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Burak Sonmez

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Social Science at UCL brksnmz.github.io

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from Hainmueller and Laitin on the causal effects of becoming a citizen on wages. Short story: the observational ests overstate the premium relative to the experimental ests. Authors conclude "observational averages should not be used as causal forecasts for policy" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Luca Maria Pesando @lucampesando.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📢 Job: I am hiring *TWO* 3-year Postdocs to join us at #NYUAD to work on household demography in Africa and school segregation in the Global South. More information below. Great research and family benefits. Deadline: Jan 15, 2027. To apply: apply.interfolio.com/193571 apply.interfolio.com/193489
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the record I estimate that sociology has only a 0.1 percent chance of destroying humanity in the next decade.
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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do refugee crises end? In Dec. 2024, Syrian dictator Assad fled to Russia, ending a regime that displaced millions Would Syrians go back now the regime fell? Our paper tests this with original panel data (2019-2026), ~3k Syrian refugees, spanning fall of Assad osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 1/8
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are growing! This year we’re excited to welcome new lecturers @zsofiaboda.bsky.social and @lukaslehner.bsky.social who will add to our team of Quantitative Social Science expertise
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Welcome to UCL, Lukas! One of our new signings for the 26/27 academic season. A strong addition to the QSS squad 📊We’re lucky to have got this one over the line
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A perfect opportunity to work with @zsofiaboda.bsky.social, who has joined QSS at UCL SRI, on her ERC project exploring how stereotypes, social networks, and self-fulfilling prophecies reinforce social inequalities.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The paper factory in action @pengzell.bsky.social ?
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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David Levari @davidlevari.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here is a clunky but decently functional script to make a local copy of all your private and public OSF projects. You'll have to decide where to keep them. Maybe a flash drive under your mattress? levarilab.com/osf-backup-t...
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OSF Backup Tool — Levari Lab
An R script to make a local copy of projects in your OSF account.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Kohli Foundation for Sociology @kohli-sociology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📢𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!📢 We’re now accepting applications for the 2027 Kohli Fellowship at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. 📆 Deadline 20 September 2026 Apply via our online portal: kohlifoundation.eu/programs-gro... @wzb.bsky.social #Postdoc #Fellowship #forSociology
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
LSE Department of Methodology hiring — Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science; applications close 11 October 2026; apply at www.jobs.lse.ac.uk and follow @lsemethodology.
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At this rate, every course will soon be called X and LLMs
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trust in scientists depends not only on evidence, but also on perceived political identity. That’s one reason I believe academic associations like AAUP should avoid partisan endorsements and protect institutional neutrality. Evidence from our experiment: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Public perception of scientists: Experimental evidence on the role of sociodemographic, partisan, and professional characteristics
Previous research shows that public trust in scientists is often bound up with the messages that they convey and the context in which they communicate. However, in the current study, we examine how th...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our new study, just published in Migration Studies, draws on a large-scale survey experiment to identify when the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorised border crossings. @vdonna.bsky.social @sergioloiacono.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Another reason sociology is vulnerable to these attacks is that it’s such a broad church. Its disciplinary boundaries are highly fluid, making it easy to move in and out of the field and for a wide range of interdisciplinary work to be conflated with sociology and sociologists
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Everyone can see this is disastrous, but no one is screaming loudly enough. Years of policy drift have hollowed out the funding model, and now direct cuts are accelerating the damage. But hey, there’s still demand for university merch on Oxford Street!
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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There’s still time to join us!
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Could they also consider banning poverty for under-18s?
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What would you randomise in this pathway if you were an economist? Wrong answers only
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Interesting research job for a quant sociologist at the ESRI in Dublin. 5-year contract with possibility of permanency. €93k. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Senior Research Officer in Sociology
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent
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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New DP @i4replication.bsky.social : An Empirical Assessment of Computational Reproducibility in Sociology. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰
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Post-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – CSS @ IP-Paris
Site web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales.
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I'm working on a project on cross-national young gender gap that shows dif patterns. The below w ESS & CSES data show 1. Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) btwn young men & women, where x is year & y is standard deviations 2. Young men & women ideology relative to other age-gender groups
This shows the difference in young men's and young women's (<30) ideology, standardized by country, over the last two decades. The trend lines include confidence intervals. A point above the dotted line indicates that young men are to the right of young women. This shows the average ideology of age-gender groups between 2002 and 2023. Ideology is standardized within country. Above the dotted line means the group is that many standard deviations more right than their country mean, while below the line means the group is that many standard deviations left of their country mean.
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social We find that unions deter Walmart but where Walmart opens, it harms union members journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
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Sociological Science Accelerator
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Amazing initiative here by my colleague @buraksonmez.bsky.social with @aksoyundan.bsky.social and @sergioloiacono.bsky.social. Submit your experiment and watch it come to life
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
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Sociological Science Accelerator
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
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The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology @recsm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Join us and cover the essentials of quantitative social research. Our Summer Methods School covers R, regression, factor & cluster analysis, and AI methods with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @buraksonmez.bsky.social, Daniele Toninelli & Marco Steenbergen. Online & on-site at @upf.edu
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
After the Brexit referendum, I was racially abused on the train (threatened with being burnt alive) because I was mistaken for Jewish. Today the same people march as “friends of Jews” while demanding Muslims be deported. These hate marches are a reminder of what white supremacy has always been about
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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried&nbsp;in&nbsp;the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
OSF is operated nonprofit and overseen by scientists, no? I find some of the recent talk about it a bit off the tone. This one is witty, fine but, some others I have seen are a bit too harsh.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📢 We are hiring a Professor / Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Time Use Research. We seek an internationally recognised scholar with a strong record of academic leadership. Post available from January 2027. Check out: timeuse.org for more information.
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Oleg Urminsky @olegurminsky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461
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Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
With all due respect to the authors (the study raises a “potential” concern), but its framing overstates that concern imo. A few things worth flagging before everyone panics 1/
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
How far are we from Soc journals using AI agents to screen replication packages? (Sociologists: replication what) Seems like low-hanging fruit. Let agents test the code and data and flag reproducibility problems before publication.
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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 16/02/2026
My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
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Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A new publication at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We find that religious markers (esp. beards) can reduce perceived trustworthiness in Turkey. (That's why you often see me clean shaven ;-)
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Religious markers reduce perceived trustworthiness in a Muslim-majority country | PNAS
First impressions often hinge on visible cues, leading people to infer the trustworthiness of strangers from their appearance and dress. While reli...
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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026
This is why I was praising JEPS a few days ago. What they've done is impressive.
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