This is an excellent, accessible, if long, piece by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social & @adambonica.bsky.social. Drawing on scientific evidence and ground-truth logic, they dismantle calls for Democratic moderation and prescribe a path that is pragmatic and courageous. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Hey sociologists, I'm organizing an ASA Methodology session on AI! Submissions are due by 2/25. Looking forward to a timely cross-method convo on emerging research best practices and disciplinary norms and ethics in August.

Cause all the devs are being fired and replaced by mediocre text regurgitation machines.

We're excited about the next edition of our Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology, this time organized by the 💫 local team in Mannheim!

The book will be written about geographies of authoritarianism and how this regime zeroed in on cities w/ large Black populations, African immigrant populations, Black leadership and histories of Black protest. That book has already been written many times over about US history, but history repeats

An article about this political moment, the role of journalism, and the very real dangers of state repression—told as a cheeky guide to buying a gas mask. I’ve been sending it to everyone; it both delights and horrifies me. Well done @sarahjeong.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Had so much fun using my CSS and communication skills to create these cards for my pals over at @ircbpodcast.com. Congratulations on 500 episodes! 🎉❤️🔥

We had a blast hosting Sarah @craicexeter.bsky.social . We should be having more of these much needed discussions as scholars - Sarah’s talk featured a great mix of critical edge and openness to dialogue

absolutely incredible title slide.

I had the absolute pleasure to visit @craicexeter.bsky.social, where I laid out an argument for how critical & computational scholars should lead the conversation on AI. We need to expand research on harms, interrogate corporate hype, and support people’s critical understanding these technologies

Is this who we are?

So deserved! Kate is a fantastic researcher and a fantastic public scholar. Congrats!!!

Excited to be visiting the University of Manchester to discuss the challenges and benefits of linking survey and digital trace data. Thanks to Rachel Gibson and her team for hosting—they have been doing incredible work advancing methods and building community in this space.

I'm pleased to report that my forthcoming book is now available for pre-sale. What's more, if you become a paid subscriber to Tusk, I'll send you a complimentary copy of the book! More about the book below (1/4): smotus.substack.com/p/my-new-boo...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Wisconsin-Madison CS is recruiting faculty for natural language processing! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Ah yes, the great electron shortage of 2025.

What’s the story behind my book’s cover art? A thread🧵

IU shuts down all DEI activities and scrubs DEI mentions from websites and courses, despite no laws requiring it. iubaaup.org/2025/10/23/e...

So excited to be hosting @jeremydfoote.com today at Rutgers’ Computational Social Science lab to hear more about his work around LLMs as social actors

There is a network of rapist bros who trade tips and best practices

If you’re wondering which of my coat pockets has a hole in it, it’s the one I put my keys in (Don’t worry, I fished them out of the lining)

70 extrajudicial killings

Can’t believe I didn’t think to write: Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop! But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜

Sarah found one of my favorite share images, but there are others….

🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇 sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8

I protest because I love America #NoKings

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

This time APSA is not on fire but the world is

Heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025! If you’re in town and would like to meet up, please feel free to reach out or say “hi” if you see me I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻

Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

“The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.” Only gets more 🔥 from there

Writing about Twitter in the past tense 🪦

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland. On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair! @jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026. Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

Giving money to the poor is once again proven to be a much more effective and much less expensive than whatever neoliberal bureaucracies continue to defend.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately

Anyway, it was really pretty cool to win an NSF, esp. as a woman social scientist doing justice-centered work with other Black scholars. The window of that funding being quite literally months before being yanked away, when the planned work would have take years, feels apropos of everything.

Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025. Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!

Wrapping things up with a keynote from the inimitable @brendannyhan.bsky.social #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Very interesting work from @hwaight.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org examining narrative similarity between news stories from global media sources. Methodological challenging because stories may communicate the same ideas/claims without using the same ngrams #pacss2025 #polnet2025