transport #Segregation #DataScience
🔗 Read: yuan-liao.com/post/ic2s22025
#ComputationalSocialScience #UrbanScience #MobilityData #Transport #Segregation #DataScience
It felt like 90% of all work at @ic2s2.bsky.social was on LLMs 😅. It was a great conference! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social do you have numbers to substitute that perception?
August 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It felt like 90% of all work at @ic2s2.bsky.social was on LLMs 😅. It was a great conference! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social do you have numbers to substitute that perception?
Frauke and Munich (www.lmu.de/ai-hub/en/) is certainly one factor here. In Mannheim, it’s the group around @mstrohm.bsky.social. I was not at @ic2s2.bsky.social last month but I heard that it was more or less the one dominant topic there - not surprising.
Welcome to AI-HUB@LMU
Bringing together research, teaching, and outreach of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at LMU Munich.
www.lmu.de
August 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Frauke and Munich (www.lmu.de/ai-hub/en/) is certainly one factor here. In Mannheim, it’s the group around @mstrohm.bsky.social. I was not at @ic2s2.bsky.social last month but I heard that it was more or less the one dominant topic there - not surprising.
yes it is, but de facto true. just came back from #ic2s2 , one of the main forums for scisci, and I can confirm this is still the case. in putting together the @euroscisci.bsky.social , we've been aiming at a more inclusive definition of the science of science
August 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
yes it is, but de facto true. just came back from #ic2s2 , one of the main forums for scisci, and I can confirm this is still the case. in putting together the @euroscisci.bsky.social , we've been aiming at a more inclusive definition of the science of science
(late to repost this but)
I had a wonderful time at IC2S2 this year. Lovely city, incisive conversations. Many thanks to the hosts. Until next year!
I had a wonderful time at IC2S2 this year. Lovely city, incisive conversations. Many thanks to the hosts. Until next year!
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
August 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
(late to repost this but)
I had a wonderful time at IC2S2 this year. Lovely city, incisive conversations. Many thanks to the hosts. Until next year!
I had a wonderful time at IC2S2 this year. Lovely city, incisive conversations. Many thanks to the hosts. Until next year!
NERDS at IC2S2 in Norrköping
nerds.itu.dk/2025/08/01/n...
nerds.itu.dk/2025/08/01/n...
August 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
NERDS at IC2S2 in Norrköping
nerds.itu.dk/2025/08/01/n...
nerds.itu.dk/2025/08/01/n...
Back from #ic2s2 which was again a fantastic conference experience - congrats to the organizers! Some professors got a poster this time, which was actually super fun to design and present - haven't done it since my 1st year of PhD 16 years ago 👴
July 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Back from #ic2s2 which was again a fantastic conference experience - congrats to the organizers! Some professors got a poster this time, which was actually super fun to design and present - haven't done it since my 1st year of PhD 16 years ago 👴
Thank you for coming to our presentation titled "Global Editing Patterns on Wikipedia Platform Reveal Segmentations in Knowledge Production" of #IC2S2 ! (Photo on the bottom right)
Check out the preprint in arXiv.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.22271
Check out the preprint in arXiv.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.22271
July 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you for coming to our presentation titled "Global Editing Patterns on Wikipedia Platform Reveal Segmentations in Knowledge Production" of #IC2S2 ! (Photo on the bottom right)
Check out the preprint in arXiv.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.22271
Check out the preprint in arXiv.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.22271
Heading out of the office to visit the supermarket before going home and saw this nice surprise!
#IC2S2
@ic2s2.bsky.social
#IC2S2
@ic2s2.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Heading out of the office to visit the supermarket before going home and saw this nice surprise!
#IC2S2
@ic2s2.bsky.social
#IC2S2
@ic2s2.bsky.social
My first time at @ic2s2.bsky.social is one I won't forget 💫
I gave three parallel talks (🤯) and each of them led to insightful conversations with brilliant researchers from around the world.
This conference exceeded my expectations. The computational social science community is fantastic 🫶
I gave three parallel talks (🤯) and each of them led to insightful conversations with brilliant researchers from around the world.
This conference exceeded my expectations. The computational social science community is fantastic 🫶
July 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My first time at @ic2s2.bsky.social is one I won't forget 💫
I gave three parallel talks (🤯) and each of them led to insightful conversations with brilliant researchers from around the world.
This conference exceeded my expectations. The computational social science community is fantastic 🫶
I gave three parallel talks (🤯) and each of them led to insightful conversations with brilliant researchers from around the world.
This conference exceeded my expectations. The computational social science community is fantastic 🫶