Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social:
Using Swedish full-population data, I show that exposure to religious pluralism through social ties is associated with a lower likelihood that parents baptize their child in the Church of Sweden 👇
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A special issue of Social Networks on Agent-based modelling for social network research
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The deadline to submit an 800-word extended abstract is approaching (1 April)
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Edited by me, Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács
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...
CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning
[Special Issue in Theory and Society]
Key Dates:
Abstracts: June 1, 2026
Full papers: December 31, 2026
More info: link.springer.com/collections/...
Out now in @jssreligion.bsky.social with @ruudluijkx.bsky.social
Using topic modeling on 1600+ academic articles, we provide a systematization of secularization literature and test whether researchers tend to study their own communities 👇
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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)
⏰ Reminder: The EUSN 2026 abstract deadline is March 1, 2026 — just around the corner. Submit your abstract now!
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...
My first paper is out in #SociologicalScience!
With Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx, we found robust evidence of ideological #bias in #secularization research: researchers' own religiosity is correlated with their probability of finding evidence of religious decline in their publications.
Read more: 👇
Screen shot of title page of a preprint. Title: Should generative AI be used in reflexive qualitative research? Authors: Elida Izani Ibrahim, Laura K. Nelson, and Andrea Voyer
Recent publications arguing against the use of genAI in reflexive qual research inspired us (Elida Ibrahim and @andreavoyer.bsky.social) to write our own perspective. Not to convince anyone to use genAI but for those who might be interested and are looking for guidance.
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NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Happy to have finished my PhD! 🎓
If you’re interested, the dissertation can be found here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
Looking ahead to the next steps!
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
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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.
Thanks to @iasliu.bsky.social and my supervisors, Peter Hedström and @mansmag.bsky.social for making this possible!
Overall, the thesis shifts the study of religious decline toward social networks, showing how micro-level behavior aggregates into population-level religious participation patterns.
Using Swedish full-population register data, my thesis analyzes the decline of the Church of Sweden, examining how social networks shape joining and leaving, and how these micro-level behaviors aggregate into the church’s membership trajectories.
🎓 My PhD thesis is now submitted and published! I study how social influence shapes membership dynamics in religious organizations.
🔗 doi.org/10.3384/9789...
We're thrilled to open registration for our 1st 2026 Replication Games. The event will be at the University of Zurich on January 19th.
Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
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...
New paper with @jordantkemp.bsky.social and Luis Bettencourt is now on arXiv: “Spatial Selection and the Multiscale Dynamics of Urban Change”. We use the Price equation and Chicago data to show how fine-scale spatial sorting shapes macro growth trends. Read it here: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06165
If you are at the ODISSEI conference, check out our poster (#47) from the netreg.se project. @eliscl.bsky.social
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.
📢 In a new study in #SocialNetworks, David Kretschmer and I examine how religious #segregation in #adolescent #friendship networks develops from 11 to 17 📈, focusing on #gender 🚹🚺. We find an increase in in‑group friends only among highly religious #Muslim girls 💡.
More 👉
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🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS.
⌛Deadline: September 30th
Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
#academicsky #css
Poster for the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) Programme Autumn 2025 at Linköping University. The text explains that the seminars feature international scholars, are open to all, and will be broadcast on Zoom.
✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
🧮 ~8M nodes, 330M relationships across family, household, school & work.
🇸🇪 We constructed a multilayer population-scale network for Sweden, capturing distinct features of the country.
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
cc: @ingakwoh.bsky.social @matmagnani.bsky.social ++
New study in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62452-z "3 stages of religious decline around the world."
We find a secular transition begins at different times in different places. Over generations, drops in religious:
1. Participation
2. Importance
3. Belonging
🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...