📣A little late in the game, but might be looking for a postdoc positions at Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science Need someone with some solid quantitative skills and wants to dig into some amazing data on Community Violence Interventions. Send email or msg if interested

Berkeley’s free online workshop series helps prospective Ph.D. students understand the admissions process, learn about graduate funding and get tips for developing competitive application materials. Register by June 17, 2024. bit.ly/phdbootcamp2024 #diversifythephd #UCBerkeley

Excited to share UC Berkeley's new cluster hire in AI, Inequality, and Society including five T/TT positions UC Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley EECS, UC Berkeley Sociology, Berkeley School of Information,UC Berkeley CDSS. Please consider applying / spread the word! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

UC Berkeley is hiring for multiple faculty positions in AI, Inequality and Society. Deadline September 16. UC Berkeley Sociology UC Berkeley EECS UC Berkeley Law Berkeley School of Information Berkeley Statistics aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

Cool new job opening at the intersection of data science and law. Review starts August 16. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04448

New episode of the Data Science Education Podcast: Navigating the Intersection of Sociology and Data Science. datascienceeducation.substack.com

Berkeley Sociology is Hiring at the Associate or Full Professor Rank. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04590

Monday deadline!

Explore data for every county & 480+ cities in the US with the Urban Institute Upward Mobility Data Dashboard. Empower systemic change in your community. urbn.is/mobilitydashbo…

(1/4) UC Berkeley Sociology scholars David Harding (David J. Harding) + Maria Smith weigh in on CA’s Prop. 6, which bans involuntary servitude in jails + prisons. Learn more: bit.ly/481ljJg

Maria Smith and David J. Harding (UC Berkeley Sociology ) also weigh in on Proposition 6, providing an in-depth look at its background and potential impact. They highlight the significant benefits of passing the proposition, while also addressing challenges. ⬇️ scholars.org/contribution/p…

New Video Interview on Faculti.net: Evaluating Contradictory Experimental and Nonexperimental Estimates of Neighborhood Effects on Economic Outcomes for Adults faculti.net/evaluating-con…

Today’s Podcast is a two-parter! Steven N. Durlauf hosts experts on how neighborhoods and schools shape inequality. First Felix Elwert, David J. Harding, and Geoff Wodtke discuss neighborhood effects, while Marissa Thompson shares insights on school segregation and parental perceptions.

My doctoral chair & coauthor, Christopher ("Sandy") Jencks has died. A brilliant scholar & teacher, he cared deeply about evidence, and ran a superb interdisciplinary inequality seminar at Harvard. My condolences to his family, especially his remarkable wife Jane Mansbridge.

Does re-imprisonment for technical violations reduce crime? Research by Catalina Franco, David J. Harding, Shawn Bushway, and Jeffrey Morenoff examines the effects of parole policies on recidivism and #PublicSafety. doi.org/10.3368/jhr.12…

New! Survey experiment & interview study shows how narratives can reduce stigma of criminal via moral justification, social affinity signaling & information salience. -David J. Harding Maria S. Smith Da Eun Jung S Luna-Lopez & Amanda Glazer in AJCS -- American Journal of Cultural Sociology link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Congratulations to Caleb Scoville, Berkeley Sociology Alum!

New paper on computational text analysis for social scientists with SandrineChausson, Marion Fourcade, Bjorn Ross, and Gregory Renard. The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning doi.org/10.1177/004912…