As religion becomes less important to an individual's identity, what will it be replaced with? My research suggests the answer may be politics. (Links in replies.)

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

📣Call for Chapter Proposals - Global Ipseology jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-ce...

New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.

Americans' Support for AI Development - Nowcasted Daily with Open Data and Methods - slides for an upcoming talk: jasonjones.ninja/misc/slides-...

Republicans' support for further AI development has increased more rapidly than Democrats. Crossover interaction has been holding.

Ipseology in the Post-API age jasonjeffreyjones.su...

In their own words, what do Americans say about artificial intelligence? Find out at jasonjones.ninja/social-scien...

❗❗❗New Paper Alert with @jason-jones.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... Are social media bios getting more unique or more alike?

Our current self drifts away from our past self – quickly at first, then more gradually. Evidence from US Twitter profile bios 2012-2022, more results in the paper: jasonjones.ninja/pap...

Only those willing to take risks agree that Artificial General Intelligence should be built. 501 American adults, representative sample. Details, code and data at: https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/agi-subsets.html#risk

📢 We’re looking to hire a postdoc within the TrustLLM project! Full-time position, two years, no teaching obligation. Research areas include language adaptation, modularisation, tokenization, and evaluation for multilingual LLMs. Apply by 2025-02-05! ▶️ liu-nlp.ai/postdoc-trus...

Will support for AI become politically polarized in the US in 2025? All I know is my data says... maybe. https://jasonjones.ninja/social-science-dashboard-inator/jjjp-ai-daily-dashboard/ai-polarization.html

Thanks to @quarto.org I wrote my Ipseology book entirely in #RStudio. I loved it! Producing Web, EBook, PDF and print versions was (nearly) a one-button-push process. I'm curious how others are using it; reply with your Quarto projects and experience. jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-a-...

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

LGBTQ visibility is an often discussed but rarely quantified concept. A project I began many years ago to define and quantify LGBTQ visibility online has just been published. #LGBTQ https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/charting-lgbtq-visibility-online

A little bit of progress on the next chapter of Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans. https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/ai-fear-scenarios.html

Would you like to have your future foretold? By an AI trained on a decade of global data on the course of millions of human lives? I hope someday soon you can. https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/would-you-like-to-have-your-future

I had a great conversation with Elizabeth Trovall about "AI teaching humans to human at work." Quoted in this Marketplace morning report: https://www.marketplace.org/2024/09/30/generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-soft-skills/

Do Americans Want More AI? My dashboard provides automated, daily-updated survey responses to the prompt: 'I support further development of artificial intelligence.' #AI https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/do-americans-want-more-ai

International Update your Bio Day 2024 coming up. I generated a carol. Lyrics by ChatGPT. Music by Suno AI. https://youtu.be/WW9zXvDh17I ❤️ it but, wish it was 'a moment to amend' instead of mend 'contemplative' was tough for AI singer AI ignored my style prompt and went with 'anime opening scenes'

It was exciting and rewarding to edit the ICWSM 2024 Special Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Decription: Digital Media with Sarah Shugars and Yini Zhang! All manuscripts published diamond open access: https://journalqd.org/issue/view/vol2024

Read about Americans' changing attitudes toward Artificial General Intelligence. Today I finished one chapter (and began two more) in my book-in-progress Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans. https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/

What did Americans think about the dawn of the Generative AI Age? Answers to come in my book-in-progress Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans. https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/ #AI

Hey #LoveDataWeek and everyone enjoying #LoveData24: Have you ever wondered which words people use most or least when they describe themselves? Wonder no more; download ipseological data from jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-ce...

I created Ipseology GPT using OpenAI's GPT Builder. I started with the instruction: "Make a friendly, patient tutor who helps curious individuals understand ipseology" to build this custom #GPT Try it out: chat.openai.com/g/g-mtMjJCjE...

🚨 AI Trust New peer-reviewed, open access research article Survey experiment. Control = Ask Americans how much they trust an institution. Treat = How much they trust the institution when they "use artificial intelligence" jasonjones.ninja/papers/Colli...

🚨 Preprint 🚨 with @nerdyphd.bsky.social LGBTQ Visibility Online Measured Consistently and Persistently from 2015 through 2023 osf.io/mcax8/downlo...

US representative-sample survey results on Americans' opinions on artificial intelligence in healthcare journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

My first day as a CAIS Fellow! www.cais-research.de/fellows/jaso... Working on these questions: How do individuals present their identity in public digital spaces? Are people around the world replacing expressions of religious affiliation with political affiliation?

Preferred pronoun lists - she/her, he/him and they/them - in Twitter profile bios became much more common over the past decade. Blog post: Multinational Ipseological Analysis for 2023 International Pronouns Day jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-ce...

🤖📈📜 Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults 2021 and 2023 osf.io/preprints/so...

How do Americans choose to describe themselves? Jason Jeffrey Jones Identity Trends V2 is ready to tell you: jasonjones.ninja/jason-jeffre... Feature improvements: 5️⃣Search phrases up to 5-grams! 😍Search emojis! 📈Longer temporal span. Now 2012-2023! Blog: jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-ce...