The article "Collapse of an online social network: Burning social capital to create it?" by László Lőrincz, Júlia Koltai, Anna Fruzsina Győr and Károly Takács is published online by Social Networks.
Corruption and Political Participation in Hungary: Testing Models of Civic Engagement
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325418800556
Kmetty Zoltán, Tardos Róbert, Albert Fruzsina, Dávid Beáta: Mapping social milieus and cohesion patterns between 1997 and 2014.: Exploiting the potential of the occupational position generator. SOCIAL NETWORKS 55:(10) pp. 116-129. (2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873317303167
Due to political reasons, the latest special issue of the conservative social science journal Századvég on rent-seeking has been removed from the internet. Our research group is shocked by and deeply condemns the re-introduction of political censorship of academic publications. This should not happen in Hungary again. We express our solidarity with the editors and authors and are willing to distribute the special issue to anyone who is interested.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in defense of fundamental research
The news website on the main page of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences provides an overview about fundamental research and innovation in the network of its research institutes:
http://mta.hu/mta_hirei/alapkutatas-es-innovacio-az-akademian-amit-magyarorszag-legnagyobb-kutatohalozatarol-feltetlenul-tudni-kell-108996
and brings the EVILTONGUE research supported by the European Research Council as an outstanding example.
On the new website eviltongue.tk.mta.hu, you will find all relevant information about the EVILTONGUE project (PI: Károly Takács) founded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 648693).
RECENS is a research group that operates solely on funding that is acquired in highly competitive calls. Our funding has been awarded based on quality and innovativeness of the proposals and scientific excellence of the researchers involved. Scientific excellence of our researchers has been judged by our previous research output, mainly by our international scientific publications. We do not receive any part of the head quota that is distributed to the host Research Institute. As such, we are an independent research unit that pursues fundamental research. We carry out our work without any political aim, not driven by any political interest. In this position, we can clearly express that we do not tolerate and we condemn any political attempt that tries to intervene in research activities or tries to determine research directions and results.
The „Lendület” Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) at the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) offers an internship opportunity.
Duration of the internship program: October 2018 - December 2018
Working hours 6-8 hours/week
Candidates are welcome to send their application no later than September 21th by e-mail to: Rado.Marta@tk.mta.hu. Please mention „RECENS internship” in the subject of your email.
The article titled "Bullying and victimization among majority and minority students: The role of peers’ ethnic perceptions" is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.08.006
All content related to the EVILTONGUE project founded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 648693) will appear on a new webpage soon. Thank you very much for your patience.