Professor of Sociology | Social Science DGS | Education and Social Mobility | ERC Grantee | The K in KHB | Winner of Boudon + Goodman Awards | I Like Quantitative Methods and Great Sociology
Kristian Bernt Karlson
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I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
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...
Reinforces something we write in our paper factory work
From now on, a publishable contribution must do something that an LLM with standard data and methods can’t
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Kristian Bernt Karlson
I’m so very excited that this journal is now accepting manuscripts!!
Quantitative research in education is scandalously bad
Sasha Gusev
APPLY & SHARE 📢 EOI for PhD in Sociology & Demography at @cedemografia.bsky.social @uab.cat in Barcelona
Topics: Families, Inequalities, Life Course, Well-Being
Supervisors: @maikevd.bsky.social & me
Deadline: 12 May, 2026
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Per Engzell
Per Engzell
www.ecsr2026.net
Does the KHB Method work in any Generalized Linear Model? 💡
Find out at #ecsr2026 @tcddublin.bsky.social this June!
We show how it works, why it works, and we derive an exact decomposition that reveals what "rescaling effects" in the khb method actually consist of!
#sociology @erc.europa.eu
