Tim Hannigan
@timothyrhannigan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management.
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This paper is causing a stir. My hot takes:
1. In my ideal world, we would be building boatloads of datasets and models like this, leading to a metastudy to synthesize findings.
2. Their use of GPT to structure text is, in fact, a great use of LLMs for research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. In my ideal world, we would be building boatloads of datasets and models like this, leading to a metastudy to synthesize findings.
2. Their use of GPT to structure text is, in fact, a great use of LLMs for research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature
Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This paper is causing a stir. My hot takes:
1. In my ideal world, we would be building boatloads of datasets and models like this, leading to a metastudy to synthesize findings.
2. Their use of GPT to structure text is, in fact, a great use of LLMs for research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. In my ideal world, we would be building boatloads of datasets and models like this, leading to a metastudy to synthesize findings.
2. Their use of GPT to structure text is, in fact, a great use of LLMs for research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵
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The "Open Academic"
A process model and a set of approaches for social-media-enabled academic openness.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
A process model and a set of approaches for social-media-enabled academic openness.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The "Open Academic"
A process model and a set of approaches for social-media-enabled academic openness.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
A process model and a set of approaches for social-media-enabled academic openness.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
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Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +
Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +
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Our article, with Nga Than, Leanne Fan, @tinalaw.bsky.social and Leslie McCall @stone-lis.bsky.social, proposes a framework (image 2) to (carefully) incorporate LLMs into the qualitative coding process.
But read the entire issue, if it's your jam.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
But read the entire issue, if it's your jam.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our article, with Nga Than, Leanne Fan, @tinalaw.bsky.social and Leslie McCall @stone-lis.bsky.social, proposes a framework (image 2) to (carefully) incorporate LLMs into the qualitative coding process.
But read the entire issue, if it's your jam.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
But read the entire issue, if it's your jam.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argued that bullshit was "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are".
But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes)
My latest @financialtimes.com here:
on.ft.com/3SikRPK
But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes)
My latest @financialtimes.com here:
on.ft.com/3SikRPK
Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit
Large language models are unconcerned with truth because they have no concept of it — and therein lies the danger
on.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argued that bullshit was "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are".
But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes)
My latest @financialtimes.com here:
on.ft.com/3SikRPK
But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes)
My latest @financialtimes.com here:
on.ft.com/3SikRPK
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Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2024, with Tim Hannigan and Andre Spicer
Here is the research article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
And here is an open-access pre-print version of the paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#botshit
Here is the research article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
And here is an open-access pre-print version of the paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#botshit
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2024, with Tim Hannigan and Andre Spicer
Here is the research article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
And here is an open-access pre-print version of the paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#botshit
Here is the research article: doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
And here is an open-access pre-print version of the paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
#botshit
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What would be really good now would be if computer/data science departments established programs in reading and interpreting text. There could be theories of text, and examples of texts from other time periods and other cultures. Above all, students would learn how to look at texts very closely.
Correspondence to Nature:
"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!
"LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre … audience and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence in one [context] might be … nonsensical in another." Excellent. We're getting there!
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March 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What would be really good now would be if computer/data science departments established programs in reading and interpreting text. There could be theories of text, and examples of texts from other time periods and other cultures. Above all, students would learn how to look at texts very closely.
I'm delighted to join the editorial team and begin my role as senior editor at Organization Studies (@orgstudies.bsky.social). I will be focusing on manuscripts surrounding fields, technology & organizing, interpretive applications of computational methods, and organizational wrongdoing.
February 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm delighted to join the editorial team and begin my role as senior editor at Organization Studies (@orgstudies.bsky.social). I will be focusing on manuscripts surrounding fields, technology & organizing, interpretive applications of computational methods, and organizational wrongdoing.
I'm pleased to share our new article with Gorgi Krlev, Tim Hannigan (myself) and Andre Spicer in the Academy of Management Annals: What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence From Management and Organization Research. journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence From Management and Organization Research | Academy of Management Annals
There is a long tradition of literature review articles in management. Despite attempts to establish consensus around what constitutes a high-quality literature review, there remains significant disse...
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January 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm pleased to share our new article with Gorgi Krlev, Tim Hannigan (myself) and Andre Spicer in the Academy of Management Annals: What Makes a Good Review Article? Empirical Evidence From Management and Organization Research. journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
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Michael I. Jordan's 2019 essay on this is very good: rethinking AI as social infrastructure rather than something whose telos is necessarily to imitate individual human agents.
January 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Michael I. Jordan's 2019 essay on this is very good: rethinking AI as social infrastructure rather than something whose telos is necessarily to imitate individual human agents.
