Chuncheng Liu

I understand the argument against using AI for all writings but I really don’t understand the backlash against using AI for making slides

This morning my students basically told me 26-year-old is quite old and is not different from 50-year-old and I’m still heartbroken about it

A three-year-old paper just got accepted :)))))))))

Cornell Information Science is hiring! Specifically looking for folks studying "the role of computing and AI in education and learning, including in global environments beyond the United States." academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33075

On a personal note: I ate more than 20 tacos in two days in Mexico City. Enough amount for me to spend another depressing year in no-decent-Mexican-food Boston.

On October 27, I will give a talk on my book about the data and symbolic politics of China’s Social Credit System at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. You can also register and watch it on zoom: ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-e...

I just realized that I cannot pronounce "count" right, and this might cost me changing my book title...

Random 4S concluding thoughts: there’s an unprecedented opportunity for STS to grow and institutionalize but we’re likely to miss it (and it’s… ok?)

Random 4S comment out of context: “we’re all writing the body multiple now”

One 4S observation: I have never heard so many people express interest in what Chinese people are doing (in the context of every social studies of AI panel).

Found out my article had become the most-read article in Critical Sociology → vanity led me to check what's going on → discovered that many people were citing my article as proof that the Chinese social credit system that scores millions of people exists on reddit/twitter → screaming into the void

Talked to a student last week, and she was like “I read your dissertation!” So I reread it today, and now I’m so embarrassed I want to embargo it forever

Today's rabbit hole: reading Ovid's Metamorphoses (why, why!??)

Heading to 4S? I’ll be in Toronto October 7–10, presenting three coauthored papers: a quantitative study of public perceptions of human intervention in algorithmic decisions, a conceptual paper on technological liminality, and a qualitative study of bureaucrats’ data work. Come say hi!

Here's a screenshot of a Chinese online discussion group on "human–machine love." Almost no one in the group is actually discussing the topic and the first three pages are nearly all research recruitment ads...

is the underwhelming feeling when actually finish writing a book normal or should i just drink more coffee

The end of an era indeed

lmao what is this: i-dislike-sociology.com

I love(d?) using antithesis in my papers, but now AI has ruined it—just like it ruined em dashes.

So excited about the nyc trip I've almost booked all my meals already

This is horrible news. I don't think I could conduct my fieldwork or finish my dissertation without the DDRIG. This would also eliminate one of the very few funding opportunities accessible to international students, making their already-terrible situations worse.

It's clear to me now that many really don't care about sociology as a discipline, but are simply using the moment to express their grievance and resentment toward the journals and departments that rejected them. Funny that this is the same group of people who are against "grievance studies."

I'm checking the ASA conference program now, and so many panels I want to attend are at the same time 😩

I tried so hard to be sympathetic to the conservative wing of sociology, but what on earth is requiring all faculty to take the GRE and firing those with lower scores supposed to achieve?

RIP Andrew Lakoff

We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

Friends!!! My book, Why Carbon Taxes Failed, is online. Chapters are free to download if you have access to @academic.oup.com: academic.oup.com/book/62984

📚 My book 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 has a publication date of Dec 2026, and the website is live and now available for pre-order at @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/dreams-...

Am I overworking on this R&R so I don't need to work on my book? Yes.

Sigh. That feeling when you think a reviewer’s critique missed the point, but then you start reworking the manuscript and discover issues even more critical than what they pointed out and now the revision is taking way longer than expected

ASA this year is really gonna be something huh…

First they came for my beloved em dash and colon, and now they’re coming for my favorite sentence structures: apparently, ‘not only… but also,’ ‘instead of,’ and ‘is not… but’ have all been condemned as AI language now...

I’m so tempted to organize my book introduction around the stories of three Wangs to connect social credit system with China’s social transformation in the 1980s, policy experimentation and admiration for U.S. systems in the 2000s, and the normalization of bureaucratic practice in the 2010s

can i just have my afternoon coffee without having people around me talking about ai please

Found a random classification gap: the “Research Article” category for CHI only appears after 2008. Before that, papers were labeled simply as “articles,” which isn’t included in the ACM Digital Library’s “content type” filter. So if you rely on that filter (like me), you may miss a lot of papers.

I used Claude for some small computational text analysis tasks, and it performed better than expected. Maybe I’m not an expert in CSS, so I can’t judge it very well, but it feels like it did a better job there than when using Claude for qualitative analysis, where it feels quite rigid

Man I do love writing STS papers. Putting "heterogeneous network" in a sentence itself make me happy.

Thrilled our paper with @zephoria.bsky.social (in the works since 2022!) is accepted at #CHI2026. In the paper, we look at how “fake” state data perform institutional work, tracing how fakeness gets produced and de/stabilized inside of the Chinese and US bureaucracy. arxiv.org/abs/2602.10944

I spent my whole morning trying to upload a paper to arxiv is this part of the additional labor of the interdisciplinary scholarship 😮‍💨

Maybe I'm too woke now, but the misogyny in Two and a Half Men is really unbearable