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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New preprint! A review article on Generative AI and Society, with the fantastic @thomasdavidson.bsky.social & Danny Karell (smartly not online!) osf.io/preprints/so... The lit on genAI is sprawling and mostly not in sociology. Our goal is to synthesize core themes relevant to sociologists. +

GENERATIVE AI AND SOCIETY
Laura K. Nelson,
Daniel Karell,
and Thomas Davidson

ABSTRACT
For sociologists, generative AI inherits the legacy of earlier computational technologies: it is an advancement of machine learning already adopted as a methodology, and it intervenes in a society already shaped by algorithmic systems. Yet it also has a dimension that distinguishes it from previous computational methods, and one that makes it inherently sociological: its interactivity. In this review, we conceptualize the interactivity of generative AI and introduce a framework for understanding how it operates across individual, organizational, and institutional life. Specifically, the framework specifies how generative AI expands users, functions as a proxy for society, and expresses power,
both in sociological practice and in society. We conclude by suggesting three dynamics driven by generative AI that sociology will face in the near future: the transformation of scientific practice, the reorganization of social interaction, and the acceleration of algorithmic governance.

Keywords: generative AI, interaction, computational sociology, methods, algorithms, algorithmic governance

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Come to Oxford and join our amazing Nuffield community! Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs) in Sociology, include sociology, demography, criminology, social and medical statistics, public policy, and social policy. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/... @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Has anyone played around with OlmoTrace? Folks I'm fascinated by it. What an amazing tool, for research and teaching.

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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

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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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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Recent publications arguing against the use of genAI in reflexive qual research inspired us (Elida Ibrahim and @andreavoyer.bsky.social) to write our own perspective. Not to convince anyone to use genAI but for those who might be interested and are looking for guidance. osf.io/preprints/so...

Screen shot of title page of a preprint.
Title: Should generative AI be used in reflexive qualitative research?
Authors: Elida Izani Ibrahim, Laura K. Nelson, and Andrea Voyer

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Benjamin Rohr @benjaminrohr.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Consider submitting a paper to the session I am organizing at ASA this year on “Comparative-Historical Sociology and Computational Social Science.” The submission deadline is February 25.

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Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My colleague Kevin Munger asked me and a bunch of editors to sit and think through AI and peer review. Our take: osf.io/9sxnc/files/... We envision an increased (!) involvement of humans in the evaluation of social science.

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Steve Borgatti and I invite contributions to a special issue on "Social Network Theory" at the journal Social Networks. Send us a wide range of approaches and manuscripts, anything really, on the theoretical interpretation, systematization, integration, and reflection of empirical network research!

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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!!

sociologicalscience.com

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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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint. Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!

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janoskertesz.bsky.social @janoskertesz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We are hiring! The Department of Network and Data Science of Central European University (Vienna) has an open position for an Assistant Professor in network science and computational social science.

careers.ceu.edu

Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/11/2025

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

chronicle.com

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

For us, this journey toward explaining *surprising macro outcomes* took many years. Grateful to my amazing co-authors, @martinarvidsson.bsky.social and Peter Hedström, and to all the reviewers who supported us along the way 🚀Out now: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

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Welcome! – VARICRIS

VARICRIS research project

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

jobs.rutgers.edu

Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology

The Department of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level specializing in Computational Sociology. The search i...

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Do streaming platforms trap us in cultural filter bubbles? We like to think so but the evidence says otherwise. In a new paper @abelaussant.bsky.social and I find the use of streaming platform to be associated with an increase in consumption diversity. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Screenshot of the title and abstract of the article. the title is
Streaming Platforms, Filter Bubbles, and Cultural Inequalities. How Online Services Increase Consumption Diversity. The abstract reads: Do digital technologies affect diversity in cultural tastes? Digital sociologists have warned of “filter bubbles,” whereas sociologists of culture have shown that diversity in consumption is valued as a marker of upper-middle-class status. We estimate the effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption using a matching technique applied to 2018 survey data from France. We find a statistically significant positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on cosmopolitanism, on three domains, music, movies, and TV shows. The magnitude of this effect is much higher for TV shows. The study brings new evidence against the filter bubble thesis; it shows that platforms do reinforce cultural inequalities by increasing the social gap in consumption diversity. It further suggests that the effect of technology on cultural consumption might mainly operate through its impact on cultural markets rather than changes in cultural experience.

