Inspiring words on the motivations behind Open Science efforts by @kturek.bsky.social, presenting the CPF - aka the winner of the first ODISSEI Open Science Award in 2025. Make sure to listen to this episode! And stay tuned for the Call for Nominations for the 2026 edition of the award!

"The basic idea of the Comparative Panel File is very simple: to share the work, to share the effort, so that we can progress faster"

Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience

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Two weeks to go until ODISSEI & CLARIAH-NL’s full-day event for graduate school directors and programme coordinators to explore how research infrastructure can power SSH graduate education ⭐

🔗 odissei-data.nl/event/resear...
📅 April 23, 10:00–17:00 CET
📍Utrecht

Today at 15:00 CET is the deadline to apply to MAG 2026-1! Read more and send your application via this link: edu.nl/ecpnr

Join us in Utrecht on April 23rd 🎓

ODISSEI, together with CLARIAH, is hosting an all-day event exclusively for graduate school directors and coordinators. Come and explore what research infrastructures can offer graduate education in the Social Sciences and Humanities 💡

👉 edu.nl/jqwk4

Early Bird registration for the IPDLN Conference 2026 closes March 31 — just one week left! ⏳

Join 11 workshops on linked data, trusted research environments, data governance, community engagement, and more.

🔗 Register now: edu.nl/mrnvv

ODISSEI is excited to launch the Early Career Board, an initiative to strengthen the voice and engagement of early career researchers in our community. Please welcome the members of the 2026 Board: @elenacandellone.bsky.social, Oskar Veerhoek, Goan Booij, and Tilbe Atav. Read more about them below 👇

SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2026 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations From the 8th to the 19th of June 2026, ODISSEI is hosting its fourth summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the ...

One week left to apply for the SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2026.

✨ Participation is free
✨ The programme is accredited with 5 ECTS
@essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social l

Deadline: 28 February

📆 8–19 June
📍 @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social

🔗 edu.nl/nftwb

Microdata Access Grant 2026-1 applications are now open. Researchers at ODISSEI member organisations are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: March 26, 15:00 CET ⏱

Have questions before you apply? Join our Q&A with @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social
📆 March 3, 14:00–15:00 CET → edu.nl/wdfc8

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers.

Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):

ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

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...

Had a wonderful time organizing the scientific side of the CBS Replication Games! Thank you to the replicators for your hard work!

Many thanks to the teams for their hard work, and making these days productive! Stay tuned to learn more about the outcome and the (many) lessons learnt

Also thanks to the @odissei-soda.bsky.social for their technical and logistical support!

Almost at the end of a very intense 3-day CBS Replication Games! Co-organised by @odissei.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social, 19 researchers (6 teams) came together to replicate 6 papers using Dutch admin data from top economics journal

@fialalenka.bsky.social @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social

Discover the transformative potential of administrative data linkage … and more!

Get your early bird tickets for the 2026 @ipdln.bsky.social before March 31.

 📆 July 13-16
📍Erasmus University Rotterdam

Learn more and register here: edu.nl/fdtvm

Nominations for the 2027-2028 IPDLN Directorship - IPDLN IPDLN is seeking nominations for individuals interested in running for the new Director of the network for calendar years 2027 and 2028.

@ipdln.bsky.social is opening nominations for the role of Director (2027–2028 term) 💼

The role provides strategic leadership for the future of the network, including overseeing the 2028 IPDLN Conference.

For more info: edu.nl/egxdf

ODISSEI is hiring a Chief Technology Officer!📣

Shape the future of computational social science by building the technical infrastructure researchers need to understand society.

💡Unique role combining technology, data science & social research impact.

Learn more and apply: edu.nl/cm9em

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

Call for Abstracts International Population Data Linkage Network 2026 - IPDLN Call for Abstracts The Call for Abstracts is now open for oral, poster, and rapid-fire presentations. Submissions are invited until December 14, 2025. The 2026 IPDLN Conference will place particular e...

⏳ 4 days left to submit your abstract for the 2026 @ipdln.bsky.social Conference, organised by ODISSEI at
@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social

✨ Empirical studies
🔗 Population sata linkage
🧪 Methods
⚖️ Ethics

Deadline: 14 Dec. Submit 👉 edu.nl/yjnhc

#PopulationData #Research #SocialScience

Submit your abstract by December 14th!

ODISSEI is launching a Early Career Network 🌱 to support #PhD candidates & #postdocs! Lead events, shape strategy & spot training/data needs. Board applications open for ECRs until 9 Dec 📅

Apply 👉 forms.gle/fSrWiMqDeEvP...

📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org

We're hiring a Junior Researcher Data Management 🔎

Help improve metadata workflows, build tools for better data management, and support our training and outreach with researchers.

Know someone who fits? Please share! 🌟

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ODISSEI is leading the 2026 IPDLN Conference!

📢 Call for papers is open for talks, posters & workshops until 14 Dec 2025.

Join a global community on population & administrative data.
📍@erasmusuniversity.bsky.social
🗓️13‑16 July 2026

Submit your abstract 👉 ipdln.org/2026-ipdln-c...

If you work with individual-level data from Very Large Online Platforms or Search Engines (VLOPSEs), then you probably want to read - and hopefully sign - this letter!

Join us for the upcoming CBS Replication Games! There is still time to apply :)

10 days left to apply for the CBS Replication Games, organised by ODISSEI & the @i4replication.bsky.social. Reproduce recent economics papers with @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata.

📍Utrecht, Feb 2026.

Apply by 30 Nov 👉 lnkd.in/e3G3YxYn

🚀 Join us for the CBS Replication Games hosted by @odissei-soda.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social — an intensive, hands-on replication challenge with economics papers using microdata by Statistics Netherlands. Express your interest by 30 November via edu.nl/yhk7q

We’re wrapping up the day with our final presentation, a keynote by @mercecrosas.bsky.social! 🤖✨

Merce dives into what it takes to build AI readiness in the computational social sciences and humanities.
#ODISSEI2025