Wednesday, Nov. 12: a reading & conversation to celebrate the launch of Celina Su's new book, "Budget Justice," which shows how communities can solve our cities' most pressing problems. With @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social and Kesi Foster. Register for this free event! @princetonupress.bsky.social

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🚨Microsoft Research NYC is hiring🚨 We're hiring postdocs and senior researchers in AI/ML broadly, and in specific areas like test-time scaling and science of DL. Postdoc applications due Oct 22, 2025. Senior researcher applications considered on a rolling basis. Links to apply: aka.ms/msrnyc-jobs

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

For folks teaching text analysis, where does generative AI fit in? Is it a standalone module in your course, or integrated throughout? I'm teaching a grad course on text analysis in January and would love to hear what folks are doing.

👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky bit.ly/40TZR6J

I'm very happy this finally came out 🎉

Spreading the word again for TT job call in #criminology and #sociology at Gonzaga. And when class is over come wander Spokane’s magical flower gardens.

This semester, I want my lab to play around with GPT for some content-coding type tasks. Do folks have other recs for accessible methods papers/tutorials, e.g. from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social 's "[special issue](journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... of Soc Methods)?

Thanks @shugars.bsky.social for sharing all of this awesome new work from PaCSS/PolNet!

Finally out from @acastroaraujo.bsky.social and @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social

📣 “Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization” w/ @stephdhuman.bsky.social & @nicholasvargas.bsky.social in @annualreviews.bsky.social is officially out! get ur FREE copy 👇🏾 📖

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

All the social movements editors fit to #CBSM2025. Second day of the mini conference starts strong. #ASA2025

Opening plenary at the CBSM 2025 miniconference. Inspirational talks by Aldon Morris and Donnatella della Porta.

It is a great day to get all nerdy about social movements research! Plenary session of the mini conference starts in half an hour at #CBSM2025. There is also coffee ☕! See you all soon #ASA2025

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:

A mini update on the #varyCSS informal meetup: Let’s aim to meet in the outdoor space on the lower level. If it rains, we’ll relocate to the lower level indoors. #IC2S2

#varyCSS is such a great initiative and has been really helpful to avoid manels. I highly recommend people check out this meetup at #IC2S2 to learn more and connect.

Looking forward to being part of this 🖼️ Image as Data panel at #ic2s2 on Tuesday! I'll be presenting my recent SMR article w/ @emroberto.bsky.social on how generative multimodal models can be used for large-scale image analysis in the social sciences.

Pls share widely!

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?

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

It's been online for awhile, but I'm excited that this article with @eloralee.bsky.social @drkatehowell.bsky.social and @benfteresa.bsky.social is now in a printed issue. "A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start). engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc... Please reach out if you have questions!

New publication out with Natalia Aruguete, @ecalvo68.bsky.social and Carlos Scartascini. Do polarizing political tweets make us less trustworthy? Not quite. But they do make us trust others less. Our article shows how social media erodes trust, even when we stay principled. 🧵1/

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New article w/ @emroberto.bsky.social out in SMR! We introduce a framework for analyzing images 🖼️ with generative multimodal models and provide an empirical application using satellite and street images. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our article, with Nga Than, Leanne Fan, @tinalaw.bsky.social and Leslie McCall @stone-lis.bsky.social, proposes a framework (image 2) to (carefully) incorporate LLMs into the qualitative coding process. But read the entire issue, if it's your jam. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!! Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE #COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

My newest paper, The Character of Connection: Platform Affordances and Connective Democracy, is now out in Social Media + Society! This work was done in collaboration with fantastic @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social PhD student Eunbin Ha journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A great discussion of AI governance last week as part of CPS-IoT Week at @ucirvine.bsky.social.

New paper with Rebecca Johnson (@rebeccaj.bsky.social) on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools, now out in Sociological Science (@sociologicalsci.bsky.social):

Really enjoyed chatting about AI ethics and governance at the ACM/IEEE CPS/IoT Week at UC Irvine

Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished? In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.

Now out in Sociological Methods & Research We argue that one of the most important use cases of generative LLMs for social scientists is transforming unstructured content into structured data. Our article shows how to do that — and what can go wrong.

New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

Featured in this article about the changing tides in the struggle for responsible AI. apnews.com/article/arti...

New publication (w/ @shugars.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... We analyze the transcripts of Black conservative YouTube influencer videos from 2013 to 2023, and its' algorithmically recommended videos.