Author: Evgeniia Krichever
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Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2025
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, policy application, ethics and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research.
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NetAudit – Interpretable Embeddings for the Dutch Population Network
In this blog post, we introduce NetAudit, a project that combines large-scale population data from Statistics Netherlands with network embedding techniques to represent every individual as a vector based on their social context (e.g., family, neighbors, colleagues).
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Insights from the Seminar FAIR data infrastructures for the SSH
Organized by the PDI-SSH project “Building a FAIR Expertise Hub for the Social Sciences” and ODISSEI, this event tackled a crucial question: How can we overcome bottlenecks and effectively support FAIR implementation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in the Netherlands?
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Increasing the visibility and FAIRness of child development data
Longitudinal cohort studies can provide a wealth of information on development during infancy, childhood and beyond. However, finding these data can be challenging. To address this, the leaders of the cohorts involved in the Consortium on Individual Development wrote a proposal for the Platform Digital Infrastructure Social Sciences and Humanities (PDI-SSH) and got funded. The…
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Mass online experiments lab
This project, led by Rense Corten at Utrecht University, supports the maturation of a permanent suite of tools for the deployment of Mass Online Experiments and eliminates the fixed costs associated with such experiments for Dutch researchers.
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LISS panel Grant 2024 results
We are delighted to announce the results of the LISS panel Grant call 2024. In total, we have received 32 applications, of which we were able to grant nine projects. The interdisciplinary review committee evaluated the applications and ranked them according to the four evaluation criteria, as mentioned in the call for proposals.
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Results of MAG 2024-II
The results of the second round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG 2024-2) have been announced. This round, we have received 22 applications that were evaluated by the interdisciplinary committee. In total, 6 top scoring proposals have been awarded free access to microdata.
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Beyond personal data: a new initiative to support early-career researchers with hard-to-share data
This project tackles bottlenecks in sharing sensitive research data in the social sciences and humanities. A key feature of this initiative is a series of three in-person workshops, designed to give researchers the tools and insights needed to share sensitive data responsibly.
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Computational Social Science: Ethics and Conceptual Transparency
The way researchers define and operationalize key terms such as fairness, bias, and privacy doesn’t just affect research outcomes—it fundamentally shapes the societal impacts of CSS, making this ethical consideration critical.
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Benchmarking in Social Science: The Case of the Data Challenge for Predicting Fertility in the Netherlands (PreFer)
Fertility outcomes, or the number and timing of children, influence numerous aspects of individual lives and the development of societies. While researchers have extensively studied how specific factors – such as age, socioeconomic status, or network characteristics – affect fertility, relatively little attention has been paid to the predictability of fertility outcomes. How accurately can…