Zack Almquist
@zalmquist.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Statistics | Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience @ University of Washington | Housing and Homelessness | Computational Demography | Migration | Social Networks
https://zalmquist.github.io
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Zack Almquist
@zalmquist.bsky.social
· May 27
‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers.
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#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
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#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
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.
youthcount.org
September 30, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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.
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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
CDWG meets weekly to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions of digital and computational approaches to demographic research.
csde.washington.edu/computationa...
#demography
Computational Demography Working Group
About The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) at the University of Washington meets weekly to provide an interdi
csde.washington.edu
August 27, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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
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...
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...
L.A. County Tests New Approach to Counting Homeless Youth
L.A. County officials have a new approach for counting homeless youth: paying them to fill out a survey and then refer their peers.
imprintnews.org
July 31, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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...
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...
doi.org/10.1093/socp...
doi.org
June 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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...
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
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
Poster Winners from PAA 2026 - PAA 2026 Annual Meeting
www.populationassociation.org
May 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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
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!
Understanding the personal networks of people experiencing homelessness in King County, WA with aggregate relational data
Personal networks among people experiencing homelessness are vital but often overlooked. Drawing on a unique three-year data set (2022–2024) from over…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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
Home page | American Sociological Association
Registration now openJoin us August 7-11 in New York City for the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting. Early Bird registration ends June 15.Our Plan for the FutureASA's
www.asanet.org
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
If you are applying to ASA (@asanews.bsky.social), consider applying to my session - "Recent Advances in Mathematical Sociology"!! #mathsoc
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📢 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
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
INAS Conference 2026 - Nuffield College Oxford University
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December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
📢 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
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
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Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
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▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
GRAND Recruitment
Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).
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October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
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🚨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
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
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
🚨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
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
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‼️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
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
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‼️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
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
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My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.
Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
facultypositions.stanford.edu
September 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.
Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
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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...
Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Commendations for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
Read the recommendations 👉 www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Endorse the recommendations 👉 forms.gle/sgpjyUnkufJF...
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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....
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation
The global response to climate change is negotiated through the UNFCCC’s Conferences of the Parties (COPs). Initially focused on reducing emissions from developed countries, the UNFCCC has shifted ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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....
Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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!
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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!
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/...
Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS
Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based
on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...
www.pnas.org
June 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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/...
Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS
Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based
on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...
www.pnas.org
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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/...
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
‼️New Review Article just out! Zack Almquist and colleagues tackle the challenges of measuring📏 and defining homelessness in the US, a key rising 📈 phenomenon that deserves attention from demographers.
🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053...
#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
🔗 austriaca.at?arp=0x004053...
#demography
@oeaw.bsky.social @demographyvienna.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
New paper out on the challenges of counting people experiencing homelessness!
Reposted by Zack Almquist
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
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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
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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
You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials
www.zacharyneal.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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
You can read the recommendations and join as an endorser at www.zacharyneal.com/datasharing
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Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
UCLA RC28 Conference
Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) field of social stratification and social mobility
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Submit your paper to RC28 in Los Angeles for the summer 2025 meeting:
rc28.soc.ucla.edu
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!
Sleep in People Experiencing Homelessness Under Different Conditions and Seasons
Poor sleep represents a central health disparity for people experiencing homelessness, and any intervention to alleviate the impacts of homelessness should aim to improve sleep. We measured actimetry-...
www.biorxiv.org
January 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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!
Reposted by Zack Almquist
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
December 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
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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.
TL;DR: Prevalence of doubling up and high rents are two sides of the same coin: our housing shortage.
Housing shortages and doubled up households
Tracking doubled up households is useful in better understanding housing shortages, as well as benchmarking how much more housing is needed to fix them.
mountainmath.github.io
December 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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.
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!
Are you a PhD student interested in population studies and would like to spend the summer in beautiful Vienna?
Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis!
YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️
iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
Check out the Young Scientists Summer Program International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis!
YSSP in the Population and Just Societies Program ⬇️
iiasa.ac.at/young-scient...
Young Scientists Summer Program in the POPJUS Program
The Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS) focuses on major societal challenges and delivers insights into current and future population sizes, structures, and distributions that are fundament...
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December 7, 2024 at 4:07 AM
I did this back 2008! It was a great experience -- highly recommend it!