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Miranda Lubbers
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Professor of Anthropology; UAB Barcelona; Director COALESCE lab (http://coalesce-lab.com/en). ICREA Acadèmia fellow; ERC Advanced Grant holder “A #network #science approach to #social #cohesion in #European #societies”. European Academy of Sociology. .. more

Miranda J. Lubbers is a Dutch social scientist specializing in the analysis of migration, segregation, and social identity through personal networks. She is Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and director of the COALESCE Lab. .. more

Sociology 31%
Political science 30%
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New paper in Sociological Methodology with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @alexciordia.bsky.social, & @nuriatargarona.bsky.social about the measurement properties of aggregated relational data (responses to "how many people do you know who..?") and NSUM estimates: doi.org/10.1177/0081...

This is wild. Probably, publishers could easily develop systems to fact check prospective papers’ references in journal databases, but I guess it’s economically uninteresting.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Brilliant cartoon by Glen Le Lievre
The simulation hypothesis has long captured our imagination, yet most arguments rely on intuition over clear definitions.

A new paper by SFI Professor David Wolpert introduces the first precise mathematical framework for defining simulation — and shows many common assumptions don’t hold up.
New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Reposted by Miranda J. Lubbers

Another great paper using social network data from >5000 Ethiopians by @drsarahmyers.bsky.social, @danielredhead.bsky.social et al.

They show how attitudes towards IPV against women cluster socially on gender-homphilous ties. But opposite-gender ties actually predict *reverse* IPVAW attitudes
Gender-biased clustering of attitudes towards physical intimate partner violence: A social network analysis in south-central Ethiopia
Abstract. Changing social norms, shared beliefs about what is acceptable, is a key focus of global health campaigns aimed at ending intimate partner violen
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📢 Call for 3-year postdoctoral grants in Catalonia, Spain, is open (until Feb. 4th) for candidates who obtained their PhD in 2018-2023 & have 2 years of postdoctoral experience outside Spain. The coalesce-lab.com/en would be happy to support a candidacy if thematically aligned. Call: bit.ly/3MKu2c7
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LABORATORY FOR THE COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF EGONETWORKS, SOCIAL COHESION, AND EXCLUSION
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Why middle-aged women are plunging into icy lakes and finding strength there.
How open-water swimming can transform midlife wellbeing – new research
Why middle-aged women are plunging into icy lakes and finding strength there.
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According to the methodology, AI was also used in survey response, which their data quality control detected, & in writing the report.

Oh I like this message below a reviewer invitation:

"This is an automated email sent by our little robot friend. Never fear, though! If you reply to this email, real people will answer. ☺"

Thanks for posting a little light in the darkness. Ahmed el Ahmed, the man who disarmed one of the shooters in Sydney, was also a small business owner, so that’s two lights.
New evidence that short-term rentals--like those on Airbnb--increase neighborhood rodent infestations, traffic collisions, and crime.
📢 Analytical sociology is coming home!

Call 4 INAS26 is open

🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔)

☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26

🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social

Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Dear decision-makers. Please don´t send me any more rejections this year. Just forget I ever applied. All the best.

Actually, your government and billionaires are posing far greater threats to your nation than any undocumented immigrant ever will.

Insightful analyses, nice read, although terribly depressing! 😨 Now I’m curious about what percentage of US men and women would support abolishing men’s voting rights (and both men’s and women’s)...

Says the president who tears his whole country apart.

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The INMIX-UAB Research Group is pleased to invite you to the conference ‘Catalunya Barreja’: #Diversity, #Mixedness, and #SocialCohesion, which will take place on Dec. 17th at Museu d’Història de Catalunya, a knowledge-sharing event in collaboration with government organizations. See U there! 😉💫

The call for applications for the Summer Incubator 2026 at the @mpidr.bsky.social is open!

Deadline: Jan 14, 2026.

Topics/Teams:
1) Spatial Mobility and Scientific Production
2) Digitalization, AI and Inequalities

Check out the brand new website for information:
www.incubator.demogr.mpg.de

📣 This Thursday (Nov 27), 3 PM CET, at UAB Barcelona & online, Professor Louise Ryan will give the seminar "'I cannot live without friends': using longitudinal, qualitative social network analysis to understand how refugees forge new relationships in new places". Everyone's welcome! 👨‍🦱👩‍🦰🧔👩‍🦱👵👳👱‍♀️👨‍🦰🧕👱‍♂️🎅 👇
📣 I am thrilled to announce this Hybrid Open Seminar on November 27th at 3PM co-organised by @coalescelab.bsky.social @mirandalubbers.bsky.social and INMIX - UAB Research Group featuring leading expert in migration studies Prof. Louise Ryan ☘️
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

Congratulations! 🍾 I already look forward to reading about the results!

Son said that his teacher told a classmate during an exam “you got that question wrong“. He changed the answer, finished, then teacher said “you had it right earlier, as you would have known if you studied. Now it’s wrong.” The kid failed the exam. This story will give me some epic stomach ulcers.
I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. He engaged in serious professional retaliation against women.

This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job.

Imagine being 21 rn, being thrown back in an autocracy that takes people's rights, opportunities, & money, seeing climate crises rapidly change life-as-we-know-it while the wealthy dream of apocalypse, & still being able to see a ... big picture. (oh, and yum re leftover pasta in a Tupperware)