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Matthew Salganik

@msalganik.bsky.social
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Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3 Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study call for applications for residential fellows in 2027-28. Annual theme will be: Understanding AI. Applications due Oct 15. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies has a two year postdoc program for recent PhDs in the soical sciences. Applications due Sep 15 2026. piirs.princeton.edu/funding-fell...
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PIIRS Postdoctoral Fellows
Provides opportunities for talented early-career scholars in the social sciences to spend a dedicated period of time pursuing their research with access to Princeton’s world-renowned resources.
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Friends in New Haven: I'm speaking today (Thurs) at the workshop on AI for Social Science Science Research Methods @yale. My talk is titled "Breaking out of the X matrix: Book of life and LLMs in social research" More info: yalefds.swoogo.com/socialscienc...
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sean Westwood will be presenting on this work at Princeton later this month (29-Apr). The event is open to the public, registration link below. behavioralpolicy.princeton.edu/events/26042...
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Behavioral Policy Works in Progress--Sean Westwood, The potential threat of LLMs to online survey research
Sean Westwood, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, will present new work in a KTC Works in Progress lunch talk on April 29, 2026, at 12:30pm.
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm speaking at ML-NYC on Monday, April 20 4pm at Flatiron Institute. "Life Trajectories and Life Chances: New Approaches from Population Registries and AI". Registration is free and reception afterwards: www.eventbrite.com/e/ml-nyc-spe...
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ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour: Matt Salganik
Life Trajectories and Life Chances: New Approaches from Population Registries and AI
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Apply to participate in the Princeton AI Policy Precepts Friday, April 10 & Friday, May 1 in Washington, DC. This 4th round of Princeton AI Policy Precepts will offer roundtable discussions with fellow federal policymakers & Princeton faculty. mailchi.mp/princeton.ed...
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Invitation to Apply: Princeton AI Policy Precepts in Washington, DC
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Friends in Oslo: I'll be speaking at the Bioinformatics seminar at Univ Oslo today (Tues) at 11am. "The life course perspective for precision health: New opportunities from population registries, biobanks, and AI” More info: www.mn.uio.no/bils/english...
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BiLS-OCBE-Furberg double seminar: AI in healthcare - Bioinformatics in Life Science – BiLS
The next BiLS seminar will be a special double session featuring Andreas Kleppe from Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo presenting “Training better computational pathology models to i...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is a wonderful story pulling together our research on predicting life trajectories. Thank you @anilananth.bsky.social
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Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence @princetonainews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New Deep Dive from @anilananth.bsky.social on our blog: @msalganik.bsky.social & colleagues developed a way to create and analyze an individual’s "Book of Life." The eventual goal? Train language models on data from millions of Books of Life to predict an individual's life outcome: bit.ly/473NmIy
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The Book of Life: Moving from a Sociology of Variables to a Sociology of Events – Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm giving a talk in Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) Fri 20 Feb 11 - 12:30. "Life trajectories and life chances: New approaches from population registries and AI" sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...
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SODAS Lecture with Matthew J. Salganik
SODAS is delighted to host Matthew J. Salganik from Princeton University!
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Friends in Oxford, I'm giving a talk at Nuffield College Wed 18 Feb 16:00. "Life trajectories and life chances: New approaches from population registries and AI" nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Great job available at @odissei.bsky.social: Chief Technology Officer. This position provides an opportunity to help create the future of computational social science: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
U.S. CAISI hiring intern for an AI agent security standards project. Opportunity to do cutting-edge AI standards work in the federal government. Apply by Jan 15. nitter.net/i/status/200...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Post-doc opportunity to work with Anna Haskins on the Future of Family and Child Wellbeing Study. Apply by Jan 23. apply.interfolio.com/178605
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences will have a special issue on the 25th anniversary of the future of families and child wellbeing study: www.russellsage.org/publications...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Let's be colleagues! Apply to this amazing program. Great colleagues and a wonderful environment.
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science. Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841 Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843
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Job Market - Bocconi University
Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts
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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...
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Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Univ of Rhode Island has an open rank faculty position in the Dept of Political Science to lead their new PhD program in Computational Social Science. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15597
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California Center For Population Research @ccpratucla.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2! Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty. sicss.io/2025/ucla/ @ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I'll be giving a talk about my research Tues, Apr 22 at Princeton Center for Statistics & Machine Learning: "With enough data and the right algorithms is your future predictable? Some evidence from LLMs and complete population-scale data" More info: csml.princeton.edu/events/enoug...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy to share the results and open-source code for our benchmark test of GPUs in secure computing environment. Thank you to our wonderful colleagues at ‪@esciencecenter.bsky.social‬. Code is open-sourced for others to use and improve. No private data required.
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I'll be speaking Friday at noon about national population registries, large language models & prediction health. If you are in town you are welcome to attend: pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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National population registries, large language models, and precision health
This talk will present our interdisciplinary, international collaboration exploring the genetic, social, and environmental factors shaping human health. Our approach leverages two innovations: 1) secu...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I'm excited to be a part of the new Princeton Precision Health initiative. Here's more about what we are doing: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/03...
