Michael Wood

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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University (culture, cognition, networks, and religion) www.michaelleewood.com

New pub alert! 🚨

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0022250X.2024.2395806?src=

@dustinstoltz & I introduced concept class analysis (CoCA) in 2020 as a way to uncover traces of cultural schemas in text. Admittedly, the method's output requires some interpretive heavy-lifting.

Thus our new paper, which offers an analytical workflow for working with CoCA!

@SocArXivBot: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zvwn2

Replication repo: https://github.com/Marshall-Soc/CoCA_interpret

#sociology @sociology @academicchatter

Here it is: the One Weird Thing that people who aren’t programmers (or are bad programmings) just don’t understand about writing software. This is it. If you miss this, you’ll miss what LLMs can and can’t do for software development. You’ll be prey to the hype, a mark for the con.

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It is official now: The University of Toronto (Downtown campus) is HIRING an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR area of Science and Technology!

Link to the job ad here:
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Science-and-Technology-ON/572583417/

Please boost! I will add a few of my own thoughts in reply to this post.

#sociodon #sociology #sts #sociologyjob #socjobs @sociology

Assistant Professor - Science and Technology

Assistant Professor - Science and Technology

Feeling grateful for the chance to attend #ASA2023. Always love meeting up with old friends, learning about inspiring research, and eating great food!

Pro tip: Use CA instead of two-way tables

https://olizardo.github.io/mysite/posts/CA-viz-tabular-data/

Omar Lizardo - Using Simple Correspondence Analysis to Present Tabular Data

Post using Correspondence Analysis to visualize tabular data with Examples.

Black-American musical expression during enslavement laid the foundation for blues, jazz, country, gospel, rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, & popular music. Emerging from oppression, it reflected resilience & creativity, becoming anthems for civil rights movements the world over. The emotive force and cultural distinctiveness of those early songs endure, nurturing the ongoing struggle for a more just world.

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