✨You really don't want to miss this online event✨ Some of the best in the field showing off their absolutely cutting edge research on social movements. The future of social movement scholarship is bright!

The deadline for the 2024 ASA Junior Theorists Symposium is tomorrow. Please submit your précis and encourage others to do the same! Marion Fourcade, Claudio Benzecry, and Gianpaolo Baiocchi will serve as discussants. Details here scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/202… ASA Sociology ASA Theory

students are sadder and sadder, more and more anxious, in significant part because they are being given shiny buildings instead of what they need: time and attention from non-burnt-out older human adults

Our Spring issue is out! New research on unity in protests, media influence on activism, online identity, creative resistance, and the heart of climate advocacy! meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization/i…

Wow, Project Jupyter is the winner of the White House OSTP "Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science" category. Amazing to see recognition of the project at a national level! Makes me proud of the ecosystem of interconnected tools we've built. whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

You're invited to Bytes & Bites, our Monthly Computational Social Science Meetup every first Thursday at noon at UBC's Law Cafe. Engage in discussions exploring the fusion of computation and social sciences. Next event on April 4th. Don't miss out! #ComputationalSocialScience

My latest article in American Sociological Review: “The Culture of Censorship.” It offers a rare window into how China’s state censorship shapes global film production. I developed a micro-sociological model of censorship and coined the term "complicit creativity." A🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Oh! If there's anyone else out there who hasn't been told: Bourdieu's book on elite schools is very good.

New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 52: Is Science Becoming Conceptual Art?” — A combination of new technologies may represent a new era for science, but one in which the lone scientist may no longer need her lab mates. Is that a good thing? newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/humane…

Join us for a workshop on how to use R Markdown and turn your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. bit.ly/4alYJve

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Generative AI and Sociology Workshop. It was amazing to see so much interest and innovation in this space. And thanks to Yale ISPS, DISSC, and Yale Sociology for the support. dissc.yale.edu/events/generat…

The Canadian military built its own internet. My new journal article explores how its design was shaped by Canada’s pursuit of national identity amid fears of US influence & rising demands for self-determination within Indigenous & Québécois nations 🧵 bit.ly/4aMpyZf

Sociologists! I am writing a review article on word embeddings in sociology with Andrei Boutyline and Ethan Johnston…if you’ve written a paper using embeddings please reply with a link to the paper so we can include it in our review!

The challenge: distilling the rapidly evolving field of Quantitative Text Analysis into one overview paper. The outcome: our latest publication in Nature Reviews Methods Primers. I hope reading it offers you as many insights as co-writing it brought me! Read it here: rdcu.be/dErq6

Interested in how to use Tableau? Join us for this workshop to learn about data visualization concepts. bit.ly/3VGYaaT

A project led by Sociology PhD student Sophie Liu and Allard Law PhD student Kaitlyn Cumming has received funding from UBC Graduate School's PhD CoLab program! More on “Tackling Online Hate Speech: Legal and Policy Pathways to Finding Justice in Canada": buff.ly/3PYlnBy

Don't be this guy. P-values reflect the size of N more than anything else. If you're going to throw shade by listing p-values, at least list N and the associated effects as well. (Looking at you: recent Reviewer 2 👀)

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

🔔Travel grants application for #ic2s2 is open now! The ddl is May 31, 2024, and notification will be out on June 7. Please check out ic2s2-2024.org/travelgrant and fill out this form for submission and spread the words with your coauthors! forms.gle/TujzV7k716pWja…

Read our new Discovery by TSP's Mason Jones on Gender Differences in Medical Student Evaluations from research by Laura K. Nelson | @[email protected] and colleagues in American Sociological Review: bit.ly/4bYLYHn