🔈Job Alert! Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science (SWECSS) is hiring postdoctoral researchers. Positions are available at IAS and the Department of Computer Science (IDA). ⌛Deadline: 31 October IAS: liu.se/en/work-at-l... IDA: liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

🔈Job Alert! IAS is looking for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Swedish Excellence Center in Computational Social Science -SWECSS. ⌛Deadline: September 30th Apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l... #academicsky #css

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

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. +

Ich hatte kürzlich die spannende Gelegenheit, im Podcast «Voice of HR» über meine Forschung zu #BullshitJobs zu sprechen. Falls euch interessiert, ob Jobs tatsächlich sinnlos sind oder bloss so erscheinen, hört gerne rein! Ich freue mich über jeden Gedanken und Austausch dazu. spoti.fi/3Eq3Mzv

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Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Academia really is a roller coaster: My first PhD paper was rejected 11 times before being published, the second one 7 times. I was very close to quitting my PhD back then. Now, I won an award for these very two papers. What a ride! 🙃 #silverlining #phdlife #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Spannendes Interview in der @nzz.ch mit Soziologe @simonwalo.bsky.social von der Uni Zürich über Bullshit-Jobs, Arbeitsbedingungen und Sinnhaftigkeit von Arbeit. 👉 «Leute werden befördert und müssen sich ihre Aufgaben erst einmal zusammensuchen»: www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/b...