AJ Alvero
@ajalvero.bsky.social
Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University
Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
Affiliations with Departments of Information Science, Sociology, and Computer Science
Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society
Affiliations with Departments of Information Science, Sociology, and Computer Science
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(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not?
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship. A growing body of work in sociology and related fields demonstrate...
arxiv.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
(How) do sociologists use GenAI for their research? Find out in our new preprint.
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
Written with @ajalvero.bsky.social @dustinstoltz.com and Marshall Taylor. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey!
Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not?
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship. A growing body of work in sociology and related fields demonstrate...
arxiv.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sharing new work! The paper, forthcoming in Sociological Science, provides insight into two basic questions: are sociologists incorporating generative AI into their research practices? Why or why not?
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Link to preprint version (official version will be published Jan 20): arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884
Reposted by AJ Alvero
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline Forthcoming, Sociological Science
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on
#sociology link
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on
#sociology link
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline Forthcoming, Sociological Science
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on
#sociology link
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has garnered considerable attention for its potential utility in research and scholarship, even among those who typically do not rely on
#sociology link
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Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline: https://osf.io/28wsq
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline: https://osf.io/28wsq
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AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall Taylor: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.16884
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
AJ Alvero, Dustin S. Stoltz, Oscar Stuhler, Marshall Taylor: Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16884 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.16884
Sharing a short piece I wrote for Hispanic Outlook about disaggregating Hispanic data in college admissions www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/dis...
Disaggregating Hispanic Data for Sharper Insights into College Admission Patterns
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Aggregating Hispanic data masks important subgroup differences in col...
www.hispanicoutlook.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Sharing a short piece I wrote for Hispanic Outlook about disaggregating Hispanic data in college admissions www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/dis...
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Starts in five minutes!!!!!
Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...
Seminars and lectures at IAS
Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.
liu.se
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Starts in five minutes!!!!!
Looking forward to the conversation!
Join us on Thursday, 6 November, at 14:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with @ajalvero.bsky.social 🔹 Generative AI and Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/article/s...
Seminars and lectures at IAS
Welcome to IAS public lectures and seminars.
liu.se
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Looking forward to the conversation!
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Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
Cornell University, Information Science
Job #AJO30763, 2025-2026 CORNELL INFORMATION SCIENCE FULL-TIME TEACHING FACULTY SEARCH (OPEN-RANK TEACHING PROFESSOR), ITHACA CAMPUS , Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763
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Inspired to share some papers that I found at #COLM2025!
"Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542
"Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Inspired to share some papers that I found at #COLM2025!
"Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542
"Register Always Matters: Analysis of LLM Pretraining Data Through the Lens of Language Variation" by Amanda Myntti et al. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01542
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Research highlights the "state-of-the-art fallacy" in sociology, showing advanced NLP methods may not provide better insights than older ones. It emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism to align analysis with research questions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199
Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
ArXiv link for Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
arxiv.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Research highlights the "state-of-the-art fallacy" in sociology, showing advanced NLP methods may not provide better insights than older ones. It emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism to align analysis with research questions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199
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AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang: Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08199
September 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang: Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08199 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08199
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a thought I've been sitting on for a while is that AI researchers have conspicuously thin ideas about how language works, and have participated in violent reshapings of the world to make these ideas, and the technologies premised on them, make sense.
more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...
more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...
tisjune.github.io
December 4, 2024 at 9:31 PM
a thought I've been sitting on for a while is that AI researchers have conspicuously thin ideas about how language works, and have participated in violent reshapings of the world to make these ideas, and the technologies premised on them, make sense.
more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...
more here: tisjune.github.io/papers/cscw_...
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I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I am so excited to host a panel with @ajalvero.bsky.social at #4S2025! If you're around next Saturday, join us for discipline-blending sessions and conversation under the theme of "Writing Things Down: Textual Technologies and their Consequences." @4sweb.bsky.social
Swing by on November 6th! Will be on Zoom as well.
Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎
Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎
✨ The IAS Seminar Series returns for the Fall 2025 semester with a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all!
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
August 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Swing by on November 6th! Will be on Zoom as well.
Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎
Excited to share ongoing work about GenAI and sociology 😎
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The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies.
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology - Haley Lepp, AJ Alvero, 2025
This paper describes a three-part framework to study how language technologies elucidate and shape linguistic relations in society. Reframing a mountain of evid...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies.
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
doi.org/10.1177/0894...
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Zhang, Xu, and Alvero show how online survey participants are already using AI for open-ended responses, demonstratng how many researchers will have to grapple with the impacts of AI-generated data journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Zhang, Xu, and Alvero show how online survey participants are already using AI for open-ended responses, demonstratng how many researchers will have to grapple with the impacts of AI-generated data journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
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More than 40% of sociologists use Gen AI on a weekly basis; @ajalvero.bsky.social presents at the #SociologicalScience conference. #sociology #metascience 🧪
June 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
More than 40% of sociologists use Gen AI on a weekly basis; @ajalvero.bsky.social presents at the #SociologicalScience conference. #sociology #metascience 🧪
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Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +
Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...
journals.sagepub.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +
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Thrilled to share "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" — new from me, Robert LeBlanc, and @alliethrall.bsky.social in @lmt-journal.bsky.social.
Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Thrilled to share "Parametrizing 'the digital': Education research methods for platform ecologies" — new from me, Robert LeBlanc, and @alliethrall.bsky.social in @lmt-journal.bsky.social.
Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paywalled now, but will be OA soon (reach out for a PDF in the meantime)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
x.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Sharing a new paper about using machine learning to scrutinize parole hearings in California: btlj.org/wp-content/u...
btlj.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sharing a new paper about using machine learning to scrutinize parole hearings in California: btlj.org/wp-content/u...