Sarah Shugars

So excited to be hosting @jeremydfoote.com today at Rutgers’ Computational Social Science lab to hear more about his work around LLMs as social actors

There is a network of rapist bros who trade tips and best practices

If you’re wondering which of my coat pockets has a hole in it, it’s the one I put my keys in

(Don’t worry, I fished them out of the lining)

70 extrajudicial killings

Can’t believe I didn’t think to write:

Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop!

But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜

You can read more about Sweet Shop and the publishers they have lined up here:

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Sarah found one of my favorite share images, but there are others….

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🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇

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I protest because I love America #NoKings

Amazing! And congratulations on the great book!

This is so cool!

Love it!

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

This time APSA is not on fire but the world is

Heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025! If you’re in town and would like to meet up, please feel free to reach out or say “hi” if you see me

I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻

Computational Social Science Assistant, Data Labs Position Summary The Computational Social Science Assistant works with other staff at Data Labs to produce original research that expands on the work of the Pew Research Center using new methods, data...

Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Poster titled "Science Fair for Suspended Research" with a drawn image of people wearing lab coats inside a block of ice, and two people digging them out with shovels and a St Bernard rescue dog. Under the title, there is text reading: "Wednesday, September 10th / 11:30am - 1:30pm / Northwest Corner of Westwood & Le Conte Ave" followed by text reading "Thursday, September 11th / 5:30-7:30pm / Rolfe Courtyard." There are QR codes with each of those blocks of text. At the bottom of the poster, there is text reading "Save our science" and "suspending science suspends our future"

If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

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Adding this to my syllabus. Thank you!

“The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.”

Only gets more 🔥 from there

Writing about Twitter in the past tense 🪦

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland.

On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair!
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

Giving money to the poor is once again proven to be a much more effective and much less expensive than whatever neoliberal bureaucracies continue to defend.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately

Anyway, it was really pretty cool to win an NSF, esp. as a woman social scientist doing justice-centered work with other Black scholars. The window of that funding being quite literally months before being yanked away, when the planned work would
have take years, feels apropos of everything.

Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025.

Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!