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Jan Fuhse

@fuhsejan.bsky.social

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Sociologist passionate about theory, networks, communication, and the like. Communication in English / Deutsch. He / him. Please, don't try to sell me cryptos ...

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · Nov 18

I created a starter pack for social network analysis, since this one was still missing.
LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.)
Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science).
go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg

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Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent advice on paper review:

1. Peer reviewers are volunteers.

2. Map all comments to actions.

3. Address all comments.

4. Focus on improving your paper, instead of arguing.

5. Rarely, and only with strong defense, say no.

6. Don’t take things personally.

7. Avoid recreational revisions.

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 21h

Der Text ist da. Vielen Dank! Es muss jetzt niemand mehr was machen ...

Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 23h

Hat irgendjemand Zugang zu diesem Artikel und gerade nichts besseres zu tun, als mir ein PDF zu schicken?
Was es gibt: Ewige Dankbarkeit und Gefälligkeiten nach Wahl.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Mediennutzung und Medienwirkung als sozialer Prozeß

In unserer modernen, funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft stellen die Massenmedien das Hauptkontaktmittel zur sozialen und politischen Umwelt dar. Da viele Menschen kaum direkten, unmittelbaren Kontakt zu den Parteien, Organisationen oder Politikern haben, scheint...

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CAMS @cams.ehess.fr · 4d

➡️ Appel à manifestation d'intérêt pour une candidature CNRS 2026 au CAMS, le Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociales, unité mixte CNRS-EHESS

⚠️ Date limite : 24 octobre 2025

📧 [email protected]

👉 cams.ehess.fr/actualite/ap...

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 8d

Schön, aber schade: keine Netzwerktheorie / relationale Soziologie. Aber gut, man kann nicht alles machen ...

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 10d

Some personal news to share www.mpg.de/25487784/aus...

Ausbau der Forschung zu Ungleichheit und Konflikten

Soziologe Steffen Mau an das Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen berufen. Neuausrichtung des Instituts startet

www.mpg.de

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10d

"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social · 10d

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 14d

(b) Because the question establishes the relevance of the endeavor. In a way the answer doesn't. So maybe that's the answer. Or my answer.

Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 14d

Yep.
However.
Your question got me thinking: I recently published an article with the question how can theories represent social phenomena? as its title. Why did I do this? (a) Because the answer is way more complicated and wordy than the question. Which I already had a hard time getting right.

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 14d

Because the answer is usually: it depends?

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 14d

Zu schnell fahren ist viel zu billig in Deutschland. Was sollen denn 20 Euro für eine Abschreckungswirkung bringen?

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 15d

Sociological Theory (the journal) invites contributions to a special issue on "Sociological Theorizing in the Global South".
Find out more:
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 18d

Auf dem Weg zum DGS-Kongress in meinem Ohr

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 18d

Auf dem Weg nach Duisburg zum DGS-Kongress.
Morgen nachmittag ad-hoc-Gruppe (mit @marklutter345.bsky.social) zu Computational Social Science: Fancy Methoden, beeindruckende Modelle und die Frage, was das alles bringt ...
Und sagt bescheid, wenn Ihr Lust und Kapazitäten für nen Kaffee habt.

Screenshot mit Übersicht zur ad-hoc-Gruppe

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 18d

#DGSKONGRESS2025

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18d

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 18d

Additional highlights:
An introductory overview by guest editors Pip Pattison and @a-lomi.bsky.social and a "taking stock and moving forward" piece by Ron himself.
Find a short summary of the contribution by @snannabell.bsky.social and myself here. 2/2

Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just out in Social Networks w. @snannabell.bsky.social:
The Duality of Network Ties and Attributes.
As part of the special issue on duality, we argue that the principle applies to multi-modal network data. It allows relating different types of tie and other dyadic attributes.
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 18d

The #SocialNetworks special issue on duality, honoring the path-breaking concept by R. Breiger is now online.
It features an impressive ten contributions by world-class scholars, show-casing the power and wide applicability of the concept. 1/2

Social Networks | Duality in social networks: Current perspectives | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

For this special issue of Social Networks we aim to continue to expand the space of theoretical, methodological, and empirical possibilities afforded by duality principles

www.sciencedirect.com

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Andreas Bischof @andreasbischof.bsky.social · 19d

Das einzige was mir ja wirklich nach wie vor vor fehlt nach Twitter™️, ist das Begleiten von Tagungen — von Vortragsnotizen bis trash talk.

Erste kurze Recherche in der Bluesky-Suchleiste ergab eher wenig Hoffnung?! #dgs2025 #dgs25 #soziologie #duisburg

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Youssef Ibrahim @youssef-ibrahim.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to share that my dissertation has now been published with @velbrueckw.bsky.social: www.velbrueck.de/Programm/The...

It looks at how society became a concern for the climate sciences and how climatological theories of society have evolved since the mid-19th century.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d

Imagining Zizek narrating my regression output: "Significance collapses. It falls into ruin. A breakdown is inevitable. It is the truth of suffering."

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Machine Against the Rage @machine-vs-rage.net · 25d

Am 17. Oktober ist es soweit: Wir präsentieren die neue Ausgabe von Machine Against the Rage und feiern damit den Relaunch unseres Online-Magazins. Inhaltlich geht es um den Umgang mit Community Notes, Desinformation und den Streit um Wahrheit. Ab 18 Uhr im Trafo, Jena. 1|3

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Machine Against the Rage @machine-vs-rage.net · 29d

Das digitale Ökosystem von Reichsbürgern & Co.: Im ersten Recap-Text des MATR-Blogs erklärt Leoni Heyn die vielfältigen, plattformübergreifenden Verflechtungen rund um die »Patriotische Union«, die einen Umsturz geplant haben soll. 1|3
machine-vs-rage.net/blog/vom-cha...

Vom Chat zum Staatsstreich: Das digitale Ökosystem der Patriotischen Union

785.865 Telegram-Nachrichten, 332.506 URLs, zwei Milieus: Welche Plattformen nutzen Querdenker und Reichsbürger? Und wie begünstigten sie die Planung ihrer gemeinsamen Umsturzfantasien?

machine-vs-rage.net

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · Aug 23

Meanwhile, miles away from work and politics ...

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Felix Lennert @felixlennert.bsky.social · Aug 9

Studying a social science will really change how you walk the earth and see society

Me, after 11 years of studies: LOL, Coleman cooler, just like the boat/bathtub

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Okay, deep breath.
I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse.
www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG...

If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Em's bad year support fund

Our dear Emma Newman is having a shite year. First she broke her ankle walking on flat pavement, now she's got breast cancer fucking up her life. The broken bone put her out of commission for almost t...

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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Aug 7

Unglaubliche Bilder erreichen uns aus Berlin: Das Buch ist da! Und wer bald vergleichbares erleben will, könnte jetzt einfach auch so vierzig Stück bestellen. Oder vielleicht erstmal eins?

Karton mit meinem neuen Buch „Polarisierung“

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · Aug 7

Now out in Social Networks

Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses.

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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Aaron Gowen @aarongowen.bsky.social · Aug 6

. @katemanne.bsky.social, by my lights the most important feminist philosopher in the world, makes a VERY compelling case that Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl. This includes terrifying details, but it must be read. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein

It’s not what you think it is.

open.substack.com

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