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10 October, 2025 – Presentation by Zoltán Kmetty at the Data Donation Symposium
2 August, 2025 – CSS-RECENS at the IC2S2 Conference (July 21–24, 2025, Norrköping, Sweden)
2 August, 2025 – CSS-RECENS at the ESRA Conference (July 14–18, 2025, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Zoltán Kmetty spoke to Research Professional News about big platforms
Science Journalist Amy McDermott comments the article of Szabolcs Számadó on PNAS online
The article „Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs” by Szabolcs Számadó, István Zachar, Dániel Czégel and Dustin J. Penn has been published in BMC Biology. Science Journalist Amy McDermott recommend it online on the website of PNAS.
Available here: https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/peacock-s-tail-and-other-flashy-ornaments-don-t-have-come-cost
Szabolcs Szabolcs Számadó wins IgNobel award in the Peace prize
Momentum (Lendület) and ERC grantees protest against interference in expert decision in scientific funding
Momentum (Lendület) and Hungarian ERC grantees protest against the decision of NKFIH that altered the ranking of proposals set up by scientific expert bodies for OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) fundamental research proposals. This interference has been carried out by NKFIH officials without consulting the expert bodies. The full text of the open statement can be found on the website of Lendület grantees: https://www.lendulet2019.info/
Call for papers :: Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration
Social dynamics. Inequalities, integration, mobility and migration
Conference at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest :: 16–17 November, 2020
The EVILTONGUE project moves to The Institute for Analytical Sociology
About the planned restructuring of the research network of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The principal investigators engaged in the “Lendület” program wish to contribute the observations summarized in the present report to facilitate the policy preparation process pertaining to the restructuring of both the research financing system and the innovation landscape in our country, as initiated by the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (ITM).
Material compiled by principal investigators in the “Lendület” program for the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and decision-makers
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Recent papers and publications
5 January, 2026 - New publication by Dorottya Kisfalusi, Károly Takács et al.
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On 5 January, 2026, a new article has been published by Márta K. Radó, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Anthony A. Laverty, Frank J. van Lenthe, Jasper V. Been and Károly Takács in the European Journal of Public Health. The title of the article is “Social network mechanisms of ethnic inequalities in smoking among adolescents”.
18 December, 2025 - New publication by Tamás Keller
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On 18 December, 2025, a new article has been published by Tamás in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. The title of the article is “Track recommendations moderate socioeconomic differences during the transition from primary to secondary education”.
2 December, 2025 - New publication by Szabolcs Számadó et al.
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On 2 December, 2025, a new article has been published by Szabolcs Számadó, István Zachar and Dustin J. Penn in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. The title of the article is “A general signalling theory: why honest signals are explained by trade-offs rather than costs or handicaps”.
19 November, 2025 - New publication by Eliza Bodor-Eranus, Eszter Vit and Ákos Bocskor
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On 19 November, 2025, a new article has been published by Eliza Bodor-Eranus, Eszter Vit and Ákos Bocskor in the International Journal of Event and Festival Management. The title of the article is “Motivation matters: distinct clusters of music festival volunteers and their implications for event management”.
9 November, 2025 - New publication by Júlia Galántai, Flóra Samu and Károly Takács
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On 9 November, 2025, a new article has been published by Júlia Galántai, Flóra Samu and Károly Takács in Discourse & Society. The title of the article is “Gender norms and couples’ conversations on childbearing intentions: A spontaneous speech corpus-based text analysis”.
20 October, 2025 - New publication by Eliza Bodor-Eranus et al.
A new article has been published by László Letenyei, Eliza Bodor-Eranus and Gergely Horzsa in SocioEconomic Challenges. The title of the article is “Intensity-Based Location Sampling Method For Investigating Socio-Economic Challenges: Ensuring External Validity In Surveys of Unknown Populations”.
20 October, 2025 - A special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence has been published
A special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence, titled Social Networks in Early Adolescence, has been published, guest-edited by Dorottya Kisfalusi and Károly Takács.
15 October, 2025 - New publication by Ádám Stefkovics and Zoltán Kmetty
On 15 October, 2025, a new article has been published by Ádám Stefkovics and Zoltán Kmetty in Survey Research Methods. The title of the article is “Trust in Survey Results: A Cross-country Replication Experiment”.
13 October, 2025 - New publication by László Kiss
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On 13 October, 2025, a new article has been published by László Kiss in Soccer & Society. The title of the article is “From politics to business: Hungarian-African football relations during the Cold War (1955–1989)”.
9 September, 2025 - New publication by Ádám Stefkovics, Anna Sára Ligeti et al.
On 9 September, 2025, a new article has been published by Ádám Stefkovics, Kinga Batiz, Blanka Zsófia Grubits and Anna Sára Ligeti in Sociological Methods & Research. The title of the article is “What Types of Survey Questions are Prone to Interviewer Effects? Evidence Based on 29,000 Intra-Interviewer Correlations From 28 Countries of the European Social Survey”.
4 September, 2025 - New publication by Károly Takács
On 4 September, 2025, a new article has been published by Károly Takács in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. The title of the article is “A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict”.