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

Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026 How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...

My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)

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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...

Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

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:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For comments and opportunities to present this work, we are indebted to @ankitbhardwaj.bsky.social @jerolmack.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @steffenmau.bsky.social @thomasdavidson.bsky.social @s7css.bsky.social @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @ipratnu.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

Time and Climate Change: U.S. Media Representations of Climate Actions, Horizons, and Events (2000 to 2021) - Oscar Stuhler, Iddo Tavory, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, 2026 Questions of temporality are at the heart of climate change discourse: Does one think of climate change primarily as an event happening in the present, or as so...

Here is the link to the paper doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Somewhat surprisingly, climate change temporality as we measure it does differ starkly between more conservative and liberal outlets — a finding we reflect on extensively in the paper. 9/

We find that such expressions have become much more prevalent over the past decades, but also, that they typically follow the logic of “media storms” (👀 @dallascard.bsky.social) with sudden outbursts coupled to events, followed by rapid declines. 8/

We also found that there is a temporal register that does not fit neatly into the above measurement framework: expressions of urgency that demand -immediate- action or stress the drastic consequences of climate change. 7/

Time trends in action horizons also follow a different logic than those for climate change effects: they have remained (relatively) stable with regard to their -extent-, typically referring around 16 years into the future. 6/

Meanwhile, horizons for climate action tend to be shorter, heavily patterned by rhythms, and associated with the scope of the action context. 5/

We also find that horizons for climate change effects have remained remarkably stable since 2000, continuously targeting, on average, the year 2060. 4/

This allows us to map out the structure of anticipation in public discourse on climate change. We find that horizons for climate effects heavily target specific key years, with large segments of the future (2050 to 2100) remaining uncharted by public imaginaries. 3/

To measure future horizons, we developed a computational framework for detecting and interpreting climate change-related temporal expressions. Such statements are typically about anticipated effects of climate change or targets for action against climate change. 2/

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/

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...

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.

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.

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!

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

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!!

(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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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.

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.

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] +

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...

@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 🌐

🇫🇷 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

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.

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

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...

👉 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/...