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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · 29d

Online identities are increasingly political: evidence from 30 countries
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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · 29d

American Twitter users are adding political words to their bios at a higher rate than any other category of words we measured, and are now more likely to describe themselves by their political affiliation than their religious affiliation.
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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · 29d

As religion becomes less important to an individual's identity, what will it be replaced with? My research suggests the answer may be politics. (Links in replies.)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 29d

Experiment: I started a thread on reddit for discussion of our article on global religious decline www.reddit.com/r/religion/c...

What are the best practices for promoting good discussions on reddit? Threading of discussion there seems much better than here.
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From the religion community on Reddit: Religion is declining in countries all around the world in three stages

Explore this post and more from the religion community

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣Call for Chapter Proposals - Global Ipseology jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-ce...

Global Ipseology - Call for Chapter Proposals

A call for independent authors to propose chapters to be contained in a Global Ipseology edited volume

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · Mar 27

New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.

turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · Mar 27

a new article forthcoming in Sociological Science! we use an original survey of 2,117 Americans to examine how often people report discussing social and political issues tapped by 88 questions in the GSS. the preprint is up at SocArXiv: osf.io/vqp2g_v1

with @kkiley.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Jun 2

But Republicans spent more time and money *seeking* extramarital affairs. Per our study on voter registration + Ashley Madison data. www.springer.com/gp/about-spr...

Voters do not always walk the talk when it comes to infidelity | Sp...

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · May 29

Americans' Support for AI Development - Nowcasted Daily with Open Data and Methods - slides for an upcoming talk: jasonjones.ninja/misc/slides-...

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · May 29

Republicans' support for further AI development has increased more rapidly than Democrats. Crossover interaction has been holding.

Chart displaying AI support over time for Republicans and Democrats

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Mar 21

Ipseology in the Post-API age jasonjeffreyjones.su...

A New Era in Ipseology

This week marks a transition in my ipseology research. I am shutting down Twitter/X API data collection and shifting all time and funding to my own independent ventures.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Mar 12

In their own words, what do Americans say about artificial intelligence? Find out at jasonjones.ninja/social-scien...

In their own words, what do Americans say about artificial intelligence? | Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions' AI Daily Dashboard | 2025-03-12

Each day I survey American adults' attitudes toward AI. On this page, I display what they *write* about AI.

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Danial Vahabli @danialvahabli.bsky.social · Feb 16

❗❗❗New Paper Alert with @jason-jones.bsky.social

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Are social media bios getting more unique or more alike?

Identity diversification and homogenization: evidence from frequent estimates of similarity of self-authored, self-descriptive text - Journal of Computational Social Science

For more than a decade, individuals composed and edited self-authored self-descriptions as social media biographies. Did these identities become more diverse over time because of a “rise in individual...

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Feb 10

Our current self drifts away from our past self – quickly at first, then more gradually. Evidence from US Twitter profile bios 2012-2022, more results in the paper: jasonjones.ninja/pap...

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Jan 17

Only those willing to take risks agree that Artificial General Intelligence should be built.
501 American adults, representative sample. Details, code and data at: https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/agi-subsets.html#risk

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Marcel Bollmann @marcel.bollmann.me · Jan 15

📢 We’re looking to hire a postdoc within the TrustLLM project!

Full-time position, two years, no teaching obligation. Research areas include language adaptation, modularisation, tokenization, and evaluation for multilingual LLMs.

Apply by 2025-02-05!

▶️ liu-nlp.ai/postdoc-trus...

Postdoc in Natural Language Processing

We are looking for a postdoc within the TrustLLM project. Full-time position for two years.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Jan 16

Form research networks around public streams of daily updating data. Build trust with transparency and shorten feedback loops.

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Dec 18

Will support for AI become politically polarized in the US in 2025?
All I know is my data says... maybe.
https://jasonjones.ninja/social-science-dashboard-inator/jjjp-ai-daily-dashboard/ai-polarization.html

Are Democrats and Republicans polarizing on AI Support? | Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions' AI Daily Dashboard | 2024-12-18

Each day I ask American adults if they support further development of AI. On this page, I use that data to estimate political party polarization on this issue.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks to @quarto.org I wrote my Ipseology book entirely in #RStudio. I loved it!
Producing Web, EBook, PDF and print versions was (nearly) a one-button-push process. I'm curious how others are using it; reply with your Quarto projects and experience.
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Ipseology

A new science of the self

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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · Nov 14

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Nov 15

Self-nominating to be added to the list.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Nov 15

Also self-nominating for addition to the list.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Nov 8

LGBTQ visibility is an often discussed but rarely quantified concept. A project I began many years ago to define and quantify LGBTQ visibility online has just been published. #LGBTQ https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/charting-lgbtq-visibility-online

Charting LGBTQ Visibility Online with Ipseology

A Decade of Identity in US Twitter Bios

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Oct 25

A little bit of progress on the next chapter of Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans. https://jasonjones.ninja/thinking-machines-pondering-humans/ai-fear-scenarios.html

4 AI Fear Scenarios – Thinking Machines, Pondering Humans: Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence

4 AI Fear Scenarios

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Oct 18

Would you like to have your future foretold? By an AI trained on a decade of global data on the course of millions of human lives? I hope someday soon you can.
https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/would-you-like-to-have-your-future

Would you like to have your future foretold?

I know the answer is ‘Yes’ for a great many people.

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Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones @jason-jones.bsky.social · Oct 1

I had a great conversation with Elizabeth Trovall about "AI teaching humans to human at work." Quoted in this Marketplace morning report: https://www.marketplace.org/2024/09/30/generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-soft-skills/

Soft skills being taught to human workers by AI - Marketplace

As the role of soft skills shifts amid evolving technology, that tech — generative AI —can be a tool to both train and assess soft skills.

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