Post-Doctoral Associate. We seek a recent PhD in political science, sociology, social psychology, statistics, computer or information science with an interest in computational social science or data science (broadly defined). This individual will help design, execute, and analyze a series of field experiments on a platform created by the Polarization Lab for scientific research on social media. The ideal candidate will possess advanced knowledge of R and/or Python software, experience performing statistical analyses and causal inference on large datasets, natural language processing, data management, and experience working with application programming interfaces. The Post-Doctoral Associate will supervise graduate students and undergraduate students and work in tandem with the Research Engineer to design and implement new research studies. They will also work with Lab directors to analyze data generated by these studies, write them up as scientific articles, and assist with grant-writing and other public outreach.

Submit a cover letter and a c.v. with the names of three references.

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