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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply.

On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.

See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...

Faculty Positions in Organizational Behavior

Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the organizational behavior area at Stanford GSB.

www.gsb.stanford.edu

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Mar 30

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Mar 30

Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 25

Eva Illouz is a world class sociologist. She is a giant of cultural sociology, and I learned immensely from her work. That the corrupt and authoritarian Israeli government denied her this well-deserved prize is testament to her quality and intellectual integrity.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 20

You might be underestimating how many Jewish academics are secretly cheering with schadenfreude.
Thank you for reading.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 19

@drbjrisman.bsky.social and I are both Jewish sociologists. We think that campus antisemitism is real, but refuse to be used as a cudgel by an authoritarian administration hellbent on retribution and destroying academia, indeed, America.

So we write about it:
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 19

I enjoyed reading it, and learned a lot!

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

With Lara Yang, Sarayu Anshuman and Sameer Srivastava.

Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

Do our findings extend beyond organizations? We speculate they do. The effects of global reach on identification are highest for those in very clustered networks. Identification with an "imagined community" requires a combination of local cohesion and global integration.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

The problem with word embeddings is they assume all text was generated by the same model. Mittens allows us to fit models at the person-time level.
Such an approach is very useful for understanding interpretative heterogeneity across people or time!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Sociology of Interpretation | Annual Reviews

Recent years have seen a growing sociological interest in meaning. In fact, some argue that sociology cannot confront its foundational questions without addressing meaning. Yet sociologists mean many ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

We look at two network measures (inferred from email exchange): local clustering (how tight knit one's ego network is) and a new measure, global reach (how distributed one's ego network is across multiple communities).
Both predict identification, even within person over time.

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

To measure identification, we use Mittens, an extension of GloVe, to fit person embeddings (from email) across 3 orgs. We measure the similarity between "I" and "we" as each person's identification strength at a given time unit.

github.com/roamanalytic...

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Amir Goldberg @amirgo.bsky.social · Mar 3

New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jun 13

NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...

After five years of pioneering research into the abuse of social platforms, the Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down. Its founding director, Alex Stamos, left his position in November. Renee DiResta, its research director, left last week after her contract was not renewed. One other staff member's contract expired this month, while others have been told to look for jobs elsewhere, sources say.

Some members of the eight-person team might find other jobs at Stanford, and it’s possible that the university will retain the Stanford Internet Observatory branding, according to sources familiar with the matter. But the lab will not conduct research into the 2024 election or other elections in the future.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · Jun 6

My friend @jeffkopstein.bsky.social , one of the most prominent researchers on contemporary antisemitism active today (and someone whose rigorous *empirical* work on the phenomenon is sorely needed), shared a photo of a "Wanted" poster targeting him on the UC-Irvine campus.

Despicable.