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Reading a paper on #DataSharing and the motivation behind it. One major factor, which has been confirmed time and again, is the proper recognition of data sharing or better the lack thereof. And the authors do not credit the reused original data! 😭

#CiteYourData!

SODAS Lecture on March 13! 📅

Join us for this fascinating lecture, where @marioluissmall.bsky.social will discuss the availability of large-scale data and the spread of computational social science 💻

Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Two more days to apply for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Penn! We look forward to welcoming you to Philadelphia.

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Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Bereich Computational Social Science Am Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) in Hamburg ist ab dem 1. April 2026 eine Stelle zu besetzen: Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im Bereich Computati...

🔊 Gern bewerben: Wir suchen zum 1.4.2026 eine studentische/ wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft im Bereich Computational Social Science – Schwerpunkt soziale Medien, sozialwissenschaftliche Unterstützung.
📩 Bewerbungsfrist: 15.03.2026

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PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.

The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!

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This workshop is really good and I strongly recommend it to early-career demographers (and hopeful future demographers)

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology The Swedish Institute for Social research (SOFI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The institute is an internationally leading research institute in the field of socia

📢 We are hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University.

Interested in research on the causes and consequences of social policy for individuals and society?

Apply by 13 April 2026.

More information and application:
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#postdoc #sociology

LLMs will usher in a democratization of intellect. Now you too can have a junior (AI) scholar that you can blame for errors and fraud. Previously, only the top scholars had access to that kind of power.

This is such a misdirect for non-UK residents. Do they have these for Greenland as well? “Asking for a friend”

Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

Fascinating new paper by and @elena-amaya.bsky.social and Robert Braun on the role of folklore in shaping far-right support in Weimar Germany: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Social sciences online taster sessions Are you a prospective student thinking about studying social sciences at UCL? Join our taster sessions.

🚨 How to change the world as a social researcher & what it takes to do so? What it feels like to study Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Research Methods (with Data Science) MSc/MA at @sriucl.bsky.social?

🔜 Sign up for our social sciences online taster event: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.

I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.

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I have a 5-year Senior Research Fellow position open! This is linked to my Academy Professorhip that launched in January.

I am looking for a person with strong methods skills, cv sufficient for an adjunct professor (”dosentti”, a bit similar to habilitation), and supervision experience.

I’m on the skeptical (lazy?) side of this debate, but this, formatting tables, etc is something I’m easily convinced by. Though, important to note that these pdfs were OCR’ed already. bsky.app/profile/joen...

Online Studies Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses. Rationale As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses. Scope This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools). Required Reporting Authors must include in the Methods section either: A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April:

⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate
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Expanding Paternity Leave: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Gender Gaps Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

interesting paper on effect of paternity leave reform on gender beliefs and norms. #WinningHeartsAndMinds
www.nber.org/papers/w34862

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

N = 3800 for stable interaction estimates... yikes

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Come work with me! Two postdoc positions open in @erc.europa.eu project PROTECT, examining how local change shapes public support for protectionist policies in areas like trade and finance. @stockholmuni.bsky.social
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#polisky #academicsky

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

I’m working on a playlist for my senior level soc of gender class. I’ll be playing it before class as folks are arriving.

Any suggestions for SOCI radio?

For example, today’s listening was “I’m Just a Girl” by No Doubt and Brad Paisley’s “I’m Still a Guy”

YouTube video by KendrickLamarVEVO Kendrick Lamar - Father Time ft. Sampha (Live on SNL)

I feel like I should have a lot to dig up on my liked songs, but let's start with:

Newish paper alert with @fmerhout.bsky.social & Achim Edelman

Yet another reminder that gender matters

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Our paper is open access at @sociusjournal.bsky.social and you can find Lee's essay at items.ssrc.org/sexuality-ge...

We suggest, drawing on the Gender & Migration lit Lee discusses, that inconsistent results in whether immigration lowers support for soc policy or not may in part stem from gender dynamics in migration & gendered stereotypes about immigrants, finding evidence for this in @isspsurvey.bsky.social data

Excited to read @catherineylee.bsky.social essay on "The Gendered Dynamics of Immigration Policy," from the @ssrc.org newsletter, which dovetails @amiebostic.bsky.social, Achim Edelmann, & my @sociusjournal.bsky.social paper on the role of gender in immigration's impact on welfare state support.