Philip Leifeld
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leifeld.bsky.social
Philip Leifeld
@leifeld.bsky.social
Professor of Social Statistics, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis; Cathie Marsh Institute
networks • politics • statistics • public policy • complex systems
https://www.philipleifeld.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am one of the supervisors. The supervisors are from law, soc stats, comp sci. Get in touch if you have questions. The September starting date should make current master's students eligible to apply, but we may have flexibility around the exact start. Please help spread the word by reposting.
March 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After the US denied entry to a French academic en route to a conference recently (and some other cases of detained German citizens), I have decided not to attend US conferences until further notice. It's too much hassle and money to risk being detained. Sorry. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We discuss endogenous and exogenous drivers of change in discourse networks and present a method for finding structurally similar phases and the transition points between them. Implementation available in the rDNA R package accompanying the Discourse Network Analyzer software: github.com/leifeld/dna
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM