Hjalmar Bang Carlsen
@hjalmarcarlsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Center for Social Data Science(SODAS), University of Copenhagen. Background in sociology, substantive research in civic participation, methods research in mixed methods approaches to digital data.
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Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...
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I believe that the experimental paradigm in "polarization research" should receive strong criticism for its thin conception of political culture. I make this argument in a new blog post.
Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments
Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments
September 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I believe that the experimental paradigm in "polarization research" should receive strong criticism for its thin conception of political culture. I make this argument in a new blog post.
Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments
Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments
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Carolina Sociology is hiring!
• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Assistant Professor
This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Carolina Sociology is hiring!
• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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📢JOB ALERT 📢My department at the @ausis.bsky.social is hiring a social scientist who works on disaster!! The specific focus is open so check out the job announcement below (I'm not one the committee, so this is ALL I know) #ComeWorkwithMe!
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Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) - Department of Environment, Development & Health
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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August 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📢JOB ALERT 📢My department at the @ausis.bsky.social is hiring a social scientist who works on disaster!! The specific focus is open so check out the job announcement below (I'm not one the committee, so this is ALL I know) #ComeWorkwithMe!
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...
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New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden.
osf.io/preprints/so...
osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden.
osf.io/preprints/so...
osf.io/preprints/so...
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If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
![The Human Toll
The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.
If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!
To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US
[image of a person with their face in their hands]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreicro3flghnakku6uen3amys7c7v4hinl6b5h7xn2iu3qw7fwzv5uy@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you want to share your story--or share what you'd say to the people responsible for the current changes in the US--you can do so at the link below. And please share widely! It's essential that we document the human toll.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
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Get the latest on social science methods and AI
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Get the latest on social science methods and AI
The "can you have" of this world.
August 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The "can you have" of this world.
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My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
July 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Super important agenda paper on the use of AI in survey research. Good to see that AI as interviewer is getting the attention it deserves(most have focus on AI as respondent).
🚨Successfully Navigating the Disruption AI will Bring to Survey Research🚨 w/ research, verification, transparency, collaboration, survey research can thrive through disruption isi-iass.org/home/wp-cont... w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social @stephnie.bsky.social TrentBuskirk SunshineHillygus FraukeKreuter
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July 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Super important agenda paper on the use of AI in survey research. Good to see that AI as interviewer is getting the attention it deserves(most have focus on AI as respondent).
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The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply.
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Positions in Organizational Behavior
Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the organizational behavior area at Stanford GSB.
www.gsb.stanford.edu
July 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply.
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
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Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying
We are seeking to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in Sociology with focus on #QuantitativeMethods @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
For the call and how to apply 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
For the call and how to apply 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
July 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Vienna is pretty high on my list of liveable cities and so it should be on yours... consider applying
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Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to....
Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.
Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.
July 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Want to access the slides and the notebook for this session on LLM for Content Analysis in the Social Sciences? Here they are! www.css.cnrs.fr/llm-power-to....
Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.
Information about Text classification; Information Extraction, Text Clustering with encoders and decoder models.
In the context of #IC2S2 2025:
I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science.
What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead?
It’s a short, AI-led interview.
Interested? Start your interview here:
www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...
I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science.
What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead?
It’s a short, AI-led interview.
Interested? Start your interview here:
www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...
July 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In the context of #IC2S2 2025:
I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science.
What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead?
It’s a short, AI-led interview.
Interested? Start your interview here:
www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...
I would like to hear your thoughts on the future of Computational Social Science.
What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges ahead?
It’s a short, AI-led interview.
Interested? Start your interview here:
www.ainterviewer.dk/interview?id...
📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week!
Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open)
For more see thread.
Preprint: osf.io/k7f89
Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open)
For more see thread.
Preprint: osf.io/k7f89
July 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📢 I’ll be presenting our new work on AI-led vs. human-led chat-based interviews at #IC2S2 in Norrköping this week!
Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open)
For more see thread.
Preprint: osf.io/k7f89
Curious about AI-interviewing, large-N qual data, building your own chatbot for research, or collaborating? Please reach out(DM is open)
For more see thread.
Preprint: osf.io/k7f89
🚨 New preprint!
"Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews"
Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs?
Turns out… yes (mostly).
Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews.
Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk
🧵👇
"Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews"
Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs?
Turns out… yes (mostly).
Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews.
Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk
🧵👇
July 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 New preprint!
"Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews"
Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs?
Turns out… yes (mostly).
Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews.
Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk
🧵👇
"Comparing AI-led to human-led chat-based interviews"
Can LLMs collect interview data similar to human RAs?
Turns out… yes (mostly).
Note: these were text interviews—not directly comparable to in-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews.
Led by Semra Guven & @gaardhus.dk
🧵👇
I do not hope that citizens are using chatgpt for learning about politics, at least not DK and other smaller countries. It places Enhedslisten together with Danish People party and Ny Borgerlig on the issue of immigration.
April 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I do not hope that citizens are using chatgpt for learning about politics, at least not DK and other smaller countries. It places Enhedslisten together with Danish People party and Ny Borgerlig on the issue of immigration.
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Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method.
But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring?
We review the literature to find out!
with Maik Laaroij
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274
But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring?
We review the literature to find out!
with Maik Laaroij
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274
Do Large Language Models Solve the Problems of Agent-Based Modeling? A Critical Review of Generative Social Simulations
Recent advancements in AI have reinvigorated Agent-Based Models (ABMs), as the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the emergence of ``generative ABMs'' as a novel approach to simula...
arxiv.org
April 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method.
But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring?
We review the literature to find out!
with Maik Laaroij
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274
But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring?
We review the literature to find out!
with Maik Laaroij
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274
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Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Job #AJO29859, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
academicjobsonline.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Postdoc position at MIT IDSS focused on collective judgment & decision-making in human–AI hybrid networks. Please apply or share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29859
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Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hiring again! Lecturer in Sociology. We're looking for someone strongly anchored in sociology through high-profile contributions, and with the ability to appeal to students and colleagues of various methodological orientations.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared.
my signal: caitlingilbert.24
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my signal: caitlingilbert.24
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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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March 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared.
my signal: caitlingilbert.24
thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
my signal: caitlingilbert.24
thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
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Join our group in Leipzig: 3-year fully funded postdoc intersecting climate research + text analysis + sociology
🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0
🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0
We offer a 3-year postdoc to join our LeipzigLab on climate discourses 🌍🔍
We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social
We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Join our group in Leipzig: 3-year fully funded postdoc intersecting climate research + text analysis + sociology
🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0
🔗https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/19cb49183f1e25db8462734e444cb5dd476862ea0