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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I really want the Dems to unseat Republicans, a deeply degenerate party. But if all they can offer is a populist misogynist sporting Nazi tattoos, then they are becoming a mirror image of this degeneracy.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I love the smell of antisemitism in the morning. "FORCE"? Are you serious @nytimes.com ? Trump is an agentic bully in all your other headlines, but suddenly on the war in Iran he is a puppet of the Elders of Zion.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I vehemently reject Ozturk's politics, but am glad she cannot be deported. Trump's Stasi style attempts to silence her free speech, misinformed and hypocritical as it may be, are anti American. Ozturk did nothing wrong. Her intimidation is abhorrent.

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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We’re recruiting PhD students at @uvadatascience.bsky.social, and I’m looking for students to join our group (Y Lab) next year! My group works at the intersection of network science, machine learning, and interpretable AI. yyahn.com/ylab/ Apply here! datascience.virginia.edu/degrees/phd

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Y Lab - YY Ahn

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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Faculty Positions in Organizational Behavior

Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the organizational behavior area at Stanford GSB.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Eva Illouz is a world class sociologist. She is a giant of cultural sociology, and I learned immensely from her work. That the corrupt and authoritarian Israeli government denied her this well-deserved prize is testament to her quality and intellectual integrity.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@drbjrisman.bsky.social and I are both Jewish sociologists. We think that campus antisemitism is real, but refuse to be used as a cudgel by an authoritarian administration hellbent on retribution and destroying academia, indeed, America. So we write about it: www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social! Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...

After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down. Its founding director, Alex Stamos, left his position in November. Renee DiResta, its research director, left last week after her contract was not renewed. One other staff member's contract expired this month, while others have been told to look for jobs elsewhere, sources say.

Some members of the eight-person team might find other jobs at Stanford, and it’s possible that the university will retain the Stanford Internet Observatory branding, according to sources familiar with the matter. But the lab will not conduct research into the 2024 election or other elections in the future.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

My friend @jeffkopstein.bsky.social , one of the most prominent researchers on contemporary antisemitism active today (and someone whose rigorous *empirical* work on the phenomenon is sorely needed), shared a photo of a "Wanted" poster targeting him on the UC-Irvine campus. Despicable.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

What do we mean when we study “meaning”? In a 🚨new ARS article🚨, Madison Singell and I suggest thinking of meaning as an actor interpreting something. Integrating sociological literature, we propose the Categorization-Association Model of Interpretation. >> www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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The Sociology of Interpretation | Annual Reviews

Recent years have seen a growing sociological interest in meaning. In fact, some argue that sociology cannot confront its foundational questions without addressing meaning. Yet sociologists mean many ...

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Excited to share that the Organizational Behavior area at the Stanford GSB is inviting applications for a postdoc in Macro OB for AY 2024/5. Sociologists, organizational, management & strategy scholars, and computational social scientists, please apply! 👇 www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/postdoc...

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Why is Macklemore often criticized for cultural appropriation, but Eminem mostly gets a pass? In a new paper, forthcoming at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.” osf.io/preprints/so...

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