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

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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

Best newsletters for AI research? Students are asking for recs

Guess what's better than your dog having diarrhea? Your dog having diarrhea when you've left the house while the robo vacuum is running so it can smear it around the entirety of your apartment. I have pictures but I think my account would get suspended

Wasn't lying

You win some you lose some: yeah my daughter woke up at 5am but at least the dog had also shit all over the living room during the night

Hearing that she made sure to sit in the wings of the plane

good openly accessible qualitative interview question response transcript datasets?

Me talking to myself as I walk to give my Week 5 Seminar

Goodnight NYC

My 14 m/o daughter just switched on the record player and the new CMAT album was on and now she's bopping to it in her own and brb my heart is melting

🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

Update: I just ordered a framed version of this. But I did also go to the gym. This is the start of my online generative art empire

I am spending my Saturday morning making Mondrian-inspired Schelling model visualizations instead of going to the gym

Just realised I had this on my whiteboard while I took office hours and honestly I can explain

ChatGPT's response to my exploratory questioning about the state of the research in sycophantic AI: > love this question — it’s exactly the kind of frontier-y thing that needs careful methods + a bit of audacity

Daycare: it's very important that your child come every day in order to establish a rhythm in early weeks. Also daycare: in week 2 of daycare, we will be having two days off for Rosh Hashanah.

Anyone know where I can get the last 100 years or so of Hansard parliamentary speech in UK w/o having to pay for They Work For You or process a bunch of XML?

I knew there was something off about today

How's your day going?

Best agent-based modelling textbook you've read? Preferably R and Python examples (or translated into these languages).

I can confirm that the authors of this website are heroes and we should all pay them money: poloclub.github.io/transformer-...

Corbyn trying and failing to run a party is the nice piece of olden-days nostalgia I didn't know I needed today

Seems an apt time to re-up this...

TFW you're due to teach Transformers and contextual embeddings at 9AM after your one year old slept for 3 hours during the night

So no-one thought to tell me that the nearest sports bar to NYU Faculty Housing is also where the NYC Man City supporters club meet... Lmk if anyone is looking for a sublet

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Some professional news

Am I the only one who can't understand about 25% of what Nick Robinson says on the radio because of that sort of trailing whisper thing he does towards the end of a sentence? Or am I getting old?

H/t @beckshewer.bsky.social for my next slide on confounders