Simone Zhang

Excited to share this new work with @beckyj1 in @ASR_Journal! We examine how local organizations sort people to ration scarce social benefits. We analyze the case of prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program (1/12) doi.org/10.1177/000312…

Finally holding my copy of How the Heartland Went Red! My new book examines how place intersects with race, class, and religion in shaping the rightward turn in the industrial Heartland. Get your own copy here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac….

Extraordinarily grateful for the opportunity to join this community at CIFAR!

Happy to share this new paper with @beckyj1! ✏️

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at Cornell Tech! If you are interested in topics relating to machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias, or evaluation, apply and mention my name in your application: infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions Also, go vote!

📢 AI Snake Oil is out today! I have too many feelings because this book has been five years in the making. In 2019 I gave a talk on AI Snake Oil and tweeted out the slides. I had no idea my career was about to change. Within a couple of days I had 30 or 40 invites to write a…

Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: @CornellInfoSci is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405

TODAY: NYC friends, join us @nyu_ipk for this public event with @fstflofscholars and @simonezhang to discuss my new book #Technocolonialism out with @politybooks next month. All welcome but you need to register⬇️

There was James Scott the academic, James Scott the activist, and James Scott the person. They were all top-quality. I was lucky to see all these sides. May his memory be a blessing and may his work continue to inspire us.

New paper out in @socprobsjournal! 🎉🎉🎉 Through a qual case study, I examine how privatization influences the way marginalized groups experience the US social safety net and find mixed consequences for stigma, paternalism, and disentitlement. More here: doi.org/10.1093/socpro…

My book is out! Forever 17 is an ethnographic exploration of how age affects the experience and life prospects of asylum-seekers in Germany. For more info and to order at a 30% discount with code UCPNEW, visit: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

📣📢 new paper 📣📢 “Strategic Evaluation: Subjects, Evaluators, and Society” by me, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy (@karen_ec_levy), and Helen Nissenbaum (@HNissenbaum). Available & soon to be published at #EAAMO2023 (@ACMEAAMO)!

I love this @jenniferbouek paper. WAITLISTS ARE POLITICAL. MA's subsidized #childcare waitlist fell from 60k to 15k over 5 yrs—not bc families got subsidies but bc an audit drew attn to the list. Now, those who don't respond to a mailed letter are purged. rsfjournal.org/content/9/5/76

The Mentoring Committee will sponsor an online panel discussion on Navigating the Job Market on August 10, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Registration link coming out via email!

📢 The full agenda for Data (Re)Makes the World is out! Join us this weekend, March 31 - April 1, 2023. All times are ET. Register here for zoom access to the conference: eventbrite.com/e/zoom-only-re… Check out the agenda on our website: law.yale.edu/isp/events/dat…

🚨📄 out now in @nature @ScientificData with @tylersimko: rdcu.be/c7Hq3 We introduce LocalView: a comprehensive dataset of over 100,000 real-time U.S. local government public meeting videos from 1,000+ localities (and counting). 🧵 1/5