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Weijun Yuan

@weijun-yuan.bsky.social

Assistant Instructional Professor in the MA Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Sociologist of collective action/social movements, networks, organization, and media. Website: yuan-weijun.com

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Join us in a Virtual Conversation on β€œGlobal Resistance to Democratic Backsliding” on May 13, 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00-1:30 Central Time organized by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent. Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now! @asanews.bsky.social

29.04.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our opener on this platform

Explore a timely content guide that distills some of CASBS's rich programming & thought leadership - in the form of podcast & webcast episodes, event & interview videos, & articles - across six curated, post-election-relevant themes.

You'll dig it.

HERE: bit.ly/3Y7kw54

26.11.2024 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Why Chinese Americans Have Shifted Rightward A growing number of Chinese Americans, especially naturalized immigrants, say Democrats have become too lenient on crime and homelessness.

This is a genuine political development that portends real electoral consequences in places like California.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/u...

14.12.2024 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge Across academia, industry, and government, there is an increasing awareness that the measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems are especially difficult. We argue that thes...

I'll be giving a short talk on "Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" (arxiv.org/abs/2411.10939) at 230pm today at the @msftresearch.bsky.social booth! #NeurIPS2024

11.12.2024 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not Your Mother's Activism: Young Women’s Political Expression on Social Media - Ms. Magazine Not Your Mother's Activism: Young Women and Girl Influencers Tackle Political Expression on Social Media (Instagram and TikTok)

Drawing insights from their book "Not Your Parents Politics," partially written here, 2021-22 CASBS fellow @netakv.bsky.social & coauthor Ioana Literat describe @msmagazine.bsky.social how young women have become the avant-garde of activist political expression online

msmagazine.com/2024/12/09/y...

10.12.2024 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - andrewyng/aisuite: Simple, unified interface to multiple Generative AI providers Simple, unified interface to multiple Generative AI providers - GitHub - andrewyng/aisuite: Simple, unified interface to multiple Generative AI providers

github.com/andrewyng/ai...

10.12.2024 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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