17-Sep-26 ‣ Long-boarding: Una nuova prospettiva sulla longevità professionale – Results are out from this study of logenvity and wellbeing in Italian workplaces, a collaboration between collaboration Behave Lab and Valore D.
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25-Aug-26 ‣ Mapping disaster preparedness in Spain: Individual resources and social networks (PREPARED) – New project, led by Miranda Lubbers, starting in collaboration with the COALESCE Lab at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and VU Amsterdam.
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20-May-26 ‣ Salute circolare, welfare e complessità sociale: nuove prospettive interdisciplinari. Next week (27/5) I’ll chair a workshop (in Italian) on circular health and sustainability, evidence-based policies for complex social systems, and collaborative welfare. Speakers: Ilaria Capua (Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe), Franca Maino (University of Milan and Percorsi di Secondo Welfare), Felice Scalvini (Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti), Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Milan and Behave Lab), Rosanna Tarricone (Bocconi University). The event is supported by the NetHealth project (funded by Fondazione Cariplo) and the NASP PhD network. More information here and here.
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15-May-26 ‣ Our new summary paper on ethics in network research is now published. It distills advice and best practices from a network of 14 authors — from 14 universities, 8 countries, and various disciplines — for the broader community of researchers in social network analysis and network science. The full article is forthcoming in Network Science. More information here.
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11-May-26 ‣ Three PhD scholarships are available to join our PhD program in Economic Sociology, Organization, and Labor Studies (ESOL) in AY 2026-27 at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. ESOL is part of the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies, with two more PhD programs and several partner universities. Application deadline 10/6/2026, see here for how to apply. Contact me for more information.
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4-May-26 ‣ New chapter in the Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks (Edward Elgar): Social networks and migrant health: theoretical frameworks, mechanisms, and evidence.
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3-Apr-26 ‣ Party misfits: the social bases of pluralism in an era of polarized politics — Delia Baldassarri (New York University) will present her work at a NASP seminar next week (10/4). The event is chaired by Behave Lab’s Federico Bianchi. More information here.
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24-Mar-26 ‣ Applications are now open for our new Master’s Program in Computational Social and Political Science (AY 2026-27) at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Application deadline 12/6/2026, enrollment in early July. All information here. Contact me for more information.
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13-Mar-26 ‣ All fieldwork and data collection activities for the ConsNet project are concluded. More project news soon!
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4-Feb-26 ‣ Using network science to understand organizations and business communities. In a new collaboration between Behave Lab and Logotel, our pilot study for Weconomy shows how digital traces from online business communities can be analyzed to identify opinion leaders and measure resilience in organizations.
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2-Feb-26 ‣ New addition to the ConsNet team: welcome Lorenzo Mattioli!
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15-Jan-26 ‣ Building a dataset and webpage for INSNA to collect information and videos about research centers, labs, and training programs in social network analysis and network science. Contact me to have your lab or program included. More updates soon!
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25-Nov-25 ‣ Excited to be part of the new Board of Directors of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). More news about INSNA initiatives coming soon.
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1-Sep-25 ‣ Welcome to the first student cohort of our new Master’s Program in Computational Social and Political Sciences! The first CSPS classes are starting this month with topics in data governance, policy design, and programming for social data science. See this page for information about the program, its faculty board, and applications for AY 2026/27.
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25-Jul-25 ‣ Two new chapters out in the Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Education: egocentric networks; topic modeling and network analysis (with Thomas Smith).
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2-Jul-25 ‣ New Horizon EU project starting soon at the Unimi SPS Department and Behave Lab: IANUS (Integrative MSCA Achievements and Networks for Unified Strategies) will support a large-scale portfolio analysis of all projects funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and of their contributions to EU Missions. This is a collaboration with the University of Agder (leading unit, PI Marco Seeber) and five more academic and non-academic organizations.
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16-Jun-25 ‣ New addition to the NetHealth team: welcome Elena De Gioannis!
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3-Jun-25 ‣ Six PhD scholarships are available in our Doctoral Program in Economic Sociology, Organization, and Labor (ESOL) at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Successful candidates may join the Behave Lab for research in behavioral and computational sociology. Apply here (deadline 17 June 2025). Contact me for more information.
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19-May-25 ‣ This week: two more workshops on “Doing Computational Social Science with Python and R“. Ayan Gupta will talk about topic modeling and web-scraping with Python. See here or email me for more info.
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12-May-25 ‣ This week: first workshop of the series “Doing Computational Social Science with Python and R” at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Ayan Gupta will give us an overview of preprocessing and descriptive analyses of text data in Python. See here or email me for more info.
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17-Mar-25 ‣ SPS department seminar on Monday 31/3 at 10:30: Social networks of meaning and communication with Jan Fuhse, senior lecturer for Computational Social Science and qualitative research methods at the Leipzig University Institute of Sociology. See here for details.
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27-Feb-25 ‣ Registrations are open for the workshop series Doing Computational Social Science with Python and R at the University of Milan in May-June 2025. Registration deadline: April 30, 2025. All information and instructions here.
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3-Feb-25 ‣ New ESOL PhD seminar on Monday 24/2 at 15:00: Exploring Rural Health Through Living Labs: Dynamic Networks as Social Determinants of Cancer. Marian Gabriel Hâncean, Director of the GraphNets lab at the University of Bucharest, will talk about his team’s work as part of the 4P-CAN HORIZON project (“Personalised CANcer Primary Prevention research through Citizen Participation and digitally enabled social innovation”). See this webpage for more information.
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30-Jan-25 ‣ New article out on International Migration — Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation: New developments and challenges. The article introduces a special issue of International Migration on social network studies in migration research.
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23-Jan-25 ‣ Abstract submissions are open for the next INSNA Sunbelt Conference in Paris (June 23-29, 2025). We’ll coordinate an organized session on new developments and challenges in social network studies of migration, with Basak Bilecen and Miranda Lubbers. More information about the session is here. This is also meant as a forum to present and discuss a special issue of International Migration on the same topic (here). Submission deadline: February 20, 2025.
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7-Jan-25 ‣ We’re launching a new Master’s Program in Computational Social and Political Science at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Start: September 2025. Essential information on contents and scope is here, more details and application information are coming out soon. Contact me or Flaminio Squazzoni for more information.