@mirandalubbers
Professor of Anthropology; UAB Barcelona; Director COALESCE lab (http://coalesce-lab.com/en). ICREA Acadèmia fellow; ERC Advanced Grant holder “A #network #science approach to #social #cohesion in #European #societies”. European Academy of Sociology.
Open online seminar on Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools
Presenters: @nuriatargarona.bsky.social, Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social
Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1360...
When: 20 March
Organisers: EMCRs of SN & BSA-SNAG
Registration: ethz.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Interested in the social causes and consequences of interpersonal relationships and acquaintances?
Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.bsky.social and @pschuler.bsky.social
Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...
Are you a social network researcher using mixed methods?
We invite you to contribute to the "Mixed Methods for Social Network Analysis" session at EUSN2026, co-organised with @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social
Apply by 1 March liu.se/en/event/eus...
See you in Sweden!
What Russians did in #Bucha is particularly painful to my heart.I was there in the first days after it was liberated,I’ll never forget it
Friends,please share this as widely as possible in the USA,Canada,the United Kingdom
The world needs to see the truth about the heroism of Ukrainians
Thank you!
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
this thread breaks my heart. As adults of the world we utterly fail the kids, and in so many ways and so many places…💔
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📖 Our book is out! 🎉
Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization
is published, openly and freely available at doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01373-6
(1/3)
#ComputationalSocialScience #Polarization #SocialCohesion #NetworkScience #ABM #TextAnalysis
The calm and reassuring message that if we do as Trump pleases, we´ll be okay?
Three new preprints from our group are now live on arXiv!
We explore community mixed membership in aggregated networks, fragmentation in a population-scale social network of the Netherlands, and how social capital shapes economic mobility.
Read more:
For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Deadlines
Extended abstracts: 1 April
Full papers: 15 November
This happens to *SO* many people, who are also documented and have no criminal history either. Even kids.
Employing methods developed in the PATCHWORK project (patchwork-erc.eu) at @coalescelab.bsky.social , we ask, among other things, whether groups such as migrants or unemployed tend to occupy peripheral positions in social networks. 🧵4/4
Among the chapters in the book is a study into network-scientific aspects of social cohesion. Together with Alla Loseva, @pschuler.bsky.social , Susanne Böller, and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social investigate the structure societal-level social networks. 🧵3/4
Contributions come from research projects that were incubated during the BIGSSS2022 summer school (wedsss.janlo.de/schools-2018...). Inside the book you will find agent-based models, computational text analysis, studies of social media and parliamentary speeches, network analysis, and more! 🧵2/4
Congratulations! @mrnkzr.bsky.social @janlo.de @mbojan.bsky.social 🍾
Today Springer published an Open Access book edited by @janlo.de , Marijn Keijzer and myself covering a diverse range of Computational Social Science approaches to questions about social cohesion and polarization. Come and get it at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the U.S. & Russia may reach bilateral agreements on Ukraine without Kyiv’s participation; Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure; Ukraine struck an “important” Russian cruise missile fuel plant in Tver Oblast; and more.
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
US Government stopped funding USAID and started funding these entities, that are not about "spreading American values" or even "MAGA thought" but about sowing division in Europe.
I will be presenting at an open online seminar hosted by TripleS (Maastricht University) on March 12th (16:00-17:00 CET). Title: Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work in Relationally-Oriented Semi-Structured Interviewing
I’m seeing so many posts from white men about how ICE isn’t big enough to target every polling place in the country.
I won’t argue that they’re overstating their capacity. But also… we know they aren’t planning to target *all* polling places, right?
The white ones will have a normal Election Day.
Interested in people's acquaintances, their determinants and consequences for social cohesion, integration or inequality?
Submit to "Networks of Weak Ties and Social Cohesion" session at EUSN2026, co-organized with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy and @pschuler.bsky.social
liu.se/en/event/eus...
Still a couple of days before the deadline to slot in an application👇🏼
Applications will be opening soon for BAMB! 2026
The summer school will take place from 12 - 23 July 2026
www.bambschool.org
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Indeed, why only list US citizens who died or were detained by ICE, why not also include migrants who died in their hands or sent to camps that don´t respect human rights whether or not their papers were in order? These are all human rights violations re: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,...
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
