Zack Almquist
@zalmquist.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks
https://zalmquist.github.io
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Zack Almquist
@zalmquist.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.
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New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
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Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
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GRAND Recruitment
Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).
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October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
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▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
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▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
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🚨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
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
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🚨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
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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‼️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
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
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‼️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
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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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.
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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September 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
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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...
Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
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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July 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
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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....
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 ...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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....
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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!
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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!
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
June 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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/...
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
‼️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
🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053...
#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
Reposted by Zack Almquist
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
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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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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
You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
www.zacharyneal.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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
You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
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Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
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
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
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
January 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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!
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Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
December 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
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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.
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
December 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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.
TL;DR: Prevalence of doubling up and high rents are two sides of the same coin: our housing shortage.
I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!
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 ⬇️
iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis!
YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️
iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
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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December 7, 2024 at 4:07 AM
I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!
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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...
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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December 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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...
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...
#academicsky New preprint on the Social Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness. We surveyed more than 3k people experiencing homelessness, and included in this was a lot of detail about their social networks -- read about it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13517
Understanding the Personal Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate Relational Data
The social networks of people experiencing homelessness are an understudied but vital aspect of their lives, offering access to information, support, and safety. In 2023, the U.S. Department of Housin...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM
#academicsky New preprint on the Social Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness. We surveyed more than 3k people experiencing homelessness, and included in this was a lot of detail about their social networks -- read about it here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13517
New #publication by my student Larisa and her co-authors on trends in health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway in BMC Public Health - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Check it out!
Trends in the health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway according to month of arrival during 2022 - BMC Public Health
Background More than 35 000 refugees from Ukraine applied for temporary collective protection in Norway during 2022. Previous studies have shown that the refugees have poor health in several domains, ...
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:23 PM
New #publication by my student Larisa and her co-authors on trends in health status of Ukrainian refugees in Norway in BMC Public Health - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Check it out!
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Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
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November 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:
go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8
go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8
For timeline zen...
November 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
For timeline zen...
New #publication out in SSR led by my recently graduated student Junhe Yang and co-authored with @juemos.bsky.social, "Political and educational dynamics behind the Evangelicals’ stance against mask mandates during COVID-19 in the U.S." find it here at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2024 at 10:48 PM
New #publication out in SSR led by my recently graduated student Junhe Yang and co-authored with @juemos.bsky.social, "Political and educational dynamics behind the Evangelicals’ stance against mask mandates during COVID-19 in the U.S." find it here at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?
Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!
go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!
go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
November 14, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?
Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!
go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!
go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
This is cool! NYT www.nytimes.com/interactive/... wrote an article using my long-time colleague (Ben Bagozzi) data UN Climate Summits (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Take look!
Who’s Attending COP29, the International Climate Summit?
The U.N.’s annual climate conference has swelled over three decades, with governments, fossil fuel interests and others vying for influence.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:37 PM
This is cool! NYT www.nytimes.com/interactive/... wrote an article using my long-time colleague (Ben Bagozzi) data UN Climate Summits (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Take look!