Max Falkenberg
Physicist. Computational Social Scientist. Interested in the structures of polarization.
Central European University & Institute for Sustainable Resources, UCL.
maxfalkenberg.com
- Reposted by Max Falkenberg🚨 Come join @ceu-dnds.bsky.social as an 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿! 🚨 We are looking for a young and coming researcher in 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link): careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
- I am very happy to share that as of June 2026, I will be joining the Informatics department @ KCL as an AI+ Senior Research Fellow (Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor). I am very grateful to everyone who has supported me on the way and excited to be continuing my research at King's 🎉
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- Reposted by Max Falkenberg🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare
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- Spoke to the BBC about how Grok is facilitating the abuse of politicians on X. Abusive messaging on X is not new (we studied it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ), but the enhanced visibility of Grok posts will increase engagement with this content. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- It is hard to overstate the number of academic hours which are wasted on fruitless funding applications 👇
- Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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- Competition for ERC Starting Grants up 38% in two years. No increase in the number of grants awarded and no increase in grant value. Result: more academic hours wasted on fruitless, bureaucratic grant applications instead of research erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
- Reposted by Max FalkenbergLast week we had our second “Inverse Complexity Lab Retreat” at wonderful Traunkirchen! skewed.de/lab/group.ht... Nothing like eldritch C++ incantations by the sunny lakeside! 🏖️
- General reminder: Good internet regulation is not easy if you're a small island with little real influence.
- Reposted by Max FalkenbergNew preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503
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- Reposted by Max FalkenbergAre you from the US and would like to work as a postdoc in Austria, maybe in our lab? 25 new fellowships will be available in July from the @oeaw.bsky.social: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/25-n... If you are interested; get in touch!
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- No surprise that bank lending to the fossil fuel sector keeps rising 👇 Nadia Ameli and I recently wrote about why current banking regulations are insufficient and ineffective at limiting continued funding to the FF sector - call ordinated action is needed: www.thebanker.com/content/e812...
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- Looking forward to hosting this tomorrow! Lots of great talks! 👇
- Looking forward to our satellite on "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science" next Tuesday (June 3) from 9am at @netsciconf.bsky.social Join us for 10 great talks discussing (Meta)Decidem, Tiktok, Bluesky, Wikidata, Painters, and more! galeale.github.io/UNCSS/?trk=f...
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- Reposted by Max Falkenberg🎉 Very happy to announce Maxime Lucas @maximelca.bsky.social as our next panelist! Maxime is an FNRS Postdoc at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems & UCLouvain in Belgium. He is interested in dynamical systems, complex systems, networks, and their applications to life sciences.
- Looking forward to our satellite on "Understudied Networks in Computational Social Science" next Tuesday (June 3) from 9am at @netsciconf.bsky.social Join us for 10 great talks discussing (Meta)Decidem, Tiktok, Bluesky, Wikidata, Painters, and more! galeale.github.io/UNCSS/?trk=f...
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- Reposted by Max Falkenberg🎙️Meet the chair of Data Stories: @maxfalken.bsky.social We're excited to welcome Max Falkenberg as chair of this year's Data Stories! 📅 Join Max and our speakers *TOMORROW*, Tuesday, May 20 1/n
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- New Marie Curie initiative with €1.25bn of funding marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/marie-s... Scheme aims to address the "precarity of research careers"... Which is ironic, because the same programme required me to move country for a two year contract (albeit a very nice one)
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- Reposted by Max FalkenbergNew study by Elisa Omodei @elisaomodei.bsky.social & @isifoundation.bsky.social co-authors finds that only 4–6.5% of links in Reddit climate discussions cite scientific sources, raising questions about the role of science in online climate discourse. 🔎 Read more: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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- Very happy to be chairing this event next week 🎉 Come join us if you are in Vienna 🙏
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- Reposted by Max FalkenbergWe are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
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- Cannot recommend more highly 👇
- Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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- Great to have you with us @ariannapera.bsky.social !
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- Reposted by Max FalkenbergOpinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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- Reposted by Max Falkenberg✨ Deadline Extended – Submit by May 7! ✨ We're still accepting poster submissions for Data Stories, CEU's annual celebration of data visualization in research. If you’re crafting a compelling, data-driven story, there’s still time to share your work! 🔗 networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories
- Reposted by Max FalkenbergThe mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
- A privilege for me to present this work in Cambridge on the need to view social media as an ecosystem, not disconnected platforms, when thinking about deplatforming. Definitely a memorable place to give a presentation 🙂
- Reposted by Max FalkenbergThis is on point. Europe can barely meet its own research funding needs. There's just no way it can absorb the US deficit, without a massive overhaul.
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- New preprint on the global state of political polarization research 🎉 osf.io/preprints/os... We discuss the many different ways polarization can be conceptualised, how it manifests very differently across countries and domains, and the problems with the dominance of US focused research.
- Many of the points we make are arguably obvious, but it doesn't hurt reiterating: The terrible state of polarization in the US is of only limited use for understanding and mitigating the damaging consequences of polarization in other countries.
- Many months of work in collaboration with @galessandro.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social @snurb.info @gruzd.ca @davidlazer.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @ovarol.bsky.social @ingmarweber.de @zollofab.bsky.social @baronca.bsky.social + others not on Bsky!
- Reposted by Max FalkenbergHave you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort! w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
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- Reposted by Max FalkenbergData Stories is back! 🎉 Does your research tell a story through data? Share it with us! 👀 🗓️ Submit your visualizations by April 30: networkdatascience.ceu.edu/data-stories Join us May 20 at CEU Vienna (or online!) to celebrate the power of data viz. #DataStories11 #DataViz #CEU
- Reposted by Max Falkenberg🔥 Hey NetPals! This week, we're excited to welcome Samuel Martín-Gutiérrez from the @netincsh.bsky.social who will talk about intersectional inequalities in social networks and finding the right audience for your research. 📅 When: 3rd Apr, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site
