Stephanie Zhang

phd student @ucla sociology // @uva alum // transit, sts, cities, computational soc and (bad) math jokes // stephzzhang @ bsky

[icsjournal @icsjournal]

#OutNow in #iCS
Zhang applies Sentence-BERT to trace AI discourse on X, uncovering how narratives of futurity and expertise emerge through platform dynamics, shaping what AI is imagined to be, and by whom.
https://t.co/Y4TLGcWqNX

[Stephanie Zhang @stephzzhang]

Three years after starting this project, one cycle of PhD apps, one ASA, and two rounds of revisions later it's finally out! I examine Twitter discourse around AI using SBERT and highlight how the potential of AI reshapes understandings of expertise.

https://t.co/KcNHObvxUE

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

timeless

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data .gov, totalling 16 TB.🫡🫡

This is a complete archive of federal public datasets harvested during 2024-2025, updated daily.

[Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality]

🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository

Free to use without restriction!

https://t.co/IUWdEOLGlY

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Starting a PhD

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I want books for Christmas this year”

Unread books from 2023:

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️#summer 2025 yet? Look no more! @MPIDRnews has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 https://t.co/c6YPq0Gize

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

"rising inequality is legitimated by the popular belief that the income gap is meritocratically deserved: the more unequal a society, the more likely its citizens are to explain success in meritocratic terms... the less important... a person’s family wealth and connections."

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Re-reading your draft

[Bussit baby @bussit_bbLA]

“Im only five stops away”

The five stops:

[Stephanie Zhang @stephzzhang]

it took nearly 18 months but my twitter (rip) paper is finally a preprint! in it i ask how did twitter users talk about a future with AI? more importantly how long will it be before i circle back to this paper?

link: https://t.co/ItgiDkZpyb

[Stephanie Zhang @stephzzhang]

from @metrolosangeles's blog: some shameless self promo on what i've been up to this past year! tldr: public transit (trains) are cool 🚂
https://t.co/hcPxhizmHY

[Kyle Walker @kyle_e_walker]

A new version of tidycensus, your #rstats gateway to @uscensusbureau demographic & spatial data, is now on CRAN!

This release supports the final releases from the 2020 Decennial Census: the DDHC-B and SDHC files.

Learn all about the package in the docs: https://t.co/jluzVpQ5h7

[Dr Sharon Lauricella @DrSLauricella]

Seriously reassessing my fall goals this wknd

[Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara]

You’re not demure, you’re in grad school