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Job opening: University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is hiring a postdoctoral fellow (with the potential to transition to a tenure-track position) in international policy (possible focus areas listed in the description). Open to all social sciences, deadline 9/13.

Job opening: University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is hiring a senior scholar in democracy policy, 'an area of research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions.' Open to all social sciences, deadline 9/13.

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

As a biographer, I work where scholarship & literature overlap—history and the human life. I find grand pronouncements exasperating. My work is a bit like Vince Gilligan's in television. The best and worst people are complicated—dangerous. So is context. Villainy makes heroism possible & meaningful.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · last mo.

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

This makes me wish I was a postdoc. Really cool project!

Oskari Sivula@oskarisivula.bsky.social · last mo.

Come work with me! Jaakko Hirvelä is hiring a 2 year post-doc with a focus on epistemology in the awesome "Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology of Risk" project. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #philsky #epistemology #philosophy

Periodic reminder that publishing papers is not the goal in and of itself. The paper is a mechanism for sharing what you have learned--sharing processes and outcomes that others should be aware of/should think about too. 1/3

Louise Seamster@louiseseamster.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m reading another post about “I just wrote 10 papers and a grant and three books in a week with AI, academic work is over" and I’ll just say I’m still waiting to find the post from an academic that describes the time they spent happily **reading** AI-generated content vs spewing it out.

Had a really great time discussing this book with Natasha Wheatley and Fiona Rose Greenland at the Association for the Study of Nationalisms (ASN) annual conference at @columbiasipa.bsky.social . Thanks to Eugene Finkel for the invitation!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last mo.

A sweeping history of the struggle to hold states to account for their gravest crimes. The Criminal State by Lawrence Douglas is now available worldwide. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci #History

The great Carlo Ginzburg has died. I cannot begin to summarise how much his micro historical method has shaped my way of relating to the past. The journal Sociologica had an entire symposium on his scholarship, to which I contributed an article.

Also, Anna Skarpelis has been writing about this question: bsky.app/profile/akms...

Anna Skarpelis@akms.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📖 New publication out 📖 This piece is a first attempt at articulating why computational social science needs qualitative and historical approaches—especially as we begin to rely more heavily on simulation. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Interesting take on "historical LLMs" as potential research tool for the humanities. I have been working on a paper for SSHA in November 2026 that will address some of these issues and am curious to follow what people publish in the interim

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 3mo ago

If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do. There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +

Breen is right that "we truly have no idea." Also, this sprawling conversation is not limited to the humanities + CS. Sociologists have been very active. See Kozlowski et al. "In Silico Sociology" — and many critiques of "silicon sampling" — and this interesting theoretical piece by Skarpelis:

Anna Skarpelis@akms.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📖 New publication out 📖 This piece is a first attempt at articulating why computational social science needs qualitative and historical approaches—especially as we begin to rely more heavily on simulation. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

📖 New publication out 📖 This piece is a first attempt at articulating why computational social science needs qualitative and historical approaches—especially as we begin to rely more heavily on simulation. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

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🔔 Submit your work to the Political Sociology calls for ASA 2026! ⏱️Deadline: Wednesday, Feb 25th

Delighted to receive the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association's Comparative Historical Sociology Section -- and in great company to boot! Here's the article, feel free to message me if you cannot get past the paywall: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Delighted to receive the 2025 ACLS Project Development Grant for my book www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

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JTS truly being one of the best things about sociology! Presented in 2015, co-organized it in 2016 with Clayton Childress. Excellent experience.

Seth Abrutyn@sethabrutyn.bsky.social · last yr.

I did this in 2009, and met a ton of ppl I still count as friends, while also publically launching my theoretical thinking on institutions. Totally invaluable and meaningful. #sociology

Sociology grad students & recent phds: Submit to the 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...

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2025 Junior Theorists Symposium–Call for Précis SUBMIT YOUR PRÉCIS HERESUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 21, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern Time The 19th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open to new s…

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Giving a talk at CU Boulder tomorrow and had joked with the wonderful colleague who invited me that if another plane accident happened before the scheduled talk date, I might ask to do an online talk instead. (I landed in Denver on a Delta flight today at noon today. Help.)

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Passengers evacuated after American Airlines plane fire at Denver International Airport (video: x/flynnstone) kdvr.com/news/local/p...

Tonight at the IPK: Hilke Schellmann discusses her book The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now with Ed Kang and @akms.bsky.social.

This Wednesday!

Institute for Public Knowledge@ipk.bsky.social · last yr.

Join the IPK, NYU Journalism, and the AI in Society Working Group on March 12th at 5:30PM for a book talk with Hilke Schellmann. She will discuss her book The Algorithm with Ed Kang and @akms.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

Looking forward to discussing Hilke's book at @ipk.bsky.social in mid-March -- come one, come all!

Institute for Public Knowledge@ipk.bsky.social · last yr.

Join the IPK, NYU Journalism, and the AI in Society Working Group on March 12th at 5:30PM for a book talk with Hilke Schellmann. She will discuss her book The Algorithm with Ed Kang and @akms.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

We're down to the wire here, but the UW Center for an Informed Public is taking applications for (2) postdoctoral scholars. Review starts very soon. For more info about these positions, including qualifications & instructions for applying: Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk

our call for papers for a special issue: "Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century?" edited with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social & #AryanKarimi Deadline for abstracts: March 31st More info: imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

@asanews.bsky.social folks, please submit to the Culture / Mathematical sociology section session "Culture and Computational Social Science" that I'm organising More information here www.asanet.org/2025-annual-... Specifically, we are looking for papers that:

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On Jan 7 the PAPERBACK of Seeing Others came out w/ UNDERGRAD TEACHING GUIDE (link below). Simon and Schuster sends a free copy (pdf or hard copy) if you consider it for your course The book is partly about Gen Z and it certainly speaks to them!! simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing...

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

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