Philip Leifeld

Special issue on "Political Networks" in Network Science! Submission open now. Deadline 13 November 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Guest editors: Philip Leifeld, Shahryar Minhas, Monica Di Gregorio. #SNA #PoliSky #PolMeth #NetSci #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalNetworks #NWS

CfP: Political Networks Online Colloquium! Monthly sessions with designated discussants to give feedback on a paper that everyone reads in advance. Open to political science and related fields. Want feedback for your work. Apply! Apply by Oct 17: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New DNA publication 🚨: Susha, Iryna, Louis Knüpfling and Philip Leifeld (2026): Mandating Business-to-Government Data Sharing for Public Interest: Coalitions and their Policy Beliefs in the Shaping of the EU Data Act. Government Information Quarterly 43(4): 102188. doi.org/10.1016/j.gi...

Sign up for this to learn the basics of network analysis next semester through online classes. I will deliver 2 of the 10 sessions. Not sure how to start with your network analysis project? This is the right place. We have some of the leading SNA folks here at Manchester. #polisky #publicpolicy #sna

Great few days at the Political Networks Conference in Manchester, presenting "Information Environments and the Structure of Political Discussion Networks." Thank you @leifeld.bsky.social for this wonderful event.

How many of them reproduce observed macro-level emergent properties when simulated from the micro level? The "credibility revolution" will only be complete once generative emergence has been added as a requirement for empirical work.

Professor em. Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Chair of Systems Design @ethz.ch), giving the keynote speech on #resilience (through a #ComplexSystems lens) at the Political #Networks Conference 2026 @socialstats.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk. Participants' minds were blown!

Jungbae An (Ohio State University) receiving the Best Poster Prize at the Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk, announced with a laudatio by Professor Jennifer Victor (George Mason University) during the mentoring lunch. Big congratulations, Jungbae! And thanks to the committee.

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. My welcome address to the 114 participants, showing some key figures about the conference before introducing the keynote speaker. Check out the fantastic programme with abstracts for the 96 (!) presentations: sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Political Networks Conference 2026 at the University of Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Professor Adam D. Henry (University of Arizona) leading a featured session on "Network Analysis as a Measurement Tool for Policy Process Research". Learning from leaders in the field! #publicpolicy #policy #SNA

19th Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @manchester.ac.uk, 4-7 August. Packed featured session on "Publishing on political networks" with Aisha Bradshaw (Nature Human Behaviour) and Martin Everett (Network Science) in the beautiful Boardroom of Oddfellows Hall. Audience on fire 🔥

Political Networks Conference 2026 @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Laurence Brandenberger (U Zurich) teaching participants how to store complex political data in a graph DB and query the data effectively -- with everyone in the room actively contemplating doing the same with their own data. #POLNET2026

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk @socialstats.bsky.social. Professor Joris Mulder introducing relational event models and Bayes factors for nested and ordered hypotheses in network models in his workshops. Showcasing marvellous software implementations and polisci examples. #sna

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Dr. Silviya Nitsova @uompols.bsky.social discussing the promises and pitfalls of designing different ways of collecting network data. The workshop audience is buzzing with questions. #sna #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #PoliSky #polisci

Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Lorien Jasny (University of Exeter) giving a workshop on Exponential Random Graph Models #ergm using R to our audience. #PoliSky #statnet #SNA #NetworkScience. So many good questions and happy faces all around!

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Professor Ingo Scholtes showing animated simulations of random walk diffusion on time-preserving vs temporally shuffled networks in his workshop on Causality-Aware Temporal Networks, in a packed room #NetworkScience #SNA #NetworkAnalysis #PoliSky

Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.2 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... New functions: CSV importer, keyboard shortcuts. Lots of bug fixes, including statement type editor and using document-level variables in network export.

Check out the full programme with abstracts for the Political Networks Conference at Manchester in a couple of weeks: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Exciting line-up with 90 presentations across 28 panel sessions in 4 parallel tracks! Registration has closed, but perhaps of interest.

DNA 3.1.1 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... It contains some critical bug fixes and better Java bindings and initialisation for the included rDNA R package.

Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.0 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... Annotate actor-concept statements in documents and export networks. Updated document and statement management from the associated R package rDNA, polarisation, phase detection, backbone identification, IRT scaling, and bug fixes.

Ideas don't simply appear and disappear in political debates. They evolve, transform and sometimes return in new forms. New in JCMS: Philip Leifeld and Kristijan Garic explore how framing contests change over time. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JCSM #UACES #Wiley

New paper 🚨: "Disentangling Social Contagion from Prior Similarity in Time-Ordered Behaviour Sequences" with Sebastián Martínez and Laurence Brandenberger in #JRSSA: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (doi.org/10.1093/jrss...). #networkanalysis #polisky #SNA @jrssa.bsky.social

New paper 🚨: "Fully Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Decay in Ordinal Relational Event Models" with Jackie Siaw Tze Wong in #CSDA: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...). #relevent #sna #networkscience #bayesian #rem #temporalnetworks #computational #statistics

New paper 🚨: "Measuring Frame Evolution: Smoothed Temporal Framing Trajectories in Complex Policy Debates" with Kristijan Garic in #JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (doi.org/10.1111/jcms...). #policystudies #networkanalysis #framing #polisky #sna #publicpolicy #policydebate #networkscience

Submission deadline for the Political Networks Conference 2026 extended to 22 April following requests and to accommodate Easter breaks. Submission and full scope details: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Please RT. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA

Registration deadline for the MethodsNet Summer School 2026 coming up in one week, on 20 April. Details on the Inferential Network Analysis course: methodsnet.org/course/d11-i... Please RT. #SNA #PublicPolicy #Polisky #NetworkAnalysis #NetSci @methodsnet.bsky.social

Registration deadline for the MethodsNet Summer School 2026 coming up in one week, on 20 April. Details on the Discourse Network Analysis course: methodsnet.org/course/d05-d... Please RT. #SNA #PublicPolicy #Polisky #Discourse #NetworkAnalysis

🚨 Deadline approaching at the end of this week. Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Connecting research communities -- North America + Europe, different disciplines, methods, theories. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA

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Call for papers: 19th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Manchester, 4–7 Aug 2026. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Paper and poster submissions now open (deadline: 12 April). First time in Europe. Training workshops. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience

From my Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Yuanyuan Shang at BlackRock. We modelled #network effects in LP and GP matching across various asset classes in the alternative assets industry (real estate, private debt, #PrivateEquity, etc) using #TERGM. #SNA #AcFinance #ERGM #CSS #CompSocSci #NetSci

Looking for a postdoc to collect and analyse policy network data in coastal communities in the east of England as part of the £3m ARISE project. Apply until 1 Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ781/ #sna #networkanalysis #acjobs #polisky #polisci #publicpolicy #policyanalysis #netsci #ergm #network #postdoc

2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci

New publication in Social Network Analysis and Mining with Yuanyuan Shang. 🚀 #SNA Coming out of a collaboration with #BlackRock, the asset management firm. Paper title: Applying a Panel Network Formation Model to Limited Partnership Matching in the Private Capital Market. doi.org/10.1007/s132...

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We would like to hire a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (permanent) in AI in our Department of Social Statistics at Manchester. Deadline: 5 Jan 26. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Possibly in combination with #multiagent #ABM, #SocSci, #SocialStats. #academicjobs #psminfo #AIresearch #agentic

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In this new paper with @fisherdanar.bsky.social in Politics and Governance, we distinguish intrinsic and instrumental polarisation and analyse polarisation curves and phases in US climate politics. We also present new methods for discourse networks. doi.org/10.17645/pag... @cogitatiopag.bsky.social