Come work with me! We are currently searching for a project manager to help with a multi-year, multi-university study examining temporary labor migration. We'll begin reviewing applications on 7/28. Details available here: https://t.co/s8y8zQKR0f

Come work with me! UVA is currently searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in environmental sociology. We'll begin reviewing applications on 10/2. @EnviroSocASA Details available here or through the ASA Job Bank:

This soldier worked on his mother Maggie's farm before the war, and then returned to it afterwards. So I guess for some people they *are* going to work on Maggie's farm some more

Simulated Annealing: a stochastic optimization method inspired by nature. As "temperature" decreases, random fluctuations (that allow it to escape local minima/maxima) decrease and the particle resorts to hillclimbing. No gradient calculation required. #RStats #rayshader

Love Data? We do! Valentine's Day may be over, but we're still celebrating Love Data Week with this post from Jenn Huck, Associate Director of Research Data Services @uva_data on some of her favorite data collections held by the @UVA Library. #LoveDataWeek https://t.co/hExS8iGFXl

Spent my Friday vacation writing this up, after struggling with HMC for years. Would this be useful to anyone else or other references are sufficient for most people?

Needless to say, I'm SUPER excited to have @ProfYangZhang visit us next week!!!

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I don't do conjoint survey experiments, but I'm aware that they are becoming increasingly popular in sociology. Interested parties might want to check out this new piece from Gary King and company.

𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 0.9.0 is a BIG📦release! Simple yet powerful tools to help you interpret the results of over 70 classes of models in #RStats (LM, GLM, GAM, discrete choice, mixed-effects, bayesian, etc.) 🧵 on some cool new stuff. https://t.co/OwBLCPgovN

My Twitter game is lagging a bit these days, but I want to second Fiona and extend another HUGE congrats to Yen-Yu Lin!!!

Sharing new "Just Accepted" paper out in @The_JOP, on new methods for network inference and event history analysis, w/ Jeff Harden, Mark Brockway, @FJBoehmke, @ScottJLaCombe, @FridolinLinder, and @hannawallach. (1/3) https://t.co/XroiOY0zKy

I want to join @allison_pugh in congratulating @btdinsmore on her amazing new job! There is nothing better than seeing @UVASociology grads doing great things!!!

The link from Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution. The monasteries dissolved in 1536 had no feudal lords, so the farmers that occupied them became the gentry who led to innovation & reform More monasteries in an area= more factories 3 centuries later. https://t.co/bxJoo26QJS

First semester as DGS is in the books. It was a long one, but with the work of lots of people we managed to expand funding for our amazing grads. I also did a better job at sleeping and taking care of myself. My plans for break include lifting weights and reading Capital!

Publication day! This one was a long time in the making. Even if you aren't into 19th century populism, you might be interested in random effects eigenvector spatial filtering, which is a nice alternative to classical geographically weighted regression. https://t.co/HNFRUm3xiy

I can't say enough about how honored I am to have been asked to be on @MrChristopherHu's committee. This is a fantastic project and I encourage all of my sociology pals who work on education to keep an eye out for Chris's work.

Going to try and work my way through this one today. Say what you will about sound quality, but the energy on the Capitol Theater AUDs from 1970 is off the charts. It is absolutely part of the listening experience for me. Wouldn't trade it for anything! https://t.co/colVufD47Q

I want to second this. The thing that I like best about the outline is that it is organized into the rhetorical tasks required to get a reader on the hook without essentializing things like THE literature review or THE theory section.