Want to avoid the tea leaves part when running topic models? The semi-supervised seeded (or constrained) topic model allows infusion of sociological knowledge when discovering meaning structures. Topics then are readily interpretable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sociologists are discussing the need for more formal ways to extract meaning from digital text archives. We focus attention on the seeded topic model, a semi-su...
Happy to announce also here: The 2025 INAS Conference will take place at Columbia University on June 5–6, 2025. The Women's Forum for Analytical Sociology is scheduled for June 4. analyticalsociology.com Thanks to the organizers James Chu & Gerard Torrats-Espinosa 👏
For those interested in estimating social influence effects in digital trace data: you might find our Oxford chapter helpful osf.io/preprints/so...
Today, Dr Miriam Hurtado Bodell defended her dissertation on Text Analysis in Sociology at the IAS 👩🎓 The proud advisors thank @lauraknelson.bsky.social@viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social@aksoyundan.bsky.social, Hernan Mondani, Andrea Voyer (grading committee) for making this a success
SweCSS, the Swedish Centre for Computational Social Science, has just introduced its Visiting Fellows Program, designed to foster collaboration between social and computational sciences. Spread the word! liu.se/en/research/...
The workshop “Norms and behavioral change in the climate crisis” on Capri earlier this week built interdisciplinary ties and inspired me a lot. Thank you for organizing this event! @giuliandr.bsky.social@evavriens.bsky.socialwww.villasanmichele.eu
The INAS conference in Leipzig now has a preliminary program, available at its website (link below). I will present there for the first time: "The Duality of Authors and Concepts in Sociological Theory" (w. O. Wieczorek). @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
Leipzig sociology is looking for a postdoc at the intersection of qualitative and computational methods www.uni-leipzig.de/en/universit... Full-time, 4+2 years, independent research profile. Please get in touch, we are looking forward to your application. Deadline April 5