We are excited to share the agenda for IAS Seminar Series in the fall of 2023 and welcome everyone to join! Among the speakers: Mario L. Small Xi Song Emanuel Deutschmann Sabina Cehajic Clancy Amalia Alvarez Brooke Foucault Welles 🤓🐈‍⬛ Onur Varol Frank Takes @viktoria_sp Petter Holme

New working paper on generative AI as a sociological method. I discuss computational, experimental, and qualitative applications, and use GPT-4 & DALLE-3 to provide motivating examples of image-to-text and text-to-image analyses. osf.io/preprints/soca…

New paper with Linda Zhao UChicago Sociology now out at Demography Journal. We show general patterns of assimilation in terms of networks and identities at the 3rd generation in England, Germany and the Netherlands, with substantial heterogeneity by ethnic origins. 👇

Opening at Utrecht University sociology. Along with our colleagues in ERCOMER, we form a remarkable group of younger and more senior researchers interested in issues of migration and integration in Europe and beyond - arguably unparalleled in terms of critical mass! Come join us 🤗

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

NEW: Bucca and Drouhot, "Intergenerational Social Mobility Among the Children of Immigrants in Western Europe: Between Socioeconomic Assimilation and Disadvantage" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-1…

Great new paper on skin color inequalities in the US👇. Back to back publications in Sociological Science from the great @mebucca.

🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨 What are the most effective ways to fight climate change? What are the returns to subsidies for wind and solar? What about EV subsidies or energy efficient appliance rebates? How about raising revenue through fuel taxes or cap and trade auctions? 1/:

NEW: Nägel et al: "Three Lions or Three Scapegoats: Racial Hate Crime in the Wake of the Euro 2020 Final in London." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-2…

My article on Generative AI and Sociology is out now in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World! I explore the applications of GenAI across computational, qualitative, and experimental research, and discuss important issues including bias, reliability, and interpretability. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Delighted to share that the 2023 SCMR special issue that I edited together with Lucas Drouhot Carolina V. Zuccotti and Emilio Zagheni will be republished as a Routledge book in November. routledge.com/Computational-…

This one Columbia department, Biomedical Engineering, produced 140 inventions in the past five years, leading to 30 industry licenses and 20 new startups.

Few scholars nourished my mind like Richard Alba did. Just recently, he gave great comments on a paper of mine at the Immigration Seminar at CUNY GC - to me a career highlight! Richard, I will miss your energy, sharp mind, lucid writing, and kindness. Your legacy lives on!

📷 #BookReview Edited by Emilio Zagheni, Carolina V. Zuccotti, Emanuel Deutschmann & Lucas Drouhot, “Computational Research” explores a range of new techniques for conducting ethics & migration research. Taylor & Francis Research Insights review by Şükrü Atsızelti onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/im…

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out. 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 10 papers:

📢 Excited to welcome Dr. Lucas Drouhot as Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai! 🎉 From Utrecht University, his research explores migration, social stratification, ethnoracial diversity, and social networks, with work in AJS, ARS, and more. caser.shanghai.nyu.edu/caser-welcomes…

Professional news 🤓 I am delighted to be joining NYU-Shanghai as Assistant Professor of Sociology. A big new adventure begins 🇨🇳 caser.shanghai.nyu.edu/caser-welcomes…