Christopher Barrie

@cbarrie.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/

Screenshot of a journal article page on Springer’s Theory and Society website. The article title reads, “The revival of the social sciences – inoculation against parasitic ideas and suicidal empathy, and the quest for consilience via the evolutionary lens.” It is marked open access, published 16 March 2026, in Volume 55, article 26. The author shown is Gad Saad. The page includes buttons to download the PDF and save the article, a journal cover image on the right, and an abstract below arguing that the social sciences need an evolutionary meta-framework and warning against postmodernism and an “epistemology of care.”