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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How are people using agentic AI tools to change the way they work? My team at OpenAI looked into this, using data from Codex that lets us measure agentic AI usage among individual users, organizational account users, and workers at OpenAI.

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Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen @andbjn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

1/ What does the social fabric of an entire country look like? We built a nation-scale social network of Denmark — 7.2 million people, 1.4 billion ties, 14 years of data. Here’s what we found 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #NetworkScience #Sociology

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Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm excited to present at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping! Wednesday at 10, I'll give a lightning talk about how to measure cross-class social connections (almost) everywhere on Earth. I'll also have two posters up in the Weds session. If you're here, I'd love to chat social networks, etc!

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Economist published an article today about my team's research on measuring social ties between men and women. The article had cool original analyses, including showing that the rate of cross-gender ties among close (top 5) friends is predicted by an index of sexism (a 🧵)

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My team's paper on cross-gender friendships is out today in the AEA Papers & Proceedings. We use data from Facebook to show where connections between men and women are more (blue) and less (red) common, in almost every country, and release the data publicly! A 🧵 of maps:

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I had a sneak peek at some data which is being published by Meta today, showing that Britain is less divided by class than you might expect: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide

They make the country look better than America

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Realized I forgot a to include a map of cross-gender social ties in North America--details on the methodology (and a link to the data) can be found in the original thread!

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender? Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world! A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If you're considering an econ predoc, Theresa Kuchler + Johannes Stroebel are hiring a predoc to work on social networks projects, starting fall 2025. They are wonderful to work with and do very cool research (see www.nature.com/articles/s41...) . Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/161883

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Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility - Nature

Analyses of data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook in the United States reveal associations between social capital and economic mobility.

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Drew Johnston @drew-johnston.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm presenting "Social Capital Around the World" Saturday @ 8am at AEAs. We use data from 2.5 billion Facebook accounts to measure cross-class and cross-gender friendships globally, and explore how they connect to downstream outcomes like intergenerational mobility. www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

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American Economic Association

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