Skewed distribution of ideological positions of news media domains shared July–August 2022, with conservative outlets clustering on the far right
New paper out in Network Science🧵Why are conservative online news a niche phenomenon?
Historical study of pre-Musk Twitter with @martinarvidsson.bsky.social @pablobellode.bsky.social
👇https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2026.10029
Ah, in that sense I do agree. That seems an answer to the individual question of "how can I use this tool to make my work better?" which I think people conflate with the collective problem of how to deal with/prevent AI slop.
Are we sure that the writing output is much worse than the coding output? To a sociologist's eyes it might seem that way but maybe it is just bc we are worse programmers than writers.
How is verbatim text different than verbatim code though? Assuming equal quality of the two (which is questionable, but it feels like the rule is not pointing at that).
The new SocArxiv guidelines.
there are many out there thinking that it's beneficial to use AI tools for coding, but treat writing as a sacrosanct activity. I think this distinction is a mystification. I discuss why scholarly work is essentially a project, and it's about curating as much as it is refining:
Thinking that using AI to improve one's work is good is probably correlated with thinking of sociology as a science.
I think this is also tied to how we understand the role of a PhD. If a PhD is a student, then using AI to forgo learning is bad. If a PhD is a scientist, then failing to use AI if it can improve your work is bad, both to you and to science.
Working on this for my next conference
No, no, this is not a lemon! Just a citrus fruit with homonymously colored rind
So we can’t use synonyms now? ☹️
My guess is that this is similar to other professions. A combination of uncertainty and competition at the junior level and accumulation and concentration of success at the senior level.
And maybe, but some of the best paying universities are in areas where COL might have grown faster, hard to say
The numbers come from here:
2024-2025 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
2021:2022 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
One thing to notice is that inequality at the full professor rank (gini = 0.136) is higher than at the AP rank (gini = 0.102)
The average salary of faculty by rank at R1 universities.
Cool video, too bad no sociologist made it into the final cut 🙃 youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?...
And they are all right
The third one will tell you to publish anything you can
Finally out from @acastroaraujo.bsky.social and @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social
I wrote another thing, this time about hiring networks in sociology pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025soc...
Another micro finding from my dive into the field of Philosophy: 20% of Princeton’s faculty are academic inbreds, way ahead of the rest
Philosophers will either have the most extravagant webpage imaginable or no information about them on the internet whatsoever
Martin & Lembo 2020
And publicly implying that someone’s work might be wrong is automatically understood as a personal attack
Nothing wrong with using the seed that yields the best crop
Transformative experience. I wanted to screen embryos using polygenic scores but now:
