Hannah Waight
Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | hwaight.github.io
- Reposted by Hannah WaightLast week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...
- Reposted by Hannah WaightICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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- Reposted by Hannah WaightThere is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...
- We recently wrote a follow blog post summarizing this @amjsoc.bsky.social article. Please follow this link to read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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- New blog post summarizing my recent paper with Adam Goldstein in the AJS: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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- Thank you @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell for all your hard work on this! Really thankful to have been a part of this special issue!
- Reposted by Hannah WaightI’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
- Reposted by Hannah Waight✨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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- I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Researchers are often interested in tracking the flow of ideas and claims across texts. This is a very challenging target to estimate, however, as due to copyright and journalistic norms authors will often reuse information and ideas without using the same words, phrases or even language.
- We leverage recent advances in NLP to measure whether two newspaper articles are making the same claims about the same underlying subjects. We use document embeddings to reduce the number of comparisons to a tractable number and large language models for pair annotation.
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View full threadOur replication package is available at this link: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
- Excellent new work by one of our graduate students
- David Purucker, (ABD in SOC) wrote "The Sociology of Socialism: A Review and Prospectus" in Critical Sociology. Link: urldefense.com/v3/__http://... Purucker argues socialism is "a relevant social fact in the US and a superior framework for envisioning alternatives to systems of oppression."
- Reposted by Hannah WaightRead the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn @drklittlej.bsky.social, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone @amylstone1.bsky.social, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities. bit.ly/3EyV56r
- The website for the new @asanews.bsky.social journal, Sex & Sexualities is live!! It publishes cutting-edge sociological research on sexualities by fostering space for rigorous intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, feminist, and critical research. journals.sagepub.com/home/SNS
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- Reposted by Hannah WaightHannah Waight and Adam Goldstein show that inequality perceptions have become increasingly polarized by partisanship.This gap has been driven by Republicans, whose increasing disavowal of growing inequality contributed to an overall decline in Americans’ perceptions in the new gilded age.
- 1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 2/ We show that trends in perceptions of economic polarization are inversely correlated with trends in actual distributional inequality, with a surprising decline in the share of Americans who perceive inequality to be growing during the 1990s and early 2000s.
- 3/ By this measure a greater portion of the population perceived inequality to be widening during the late 1970s (when it was still flat) than during the mid-2000s (by which point it had been growing for decades). A similar post-1992 decline also appears in other survey-based measures.
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View full thread9/ Our replication package is currently under review, but will be available at this link: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/.... Please contact me at hwaight@uoregon.edu if you would like to access the data before then.
- Reposted by Hannah WaightMany correspondence audits collect data on multiple characteristics but don't examine all potential forms of discrimination. In our latest paper on @socarxiv.bsky.social, “Missing Results of Discrimination,” we show that scholars may unintentionally miss key findings. osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Hannah WaightJOB! Please RT. Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18. apply.interfolio.com/165892 Happy to answer questions.
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- See this link for a press release on my @pnas.org new paper on propaganda in China with Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, and Brandon Stewart: www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @uoregon.bsky.social
- Thank you @chinadigitaltimes.net we would not have been able to do this work without you!
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- How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.
- How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.
- - State propaganda campaigns are influential but difficult to detect - We develop a new method for identifying government-authored propaganda in millions of newspaper articles in China - We validate our method by linking leaked propaganda directives to newspaper behavior
- - We show that in China, scripted state propaganda is a daily phenomenon - On 90% of days from 2012-2022, the vast majority of party newspapers printed scripted propaganda - Scripted propaganda is also common in commercial newspapers, and its prevalence increased 2012-2022
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View full threadCorrected link to replication package here: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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- Reposted by Hannah WaightIt’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025
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- Reposted by Hannah WaightApplications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host
