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...
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool."
www.amacad.org/publication/...
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
On this day in 1946, Claudia Goldin was born. In 2023, she became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics. In 2026, she helped the players’ union for the Women’s National Basketball Association negotiate a nearly 400% raise by demonstrating that the women were woefully underpaid. #WeTheMen
Alondra Nelson
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Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15
Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology.
Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols.
experimentalsociology.github.io
