🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks?

ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps!

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Networks, Migration, Climate, and lots of exciting Statistical Models: Come work with on a potpourri of these topics as a POSTDOC in a joint project between TOULOUSE and ZURICH: it'll be even more exciting than it sounds: tinyurl.com/climatenetmig

I wouldn't bet on either, to be honest. But thank you 😅

I am proud to share that CRAN has just accepted the first RSiena package version submitted by *me* as official package maintainer, succeeding Tom Snijders who did the job for 13 years. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

To work around Whova app's apparent inability to actually tell you what talks (not sessions!) are coming up next, I've extracted the list of all upcoming @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social talks sorted by the talk's (not the session's!) start time: krivitsky.net/sunbelt2025/ . Feel free to share around.

🚨🎓 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...

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word

Our department in Groningen is recruiting a PhD student, check out here: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3502...
Please share this info with potentially interested students, or those who might know them!

Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag.
#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social

ukrant.nl/marathonstak...

Vandaag gaat de estafettestaking tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs en wetenschap verder. Vandaag is het de beurt aan het zonnige Groningen. Ik hoop vanmiddag veel collega’s te zien op de Grote Markt!

Maybe the original maximizes the number of line crossings...

The most proper way of communicating this truth is the simple equation
(20+25)²=2025
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Yes, I see what you're getting at, guess I misunderstood the question a bit. "Ordered pairs of vertices" is the math / graph-theory language for the unit of analysis, as jimi writes. I tend to think of multiple such attributes as a vector-valued tie variable.

In the book I'm writing with Tom Snijders, we call them "tie variables", those n×(n-1) directed entities x_{ij} we usually analyse.