Zack Almquist

New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!

I'm headed to Georgetown, American University, and the University of Virginia next week to talk about my new book! All events are open to the public. You can find details and links to the events on my book page: www.danah.org/data-are-mad...

IUSSP-PAA Webinars on AI & Demography - Part 1 on OCT 16 with Ridhi Kashyap, Emilio Zagheni, Andrew Tatem, Matthew Hauer / Part 2 on OCT 22 with Evans Omondi, Isaac Maddow-Zimet,Tyler McCormick, Madeleine Short Fabic. Moderation V. Adjiwanou iussp.org/en/iussp-paa... #demography #populationstudies

We are excited to share the first-ever LA Youth Count report! youthcount.org/2026-report -- LA became one of first communities to adopt cutting-edge respondent-driven sampling methods to estimate the prevalence of unsheltered young people and better understand their experiences.

Are you interested in presenting in @uwcsde.bsky.social Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG)? CDWG meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research. csde.washington.edu/computationa... #demography

RDS for LA Youth Homeless! -- See Randall Kuhn's nice write up on my joint work with the USC team led by Amanda Landrian Gonzalez, PhD, MPH, the 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 team led by Robin Petering and Fatine Ait-Haddou and @ihsankahveci.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/posts/engbia...

Congrats! UW PhD student Brandon Morande in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social: Seattle clears encampments and impounds vehicle residences not where homelessness is prevalent, but where property values rise, complaints climb, and (for vehicles) more Black residents live. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Check it out! www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/post... Data and methods/applied demography poster winner! 39 - Forced Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness: Housing and Movement Outcomes After Encampment Clearances Brandon Morande*; Kim Serry, Amy Hagopian, Zack Almquist

New paper with @ihsankahveci.bsky.social, Amy Hagopian and others at Social Networks - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... check it out!

If you are applying to ASA (@asanews.bsky.social), consider applying to my session - "Recent Advances in Mathematical Sociology"!! #mathsoc

📢 Analytical sociology is coming home! Call 4 INAS26 is open 🌍 1-3Jul26 @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social (☔) ☢️ Deadline: 1Feb26 🦹 Organisers: @aksoyundan.bsky.social , @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social, D Kretschmer, @awaldendorf.bsky.social Info: tinyurl.com/yc2tusjx

Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)? Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR... ▪️ All career stages welcome ▪️ All fields welcome ▪️ Be compensated for your time

🚨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

‼️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

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...

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....

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!

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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/...

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

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

Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting: 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!

Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

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.

I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!

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...

#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!

Here's a starter pack of researchers at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: go.bsky.app/4MjXqv8

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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...

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

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!

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...

For students at the University of Washington, I will be teaching a course on people experiencing homelessness this coming winter quarter -- we will bring in people with lived experience and other experts. We will engage with TC3 on campus! It is going to be a great class! shorturl.at/nVLX6

Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate! go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK

Check out our new paper, "Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials," now published in Network Science! We guide researchers on sharing network data responsibly while balancing transparency, ethical considerations, and privacy concerns. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Applications are now open for RAND's 2025 Graduate Student Summer Associate Program, a paid internship that pairs students with RAND mentors to collaborate on research projects. 🗓️ Apply by December 2. www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Check out my new paper on migration systems, published with @SpringerNature in @SceintificReports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

See this great work from Aja Sutton, on the relationship between tent encampment locations, emergency shelters and renters compare with access to amenities! osf.io/preprints/so...

"Recommendations for sharing network data and materials” is now published in Network Science at doi.org/10.1017/nws.... led by Zachary Neal on recommendations for data sharing in the network science and social networks field!

Interview by UW News with my colleague Amy Hagopian (UW Public Health) on our work to improve how we count people living unsheltered in King County. www.washington.edu/news/2024/10...

Our next Brownbag is Wed, Oct 9 w/ Peter Catron, Assoc Prof of Soc at Univ. of Washington: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building, w/ zoom option. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...

A discussion of our work being funded by the UW Population Health Initiative and the current state of affairs on how this changed how we do the people experiencing homelessness Point-in-Time count here in King County can be found in this UW News release - www.washington.edu/news/2024/09...

My work with KCRHA is finally live at the American Journal of Epidemiology -- Using network methods to estimate the population size of people living unsheltered on a given night in King County, see paper can be found here: academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

New paper out in International Journal on Homessness, "Norms of Fairness and Generosity Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Dictator Game Field Experiment," with Mc Anderson, Ashley Hazel, and Jessica Perkins! ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ij...

My team has been awarded a UW PHI Grant to further our work on improving the HUD PIT -- www.washington.edu/populationhe...