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Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease
PPH researchers apply cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets to develop a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.
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Stephan Rabanser @stvrb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Starting off this account with a banger: In September 2025, I will be joining @princetoncitp.bsky.social at Princeton University as a Postdoc working with @randomwalker.bsky.social & @msalganik.bsky.social! I am very excited about this opportunity to continue my work on trustworthy/reliable ML! 🥳
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Opening at Columbia for a postdoc to "help build machine-learning models to understand the relationship between social conditions and entrepreneurship at the neighborhood level." apply.interfolio.com/162500
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is a great opportunity . . .
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University Lecturer in Social Data Science
University Lecturer in Social Data Science
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Sloan Foundation/UKRI postdoc on metascience and AI. For researchers in the social sciences & humanities who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science & research ecosystem. sloan.org/programs/dig...
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Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Gabor Csardi @gaborcsardi.org · 17/02/2025
Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package? See options below. #RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org
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Read and Write Parquet Files
Self-sufficient reader and writer for flat Parquet files. Can read most Parquet data types. Can write many R data types, including factors and temporal types. See docs for limitations.
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Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉 socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...
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Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)
Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.)  NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…
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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm teaching my first course! A seminar on "Machine Behavior." Readings are a mix of NLP, CSS-y, and ML work on how machines (focus LLMs) "behave" within sociotechnical systems and on how they can be used to study human behavior. Syllabus: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/teaching/spr...
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Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Feels fitting to have our very first-ever post be to celebrate two #CITP Associated Faculty members, Professor Aleksandra Korolova & Professor Olga Russakovsky, who were both awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers from the White House this week! 🎉 💯 📖 #womeninSTEM
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Applications open for the SICSS-ODISSEI summer school at Erasmus University. For PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers interested in computational social science. More info: odissei-data.nl/event/sicss-...
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SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations
From 16 to 27 June 2024, ODISSEI is hosting its fourth summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the Erasmus Gradua...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Tooling Together: Advancing Research Through Collaborative Tool Development in the Information Environment" Share what you have, learn what is possible, and connect to a community. Jan 24 online. docs.google.com/forms/d/1gwT...
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 06/12/2024
RcppArmadillo 14.2.2-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fixes R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/12... #rcpp #rstats #r
Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/12/06#rcpparmadillo_14.2.2-1 describing release 14.2.2-1 of CRAN package RcppArmadillo
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢 📢 Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary group of about 40 scholars at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy working to understand and improve the relationship between technology and society. We are looking at all levels: 🧵
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
ACLU seeks a full-time algorithmic justice fellow for a one year position. More info: www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
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Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Two exciting internship opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🎉 With FATE in NYC: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... With STAC (and collaborators in FATE) in NYC or Redmond focusing on AI evaluation and measurement: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Lets see if BlueSky can be as helpful as Old School Twitter. I'm looking for advocates of Administrative Data Access and Linkage across the EU 🇪🇺 Tell me who is making administrative data access happen in 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇨🇿🇸🇮🇸🇰🇭🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪🇵🇱🇧🇬🇷🇴🇲🇹🇭🇺🇬🇷 This is often unsung work and they don't toot their own horns. RP 🙏
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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 22/11/2024
🚨Two Exciting DPhil\PhD Opportunities to join us at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social in Fall 2025!🚨 1️⃣ ABM project with 'Big Data' & LLMs (HDS CDT):👉 shorturl.at/wcMQo 2️⃣ Scientometrics project (DPhil PopHealth):👉 shorturl.at/qwsor 🕒⏳Deadline: ~10 days! Feel free to DM me w\ any Qs. Please share widely! 🙌
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is your chance to host a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Amazing chance to be part of a wonderful community. . .
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Postdoc opportunity at Stanford’s new Institute for Advancing Just Societies. Will conduct research related to societal well-being and race/ethnicity. Application review beings Feb 3: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Brian Lowery | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 22/11/2024
The brand new `legendry` package by @teunbrand.bsky.social takes ggplots2 guides to the next level 🤩 teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Breaking out of the X matrix: Language models as foundation models for social science" is a talk I'll be giving at the @odissei.bsky.social conference on Dec 10 in Utrecht. odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...
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ODISSEI Conference 2024 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations
ODISSEI is hosting its next live conference in de Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, on 10 December 2024. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, metho...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'll be giving a talk Friday (Nov 22) at the Ohio State Computational Social Science Colloquium. Title: "The unpredictability of life outcomes" More info: tdai.osu.edu/events/osu-c.... Hope to see you there.
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OSU Computational Social Science Symposium
In collaboration with the Decision Sciences Collaborative, TDAI is hosting a special symposium on computational social science.  This event will be held on Friday, November 22 in Pomerene Hall 320 fro...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Repost if you’ve participated in a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Let’s get #SICSS Bluesky going!
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