Interesting article/paper. I'm much less anti-AI than a lot of people on my feed. But pretty skeptical it can simulate human behavior effectively for social scientific purposes -- at least in cases where variation among humans, rather than acting like an average human, is what's important.

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

I’ll be visiting Budapest as a Junior Fellow at the IAS-CEU @iasceu.bsky.social during Fall 2025. I look forward to engaging with other fellows, visiting scholars, and artists in residence. Friends and colleagues passing through Eastern Europe are most welcome to connect.

Join the 2026 ASA Sociology of Development conference! Rethink development in a post-Western world.🗓️ Feb. 13-15, 2026 at Princeton University. Apply by Oct. 25, 2025. All sociology of development topics welcome. sociologyofdevelopment.com/2025/09/24/a...

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

New piece from me and @kellieowens.bsky.social on ambient documentation systems ("AI scribes") and the potential risks this technology may pose for medical education and the socialization of trainees www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

The nordic paradox has puzzled sociologists when looking at gender equality. Well, it was a methodological artefact due to low data quality and bad modelling. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The “career funnel,” a phrase coined by sociologists Amy Binder and Daniel Davis, describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into finance, tech, or management consulting. Says one Stanford alum of how he ended up as a consultant: “They funneled the shit out of me.”

I believe that the experimental paradigm in "polarization research" should receive strong criticism for its thin conception of political culture. I make this argument in a new blog post. Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments

Wilson College at McMaster is hiring a TTAP or a tenured Associate Professor. Come join us! www.academicwork.ca/jobs/jo-7203...

Quantitative social scientists interested in climate political economy: check out this awesome postdoc opportunity!

Join us this Friday, September 19, at 3 PM ET for the first event in our year-long series, "The Future of Foreign Aid." We'll be joined by George Ingram from the Brookings Institution for a talk on "Aid in an Era of Disruption." sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/events/ #ProblemSolvingSociology

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers! @antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟 We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

This is a great example of how the use of innovative data can bring us a step further with old research questions

📖We are happy to share a new book: Constructing Objectivity: Emotions in Legal Decision-making 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... Exploring emotions in legal decision-making and the sociology of emotions #Sociology #Emotions #AcademicResearch uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

@manyeekan.bsky.social and I show distinct time use patterns of 10-17 yo in Japan, Korea, UK, and Finland across 3 decades. Persistent 🚺🚹 gaps in East Asia reflect adult gender inequality, but gender gaps in domestic work are not nec smaller in more gender equal ctrys @sociologyoxford.bsky.social

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve signed a book contract with University of California Press for my ethnography of a social credit system in China. Stay tuned!

RSVP (in thread) to attend virtually The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy's Sixth Annual Conference, "Complex Diplomacy in Turbulent Times," on October 23 & 24, 2025 at 9:30-13:30 CDT on both dates.

Really enjoyed reading this article. This was a particularly useful insight.

"What kind of intellectual discussions does this research extend?" might be a better question than "What is this case of?"

🧪📊 Open-rank job posting, to direct and build a brand new program in computational social science jobs.uri.edu/postings/15597

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...

#sociology jobs

Aarhus University is hiring: Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus

My new open-access article in the British Journal of Sociology explores how Korean queer activists envision and enact social change by rethinking “the global”—shifting from UN human rights frameworks to regional solidarities across Asia.

University of Toronto is hiring: Professor - Criminal Law, Sociology of Law and Empirical Legal Studies

At long last, I can post my team's summer project: applied modules to teach how ML/AI tools are changing social science and humanities research: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/ Highlights: LegalBERT to analyze anti/pro-immigrant sentiment in 19th c. BC law: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/d... 🧵1

Thanks to Simón Escoffier for a very generous review of URBAN POWER in the newest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Our department is hiring a tenure-track professor of Sociology & Criminology! Come join us at the University of Utah. It's a tight deadline (Sept 30) but we hope you'll consider submitting! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

#InternationalSociology Topic of the Month, September 2025 ‘Inflation in everyday life’ is our Topic of the Month for September 2025. @ www.isa-sociology.org/en/publicati...

#Sociologists - @asanews.bsky.social is soliciting nominations for the 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. If you know someone who has made distinguished contributions to teaching in #sociology, please consider nominating them! Learn more: www.asanet.org/about/awards...

a new working paper: osf.io/vsr5b I propose a three-stage model of cohortization where dynamics of cohort learning and political sorting serve as complementary engines of aggregate political change. I apply this to the case of the killing of George Floyd & the BLM. it's also my job market paper!

How do Americans really view the occupational hierarchy? A new article by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley (@kkiley.bsky.social) finds less agreement on the status of occupations than estimates suggest. Read more on the Work In Progress blog:

A new #PalgravePivot just published in #OpenAccess: 'Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation' by Changzoo Song. Read, download or purchase the hardcover here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @hssf415.bsky.social #sociology #migration

Very grateful to Astrid Haas for her thoughtful review of URBAN POWER in @africa.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/africas-city...

We are pleased to feature an interview with Masoud Movahed and Tiffany Neman, whose award-winning Social Science Research paper on intergenerational income mobility and spatial methods was recently honoured by the ASA Mathematical Sociology Section. spkl.io/63322A3OYa

Job Opportunity: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Learn more at erecruit.umsystem.ed... [Job ID 56857]

Postdoctoral Position – Savoie Mont Blanc University, France Eligibility: PhD in socio-cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, geography Deadline: 18 September 2025 🔗 higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #PostdocJobs #SocioCulturalStudies #FranceJobs #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs #EnvironmentalResearch

📝 Our #LongCovid in Brazil paper is out in Sociology of Health & Illness: "Contested Illness and Alternative Expertise Networks in Global Health: Post-COVID Syndrome in Brazil" (w/ Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Amanda Curi, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

CfA: Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs) in Sociology, Nuffield College, Uni Oxford; DL: 22 Sept, 2025 Read here.

Looking for sociologists & STS scholars (science & technology studies) to join us for 2 yrs of fully funded research at RWTH, one of Europe’s top technical universities. Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 | Start latest Mar 2026 www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje...

I've come to believe that good research, embracing real-world complexity, results in a variegated, patchwork-style dataset. Missing values in novel categories aren't a failure. They're signs that you are expanding our perspective. Science is about being less wrong, not perfect.

Was very honored to receive these at the #ASA2025 Sociology of Development business meeting yesterday. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Do American qualitative researchers *always* strictly follow the procedure submitted to the IRB? My impression was no, but I’ve noticed Korean researchers struggling to comply with every single word in their IRB documents. I wonder if this stems from cultural differences.

RIP French sociologist and STS Big Name, Michel Callon. A collaborator of Bruno Latour on Actor-Network Theory, and among other things, theorist of science+democracy, including technical democracy & hybrid forums in « Agir dans un monde incertain » (Acting in an Uncertain World).

time to normalize a culture of "working papers" in soc. see why: