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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 08/09/2026
We're hiring a medical sociologists at Lehigh! DL: September 29th careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311683/...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania job with Lehigh University | 1311683
Seeking a medical sociologist for tenure track position at R1 university.
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CREST Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exciting news: CREST Sociology is delighted to welcome two new colleagues: Juliette Saetre and Marshall Taylor! Check out their websites to learn more about their work: www.juliettesaetre.com and marshallataylor.com Welcome, Juliette and Marshall! 🎉
Portrait of Juliette SaetrePortrait of Marshall Taylor
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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now forthcoming at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social.👇
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
Here is a clip of a Wisconsin man 404 Media spoke to being pulled over. In it, the cop says he’s being pulled over because his license plate was “a little bit obstructed.” That wasn’t the real reason. Court docs show it’s because of predictive policing units. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 08/09/2026
We're hiring a medical sociologists at Lehigh! DL: September 29th careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311683/...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania job with Lehigh University | 1311683
Seeking a medical sociologist for tenure track position at R1 university.
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 08/09/2026
"...capable models, placed in an environment nobody had tested against an adversary, did what capable attackers do, and it took twelve days and another company’s production infrastructure before anyone noticed... a story about environment design and incident response..." uphack.io/blog/post/th...
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The Hugging Face Incident Is Not an AI Story
A security engineer’s analysis of the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, what failed in the architecture and incident response, and the lessons security teams can learn from it.
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New article out in Annual Review, with Mike Sauder: We survey recent work looking at meritocracy as the making of merit-based status hierarchies, and we show how it expands our understanding of meritocracy’s stratifying effects. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Making of Meritocratic Status Orders
This article surveys a growing body of work examining the concrete consequences of implementing meritocracy in social life. To date, this work remains compartmentalized into the separate subfields of ...
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Annaliese Paulson @annaliesep.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/
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Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...
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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 in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 06/04/2026
And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)
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What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto
We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology. in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard. we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:
the front page of the paper, which can be read in:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056
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The Register @theregister.com · 27/03/2026
GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
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GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all
As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out Microsoft's GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – "specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context" – to train its AI models.…
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Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making
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▲ Nearby Glasses

Smart Glasses are probably nearby
Device: Unknown
RSSI: -42 dBm
Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E)
Company: Meta Platforms, Inc.

This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning.

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Sagar Kumar @diesagar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Are our evaluations actually measuring any stable properties of LLMs? 🧵
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Nick Ulle @ulletide.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We recently updated R Basics, our introductory workshop about research computing in R! 🎉 The reader (a mini-textbook) is here: ucdavisdatalab.github.io/workshop_r_b...
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R Basics
Reader for UC Davis DataLab’s R Basics workshop series.
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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
THE SWITHEROO Hey, I have a new WP out now on @socarxiv.bsky.social ! In the paper, I study the full network of partnerships in Norway since 1967 up to today. I examine the general structure of the partnerships network, and the existence of a specific type of network: the partner switcheroo. 1/x
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Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Jacob Hibel and I have organized an upcoming conference on AI and Social Inequality, which will be held on 3/17 at the UC Student and Policy Center in Sacramento. This event is open to social scientists, computer scientists, and the policy community. poverty.ucdavis.edu/event/artifi...
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Artificial Intelligence and Social Inequality Conference - Center for Poverty and Inequality Research
The UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research is pleased to announce our upcoming conference,  Artificial ...
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Larry Au @larryau.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association is hosting a pre-conference here at City College (in our FiDi division)! Our call for abstracts is open until April 1, 2026. asaskat.com/skattoday/
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2026 Pre-Conference
Science, Knowledge and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures The Science, Knowledge & Technology (SKAT) section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will host…
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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/
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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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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...
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Boulevard of Broken Memes @olizardo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
If Odo converted to Judaism he would have to be liquid on Shabbat
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Oh amassing large enough datasets with provenance for language model training is totally doable. Just when you do that you feel lonely (and unpaid) as people don’t really care.
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Rasmus Aagaard @rasgaard.com · 20/02/2026
LLM cloud inference dominates usage, but should it? Local models and accelerators have improved massively over recent years. Perfect routing to best local model "reduce energy consumption by 80.4%, compute by 77.3%, and cost by 73.8% versus cloud-only deployment" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07885
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 13/02/2026
Here's a little working paper with Marshall Taylor and Sanuj Kumar: Selecting Language Models for Social Science arxiv.org/abs/2601.10926 Thoughts welcome!
Currently, there are thousands of large pretrained language models (LLMs) available to social scientists. How do we select among them? Using validity, reliability, reproducibility, and replicability as guides, we explore the significance of:(1) model openness, (2) model footprint, (3) training data, and (4) model architectures and fine-tuning. While ex ante tests of validity (i.e., benchmarks) are often privileged in these discussions, we argue that social scientists cannot altogether avoid validating computational measures (ex-post). Replicability, in particular, is a more pressing guide for selecting language models. Being able to reliably replicate a particular finding that entails the use of a language model necessitates reliably reproducing a task. To this end, we propose starting with smaller, open models, and constructing delimited benchmarks to demonstrate the validity of the entire computational pipeline.
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Dirk Witteveen @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate? New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens. We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often. www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Thijs Bol @thijsbol.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/
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Vacancies | ICS
ICS Sociology PhD positions vacancies Graduate school program Social Sciences Methodology
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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Andrej Karpathy is at It again microgpt share.google/WZbks45IS2DV...
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Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 13/02/2026
Here's a little working paper with Marshall Taylor and Sanuj Kumar: Selecting Language Models for Social Science arxiv.org/abs/2601.10926 Thoughts welcome!
Currently, there are thousands of large pretrained language models (LLMs) available to social scientists. How do we select among them? Using validity, reliability, reproducibility, and replicability as guides, we explore the significance of:(1) model openness, (2) model footprint, (3) training data, and (4) model architectures and fine-tuning. While ex ante tests of validity (i.e., benchmarks) are often privileged in these discussions, we argue that social scientists cannot altogether avoid validating computational measures (ex-post). Replicability, in particular, is a more pressing guide for selecting language models. Being able to reliably replicate a particular finding that entails the use of a language model necessitates reliably reproducing a task. To this end, we propose starting with smaller, open models, and constructing delimited benchmarks to demonstrate the validity of the entire computational pipeline.
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Postdoctoral researcher on applications of AI in sociological research
Are you able to lead sociological research into the AI age?
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
About 10 years ago, I set out to better understand the drivers of radicalization and deradicalization into white supremacy. Work from our endeavors is starting to come out, and I am no longer concerned about sharing it. I want to share the findings from one of these studies, published last March. 🧵
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I took the Colbert Questionert! Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/HPONVyNiWsU?...
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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026
La course des nouveaux usages associés aux modèles génératifs met la professions scientifiques à rude épreuve. Article précieux pour suivre l'état des usages #GenAI en sociologie sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... par @oms279.bsky.social, @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com et M. Taylor
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 02/02/2026
New paper out with Marshall Taylor and @olizardo.bsky.social: Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis Instead of institutions as things that contain people, we suggest institutions as expertise distributed across people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going, fix them when they go awry, or transform them when required, here called functionaries. The distributional approach allows us to distinguish between two main types of institutional change often conflated in the literature: Content-based and formal change. Content-based change, the one most often discussed, involves the importation, recombination, or expansion of specific patterns of activity. In contrast, formal change, often neglected in the literature, refers to shifts in the distribution of knowledge and activity, leading to dynamics of centralisation and decentralisation of institutional patterns. In this way, the distributional approach highlights the role of functionaries in both institutional stability and change, providing a micro-level perspective on institutional dynamics.
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David Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 30/01/2026
We are looking for a doctoral researcher to work with us on a supercool project in collaboration with linguists. The deadline is Feb 15th, contact me if you have any questions! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/9...
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Doctoral Position in Social Data Science
Deadline: 15.02.2026
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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Now out in Sociological Science (How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our paper. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!!
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Article: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline | Sociological Science | Posted January 20, 2026
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 06/01/2026
New year, new paper! 🎉⭐ How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder). Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Problem with this study is that they’re comparing positive and negative signed coefficients that are both not significantly different than zero. An honest study would’ve treated insignificant coefficients as zero. I told authors this and they didn’t care as they wanted the headline.
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AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not? Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship. A growing body of work in sociology and related fields demonstrate...
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