Main figure of the article. Difference in number of genres consumed, liked, and disliked between streaming users and non-users. Streaming users consume more genres than non-users after controlling for confounders. The difference is small for music (0.1 sd), moderate for movies (0.2 sd), and high for TV shows (0.46 sd). However, differences
in number of genres liked or disliked are small or not significant. SMD before (light) and after (dark)
adjustment through matching, with error bars indicating 95 percent confidence interva

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...

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Laura Nelson: Qualitative Methods for Computational Social Science — IC2S2 2025 Keynote

YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Now out in Social Networks Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

css.cnrs.fr

LLM Power to the People – 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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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2025

New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +

rdcu.be

The impact of language models on the humanities and vice versa

Nature Computational Science - Many humanists are skeptical of language models and concerned about their effects on universities. However, researchers with a background in the humanities are also...

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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...

How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...

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Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Recruiting one full time or several part time RA at @crestsociology.bsky.social in Paris (well, almost in Paris) for next year to work on the evaluation of cultural items crest.science/wp-content/u...

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New NEH-supported tutorial on running LLMs locally with ollama! Your laptop is more powerful than you think. Save money, privacy, and energy. aiforhumanists.com/tutorials/

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Code Tutorials

The AI for Humanists project is developing resources to enable DH scholars to explore how large language models and AI technologies can be used in their research and teaching. Find an annotated biblio...

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Danya Lagos @danyalagos.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Had a blast working on this paper with Christina Pao, @chrisajulian.bsky.social, @drcompton.bsky.social, and Lawrence Stacey, in which we combed through the HPS to identify demographic differences between groups based on gender identity question responses. sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure

Article: Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure | Sociological Science | Posted May 6, 2025

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word

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Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished? In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Now out in Sociological Methods & Research We argue that one of the most important use cases of generative LLMs for social scientists is transforming unstructured content into structured data. Our article shows how to do that — and what can go wrong.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Can we use language models to accurately represent the past? I still don't know. But we started to test this question in the paper below.

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our article on using LLMs for text classification is out now in SMR! 🤖🧑‍💻💬 We compare different learning regimes, from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and share recommendations for sociologists and other social scientists interested in using these models. doi.org/10.1177/0049...

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Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🚨New Publication @thejop.bsky.social We study who sets the issue agenda of state policymakers in the US. We find a mixed picture: they respond to shifts in attention by members of Congress, but also to the constituents in their states, particularly their own party supporters.

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social with my colleagues at @csmapnyu.org . Substantive findings are summarized in the thread below. Of interest to a broader sociological audience: we show how to measure discursive influence between different groups.

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NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org · 07/04/2025

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Come join our team studying the impact of digital media on democracy! We're hiring a Technical Lead - Research Engineering to help us build and maintain the robust data infrastructure and custom tools that power our research. More info + apply: apply.interfolio.com/165833

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The lead article, by the wonderful Ioana Sendroiu and coauthors, in the new issue of ASR is on climate change! The discipline is beginning to catch up to reality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy to share my new paper with Cat Dang Ton and @eollion.bsky.social on how to use generative LLMs for extracting information from textual data (conditionally accepted at Sociological Methods & Research) Here's a rundown.. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨New publication @The_JOP on human biases in data annotation (w. Nora Webb Williams, @kevinaslett.bsky.social, John Wilkerson). Extremely important given the increasing societal reliance on AI tools often trained on human coders www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Among these is one working with me -- if you have a background in literary/cultural theory and are interested in the ways in which computational methods, including LLMs, are able to provide support for empirical sensemaking about literature, media and culture, please get in touch!

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