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Sociologist | Computational Social Science | Culture and Cognition

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ajalvero.bsky.social
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
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...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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oms279.bsky.social
(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!
ajalvero.bsky.social AJ Alvero @ajalvero.bsky.social · 8d
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
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
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wcbyrdphd.bsky.social
Interesting new paper from @ajalvero.bsky.social & colleagues about the use of Generative AI in sociology.
socarxivbot.bsky.social SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · Nov 21
Generative AI in Sociological Research: State of the Discipline: https://osf.io/28wsq
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It's your last chance of the year to grab some Bellingcat training! From flight tracking to scraping, here's what we've got available in December...
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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dustinstoltz.com
Marshall Taylor and I just signed a contract to write the 2nd edition of "Mapping Texts" (www.textmapping.com) Inter alia, we'll include a couple more chapters on "generative" language tech*

If you, or someone you know, has used such tech in social scientific investigation, let us know!
The image includes a mock up for the book "Mapping Texts: Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences" with a text box at the top saying "Second edition in the works!" and another text "With 100% more Al*." But this is not referring to artificial intelligence, but rather to an artist that is halfway to an EGOT: Weird "Al" Yankovic. An image of Homer Simpson is on the phone, presumably hearing about this new edition, and is so excited he exclaims "Whoo-hoo!" with a triumphant fist pump.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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socarxiv.bsky.social
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
dustinstoltz.com
Marshall Taylor and I just signed a contract to write the 2nd edition of "Mapping Texts" (www.textmapping.com) Inter alia, we'll include a couple more chapters on "generative" language tech*

If you, or someone you know, has used such tech in social scientific investigation, let us know!
The image includes a mock up for the book "Mapping Texts: Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences" with a text box at the top saying "Second edition in the works!" and another text "With 100% more Al*." But this is not referring to artificial intelligence, but rather to an artist that is halfway to an EGOT: Weird "Al" Yankovic. An image of Homer Simpson is on the phone, presumably hearing about this new edition, and is so excited he exclaims "Whoo-hoo!" with a triumphant fist pump.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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marthadark.bsky.social
love this for you ICC

www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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theloniousgoerz.bsky.social
New working paper up on SocArxiv! osf.io/preprints/so.... I use the 1940 Census and linked mortality records in combination with an IV-design to study the causal effects of racial segregation on longevity. I show that segregation reduces both Black and White longevity.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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system76.bsky.social
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will officially release on December 11th (UTC -7). We're getting close!!
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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vickiboykis.com
something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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tristanbridges.bsky.social
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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michaelleewood.bsky.social
Here is the reminder to update your institutional isomorphism slides
alexhanna.bsky.social Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · Sep 24
“When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren’t guided by strategy but by ‘Fomo’,” said Haritha Khandabattu, senior director analyst at consultancy Gartner.

www.ft.com/content/e93e...
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggests the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
www.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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ryanbeckwith.bsky.social
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September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid persistent racial divisions, the popular radio series The Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination, and exposing the KKK's bigotry. Using digitized historical data on U.S. radio stations and state-of-the-art radio propagation models, we compute geographic exposure to the broadcasts. Exploiting exogenous exposure to the broadcasts, we employ a cohort study design to analyze individual-level data from 1964 to 1980–a crucial period for civil rights activism and legislation in the United States. We find lasting impacts on those exposed as children, including increased support for civil rights, improved interraci Figure 1 reveals that the proportion of words related to intolerance increased by 3.2 times in the 12 months following the start of Operation Intolerance, compared to the pre-intervention period. Panel A of Figure 5 plots the average of the index for different cohorts. We first observe that younger cohorts in 1946 are more supportive of civil rights compared to those born before 1946. This is in line with American society becoming more progressive over time. We find a difference of 0.29 standard deviations between the respondents in the age cohort -10 (i.e., those born in the years 1954–1958) and those in the age cohort 50
July 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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kbkarlson.bsky.social
Now appearing in the most recent volume of @sfjournal.bsky.social, my paper with the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social on how family background shapes exposure to income volatility across the life course in 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪, and 🇩🇰!

@erc.europa.eu #sociology

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Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States
Abstract. While stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how famil
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July 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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sashamtl.bsky.social
Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔

We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵‍♀️ and wrote a paper about it!

arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
Positron connected to a not-really-remote remote session inside a Docker container
July 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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lauraknelson.bsky.social
Update: www.lauraknelson.com/publication/...
June 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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willie-agnew.bsky.social
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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hendrik-erz.de
+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++

I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).

If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!

More info: www.hendrik-erz.de
Hendrik Erz
PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)
www.hendrik-erz.de
June 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM