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t-kihara.bsky.social
Studying sociology and demography with a focus on international migration | Assistant Prof @KeioUniversity, Japan | www.tatekihara.com
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今日は5つの会議のはしご。うち対面は1つだけ。プレコロナの世界ではあり得なかったことなんだろう。

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

学務と教育で忙しすぎて研究できない vs. 不安定な政情による心理的不安で研究できない、だったらみんなどちらを選ぶのかね。

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Another significant issue is the references existing but the AI totally ignoring what the cited papers say and/or fabricating the argument of the papers. This seems to happen especially with paywalled papers when using Deep Research mode. I now have to manually read references of students’ papers.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

私立大学はそれぞれの建学の理念を重視した方が良いというのには一定程度賛同する。

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

日本の政治が10-20年後に現在のアメリカみたいにならないようにするためには何をどうすれば良いのか。

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

I have a bad feeling that the new asteroid issue will be “negatively” affecting the Earth politics in 2028.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

DeepSeek's output often does not accurately reflect the content of cited references or web articles (and occasionally even contradicts them), so you need to be quite cautious.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

トランプ、日本に沖縄割譲を要求してくるんじゃないかと心配になるな。

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

様々なものが押し寄せて疲れすぎて思考が止まっている。

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Salaries at many Japanese universities are almost mechanically determined by age, tenure, and rank, with little to no variation between departments. I earn the same amount as a business school assistant professor of the same age, who has been teaching at my uni for the same number of years.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

One great thing about teaching at Japanese universities is that students care FAR less about their GPAs. I've been teaching at Keio for 2 years, and I've only ever gotten ONE question about grades.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

The salary and teaching load differences in academia between Japan and the US can be really discouraging at times, but there are some upsides to being in Japan too—at least, I hope to believe.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

I look forward to "have you included a samurai dummy" becoming a staple seminar question

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

In “Social Mobility Across the Pacific,” Tate Kihara (Keio University) shows how “the premigration socioeconomic status and cultural backgrounds” of Japanese immigrant parents in the continental United States facilitated upward mobility for the second generation. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

submitted 272 days ago • 0 comments

How can various decomposition methods (e.g., Oaxaca-Blinder-Kitagawa) be understood in causal inference framework? Looking for some readings suggestions!

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

The government transition situation on the other side of the Pacific is so chaotic that almost all past and present cabinet members in the Japanese government are starting to look pretty good to me, even the Minister for Justice who served jail time (for bribery).

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments