Happy to announce that Claude Code can now write my papers for me and I can focus on my core competence: spending hours fiddling with latex until tables fit on a page

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

What kind of a pathetic grievance of a journal has Theory & Society become? "In defense of value-free analysis against a woke-like order of knowledge" has to be the dumbest title in the history of all articles ever written.

Do conjoint/factorial/vignette experiments reflect choices in the real world? Are hypothetical scenarios in the artificial survey context externally valid? Do hypothetical bias, intention-behavior gap and social desirability biases undermine validity? Two cautionary studies on this question:

Tidligere vismand Lars Gårn Hansen: “Det er et meget intensivt landbrug. Meget effektivt. Der er stordrift. Men det har store miljømæssige konsekvenser. Landbruget er en af de sektorer, der er mest forureningsintensivt.”

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

🤯 My 2012 paper in Sociological Methodology with Breen & Holm on the KHB-method is the most cited article in that journal in 2025 according to @asanews.bsky.social A paper from my PhD thesis. 13 years later. Didn't see that coming. #sociology www.asanet.org/top-cited-ar...

In this new article out now @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models & find little evidence in favor of #college being an equalizer. From our own postdoc @zhenghaowen.bsky.social, @professorholm.bsky.social & @kbkarlson.bsky.social.

Do political attitudes skip generations? Professor Kristian Bernt Karlson kicked off the seminar series of our Socioeconomic and Intergenerational Inequalities research theme with his talk “Do Political Attitudes Skip Generations?” — sparking a lively discussion. Tak @kbkarlson.bsky.social !

We often treat education as the primary engine of social mobility, but conventional models may be overestimating its impact. Not correcting for selection into schooling will artificially inflate any indirect effect through schooling... 1/3 #socialmobility #sociology

Cambridge is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology - great opportunity for colleagues looking for positions in the UK. The job listing shows it's with Caius & Homerton colleges. Worth checking out for those on the academic job market. #AcademicJobs #sociology jobs.ac.uk/job/DQ...

Is College Really “the” Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection Haowen Zheng, Robert Andersen, Anders Holm, Kristian Bernt Karlson Sociological Science March 3, 2026 10.15195/v13.a10 Influential research shows that college graduates achieve similar labor marke #sociology link

New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social! We revisit the college-as-equalizer debate with heckman-style selection models and find little evidence in favor of college being an equalizer! @zhenghaowen.bsky.social @professorholm.bsky.social #sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

This paper shows that the interaction between social origin (parental income eg) and education predicting destination (child’s income) is no longer negative once one holds constant for unobservables (using IV methods using local presence of colleges a.o.). >

📚 Special issue in Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie on Explanation and Causality in Sociology. Essential reading on where causal inference in sociology is heading link.springer.com/collections/...

NEW: Oxford researchers have found that higher temperatures can shift the sex ratio at birth. Temperatures above 20°C are consistently linked to fewer boys being born across multiple regions - with implications for population health and gender balance. Read more from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social ⬇️

Looking forward to presenting work on the multigenerational transmission of political attitudes next week at @invest-flagship.bsky.social With the outstanding @stephandoc.bsky.social! Based on survey covering 100,000 cousins and their parents! invest.utu.fi/events/krist... #sociology

Interesting paper by @natrinh.bsky.social, @dariatisch.bsky.social, & @schechtlm.bsky.social on how the Germans assess division of intergenerational transfers among siblings academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Excited to share a new #OA study with @dariatisch.bsky.social and @schechtlm.bsky.social🎉We show that while most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...

VACANCY (2 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

VACANCY (1 of 2...) Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class. Please share - thanks! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#JobOpening ℹ️ Professorship in Sociology at the University of Zurich 📍 Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 🗓️ Applications open until February 26, 2026 🔗 www.phil.uzh.ch/de/fakultaet...

Check out this awesome preprint by @martinhallsten.bsky.social on the difficulties in interpreting sibling correlations by observed parental characteristics such as parental income - with an excellent application! #sociology #EconTwitter #socialmobility osf.io/preprints/so...

Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Extant work has identified two discursive forms of racism: overt and covert. While both forms have received attention in scholarly work, research on cove #sociology link

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Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

This is the most econ paper ever

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.

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NEW: Omar Lizardo, "The Forward March of Categorical Tolerance in the United States" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with quant methods specialization - also an option for advanced PostDocs! Come benefit from the great data infrastructure and local expertise in medical and urban sociology, segregation, and GIS. Application deadline: February 13, 2026

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

random at the margin 👀 #sociology

Superpower: Sociology.

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology

I just submitted all new work on the "KHB" method (with Breen and Holm) to the ECSR meeting in Dublin in June! You can also still make it - abstract submission deadline 11 Jan!! #sociology @ecsr.bsky.social www.ecsr2026.net

10 years with tenure—and it’s been pretty awesome. Wouldn’t trade it for a thing 😁 #sociology

New open access research to share (though awkward timing in light of Denmark's vax sched. in US news of late). Using Danish health registry data, we examine trends in child receipt of their 1st MMR shot by parent educ. over a period that coincides w/ 3 key antivaccine events. 1/ 🛟😷sociology policy

I've been thinking a lot about cultural sociology, and what will happen to it now that our standards changed with the credibility revolution. here is a take I have: Cultural Sociology After the Credibility Revolution tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/culturalsoc

So, what do you do as a professor? I write a lot of grant applications that all get rejected.

I've never been to Finland. Soon will though.

“I have to tell you that the career prospects for sociologists are not good. It would be highly misleading to gloss over this fact. And far from improving, as might have been expected, these prospects have actually got worse.” – Theodor Adorno, 'Introduction to Sociology' (1968 Lectures)

So, what do you do as a professor? You evaluate other people's research 👀 #sociology

I recently got a truly outstanding comment from an anonymous reviewer as part of the revision process on a methods paper. It's so great that I think the reviewer should be offered co-authorship! What is your take? Is that too much or just fine, and I should get in touch with the editor? #sociology

The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award deadline is approaching (Jan 1)! As computational methods reshape our field, I'm particularly interested in seeing nominations that bridge traditional sociology with data science a... https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/distinguished-scholarly-book-award/.

Happy to see that my paper with Ben Jann on marginal odds ratios, published in 2023 in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social, is increasingly being used. It has garnered 20 citations on GS and has been downloaded 4600 times from the website. Check it out 👇 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...

The peer-review Möbius strip: invite reviewer, decline-with-suggestions, re-invite, decline-with-suggestions… until the original reviewer comes back as the suggested expert. #sociology