How did covid lockdowns affect different sectors of voluntary civil society and segments of volunteers? We Use a four wave panel running from April 2020 to april 2021 to answer these questions in "Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19" in Voluntas: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵👇

Locking Down Civil Society: The Impact of COVID-19 - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil socie...

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Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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!

📢JOB ALERT 📢My department at the @ausis.bsky.social is hiring a social scientist who works on disaster!! The specific focus is open so check out the job announcement below (I'm not one the committee, so this is ALL I know) #ComeWorkwithMe! american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...

If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

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Thomas Davidson@thomasdavidson.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

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My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

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Super important agenda paper on the use of AI in survey research. Good to see that AI as interviewer is getting the attention it deserves(most have focus on AI as respondent).

David Rothschild@davmicrot.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Successfully Navigating the Disruption AI will Bring to Survey Research🚨 w/ research, verification, transparency, collaboration, survey research can thrive through disruption isi-iass.org/home/wp-cont... w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social @stephnie.bsky.social TrentBuskirk SunshineHillygus FraukeKreuter

The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply. On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply. See here👇 www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...

Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying

Valeria Bordone@valeriabordone.bsky.social · last yr.

We are seeking to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in Sociology with focus on #QuantitativeMethods @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at For the call and how to apply 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to.... Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.

Jacy Reese Anthis@jacyanthis.bsky.social · last yr.

Great workshop today on LLMs @ic2s2.bsky.social. My main update: There are more NLP tasks where good old-fashioned LMs (e.g., BERT) still outperform "modern" decoders (e.g., GPT-4) than I realized! LLM-as-a-judge work should test these more often. TY @eollion.bsky.social @emilienschultz.bsky.social

In the context of #IC2S2 2025: I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science. What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead? It’s a short, AI-led interview. Interested? Start your interview here: www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...

Hjalmar Bang Carlsen@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week! Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open) For more see thread. Preprint: osf.io/k7f89

📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week! Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open) For more see thread. Preprint: osf.io/k7f89

Hjalmar Bang Carlsen@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint! "Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews" Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs? Turns out… yes (mostly). Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews. Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk 🧵👇

🚨 New preprint! "Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews" Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs? Turns out… yes (mostly). Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews. Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk 🧵👇

I do not hope that citizens are using chatgpt for learning about politics, at least not DK and other smaller countries. It places Enhedslisten together with Danish People party and Ny Borgerlig on the issue of immigration.

Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274

Do Large Language Models Solve the Problems of Agent-Based Modeling? A Critical Review of Generative Social Simulations

Recent advancements in AI have reinvigorated Agent-Based Models (ABMs), as the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the emergence of ``generative ABMs'' as a novel approach to simula...

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Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859

Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Join our group in Leipzig: 3-year fully funded postdoc intersecting climate research + text analysis + sociology 🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0

Andreas Niekler@eisioriginal.bsky.social · 2y ago

We offer a 3-year postdoc to join our LeipzigLab on climate discourses 🌍🔍 We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

Join us for the first SODAS Lecture of the spring on March 21! 📅 Kevin Munger will kick off the lecture series with a talk on the effects of TikTok edits on evaluations of politicians📱 Event🔗: sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

SODAS Lecture with Kevin Munger

SODAS Lecture on the effects of TikTok on the evaluation of politicians with Kevin Munger.

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Come work with us! Assistant prof. Clara Vandeweerdt is hiring a three-year post-doc on a project using machine learning and survey experiments to understand who advocates for climate action in the media, and why it matters. 👩‍💼 Job call here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media

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