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!

📢JOB ALERT 📢My department at the @ausis.bsky.social is hiring a social scientist who works on disaster!! The specific focus is open so check out the job announcement below (I'm not one the committee, so this is ALL I know) #ComeWorkwithMe! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...

If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

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My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Super important agenda paper on the use of AI in survey research. Good to see that AI as interviewer is getting the attention it deserves(most have focus on AI as respondent).

The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply. On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply. See here👇 www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...

Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

In the context of #IC2S2 2025: I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science. What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead? It’s a short, AI-led interview. Interested? Start your interview here: www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...

📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week! Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open) For more see thread. Preprint: osf.io/k7f89

🚨 New preprint! "Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews" Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs? Turns out… yes (mostly). Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews. Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk 🧵👇

I do not hope that citizens are using chatgpt for learning about politics, at least not DK and other smaller countries. It places Enhedslisten together with Danish People party and Ny Borgerlig on the issue of immigration.

Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274

Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared. my signal: caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

Join our group in Leipzig: 3-year fully funded postdoc intersecting climate research + text analysis + sociology 🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the spring on March 21! 📅 Kevin Munger will kick off the lecture series with a talk on the effects of TikTok edits on evaluations of politicians📱 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Come work with us! Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼 Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

EXTENDED DEADLINE: April 15! Join us and @samfriedman.bsky.social Friedman (LSE), Annette Zimmer (Uni Münster) and William Genieys (Sciences Po) for a two-day conference/workshop, June 3 and 4. Excellent opportunity for paper feedback. DM me for info and questions. Please share and repost!

on the 21st of March in Copenhagen, Lærke Høgenhaven defends her PhD-thesis, "The Dual Structure of Volunteering during Crises", in which she takes a pragmatic approach to volunteering supplementing the dominant neo-tocquevillian paradigm. All are welcome to attend www.soc.ku.dk/instituttet/...

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

Trade with less developed countries reduces unionization in rich democracies. Global value chains lead to union decline even in countries with the most union-friendly institutions journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Come to RUC! Nice department and environment to do a PhD: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like! Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

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We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

People interested in Social Data Psychology please apply! We are (co-)hiring! We are looking for an assistant/associate professor, to be employed at both the Psychology Department and SODAS. Apply by: 31/3📅 Read more🔗: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Sloan Foundation/UKRI postdoc on metascience and AI. For researchers in the social sciences & humanities who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science & research ecosystem. sloan.org/programs/dig...

Cool postdoc alert: careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-P... #socsky

Fully funded PhD Scholarship in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, starting 1 Sep 2025: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

🚨Deadline extension🚨 If you’re interested in Temporal Networks, don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the TENET satellite @NetSciConf in Maastricht! 📅New deadline: 14 February 📝Submit One page abstract More info here: tinyurl.com/27ntstep

🚨 #IC2S2’25 Call for Abstract deadline is just around the corner—Feb 24, 2025 Submit your abstract now: www.ic2s2-2025.org/submit-abstr... and join us in Norrköping, Sweden. Tutorials announcement coming soon!

Struggling with ever-evolving social dynamics? Join @leszczensky.bsky.social & Sebastian Pink for a deep dive into longitudinal social network analysis. Learn study design, data management, and powerful models like SAOM to uncover network formation and effects. ➡️ tinyurl.com/03-25-Collec...

Super nice inspiration for people developing AI and Social Science courses..

📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2025! #CFP 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 14th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) Closing date: 13th March 2025 www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...

🚩 NEW PAPER 🚩 Income volatility is associated with many adverse outcomes in today’s economy but we know almost nothing about how exposure to volatility depends on family background. @filippogch.bsky.social and I show … 1/2 #erc #sociology #EconTwitter academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Where are cabinet members most likely to study abroad? The answer is 1) the US, 2) their neighbor or 3) their former colonizer. We gathered data on the educational history (and much else) on more than 45k cabinet members globally from 1966-2021. The data is not public but will be later this year.

🤔 The 🇩🇰 government asked us: how can democratic control over tech giants be strengthened? We - the government's expert group on tech giants - outline 7️⃣ principles and a set of guidelines for tackling economic, democratic, and security vulnerabilities:

The Computational Social Science Workshop is coming to the University of Mannheim on May 15-16, 2025! Registration is now open—don't miss out! Early career researchers can also present a poster for a chance to win the best poster award of 250€. 👉 computational-social-science.org/workshops/20...

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🇩🇰 PhD Fellowship call for candidates who have a data science idea they'd like to pursue in Denmark deadline: March 5 ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi... I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP