This my, year Christmas wish is to not have to review or read papers in the top journals of the discipline of sociology that promise code and data "upon request." We are literally ten years behind on this. Why are editors not doing anything?

This my, year Christmas wish is to not have to review or read papers in the top journals of the discipline of sociology that promise code and data "upon request." We are literally ten years behind on this. Why are editors not doing anything?

V interested. Our notion of what JRE content is like from ideological standpoint could well be artifact of curated headlines about notable utterances and guests... Actual content a lot more diverse

Hold on to your openai credits, guys. George is coming for them

Looking forward to launching the Rest is Social Science and for it to be the only one that doesn't top ten

And the prize for best headline of 2025 goes to

Every year when I go home to south London, I notice at my parents' house one or two Christmas cards addressed to 'The Honors'. The Honors moved out in 1995 when we moved in. When this happens, I feel a sort of pre-emptive nostalgia for...

In an unexpected turn of events, I will be on stage with Jennifer Egan and Rhett Miller talking about AI at the end of January Please come if you're in NYC at the end of January! publictheater.org/performances...

This is high quality data journalism and also means you can scoff at your friend's sheeple Google suggestions and use this dashboard instead

Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born

It would be cool if as a special service for next forever they actually employed people and made the subway not a literal failed state sorry for my Christmas spirit

I'm not actually. But the thing I find so fascinating about Liz Truss is she has the energy of a fourteen year-old boy overexcited by what he's heard on the Joe Rogan experience while simultaneously having been the literal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pleased to announce I'm going to be doing a podcast dedicated solely to this YouTube channel

I have YT Music bc I'm not a sheep like all of you oh and also I have better music taste HNY

Guys can everyone stop hating on survey experiments while I'm running a survey experiment plz

Just to be clear, the modern British Left thinks he's good, right? I too like my economics from YouTube but tbf I'm not applying to be PM

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

If anyone else is trying to submit references currently to the University of Cambridge PhD applications online portal, do you want to start a support group together?

Thoughts and prayers for @benansell.bsky.social

As a new migrant to the US from the UK it is pleasing to say that, on Thanksgiving, they too can make food that looks as bad as what we eat back home

🚨 Please send in your application by 10 December to be considered for this ESRC studentship in collaboration with @campaign-lab.bsky.social. Both home and international students are eligible for funding. Some advice on how to apply below 👇

Hi I'm really sorry to tell you but I used to be even more swag than I am now

Christmas comes earlier every year AMIRITE

PSA: This is a trap

Imagine being Wes Streeting and also thinking you should be Prime Minister of the literal United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

A student asks: "how does one decide which to model to use for a given social science task?" I'm not sure if I have good advice... What would you say?

I'm actually something of an artist myself

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

Don't think I've been more excited to watch something in years. ZERO stars

I'm very proud of this paper and hope others can build on it to better measure changes in the media ecosystem. Very relevant to our current times IMHO!

Currently in FirstView: In “Measuring Media Criticism with ALC Word Embeddings,” @cbarrie.bsky.social, Neil Ketchley, @aasiegel.bsky.social, and Mossaab Bagdouri introduce a method for estimating media criticism using à la carte word embeddings which requires only minimal computational resources.

Just FYI I'm super hyped about disliking all your posts

Guys I was wondering what the most urgent issue of our time was and

Fun things to do in Manhattan with a 15-month-old while it's pissing down with rain? Asking for a friend. I am the friend.

I really like that in the new Mac OS the Spotlight Search can now search just as badly through both files and apps with one keyboard shortcut

The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor. Date of appointment: September 2026. Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...

Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️

Big departure for Dapper Laughs. Glad he's traded in the polo neck though

Is this a metaphor

🚨 New LSE job in political science 🚨 We're looking for a *Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy* to join the LSE School of Public Policy Please share! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The British Journal of Sociology review report question. Is this an attention check or just a mad scale? I mean, it got my attention

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"What is this, an arc for ants?"

This is now out in journalqd.org/article/view.... Please be in touch with any questions if you intend to use! Great to work with @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com on this! Watch out for them

This is now out in journalqd.org/article/view.... Please be in touch with any questions if you intend to use! Great to work with @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com on this! Watch out for them

Mad that my dog can't go in here just because he smokes

My policy for which new papers to read

This got two, *two*, likes and I think it's the funniest thing I've ever posted

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

As a new arrival in the US I can confirm this is a thing. I plan to train my own AI agent to sleep for me going forward