Neat tool showing themes of my work (using scholargoggler.com, via @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social)
November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Neat tool showing themes of my work (using scholargoggler.com, via @drmaximvoronov.bsky.social)
Recent posts calling out tendencies to post about Bluesky. Maybe the platform is figuring out emerging norms and a genre repertoire? Orlikowski, W. J., & Yates, J. (1994). Genre repertoire: The structuring of communicative practices in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39(4), 541–574
November 21, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Recent posts calling out tendencies to post about Bluesky. Maybe the platform is figuring out emerging norms and a genre repertoire? Orlikowski, W. J., & Yates, J. (1994). Genre repertoire: The structuring of communicative practices in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39(4), 541–574
We're very fortunate to host Ann Langley here today at Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa to share a process perspective on organizational identity
November 18, 2024 at 6:45 PM
We're very fortunate to host Ann Langley here today at Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa to share a process perspective on organizational identity
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For any organizational researchers migrating to Bluesky, here is a starter pack to help us find each other. Will update, when I find more folks on here.
go.bsky.app/H7TKNwu
go.bsky.app/H7TKNwu
November 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
For any organizational researchers migrating to Bluesky, here is a starter pack to help us find each other. Will update, when I find more folks on here.
go.bsky.app/H7TKNwu
go.bsky.app/H7TKNwu
Great frame - Universities as social and cultural infrastructure. I would add that they can also serve as provisional institutional infrastructure for emerging fields
As universities increasingly think about their local civic role, it may be helpful to think of them as social and cultural infrastructure. We held some roundtables on this idea and here are the notes in case they are useful to anyone
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Universities as Social & Cultural Infrastructure: Roundtable summary note
This summary note highlights the findings from a series of roundtables exploring the role of universities as social and cultural infrastructure, which were convened by the British Academy in conjuncti...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Great frame - Universities as social and cultural infrastructure. I would add that they can also serve as provisional institutional infrastructure for emerging fields
This week has led to a clear uptick in activity here on Bluesky. This is promising for renewing our ability to form relational publics and organizational possibilities. I wrote about this in my Org Studies Agora essay. Despite X imploding, we can form discourses and connect.
doi.org/10.1177/0170...
doi.org/10.1177/0170...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
This week has led to a clear uptick in activity here on Bluesky. This is promising for renewing our ability to form relational publics and organizational possibilities. I wrote about this in my Org Studies Agora essay. Despite X imploding, we can form discourses and connect.
doi.org/10.1177/0170...
doi.org/10.1177/0170...
This episode of Frontburner (CBC) with Gary Marcus was interesting. Good discussion about the pros and cons of generative AI use. It’s important to stress its value in prototyping, less in systems requiring reliability. I highly recommend giving it a listen podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
February 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This episode of Frontburner (CBC) with Gary Marcus was interesting. Good discussion about the pros and cons of generative AI use. It’s important to stress its value in prototyping, less in systems requiring reliability. I highly recommend giving it a listen podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
We’re facing a wave of botshit in organizations, which generative AI is creating. One of the big dangers of generative AI is that it brings the costs of bullshit down to zero. In a new article, we take a look at the phenomenon of 'Botshit'. Pre-print link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 29, 2023 at 5:05 PM
We’re facing a wave of botshit in organizations, which generative AI is creating. One of the big dangers of generative AI is that it brings the costs of bullshit down to zero. In a new article, we take a look at the phenomenon of 'Botshit'. Pre-print link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Bloody hell so many good lines in this Jesse Armstrong piece on Sam Bankman-Fried including an extraordinary opening story
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/goi...
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/goi...
Sam Bankman-Fried: hollow fake or ineffective altruist?
Back in 2016, when Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”) was not a convicted fraudster but a young trader at Jane Street, a secretive high-frequency trading firm, he
www.the-tls.co.uk
November 18, 2023 at 8:03 PM
Bloody hell so many good lines in this Jesse Armstrong piece on Sam Bankman-Fried including an extraordinary opening story
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/goi...
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/goi...
As we embark on Blue Sky, I’m remembering the practices that initially made Twitter compelling, from Follow Fridays, to hashtags, and finding connection with associated publics. This recent “Land of the Giants” podcast episode does a wonderful job documenting this podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...
November 3, 2023 at 1:00 AM
As we embark on Blue Sky, I’m remembering the practices that initially made Twitter compelling, from Follow Fridays, to hashtags, and finding connection with associated publics. This recent “Land of the Giants” podcast episode does a wonderful job documenting this podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/l...
Looking over the 2024 EGOS sub theme calls for papers, I’m overwhelmed at how many fascinating tracks are being planned. There are 10 that I would absolutely love to be a part of. Decisions, decisions.. www.egos.org/2024_Milan/S...
October 31, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Looking over the 2024 EGOS sub theme calls for papers, I’m overwhelmed at how many fascinating tracks are being planned. There are 10 that I would absolutely love to be a part of. Decisions, decisions.. www.egos.org/2024_Milan/S...
Neat video covering the history of the Rolling Stones “hot lips” logo. A collaboration between artist John Pasche and Mic Jagger, who was inspired by Hindu goddess Kali youtu.be/ykYfP7iqOto?...
October 24, 2023 at 8:17 PM
Neat video covering the history of the Rolling Stones “hot lips” logo. A collaboration between artist John Pasche and Mic Jagger, who was inspired by Hindu goddess Kali youtu.be/ykYfP7iqOto?...
The air here seems so fresh!
October 24, 2023 at 8:13 PM
The air here seems so fresh!