🚀The IC2S2'25 website is LIVE, and submissions are OPEN! 📍Norrköping, Sweden | July 21-24, 2025 Call for Abstracts - DDL: Feb 24, 2025 Call for Tutorials - DDL: Jan 17, 2025 🔗Explore details & submit: https://t.co/hdsdvXiHxJ Stay tuned for exciting keynote announcements!

Congrats to these awardees!

That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!

Sarah Williams capped our keynote series with a powerful call: make data a force for empowerment and public good. What insight resonated most with you? #ic2s2

Last chance to catch our parallel sessions! Today’s lineup spans polarization, media and online discourse, governance policy, and more. Pick your track, join the discussion, and make the most of this final day. #ic2s2

The final poster session is now. Drop by, exchange ideas, and join the lively discussion! #ic2s2

The final day’s lightning round offered another eight sharp takes on media bias, science of science, etc. Which talk stood out to you? #ic2s2

Prediction and explanation, together. Duncan Watts opened our final day with a keynote on “Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science,” showing how pairing causal insight with predictive testing can push computational social science forward. #ic2s2

Want to keep the conversations flowing at #ic2s2? A crowd is heading to a focal bar: Arbis Kafé & Salonger (outside), a short walk from the conference venue. https://t.co/7BTWA9Vhq3

Arnout van de Rijt gave Day 2 a strong ending with his keynote, “Luck and success in millions of life courses.” Do early strokes of luck widen life-course income gaps? This keynote offered fresh causal evidence on chance and inequality. #ic2s2

Day 2 Keynotes. How can computational methods sharpen our grasp of culture? In Amir Goldberg’s inspiring keynote, he showed how computational methods reveal hidden cultural patterns. #ic2s2

Afternoon parallel sessions are in progress—join the discussions!

More than 100 posters are on display in the Atrium. Explore your favorite topics, chat with the authors, and cast your vote. #ic2s2

Day 2 and the momentum at #ic2s2 ’25 keeps building. Parallel sessions are running across multiple tracks: network science, social media, economics, science of science, and more.

Eight lightning talks just delivered rapid-fire insights on human–LLM interactions, mobility, and inequality. Which one impressed you most? Share your thoughts! #ic2s2

Day 2 Keynotes kicked off with Laura Nelson's inspiring presentation, “Why Qualitative Research Needs Computational Social Science”. What is the state of this maturing field called qualitative computational methods? What are the ongoing debates and futures? #ic2s2

Hope your first day of #ic2s2 ‘25 was fruitful. Reminder: afternoon keynotes begin at 4:30 pm sharp, please arrive promptly so you don’t miss a moment. See you tomorrow!

Dinner at 19:00 for those who have yellow tickets: head to Värmekyrkan, Holmengatan 3, 602 32 Norrköping—just a five-minute walk from the conference venue. See you there soon! #ic2s2

Day 1 keynote - Continuing the LLM conversation, Lisa P. Argyle presented “Arti-fickle’ Intelligence: Using LLMs as a Tool for Inference in the Political and Social Sciences.” Which guidelines do you resonate with the most to establish the failure and success of LLMs? #ic2s2

Day 1 Keynote “Design-Based Supervised Learning (DSL): A General Framework for Using LLM Annotations and Other Predicted Variables in Downstream Analyses” by Brandon Stewart. Try DSL in your research? Available at https://t.co/yDrYoaV3UW #ic2s2

Parallel sessions are underway, with multiple tracks covering network dynamics, LLMs, mobility and urban science, political narratives, and more. Scan the program, join the talks that excite you, and share your insights with the community #ic2s2.