BK Lee

Our team (Delia Baldassarri, Chris Barrie, and me) is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate at NYU! Join our project on social cohesion using neighborhood-based social media data, LLMs, and agent-based modeling. Starting Sept. 2026. Review begins Aug. 1. apply.interfolio.com/189355

I'm delighted to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! This would not have been possible without the generous support of my mentors, colleagues, friends, and family. Thank YOU all for your support. I am excited for a new journey ahead!!

ASA members Byungkyu Lee @letitbk.bsky.social and Brea Perry have received lots of coverage @washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com for their recent study showing that difficult people in your social network might lead to faster biological aging. Here's a piece that's not paywalled: https://bit.ly/4dJsXwv.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Negative social ties as emerging risk factors for accelerated aging, inflammation, and multimorbidity.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/V93x50YoKPE For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/4yS050YoKPJ.

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We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...

New postdoc position in Computational Social Science (80%) at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern. Part of the Digital Society Lab. Start April 2026. Apply by Jan 31, 2026. Official job posting: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Our new paper develops and tests a network-based method for estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies. Joint w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.social and team from Geneva-based NGO @impact-initiatives.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

New @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!

🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨 Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details: 1️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/HDS_2026.html 2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206

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Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this. www.pewresearch.org/...

Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing. asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...

Who polices which boundaries? How racial self-identification affects external classification https://osf.io/bhrdj This study explores whether Americans agree on the ethnoracial categories that are worth policing. It evaluates how receptive White, Black, Latino, and Asian Americans are to #sociology

I am happy to share the news that our paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!!

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328261v1

New paper with Daria Tisch ‪(@dariatisch.bsky.social‬) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Marco Rubio says he alone can deport people for their “past, current, or expected beliefs”

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

Shame. This is happening across essential institutions: media, Congress, law firms, & now universities. Instead of standing up to illegal authoritarian power grabs, they capitulate, hoping the threat will pass. It won’t. And as the rule of law & the constitutional order die, so does our democracy.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members! www.aaup.org/membership/d...

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No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Come work with me! 1 year postdoc opportunity to work with me on workers' roles in AI safety. Social science and participatory methods a must, experience working with trade unions a + More info & apply here --> qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Shifts in LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S., Gallup 2024 update. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/s...

Train your own reasoning LLM using DeepSeek's GRPO algorithm with our free notebook by @unsloth.bsky.social You'll transform Llama 3.1 (8B) to have chain-of-thought. Unsloth makes GRPO use 80% less VRAM. Guide: docs.unsloth.ai/basics/reaso... GitHub: github.com/unslothai/un...

INAS 2025 at Columbia University: Don’t miss the February 17 deadline for abstract submission. inas.sociology.columbia.edu Organizers: Gerard Torrats-Espinosa & James Chu @womensforuminas.bsky.social

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.