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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Very pleased to have been on the leadership team for this paper! LLMs are already being used all over behavioural science. But it is often pretty hard to work out exactly what has been done, and therefore how much confidence to place in the results. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour

Large language models offer new opportunities for behavioural science, but their rapid evolution poses challenges for research rigour. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve tra...

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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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Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

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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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Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

New paper with Rebecca Johnson (@rebeccaj.bsky.social) on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools, now out in Sociological Science (@sociologicalsci.bsky.social):

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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

NEW: Rebecca A. Johnson, Simone Zhang, "Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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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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Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thanks for sharing Hakeem! Our project started when we too were piloting open-ended questions for a study and noticed unusually long/typo-free/diplomatic responses. Others reported similar experiences. Latest version of the paper here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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