COALESCE Lab
@coalescelab.bsky.social
Laboratory for the Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion, and Exclusion at UAB Barcelona. We conduct mixed-methods research on personal networks, migration, cohesion, exclusion, and polarization: http://coalesce-lab.com/en.
Don´t miss Louise Ryan's seminar this Thursday! (online or in person) Organized by the INMIX research group (@danrodriguezgarcia.bsky.social) and the COALESCE Lab (@nuriatargarona.bsky.social and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social)
📣 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! ✨
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Don´t miss Louise Ryan's seminar this Thursday! (online or in person) Organized by the INMIX research group (@danrodriguezgarcia.bsky.social) and the COALESCE Lab (@nuriatargarona.bsky.social and @mirandalubbers.bsky.social)
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Nos complace anunciar la próxima reunión de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Complejos
🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla
✏️Manda tu contribución hasta el 30 Oct 2025
🌐 Info: cs3.es/conference-2...
¡Esperamos veros a todos en Sevilla!
🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla
✏️Manda tu contribución hasta el 30 Oct 2025
🌐 Info: cs3.es/conference-2...
¡Esperamos veros a todos en Sevilla!
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Nos complace anunciar la próxima reunión de la Sociedad Española de Sistemas Complejos
🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla
✏️Manda tu contribución hasta el 30 Oct 2025
🌐 Info: cs3.es/conference-2...
¡Esperamos veros a todos en Sevilla!
🗓️ 21-23 enero 2026 |📍Sevilla
✏️Manda tu contribución hasta el 30 Oct 2025
🌐 Info: cs3.es/conference-2...
¡Esperamos veros a todos en Sevilla!
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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...
June 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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...
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I gave a webinar from this work with the International Social Capital Association, available here - www.intsocialcapital.org/event/toward...
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital - International Social Capital Association (ISCA)
Social capital is among the most broadly used concepts in social science. Despite its shared understanding as beneficial resources available from the connections between people, authors vary widely in...
www.intsocialcapital.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I gave a webinar from this work with the International Social Capital Association, available here - www.intsocialcapital.org/event/toward...
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I hope @ageinves.bsky.social will at some time abolish the limiting research team-work team separation. European grants are 10-20x bigger and they work well without it. And the 100-50% rule. Imagine what collaborations would be possible if research groups don’t have to hoard their time.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I hope @ageinves.bsky.social will at some time abolish the limiting research team-work team separation. European grants are 10-20x bigger and they work well without it. And the 100-50% rule. Imagine what collaborations would be possible if research groups don’t have to hoard their time.
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New pre-print out! 🤩
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Not All Political Topics Are Created Equal: How Issue Polarization Shapes Partner Selection in Informal Political Discussion: https://osf.io/zauq4
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New pre-print out! 🤩
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
Co-authored with @mirandalubbers.bsky.social (from @coalescelab.bsky.social), Eva Jaspers and Jan-Willem Simons (both from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social).
A fresh look into why people discuss some topics with particular contacts and not with others in their personal networks.
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📣 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! ✨
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 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! ✨
@teoriantropolog.bsky.social @uab.cat
See U there! ✨
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📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
Measuring distributional preferences: opportunities and challenges - The Journal of Economic Inequality
This article introduces, and puts in context, the fourteen papers in the special issue, "Inequality perceptions and fairness judgments."
link.springer.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.
Read more ⬇️
buff.ly/CWl4ADl
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We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses
Read more and find the link below🔽
Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
Our methodological open-access article (co-authors: Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social), presenting new interactive visual tools to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, is out in Sociological Research Online doi.org/10.1177/1360...
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congratulations to @nuriatargarona.bsky.social (COALESCE Lab), Louise Ryan & @alexciordia.bsky.social (@erc-foodcharities.bsky.social / @sns.it) for their ⭐new article⭐ in @socresonline.bsky.social, discussing two visual tools to inductively explore social boundary making in relationships! #socsky
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Very glad to join the COALESCE Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona!
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
Welcome new lab members!
We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!
coalesce-lab.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Very glad to join the COALESCE Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona!
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
I’ll be working as a postdoc researcher on the PATCHWORK project, studying social cohesion and exclusion through computational and network-based approaches.
Many thanks to @coalescelab.bsky.social for the warm welcome :)
📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks
Use of aggregated relational data in agent-based modeling
Aggregated relational data (ARD) provides valuable information for inferring structural features of personal social networks at scale. Following recen…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
📢Just published! Yunsub Lee (COALESCE Lab) & Xinwei Xu (@socialnetworkslab.bsky.social) show how incorporating more realistic network features dramatically alters Axelrod’s cultural dynamics model, in their new article in Social Networks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NetSci #SocialNetworks
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
Welcome new lab members!
We are excited to welcome three new members to the lab: Paul Schuler, Gonzalo Franetovic, and Chen Wang. We look forward to working together!
coalesce-lab.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We are delighted to welcome not one, not two, but three fantastic new members to the COALESCE Lab: @gonzalofranetovic.bsky.social (r), @pschuler.bsky.social (l) and Chen Wang (m)! 🥂 coalesce-lab.com/en/news/40/w...
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🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
September 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🚨🚨📢📢 New open-access article (co-authored w/ @nuriatargarona.bsky.social & @mirandalubbers.bsky.social), just out in American Behavioral Scientist:
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
“The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times: Relationship Decay Within Activists’ Personal Networks” doi.org/10.1177/0002...
Work from our lab published in the European Sociological Review
My new paper doi.org/10.1093/esr/... explains that personal networks expose us to different degrees to economic distress, which shapes public opinion (here, institutional trust). Yet institutional trust research has largely overlooked networks. #sociology #netsky
The role of social networks in institutional trust during economic downturns
Abstract. Citizens’ trust in institutions is crucial for the proper functioning of societies. While national economic performance is a key predictor of ins
doi.org
May 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Work from our lab published in the European Sociological Review
“Parlar de política amb tothom? Sí, d'acord, però...”
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“Parlar de política amb tothom? Sí, d'acord, però...”
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
Inspirat en la sèrie YES, BUT d'Anton Gudim.
Un fil curt 🧵
“¿Hablar sobre política con cualquiera? Sí, de acuerdo, pero…”
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“¿Hablar sobre política con cualquiera? Sí, de acuerdo, pero…”
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
Inspirado en la serie YES, BUT de Anton Gudim.
Un hilo corto 🧵
“Talk about politics with everyone? Yes, I agree, but…”
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“Talk about politics with everyone? Yes, I agree, but…”
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
Inspired by the YES, BUT series from Anton Gudim.
A short thread 🧵
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There are new social network groups and researchers joining Bluesky! I have just updated this starter pack (for example: @socialnetworkslab.bsky.social @coalescelab.bsky.social @ansna.org.au @networkscijournal.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social )
I created a starter pack for social network researchers.
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
March 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There are new social network groups and researchers joining Bluesky! I have just updated this starter pack (for example: @socialnetworkslab.bsky.social @coalescelab.bsky.social @ansna.org.au @networkscijournal.bsky.social @mitchellsna.bsky.social )
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📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
Post-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24)
Job position
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
We joined Bluesky! Starting in 2021, we are a research team dedicated to studying processes of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization from a social network perspective. We aim to connect micro-level relationships to macro-level outcomes by conducting interdisciplinary mixed-methods research.
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We joined Bluesky! Starting in 2021, we are a research team dedicated to studying processes of social exclusion, cohesion, and polarization from a social network perspective. We aim to connect micro-level relationships to macro-level outcomes by conducting interdisciplinary mixed-methods research.