Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones

General methodological implications:
⚕️With longitudinal data, identify predictive and protective words for an identity Add or Delete.
🔀Evaluate relative popularity of identity transmutations.

Which words replace a MAGA identity following abandonment?
Following the events of Jan 6th, some retain the identity, some amend it to more general conservatism, while others replaced it with less political content such as family roles and cryptocurrency.

🚨New Research Article🚨
Do words in a 2017 bio predict who will add MAGA in 2018? YES!
teaparty in 2017 predictive of future MAGA 📈
blacklivesmatter in 2017, no future MAGA 🛑
jasonjones.ninja/papers/Roger...

Online identities are increasingly political: evidence from 30 countries
osf.io/preprints/so...

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.
jasonjones.ninja/papers/Roger...

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.)

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are social media bios getting more unique or more alike?

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...

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

📢 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...

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

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

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.
jasonjones.ninja/ipseology-a-...

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

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

go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

Self-nominating to be added to the list.

Also self-nominating for addition to the list.

Charting LGBTQ Visibility Online with Ipseology A Decade of Identity in US Twitter Bios

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

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

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

Would you like to have your future foretold? I know the answer is ‘Yes’ for a great many people.

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

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.

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/

Do Americans Want More AI? My dashboard provides automated, daily-updated survey responses to the prompt: 'I support further development of artificial intelligence.'

Do Americans Want More AI?
My dashboard provides automated, daily-updated survey responses to the prompt: 'I support further development of artificial intelligence.' #AI https://jasonjeffreyjones.substack.com/p/do-americans-want-more-ai

International Update your Bio Day is August 10th. This is an AI-generated carol named Merry Update your Bio Day. Lyrics by ChatGPT. Music by Suno AI.Notes... Merry Update your Bio Day

International Update your Bio Day 2024 coming up. I generated a carol. Lyrics by ChatGPT. Music by Suno AI. https://youtu.be/WW9zXvDh17I
❤️ it but, wish it was 'a moment to amend' instead of mend
'contemplative' was tough for AI singer
AI ignored my style prompt and went with 'anime opening scenes'