Letzte Woche haben wir 5 Jahre #95vsWissZeitVG gefeiert. Viel hat sich seit 2020 & besonders seit #IchBinHanna geändert, nur ein paar spezielle Quatsch-Argumente für Befristung kommen immer wieder. Damit wir sie nicht ständig von vorn widerlegen müssen, hab ich das heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss gemacht!

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

5 Jahre #95vsWissZeitVG! 🎉 Für @drkeichhorn.bsky.social, @kubon.bsky.social & mich 1 Anlass, Euch DANKE zu sagen, liebe Community: für Ausdauer, Engagement & Solidarität! Nur: Wie? Noch 1 gemeinsamer Text? Nein! Dem Anlass angemessen gibt‘s was ganz Neues: 1 gemeinsames Lied für Euch! #IchBinHanna 🎶

It is happening 👇

Any experiences with data donation of #Spotify listening history? I requested to download my full listening history and it said that it would take 30 days to produce the download. 2 hours later I received the link to the zip file with full JSON records. Any other experiences with this?

When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

Join us as postdoc at the Inequality Discourse Observatory at the University of Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/7... We will do epic research between Linguistics and Computational Social Science at the Cluster of Politics of Inequality. Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

Come join next Wednesday if you want to rant about society's love-hate relationship with LLMs!

Google and Yale just released a 27B foundation model that generated a new hypothesis about cancer cell behavior, which was experimentally confirmed in living cells. The team open-sourced the model weights and resources for the community to build on. blog.google/technology/a...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#ASConference25 Societal Challenges and the important infrastructures for the Social Sciences on the way to get answers. Sebastian Stier shows how to unlock digital behavioral data. as25.sociology.uni-m...

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data! Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us. 👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Social-Media-Daten zwischen Forschung und Infrastrukturen - nachhaltige Archivierung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung: An der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social finden vom 17.-19.03.2026 die Social Media Access Days statt. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 31.10.2025. www.dnb.de/DE/Professio...

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social wrote an amazing paper about marginal effects. While preparing my advanced statistics and methods class, I (surprisingly) had fun reproducing their Figure 1, adapting it to their Example 1, and ploting the text and arrows directly using ggplot().

Very interesting mentorship program for early career folks working on wealth inequality and related topics, run out of the Munich Stone Center for Inequality Research www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

Today I learned that there is a Stone Center in Munich!

A few more weeks to apply for this tenure-track job in sociology at the University of Vienna, focus on quant research methods jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. www.wired.com/story/artifi...

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

It often picks out very specific word clusters and leaves about 50% of the corpus in one giant topic. Might be what you want, but look for it.

I've decided not to ban AI use in classes for various reasons, but will be discouraging it. I plan to assign this essay from @patricklin1.bsky.social and talk through these issues in class in hopes that students will come to good conclusions themselves. emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-n...

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I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation. They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question. arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy 🎓 Join GESIS Cologne as a #Postdoc in Platform Data & Computational Social Science! 💻 Work internationally, shape DSA data access, and develop your research. Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/ins...#jobs#stellenangebote

The next version of the #rstats 📦 {atrrr} will likely contain a function to stream from the Bluesky Firehose! Looking for people to test and comment now: github.com/JBGruber/atr...

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

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:

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

That’s a wrap on IC2S2’25! 🎉 Thank you for an unforgettable week of ideas and discussions. Congratulations to our award winners, and safe travels home. Mark your calendars: #ic2s2 ’ 26 heads to Burlington, Vermont, in the US. See you next year!

Computational Social Science is often about adoption of computer science methods for answering social science questions (which is great). But what about the reverse direction: what are the key social science ideas/theories/methods that computer scientists in CSS should be aware of? #ic2s2

Day 1 Keynote “Design-Based Supervised Learning (DSL): A General Framework for Using LLM Annotations and Other Predicted Variables in Downstream Analyses” by Brandon Stewart. Try DSL in your research? Available at dsl.software #ic2s2

Before heading to ACL, I'm excited to be at #IC2S2 this week! 🌞 I'll present a related working paper on validating LLM social simulations at the ABM session on Tuesday (11 AM, Vingen 7): indiiigo.github.io/files/GABM_V... (w/ @wanlo.bsky.social @mstrohm.bsky.social and @janalasser.bsky.social)

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Ok Bluesky, which is it: A) Qualitative Computational (QualComp) B) Computational Qualitative (CompQual) #IC2S2

Really excited to also present this work at #IC2S2 next week in Norrköping! 🎉 I'd love to discuss how to produce LLM survey responses at my poster on Wed at 13:30 (Poster Session 2, Poster ID 68) 📊

I've been spending the summer taking stock of the growing, maturing field of qualitative computational methods (compu/qual? quali-quant?). This subfield is now a powerhouse, and I'll be sharing my reflections at #IC2S2 on the state of the field, ongoing (fierce!) debates, and possible futures?

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Hi everyone, is anyone using the Meta Content Library API? I am specifically interested in getting in touch with people with API access, rather than access to the frontend only. transparency.meta.com/de-de/resear...

Excited to announce the #OxfordLLMs tuition-free AI workshop for social scientists! Join us for 5 days of lectures, coding tutorials, and collaborative research, to learn hot to use LLMs for social science🙂 Dates: 22-26 September Venue: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social llmsforsocialscience.net