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Posts by Martin Arvidsson

View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen

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Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026.

We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026 How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

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Analytical Sociology Seminar: John Levi Martin "Signaling, performing, and (occasionally) exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar parliament" Welcome to the Analytical Social Seminar with John Levi Martin, University of Chic...

Join us on Thursday, 26 March, at 14.30 CET for the Analytical Sociology Seminar with John Levi Martin:

🔹 Signaling, Performing, and (occasionally) Exploding: The logic of skilled political action in the Weimar Parliament 🔹

More info: liu.se/en/event/ana...

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Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory?

@marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future

Out now:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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How does social influence shape collective outcomes? When does it lead to lock-in on inferior options?

In our 🚨 new preprint 📝 osf.io/preprints/so... we make three contributions

w/ @alexgelas.bsky.social Alex Jochim @leostnbrk.bsky.social Peter Steiglechner & @pantelispa.bsky.social

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Title page of the paper.

Title page of the paper.

🧵 New WP! w/ @selcanmutgan.bsky.social

Most segregation research examines neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces separately. But do individuals' exposure align across domains and persist over the life course? We fill this gap using 27 years of 🇸🇪 data.

Pre-print: osf.io/eunwc_v1 (1/5)

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks 2026

⏰ The abstract deadline for EUSN 2026 has been extended to March 5, 2026!

You now have a few extra days to submit your abstract: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...

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⏰ Reminder: The EUSN 2026 abstract deadline is March 1, 2026 — just around the corner. Submit your abstract now!

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Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate?

New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens.

We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often.

www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science A NetSci 2026 Satellite

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?

We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.

Submit your work by March 10th!

causnets.github.io

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Postdoctoral researcher on applications of AI in sociological research Are you able to lead sociological research into the AI age?

📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Chapter 5: @martinarvidsson.bsky.social, Hedström, Jarvis & @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social on the intersection of Analytical Sociology and Computational Social Science.
Computational tools are most powerful when used to identify and test mechanisms, not just describe or predict aggregate patterns.

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Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Huge congratulations to @eliscl.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Contagious Secularization: Social Influence and Membership Dynamics in Religious Organizations”!

Excellent work, Dr. Carlberg Larsson 🥂

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks 2026

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 8th European Social Networks Conference (EUSN 2026) is now open! 📣

📍 EUSN 2026 will take place 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden.

📝 Please submit your abstract here: wcc.ep.liu.se/index.php/eu...
⏰ Deadline: 1 March 2026

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We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

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Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
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The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

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WiNS seminars are back for the Spring edition! 🎉

We’ll kick things off next Monday (Jan 12, 11 am ET) with Laura Fürsich from Linköping University, discussing segregation dynamics.

Follow us to stay up to date on our biweekly seminars and more!

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🎄 Still looking for a gift for your favourite social scientist?

How about a #preprint with 717 urban areas, 30 countries, and 16,164 models of #Immigrant #Segregation across Europe? Just published with @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & David Kretschmer 🎅

🎁 Wrapped up here: arxiv.org/abs/2512.17037

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How can analytical sociology harness the computational social science revolution? 🔆
👉Observe behavior in actual social environments, capture interdependent dynamics, follow up cumulative effects
🔗Access chapter 5 on strengthening mechanism-based explanations of macro phenomena osf.io/preprints/so...

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New paper out with @kchihaya.bsky.social and @eduardotapia.bsky.social. We show how a tendency to move near kin can preserve patterns of segregation, using a combination of discrete choice models and micro-simulations applied to the case of immigrants and their descendants living in Stockholm.

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INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

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Why did I visit the Facebook pages of 5500 German grocery stores on a grey lockdown day ca. 2021?

You can now find out in AJS.

Our work on ethnoreligious infrastructures is finally online in the ominous Volume 0:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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📢 The deadline to submit workshop and session proposals to EUSN 2026 has been extended till 9 December!

ℹ️ For more information, see:
liu.se/en/event/eus...

📝 Please send your submissions to:
eusn2026@liu.se

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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The conference brings together scholars and ...

The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social

⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025

More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...

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Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

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🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷

Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social

Details here (please RT)
www.shorturl.at/E57le

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Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

6/6 Here's a link to the paper: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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5/ Examining the macro-dynamics, we used agent-based simulations integrating prior models of homophily and decoupling, showing that network composition matters: a sufficient presence of partial-overlap ties is crucial for widespread diffusion of novelty and the emergence of the unexpected.

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4/ We find support for the hypothesized homophily trade-off: (a) stronger taste overlap → stronger peer influence, but also (b) stronger overlap → less exposure to novel content.

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