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

Join the IPK on Monday, April 28th (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Dalton Conley. He will discuss his book The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture with Susan Dominus and BK Lee. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-ta…

Mixed feelings about silicon subjects (LLM predictions of human behavior) as replacements for human subjects? Consider the mixed subjects design. 🚨Now published at Sociological Methods and Research🚨 doi.org/10.1177/004912…

Excited to share a work with Thomas Davidson on using LLMs for text classification! We experiment with different learning regimes from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and propose instruction-tuning as a new possibility for social scientific inquiries. doi.org/10.1177/004912…

A new sociology of humans and machines arxiv.org/abs/2402.14410

Updated version now out Sociological Methods & Research Paper link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Preprint link: osf.io/preprints/soca…

My Columbia sociology colleagues, Peter Bearman and Gil Eyal, on misguided actions of university officials in this time when democracy is threatened. incite.columbia.edu/news/third-tim…

I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes: - Adopt the new Responses API. - Better handling of the structured output. Link below. Please star if you find it useful~

These talented young musicians teamed up to bring the joy of music to young children in the community. Please support their cause. 6pm (CT) tonight at Nichols Hall, Evanston. Please join us in person or through the live stream. youtube.com/live/MxXwBr__9…

Happy to share this new paper with Rebecca Johnson! ✏️

Congratulations to Professor Simone Zhang for being named one of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars!

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, Petter Törnberg and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵

🎉 Huge news! Our paper 'A semantic embedding space based on large language models for modelling human beliefs' is finally out in Nature Human Behaviour! This research uses LLMs to build a 'map' of human beliefs and reveals why people adopt certain beliefs through relative dissonance.

I am happy to share the news that our paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!!

We are proud to have PhD candidate, Jenny Leigh, among this group of scholars to receive the 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant!

New Post-doc position!! An amazing opportunity to work on cutting-edge research using smartphone mobility data on community and mental health with a great team! Related research: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data . The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41597…

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at UW–Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…