For a project titled “ACCORds: Advancing Configurational Comparative Research Methods”, Alrik Thiem has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, funded with 1.4 million Swiss Francs. This project aims to enhance the functionality of configurational methods such as QCA and CNA, to address broader theoretical and epistemological questions, and to develop corresponding software in order to make all advances publicly available to the scientific community. As part of ACCORds, Alrik Thiem is also welcoming suggestions from applied researchers to collaborate on empirical work in any area. More information can be found on Alrik Thiem’s website. We congratulate Alrik on this achievement!

Some reactions to and discussion of the statement regarding the rejection of manuscripts based on QCA solution type have been published by Michael Baugartner, Alrik Thiem, at Dimiter Toshkov’s blog (25 Aug 2017; 4 Sept 2017).

Lotfi Zadeh, the inventor of fuzzy sets, passed away on September 6 at the age of 96. UC Berkeley obituary. New York Times obituary. A retrospective. The classic paper.