Our team (Delia Baldassarri, Chris Barrie, and me) is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate at NYU! Join our project on social cohesion using neighborhood-based social media data, LLMs, and agent-based modeling. Starting Sept. 2026. Review begins Aug. 1. apply.interfolio.com/189355

I'm delighted to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! This would not have been possible without the generous support of my mentors, colleagues, friends, and family. Thank YOU all for your support. I am excited for a new journey ahead!!

ASA members Byungkyu Lee @letitbk.bsky.social and Brea Perry have received lots of coverage @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com for their recent study showing that difficult people in your social network might lead to faster biological aging. Here's a piece that's not paywalled: https://bit.ly/4dJsXwv.

That Difficult Person in Your Life Might Be Aging You Faster

New research found that hasslers, people who make your life harder, can accelerate biological aging

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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Negative social ties as emerging risk factors for accelerated aging, inflammation, and multimorbidity.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/V93x50YoKPE For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/4yS050YoKPJ.

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BK Lee@letitbk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS! Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.

Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS! Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.

We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

New postdoc position in Computational Social Science (80%) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. Part of the Digital Society Lab. Start April 2026. Apply by Jan 31, 2026. Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies. Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method

Abstract. Reliable estimates of death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies are critical for assessing the severity of a crisis and for effectively all

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New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data | PNAS

The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet re...

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Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!

Machine Learning / AI Internships - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Machine Learning / AI Internships job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206

Hurray!

UCL Sociology Network@uclsociology.bsky.social · last yr.

USN member @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social received the 2025 Outstanding Article Award of the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section of @asanews.bsky.social for “Civic Lessons That Last?” (with Chaeyoon Lim). Well done! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this. www.pewresearch.org/...

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Who polices which boundaries? How racial self-identification affects external classification https://osf.io/bhrdj This study explores whether Americans agree on the ethnoracial categories that are worth policing. It evaluates how receptive White, Black, Latino, and Asian Americans are to #sociology

I am happy to share the news that our paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!!

BK Lee@letitbk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share my paper published in ASR on unemployment and suicide!! Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities

Negative social ties, or "difficult ties," are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidity. Using ego-centric network data and DNA methy...

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Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328261v1

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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New paper with Daria Tisch ‪(@dariatisch.bsky.social‬) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Perceived Fairness of Couples’ Division of Housework: Evidence From a Multi-Factorial Experiment in the United States - Daniela R. Urbina, Daria Tisch, 2025

Although the ratio of women’s to men’s housework hours has declined, women still spend more time than men doing household tasks in most high-income contexts. Th...

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Marco Rubio says he alone can deport people for their “past, current, or expected beliefs”

"Thought crimes": Rubio lays out government's justification for deportations based on "beliefs"

Rubio said that speech-based deportations were one part of the United States' fight against antisemitism

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All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Shame. This is happening across essential institutions: media, Congress, law firms, & now universities. Instead of standing up to illegal authoritarian power grabs, they capitulate, hoping the threat will pass. It won’t. And as the rule of law & the constitutional order die, so does our democracy.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · last yr.

"A Columbia senior administrator said the school considered legal options ...but ... the ... government has so many available levers to claw back money, it would be a difficult fight. Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands."

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · last yr.

Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later

Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members! www.aaup.org/membership/d...