Join us for a Bellwether Lecture! 🔔
University of Michigan School of Information Assistant Professor azjacobs.bsky.social will discuss structure, governance, and inequality in sociotechnical systems & hidden assumptions in machine learning.
📅 April 8, 12:10-1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall & Online
How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory?
@marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future
Out now:
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Check out our conference website for registration and program information. Looking forward to some much-needed cross-sector dialogue on how we can work together to navigate the rapid development of AI and its impacts on society!
The conference will feature keynote addresses by @ccst.us CEO @juliannemccall.bsky.social and UC Berkeley Responsible AI Initiative Director Dr. Genevieve Macfarlane Smith, along with research presentations from an international slate of researchers.
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...
Our new paper is out today in @pnasnexus.org with colleagues at Yale (@matthewshu.com, Danny Karell, @keitarookura.bsky.social)
We wanted to understand how using AI-generated summaries to learn about history influenced attitudes compared to existing resources like Wikipedia. 1/4
Back in the 1980s-2000s, there was an organization called
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility that worked to oppose irresponsible and dangerous uses of computers in warfare. Maybe it needs a reboot, in our new age of AI.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...
I'm a little late in sharing this news, but thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Amber Boydstun, @jilllaufer.bsky.social, and @nlpnoah.bsky.social, our book on media storms, "Catching Fire in the News", is now published and available fully open-access from Cambridge! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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
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...
It really is. It wasn't that long ago that I regularly had to explain what this "CSS thing" is when talking about what I do!
ps: There's going to be lots of great sessions on AI and computational methods at ASA. Definitely check out the call: www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...
Hey sociologists, I'm organizing an ASA Methodology session on AI! Submissions are due by 2/25. Looking forward to a timely cross-method convo on emerging research best practices and disciplinary norms and ethics in August.
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!!
A side by side of two photos of the same book, being held by each author with a box of more books in the background.
A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you.
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Beautiful piece worth a read by @adambonica.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
How are researchers actually using large language models today, and who benefits most?
In our latest WiAIR episode, we speak with Dr Maria Antoniak (@mariaa.bsky.social) about a large-scale survey on LLM use across academia. 👇 (1/6 🧵)
#WiAIR
Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org
Wednesday, Nov. 12: a reading & conversation to celebrate the launch of Celina Su's new book, "Budget Justice," which shows how communities can solve our cities' most pressing problems.
With @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social and Kesi Foster. Register for this free event!
@princetonupress.bsky.social
This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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.
NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk
My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
🚨Microsoft Research NYC is hiring🚨
We're hiring postdocs and senior researchers in AI/ML broadly, and in specific areas like test-time scaling and science of DL. Postdoc applications due Oct 22, 2025. Senior researcher applications considered on a rolling basis.
Links to apply: aka.ms/msrnyc-jobs
Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours?
Apply by Nov 15.
For folks teaching text analysis, where does generative AI fit in? Is it a standalone module in your course, or integrated throughout? I'm teaching a grad course on text analysis in January and would love to hear what folks are doing.
👉 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/...
Please share widely!
We invite applications for two postdoctoral scholars! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center in NYC. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
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