Per Block

I am happy to announce: * I have started a position as an assistant professor in Sociology @uni-muenster.de * I have won an ERC StG this summer (online-offline socialisation processes and educational inequality) So I will be hiring soon! Watch this space if you are interested!

We made a really neat network plot about the structure of marriages between occupations. And there is a whole article with it that's really neat too! And it's out now too! doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2026.101203

We made a really neat network plot about the structure of marriages between occupations. And there is a whole article with it that's really neat too! And it's out now too! doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2026.101203

I heard it's organised by some really dedicated people, who got a location overlooking zürich with a lovely terrace... should be nice in may

Isabel Raabe gave the keynote at this year's ARS'25 Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Naples.

Less than a week to apply for this POSTDOC on climate migration with network models! In the sunniest and most joyful places in Europe!

Peer reviewers please don't interpret your job as making the paper as good as it can possibly be. I have 6 other projects to attend to. The very, very marginal improvement to this paper your taxing demands constitute is not worth the marginal cost of me not finishing a whole other project.

Networks, Migration, Climate, and lots of exciting Statistical Models: Come work with on a potpourri of these topics as a POSTDOC in a joint project between TOULOUSE and ZURICH: it'll be even more exciting than it sounds: tinyurl.com/climatenetmig

Congratulations to our 2025 Best Student Paper winner, Juliette Saetre!

The biannual INSNA Richards Award, to honor the creation of outstanding publicly available social network analysis software, goes to the Network Canvas team! This open source software is available here: networkcanvas.com

At our annual Sunbelt conference in Paris last week, INSNA honored Beate Völker with the Simmel Award. This lifetime achievement award is given to an INSNA member for their significant contributions to the study of social networks. Thank you for a wonderful keynote presentation, Prof. Völker!

@perblock.bsky.social gave the Freeman keynote at this year's @sunbelt2025paris.bsky.social conference organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (@insna.bsky.social) in Paris. Read more: www.suz.uzh.ch/de/forschung...

This year, the INSNA Freeman Award, which is given annually to a young distinguished scholar in the field of social networks, goes to goes to Zsófia Boda!

Romanes eunt domum

Take that, Max Weber: Social classes are actually quite irrelevant in explaining work-life mobility, once the social & structural connections between detailed occupations (micro-classes) are modeled properly! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yes! Come to Paris this summer and take part in the most important event happening there since the storming of the Bastille! sunbelt2025.org

Set the agenda for the network research community next year: The deadline to submit workshops and organized sessions to the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt in PARIS is extended to 2nd December

Looking for Social Scientists like me: I would like to create the starter pack "Social Scientists named Per", but I don't know enough of them. Suggest and share widely, please, so I can also determine the degree of separation between Pers on bsky! @pengzell.bsky.social

I guess that half the twitter researchers are still bemoaning the death of their research topic - but the other half already followed us and are giddily APIing bsky...

After the 2024 Olympics, Paris will host an even more fascinating event next summer: the 2025 INSNA Sunbelt. There are still a few days left to qualify by proposing a workshop or organized session! (qualification for presenters opens soon) sunbelt2025.org/deadlines

Gender & Occupation researchers: I'm looking for lit. on systematic differences in social rewards women and men get from working in the same occupation (like male engineers have high prestige while female engineers are treated as out of place). Any ideas? Self-promotion welcome.