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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 7d

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 1d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 8d

Social-Media-Daten zwischen Forschung und Infrastrukturen - nachhaltige Archivierung, Erschließung und Bereitstellung: An der @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social finden vom 17.-19.03.2026 die Social Media Access Days statt. Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen bis zum 31.10.2025. www.dnb.de/DE/Professio...

Call for Submissions: Social Media Access Days

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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 8d

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here:

apply.interfolio.com/174709

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Charly Marie, PhD @charlymarie.bsky.social · Sep 8

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social wrote an amazing paper about marginal effects.

While preparing my advanced statistics and methods class, I (surprisingly) had fun reproducing their Figure 1, adapting it to their Example 1, and ploting the text and arrows directly using ggplot().

Adaptation of Figure 1 from Rohrer & Arel-Bundock (2025), to their Example 1.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very interesting mentorship program for early career folks working on wealth inequality and related topics, run out of the Munich Stone Center for Inequality Research
www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

ISI News – Mentoring for more justice

The ISI Pipeline Program brings young researchers together with leading figures in inequality research — the new round of applications is now underway.

www.isi-munich.de

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Alex Busch @alexanderbusch.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today I learned that there is a Stone Center in Munich!

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very interesting mentorship program for early career folks working on wealth inequality and related topics, run out of the Munich Stone Center for Inequality Research
www.isi-munich.de/en/programs/...

ISI News – Mentoring for more justice

The ISI Pipeline Program brings young researchers together with leading figures in inequality research — the new round of applications is now underway.

www.isi-munich.de

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 29

A few more weeks to apply for this tenure-track job in sociology at the University of Vienna, focus on quant research methods
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Tenure-Track Professorship in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods

jobs.univie.ac.at

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Aug 27

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

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Annie Waldherr @anniewald.bsky.social · Jul 23

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication.

📆 Apply until September 17!
👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

#AcademicSky #CommSky

Tenure-Track Professorship in Interactive Communication

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 20

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. www.wired.com/story/artifi...

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

www.wired.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Aug 17

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover

Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · Aug 12

It often picks out very specific word clusters and leaves about 50% of the corpus in one giant topic. Might be what you want, but look for it.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Aug 11

I've decided not to ban AI use in classes for various reasons, but will be discouraging it. I plan to assign this essay from @patricklin1.bsky.social and talk through these issues in class in hopes that students will come to good conclusions themselves. emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-n...

Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits

A reading for your students

emergingethics.substack.com

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · Aug 8

A propos this

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 4

I would also like to remind folks that OpenAI wrote a paper in which they prompted GPT-4 on which jobs they thought would be most exposed to automation.

They validated it by comparing it to responses that people who worked OpenAI gave to the same question.

arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster

Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

jobs.zeit.de

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Aug 4

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
🎓 Join GESIS Cologne as a #Postdoc in Platform Data & Computational Social Science!
💻 Work internationally, shape DSA data access, and develop your research.
Apply now:
www.gesis.org/en/ins...

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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · Aug 3

The next version of the #rstats 📦 {atrrr} will likely contain a function to stream from the Bluesky Firehose! Looking for people to test and comment now:

github.com/JBGruber/atr...

support firehose · Issue #23 · JBGruber/atrrr

See: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose I tried it at some point and the socket part works fine. However, decoding the CBOR event data is a bigger challenge. The Python package use...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jul 31

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy

Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence

www.science.org

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Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social · Aug 1

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:

A screenshot of the Sociological Methods & Research website showing the special issue title

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · Jul 25

That's awesome, thanks for this! :)

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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 25

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube

This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.

www.youtube.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 25

Notable post-tenure publishing differences across fields. One thing that distinguishes these are authorship norms, e.g. in some lab fields, co-authorship reflects status more than work

Figure shows two broad publishing trajectories in the 5 years before and after tenure: rise-and-decline (math, sociology, poli sci) vs. rise-and-stabilize (medicine, psych, comp sci).

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