BK Lee
@bklee009
Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University
"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: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, @pettertornberg and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵
We are excited to share that this paper has been published in @ScientificData . The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41597…
Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.” Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship. 1/3
New Post-doc position!! An amazing opportunity to work on cutting-edge research using smartphone mobility data on community and mental health with a great team! Related research: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with Molly Copeland and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @sociologyND. Happy to connect with anyone interested. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/169206
We are proud to have PhD candidate, Jenny Leigh, among this group of scholars to receive the 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant!
ASA is pleased to announce the 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant recipients. These 26 exceptional research projects by a talented group of advanced graduate students were chosen for their intellectual merit and potential broader impacts.…
🎉 Huge news! Our paper 'A semantic embedding space based on large language models for modelling human beliefs' is finally out in @NatureHumBehav! This research uses LLMs to build a 'map' of human beliefs and reveals why people adopt certain beliefs through relative dissonance.
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!!
Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. doi.org/10.1177/000312…
Congratulations to Professor @simonezhang for being named one of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars!
➕ Boróka Bó (@ucdsociology), Serena Booth (@BrownUniversity) and Simone Zhang (@simonezhang) will join the Innovation, Equity & the Future of Prosperity program. cifar.ca/cifarnews/2025…
Happy to share this new paper with @beckyj1! ✏️
Excited to share a new paper with @simonezhang on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools, now out in Sociological Science (@SociologicalSci)! (1/5)
These talented young musicians teamed up to bring the joy of music to young children in the community. Please support their cause. 6pm (CT) tonight at Nichols Hall, Evanston. Please join us in person or through the live stream. youtube.com/live/MxXwBr__9…
I'm releasing the v2.0 version of my guide on using LLM (mainly OpenAI models) for computational social science tasks. Major changes: - Adopt the new Responses API. - Better handling of the structured output. Link below. Please star if you find it useful~
My Columbia sociology colleagues, Peter Bearman and Gil Eyal, on misguided actions of university officials in this time when democracy is threatened. incite.columbia.edu/news/third-tim…
Updated version now out Sociological Methods & Research Paper link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Preprint link: osf.io/preprints/soca…
New working paper on the emerging use of AI among online survey participants: Focusing on open-ended Qs, we study how often and why survey-takers use AI. We also compare human vs LLM written answers to sensitive questions. 🔗: osf.io/preprints/soca…
A new sociology of humans and machines arxiv.org/abs/2402.14410
Excited to share a work with @thomasrdavidson on using LLMs for text classification! We experiment with different learning regimes from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and propose instruction-tuning as a new possibility for social scientific inquiries. doi.org/10.1177/004912…
Mixed feelings about silicon subjects (LLM predictions of human behavior) as replacements for human subjects? Consider the mixed subjects design. 🚨Now published at Sociological Methods and Research🚨 doi.org/10.1177/004912…
Join the IPK on Monday, April 28th (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with @daltonconley. He will discuss his book The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture with @susandominus and @bklee009. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-ta…
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Join our team studying the impact of digital media on democracy! We're hiring a Technical Lead - Research Engineering to help us build/maintain the robust data infrastructure & custom tools that power our research. More info: apply.interfolio.com/165833
Are you part of an LGBTQ group anywhere in the world? Then please consider participating in the first Global LGBTQ NGO Survey. Our goal is to survey every LGBTQ+ group in the world to assess successful strategies moving forward. Please share! Link below: nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…