Homophily is the principle that we like people who are like ourselves, and it is a powerful force in explaining how society is structured. This paper shows it goes deeper than skin: You are more likely to be friends with people who literally think like you pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29382820/

How can we use data science to solve social problems? My "Data Science and Society" course at Duke University is once again fully open-source, with new material coming throughout the semester: youtube.com/watch?time_con… Class website: dssoc.github.io/schedule/

The fall program for the IAS Seminar Series is now out, and we welcome everyone to join our meetings! Among the speakers: Joshua Becker, MBA Professor Joakim Jansson giulia andrighetto Cristina Bicchieri Jennie Brand Brian Uzzi Kenneth Benoit Xiao-Li Meng and many others!

Arriving in Philly last night and start my first journey at the United States to participate in ASA 2023 annual meeting!

Really appreciate this opportunity to share my bachelor thesis, “How can peer pressure enhance cooperation? Using Agent-based modeling for social simulations” today at #ASA2023

Besides sharing my work at #ASA2023, I also got the chance to listen to my idols presenting, reach out to the prof from my dream phd program that I want to apply to this year, and connect with other Taiwanese sociologists at this reception. So incredible for these five days☺️🤩

My first paper got published! Huge thanks to my coauthors.

Already settled down in Seattle and started my PhD study. Feel excited and a bit nervous

Great summary resources for people who are interested in computational social science!

Do podcasts play a decisive role in politics? This fascinating new paper maps the ecosystem using a large database of podcast transcripts from 2020. My first take away: politics is dwarfed by entertainment (not unlike social media): arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07892

Lovely news! #TaiwanTravelogue by Yang Shuang-zi (author) and Lin King (translator), have won the 2024 #NationalBookAwards for Translated Literature! A first for Taiwan.

Looks so cool that they show that social contagion and biological contagion can occur together

As we mourn Michael Burawoy, a brilliant scholar who envisioned and fought for a better world, let us remember his words and act on them.