Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

What used to be the “wrong side of the tracks” is now Miami’s climate escape route, and Black residents are being pushed off the path they built. https://bit.ly/4efQntl

Talked to NPR for this story about the Canvas hacks. Short version: it’d be nice if schools were as concerned about protecting student data when there isn’t a ransom note involved. www.npr.org/2026/05/09/n...

Recently out in @ersjournal.com: @vanctran.bsky.social, Mehr Mumtaz, and I analyzed 50 years' worth of research about Asian diasporic populations. 🔓 Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"...the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions. The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling..."

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process. We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory? @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future Out now: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academics in the UC and UT systems- please consider participating in this research & share in your networks. 🙏🏽

Call for Submissions: AI for Social Science Methodology (Yale) • Keynote: @nachristakis.bsky.social • Panel with editors of leading journals on publishing AI research • Mentoring roundtables for early-career scholars • Generous travel support Discussion-driven, high-quality research.

New work with Alejandra Regla-Vargas and @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social!!

Just read a generative AI sociology review laying out where the discipline stands with AI methods, found it useful. Still low trust in GenAI outputs. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... #OpenScience #Sociology #GenerativeAI

Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.

La course des nouveaux usages associés aux modèles génératifs met la professions scientifiques à rude épreuve. Article précieux pour suivre l'état des usages #GenAI en sociologie sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... par @oms279.bsky.social, @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com et M. Taylor

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Now out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!

NEW: AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall A. Taylor, "Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Corrected link: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

Excited to share a new call for papers for a special issue in Psychometrika focused on Data Intensive Methods in Psychometrics that I'll be guest editing with @kyliegorney.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social, @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social, and Ben Domingue: www.psychometricsociety.org/post/call-sp...

How do Black and White Americans assess the legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? Using a series of survey experiments, authors @marissathompson.bsky.social, Sam Trejo, @ajalvero.bsky.social, and @daphmarts.bsky.social illustrate the characteristics that drive racial conceptions

(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!

Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not? Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884

Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline Forthcoming, Sociological Science Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on #sociology link

Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline: https://osf.io/28wsq

AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall Taylor: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.16884

Sharing a short piece I wrote for Hispanic Outlook about disaggregating Hispanic data in college admissions www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/dis...

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Starts in five minutes!!!!!

Looking forward to the conversation!

Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763

Inspired to share some papers that I found at #COLM2025! "Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542

Research highlights the "state-of-the-art fallacy" in sociology, showing advanced NLP methods may not provide better insights than older ones. It emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism to align analysis with research questions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199

AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang: Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08199

a thought I've been sitting on for a while is that AI researchers have conspicuously thin ideas about how language works, and have participated in violent reshapings of the world to make these ideas, and the technologies premised on them, make sense. more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...

I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social

Swing by on November 6th! Will be on Zoom as well. Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎

The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies. doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Zhang, Xu, and Alvero show how online survey participants are already using AI for open-ended responses, demonstratng how many researchers will have to grapple with the impacts of AI-generated data journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

More than 40% of sociologists use Gen AI on a weekly basis; @ajalvero.bsky.social presents at the #SociologicalScience conference. #sociology #metascience 🧪

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Thrilled to share "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" — new from me, Robert LeBlanc, and @alliethrall.bsky.social in @lmt-journal.bsky.social. Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sharing a new paper about using machine learning to scrutinize parole hearings in California: btlj.org/wp-content/u...

Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

I'll be presenting work at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference in San Francisco next Friday in a session titled "New Digital Methods", slide through! (work done with anthony lising antonio, Leslie Luqueño, and Francis A. Pearman; preprint here: osf.io/preprints/so...) #PSA2025

Did anyone archive the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)? #socsky #econsky