📢 Deadline extended to March 28! One week to go for submitting your abstract for the Day of Sociology on June 17, in Dutch or English! Looking forward to see you Radboud University in Nijmegen!🌿 Details, keynote speakers and more: dvds2024.nl/index_en

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Can LLMs replace human subjects in social science? A thread on our latest paper. TL;DR: to date, they cannot really, because they exhibit an unnoticed pattern we call “machine bias”. osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/n

At The COMPTEXT Association, Johannes Gruber showcases {rollama}, an R package enabling local use of LLMs—fully reproducible and no need to expose data. Best thing is: EASY to set up. I am certainly convinced: if we use LLMs, going local should be encouraged in social science research.

"It's just a quick R plot. How long could it possibly ta--" 💀

Are you using generative AI to study social processes? 📃 If so, consider submitting an abstract to this session I'm organizing at the at the upcoming 2025 ISA Forum! Send your abstract in before October 15th here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

For those interested in ABM with data, Marijn Keijzer (@[email protected]) and I are organizing a session titled “Micro-Macro Explanations with Data-Driven Agent-Based Models” at the next ISA Forum in Rabat, from July 6-11, 2025. Submit your abstract by October 15th, and please share it with colleagues!

We are hiring a postdoc (2years+2years) larissa @ISTC-CNR in Rome to work on an experimental project on #social norms and #cooperation in collective action problems under risk. Deadline extended until October 10 to apply: istc.cnr.it/it/content/ass… Contact giulia andrighetto for details

Abstract submissions for this ISA session on generative AI are open for another week, until the 15th of October. Consider sending in your abstract if you haven’t already! 📄

📣 Applications are open for the EUI PhD programme! 🎢Start your academic journey in September 2025 and embark on the intellectual adventure of a lifetime at the EUI in Florence⚜️ 🔗 loom.ly/Qag4xdc ⏳ Deadline: 31/01/2025 (14:00 CET)

Join us for a workshop on Immigration, Public Opinion, and Crime in the Digital Age with a focus on combining online and offline data Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology April 28/29 2025 with two great keynotes by Christian Czymara and Isabelle van der Vegt @Isabellevdv, call is below, pls share.