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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · 7d

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 29d

‼️Free IDEM 187 Course‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅3-7 November 2025
💻Online 💸no tuition fee
📝Application deadline: 28 September 2025
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/idem2025

@imprs-phds.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @j-d-klein.bsky.social

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Sep 7

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited that our #network data sharing recommendations have received a commendation from SIPS!

Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 24

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
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Zach Brown @zachthebrown.bsky.social · Jun 11

Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out!

Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation

The global response to climate change is negotiated through the UNFCCC’s Conferences of the Parties (COPs). Initially focused on reducing emissions from developed countries, the UNFCCC has shifted ...

www.tandfonline.com

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IMPRS-PHDS @imprs-phds.bsky.social · Jun 18

Does space matter? This week we are hosting an IMPRS-PHDS elective course on GIS and spatial analysis, led by our experts Stefan Leyk and @alekberg.bsky.social and attended by PHDS researchers and guests. We wish everyone a productive and exciting week of study!

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Jun 6

This does involve using R, but I think you could get away with following the manual pretty closely, @adrianraftery.bsky.social's webpage on demographic projections is pretty thorough bayespop.csss.washington.edu

BayesPop

Probabilistic Population Projections

bayespop.csss.washington.edu

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Jun 6

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Jun 6

New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS

Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Jun 6

New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS

Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...

www.pnas.org

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · May 27

New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) @vypr.bsky.social · May 27

‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers.
🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053...
#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Mar 5

Hi Mark! Any chance you would be willing to share your slide deck on the role of science and policy with me? I am teaching a class in data science and policy in the fall and am always trying to collect material to build on.

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Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley @ternerhousing.bsky.social · Mar 4

Join @obi-belonging.bsky.social, @capolicylab.bsky.social and the Terner Center next Wednesday, March 12, at 4:30pm for "Rebuilding after Disaster." Experts will discuss the housing and equity implications of catastrophic events, disaster reconstruction and community resilience: lnkd.in/gpyZUVwW

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Feb 22

Cool! Will follow up -- a bunch of the plots will make it into my slides assuming you are ok with it?

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Feb 22

Any chance you are cataloging the data and code for all these plots? I would love to grab a bunch of these for my class! I already use your demographic facts all undergrads show know regularly!

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Zachary Neal @zpneal.bsky.social · Feb 7

The @insna.bsky.social working group's Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials are now published in #NetworkScience.

You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

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Jennie Brand @jenniebrand.bsky.social · Feb 6

Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu

UCLA RC28 Conference

Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) field of social stratification and social mobility

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Feb 5

Amazing! Thank you!

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Feb 4

Do you have data/code for that plot? I would love to use it in my class next quarter?

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Jan 30

The first draft of work co-authored on the sleep experience of people living unhoused is available on BioArxiv! This an important study on the sleep of different temporary housing for those experiencing homelessness -- www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Check it out!

Sleep in People Experiencing Homelessness Under Different Conditions and Seasons

Poor sleep represents a central health disparity for people experiencing homelessness, and any intervention to alleviate the impacts of homelessness should aim to improve sleep. We measured actimetry-...

www.biorxiv.org

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · Dec 22

Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · Dec 18

Happy that @lausterna.bsky.social and my article "Housing shortages and doubled up households" for PlanCanada’s winter issue is out today.
TL;DR: Prevalence of doubling up and high rents are two sides of the same coin: our housing shortage.

Housing shortages and doubled up households

Tracking doubled up households is useful in better understanding housing shortages, as well as benchmarking how much more housing is needed to fix them.

mountainmath.github.io

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Dec 7

I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!

Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · Dec 6

Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna?

Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis!

YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️
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Young Scientists Summer Program in the POPJUS Program

The Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) focuses on major societal challenges and delivers insights into current and future population sizes, structures, and distributions that are fundament...

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · Dec 2

I'm organizing a CenSoc Users Conference this Friday, Dec 6th!

Please consider tuning in (all are welcome) to hear about some of the fascinating mortality research being done with these data. Full program and Zoom link:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CenSoc Users Conference Program

CenSoc Users Conference Meeting Information In-person: Demography Seminar Room, 310 Social Science Building Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95559957196 Date: December 6th Organizers Casey...

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Zack Almquist @zalmquist.bsky.social · Nov 30

Any sense how much the average would be skewed by the tail in this case? I can imagine reading is like income, where the average is really affected by the people who read a lot and the median is much lower. So I can see 19 being a reasonable average, even if the mode is like 1 & median ~2.

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