Christopher Barrie
@cbarrie
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage:
We replicated the findings four times across different panels and different national contexts...
Passive telemetry records everything they click on and, crucially, what they decide to click to read more on...
We do so using a clone social media environment that we get participants to interact with
🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...
Ben Stokes is the best thing that has happened to English cricket. What a gift to the game he has been. Thank you, Ben
These days, if you're a teenager in the UK and you use YouTube to revise for your GCSEs you'll get locked up and thrown in jail
So this is funny etc but can someone explain to me the prehistory of why US politicians so frequently appear with big pieces of cardboard behind them to make a point?
The part that I think is really striking: the pattern persists even when people are paid to answer accurately 71% stick with their previously preferred model
We ran an experiment with 1,884 US participants. Democrats and Republicans sorted towards different models, especially when evaluating political content Showing people the model names made those differences stronger
📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social
Is it something to brag about that you're providing *1000* tickets to the world cup for a price of literally a normal price of a regular football match ticket? I mean I appreciate the effort but really wtf
Really pleased with my new AI headshots. Let me know what you think
A pleasure to be part of this committee! Alia is going to go on to great things. Watch out, world
I can humbly confirm this as an English man wondering why all baseball players wear the same number on this his first baseball game
This is a good example of why you should check what's being funneled onto your restaurant website by the API
Good morning and welcome to how to teach Intro Sociology Methods in 2026
For those of who don't know aka have actual lives, there was a whole bunch of internal politics and machination at a prestigious theoretical journal in Sociology, Theory and Society, which resulted in a political takeover and anyway the new contents seem completely normal so nothing to worry about