Excited to continue learning about the latest #CSS at @ic2s2.bsky.social! I’ll be at the Social Prediction Session, presenting the mixed subjects design on combining human and LLM data in experiments. Paper with Michael Howes and @austin-van-loon.bsky.social. Come join us! doi.org/10.1177/0049...

New in Sociological Methods & Research: Soc PhD candidate @davidbroska.bsky.social, @austin-van-loon.bsky.social, & Michael Howes show how combining human subjects and large language models can yield precise estimates at low cost, with implications for scientific productivity doi.org/10.1177/0049...

Looking forward to presenting my Class Gap work at the RNIM Online Seminar on Zoom this Friday! Anyone can register to attend here: sites.google.com/view/rnim-se...

My work with David Broska and Michael Howes on augmenting human subjects with LLM simulations was discussed in the Stat Modeling blog! 👀 statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/06/12/b...

NYU Social Psychology is looking for people passing through NYC next year who want to give a research TALK in our Speaker Series. We welcome self-nominations and scholars from all career stages (you can apply multiple times). Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mixed feelings about silicon subjects (LLM predictions of human behavior) as replacements for human subjects? Consider the mixed subjects design. 🚨Now published at Sociological Methods and Research🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0049...

New from Microsoft Research & Harvard Business School colleagues "Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI" by Eleanor Wiske Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica, Christopher T. Stanton arxiv.org/abs/2504.11436

I’ve never felt so seen 🥹

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · last yr.

Ahhhh mine is incomprehensible. My god what does a phrase like that even mean?

New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social! Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Our paper is out today in @pnas.org! 🎉 In a large-scale experiment on a YouTube-like platform, we find that giving people politically “slanted” video recs doesn’t shift beliefs or viewing behaviors. In other words, online filter bubbles may not be as polarizing as we think…

CSSLab at Penn @csspenn.bsky.social · last yr.

📣New Paper 📝 in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Confused by colleagues who seem to want to study LLMs instead of humans? Frustrated by skeptics (e.g., myself 8 months ago) who dismiss LLMs as a potential source of data on human behavior? Check out our paper for a new way forward: osf.io/j3bnt_v3/

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc @mitiwer.bsky.social #EconSky apply.interfolio.com/163492

UNB's St. John campus is hiring a TT position in Sociology with an emphasis on quantitative methods. Although there are rules about prioritizing Canadian candidates, I would encourage US folks to apply. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...