Sarah Shugars
@shugars.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
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Sarah Shugars
@shugars.bsky.social
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My newest paper, The Character of Connection: Platform Affordances and Connective Democracy, is now out in Social Media + Society!
This work was done in collaboration with fantastic @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social PhD student Eunbin Ha
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This work was done in collaboration with fantastic @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social PhD student Eunbin Ha
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70 extrajudicial killings
Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
70 extrajudicial killings
Can’t believe I didn’t think to write:
Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop!
But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜
Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop!
But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜
🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
Join the Sweet Shop waitlist!
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November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Can’t believe I didn’t think to write:
Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop!
But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜
Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop!
But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜
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Sarah found one of my favorite share images, but there are others….
🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
Join the Sweet Shop waitlist!
Claim your username and be among the first to enter Sweet Shop.
sweetshop.app
November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sarah found one of my favorite share images, but there are others….
🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
Join the Sweet Shop waitlist!
Claim your username and be among the first to enter Sweet Shop.
sweetshop.app
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8
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📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!
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You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
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This time APSA is not on fire but the world is
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This time APSA is not on fire but the world is
Heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025! If you’re in town and would like to meet up, please feel free to reach out or say “hi” if you see me
I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻
I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻
September 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025! If you’re in town and would like to meet up, please feel free to reach out or say “hi” if you see me
I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻
I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻
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Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
Computational Social Science Assistant, Data Labs
Position Summary The Computational Social Science Assistant works with other staff at Data Labs to produce original research that expands on the work of the Pew Research Center using new methods, data...
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
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If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
“The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.”
Only gets more 🔥 from there
Only gets more 🔥 from there
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.”
Only gets more 🔥 from there
Only gets more 🔥 from there
Writing about Twitter in the past tense 🪦
August 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Writing about Twitter in the past tense 🪦
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Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland.
On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social
On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland.
On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social
On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair!
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair!
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉
@jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026.
Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉
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Giving money to the poor is once again proven to be a much more effective and much less expensive than whatever neoliberal bureaucracies continue to defend.
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
August 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Giving money to the poor is once again proven to be a much more effective and much less expensive than whatever neoliberal bureaucracies continue to defend.
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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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Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately
Fascinating work from William Gee (on the job market!) looking at different social strategies (making lots of weak-tie friends v a few very strong friends) and their implications for polarizing. William is a student of @drchip97.bsky.social in communication at OSU #pacss2025 #polnet2025
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately
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Anyway, it was really pretty cool to win an NSF, esp. as a woman social scientist doing justice-centered work with other Black scholars. The window of that funding being quite literally months before being yanked away, when the planned work would
have take years, feels apropos of everything.
have take years, feels apropos of everything.
August 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anyway, it was really pretty cool to win an NSF, esp. as a woman social scientist doing justice-centered work with other Black scholars. The window of that funding being quite literally months before being yanked away, when the planned work would
have take years, feels apropos of everything.
have take years, feels apropos of everything.
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Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025.
Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!
Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!
Really love this work from @nriverosm.bsky.social (on the job market!) looking at political socialization and discussion networks in Colombia. Nicolás is at @harvardeducation.bsky.social and has strong mixed-methods skills relevant to political science + communication #polnet2025 #pacss2025
August 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025.
Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!
Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!
Wrapping things up with a keynote from the inimitable @brendannyhan.bsky.social
#pacss2025 #polnet2025
#pacss2025 #polnet2025
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wrapping things up with a keynote from the inimitable @brendannyhan.bsky.social
#pacss2025 #polnet2025
#pacss2025 #polnet2025
Very interesting work from @hwaight.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org examining narrative similarity between news stories from global media sources. Methodological challenging because stories may communicate the same ideas/claims without using the same ngrams #pacss2025 #polnet2025
August 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Very interesting work from @hwaight.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org examining narrative similarity between news stories from global media sources. Methodological challenging because stories may communicate the same ideas/claims without using the same ngrams #pacss2025 #polnet2025
Very cool work from Erin Walk (@asc.upenn.edu) looking at politicians who are attacked as being extreme. Using a longitudinal data set (2016-2024) of Twitter posts and cable news transcripts, she examines who gets attacked and how visible those people are in the media #polnet2025 #pacss2026
August 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Very cool work from Erin Walk (@asc.upenn.edu) looking at politicians who are attacked as being extreme. Using a longitudinal data set (2016-2024) of Twitter posts and cable news transcripts, she examines who gets attacked and how visible those people are in the media #polnet2025 #pacss2026