Thank you! I am deeply honored, and I am grateful for the wonderful intellectual community @lawandsociety.bsky.social provides!

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

yes *and* there are more people in prison today who were on probation/parole at the time of arrest than the entire prison pop in 1974. The problem is not only technical violations but how easy it is to get a new charge while on supervision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

📣New publication alert!📣 What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.

Thrilled to be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in UGA’s collegial community next Fall! I am grateful to my mentors at Princeton and Stanford who supported me in this process, and I plan to ‘pass it on’ at UGA while engaging with fabulous colleagues and students. Go Dawgs!

What happens when the SSA closes field offices? *People have a harder time getting access to services that they are eligible for because of crowded offices. *People with more severe disabilities, lower income and lower education are most adversely affected. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

"Fiscal Centralization and Inequality in Children's Economic Mobility" New research with @schechtlm.bsky.social @zparolin.bsky.social just out in ASR doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology #demography #econsky