Our latest paper, "When Rivalry Backfires: How Individual Skill and Risk of Status Loss Moderate the Effects of Rivalry on Performance," co-authored with Christoph Riedl and Gavin Kilduff, is now available at Management Science: doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...

Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

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What does the social fabric of an entire country look like?
We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data.
Here’s what we found 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#NetworkScience #Sociology

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Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share!
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30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.

Helpful NYT article showing 30 exclusion restriction violations for studies claiming covid is an instrument for their preferred x variable

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Come to Copenhagen Business School to do your PhD in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS! 3-year fully-funded scholarships, a structured program, and a vibrant research community to support your PhD journey with the 2025 cohort starting in September. Apply before March 6, 2025.

as I expected Economists are very slow to react to big data/comp soc sci/AI stuff but they finally joined the trend in 2014. Sociology is currently the most CSS-engaged. CSS is now a big thing in all social sciences! (3/7)

Management researchers and doctoral students doing work on generative AI: mark your calendar! I am very pleased to announce that we will be running the AI plus Management Doctoral Consortium to take place on 20 May 2025 at the @uclofficial.bsky.social School of Management here in London.

🧵 New paper uses AI to map global production networks & study recent shifts in global trade: "AI-Generated Production Networks" by @trfetzer.com @econopete.bsky.social @prashantgarg.bsky.social and Bennet Feld.

The ongoing aging of the research workforce reduces idea diffusion because older innovators produce worse ideas and older potential adopters adopt ideas less, from Wei Cheng and Bruce A. Weinberg https://www.nber.org/papers/w33030