Wenn die Wayback Machine zunehmend nutzlos wird, weil sie blockiert wird, geht vielleicht eines der wichtigsten Dinge im Web verloren. Wie erzählt man Netzgeschichte ohne Archiv?
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
As part of the special issue Explanation and Causality in Sociology, @rubac.bsky.social, @cklamm.bsky.social and I discussed what it takes to do causal inference with text as data - whether we try to explain texts, treat them as causes, or use them as controls 💬🔍👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This article discusses and showcases approaches to causal inference with text as data, focusing on the challenges and opportunities that arise when sociological constructs are embedded in language. We...
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...
doi.org
📢 Open positions!
I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻
3–4 years + strong support for training🎒
Deadline: 23 June 2026
More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
Two new facts stand out:
1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!)
2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12
Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
Nicole Schwitter
Tobias Rüttenauer
Philip N Cohen
Per Engzell
Verena Kunz
Looking for a measure of #neighborhoods, micro or macro #segregation?
I've got something for you!
My newly published paper in Sociological Methods & Research presents a machine-learning-based algorithm to delineate neighborhoods with grid-cell or point data:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Kerstin Ostermann
📄Published Today in Nature:
500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social).
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...
TLDR: 1/11
