Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ
@dustinstoltz.com
Sociologist | Computational Social Science | Culture and Cognition
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will officially release on December 11th (UTC -7). We're getting close!!
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will officially release on December 11th (UTC -7). We're getting close!!
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something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc
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I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf in September and it's available to watch. When you find yourself giving a talk with a little tiny microphone stuck to the side of your head you have to ask yourself some hard questions, but the talk was partly about that.
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE
Trustworthy Data Visualization (Kieran Healy, Duke University) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf in September and it's available to watch. When you find yourself giving a talk with a little tiny microphone stuck to the side of your head you have to ask yourself some hard questions, but the talk was partly about that.
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE
youtu.be/ZamPCbvBAgE
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Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Gender: In A World Perspective
Gender: In A World Perspective, How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And...
www.politybooks.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thrilled to see Raewyn and my new book up at Polity. Easily the greatest experience and honor of my career to work on this book with my academic idol. We have done so many wonderful things in this edition. I hope others love it as much as we have loved writing it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Here is the reminder to update your institutional isomorphism slides
“When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren’t guided by strategy but by ‘Fomo’,” said Haritha Khandabattu, senior director analyst at consultancy Gartner.
www.ft.com/content/e93e...
www.ft.com/content/e93e...
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggests the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
www.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Here is the reminder to update your institutional isomorphism slides
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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
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“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
July 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Now appearing in the most recent volume of @sfjournal.bsky.social, my paper with the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social on how family background shapes exposure to income volatility across the life course in 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪, and 🇩🇰!
@erc.europa.eu #sociology
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
@erc.europa.eu #sociology
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Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States
Abstract. While stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how famil
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July 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Now appearing in the most recent volume of @sfjournal.bsky.social, my paper with the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social on how family background shapes exposure to income volatility across the life course in 🇺🇸, 🇩🇪, and 🇩🇰!
@erc.europa.eu #sociology
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
@erc.europa.eu #sociology
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
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Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
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*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
July 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
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June 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++
I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).
If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!
More info: www.hendrik-erz.de
I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).
If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!
More info: www.hendrik-erz.de
Hendrik Erz
PhD Student at the IAS, Linköping University (Sweden)
www.hendrik-erz.de
June 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
+++ ANNOUNCEMENT +++
I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).
If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!
More info: www.hendrik-erz.de
I'm currently on the job market, looking for Postdoc opportunities (end of 2025/early 2026).
If you are — or know someone who is — in need of a political sociologist/computational social scientist, please get in touch or share my CV!
More info: www.hendrik-erz.de
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a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
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🧵1/8
In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
June 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🧵1/8
In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
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"frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budge" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
June 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budge" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
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New OA article in ESR 📄✨
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social @phedstrom.bsky.social @martinarvidsson.bsky.social show how residential segregation 🏘️ constrains opportunities and limits the effects of preferences on school segregation 🎓.
Read more at: @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social @phedstrom.bsky.social @martinarvidsson.bsky.social show how residential segregation 🏘️ constrains opportunities and limits the effects of preferences on school segregation 🎓.
Read more at: @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
June 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New OA article in ESR 📄✨
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social @phedstrom.bsky.social @martinarvidsson.bsky.social show how residential segregation 🏘️ constrains opportunities and limits the effects of preferences on school segregation 🎓.
Read more at: @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social @phedstrom.bsky.social @martinarvidsson.bsky.social show how residential segregation 🏘️ constrains opportunities and limits the effects of preferences on school segregation 🎓.
Read more at: @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027
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1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Find the courage to be disliked. That was my advice to Jonathan Van Ness when they invited me on the Getting Curious podcast to talk about my book, Long Live Queer Nightlife. A year later, celebrating their book, JVN still remembers it. @princetonupress.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca @asanews.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Find the courage to be disliked. That was my advice to Jonathan Van Ness when they invited me on the Getting Curious podcast to talk about my book, Long Live Queer Nightlife. A year later, celebrating their book, JVN still remembers it. @princetonupress.bsky.social @arts.ubc.ca @asanews.bsky.social
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🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science!
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🚨We’re hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science!
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
📍The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (SweCSS)
📅 Apply by June 3
🔗 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
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Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished?
In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.
In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Do you field online surveys and experiments? Ever get back text responses that look unusually diplomatic and polished?
In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.
In this paper, now out at Sociological Methods & Research, we study the emerging use of AI among online study participants.
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Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thank you for participating in the Measuring Culture workshop funded by the Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg @hadw-bw.bsky.social. It was an incredible experience for me due to all the brilliant people attending. Special thanks to keynote speakers @nehagondal.bsky.social and @olizardo.bsky.social
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New paper out in Social Science History about elite networks in the American administrative state
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
Elite cohesion in the American administrative state, 1898–1998 | Social Science History | Cambridge Core
Elite cohesion in the American administrative state, 1898–1998
doi.org
May 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
New paper out in Social Science History about elite networks in the American administrative state
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.
April 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I am very grateful for two days of stimulating intellectual exchange at our workshop funded by the Cologne International Forum. Special thanks to our keynotes @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @christian.czymara.com, and the organisation by @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @maxpi.bsky.social, and Christof Nägel.