Cristobal Young pulled together data on the frats suspended at Cornell over the past 18 years. Together, we point at that data to argue that our current regulatory whac-a-mole strategy isn't working and we need to try radical reforms that amount to ending men-only residential frats.

GUEST ROOM | The Whac-A-Mole Ritual of Suspending Fraternities Is Not Working; It’s Time for Deeper Reforms

Professor Young and Professor Hirschman have come together to create a dataset to analyze all known fraternity infractions since 2008. They use this data to call for the restructuring of Greek Life in...

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I love everything about this thread (except the findings - because they ring very true).

Katie Spoon@kspoon.bsky.social · 12h ago

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

"Men can generally be bad dept citizens as long as their research is valued, but women can’t." "Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…I thought that if I worked hard enough, my work wld be recognized. But [that's] not how the system works."

Devaluation underlies gendered US faculty departures across disciplines and institutions

Abstract. Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale

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❗The deadline for our Emerging Scholars Conference is approaching❗ Are you a grad student or postdoc with work contributing to the study of cities and community life? Submit an extended abstract by 11/15 for consideration. Submit here: tinyurl.com/cicoconf @asanews.bsky.social

Somehow did not anticipate that new location being a jail.

NOLA.com@nolanews.bsky.social · 7d ago

Wake Up NOLA: The city’s largest homeless shelter could be moving to a new location bit.ly/4e3RI63

“An analysis by Science found more than 30 program areas—including archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards.”‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

This is fun! Even if I’m not particularly good at it. 🏙️ Buildle — 2026-10-07 3,932 / 10,000 · 🔥0 🗺️ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 📅 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 danielkayhertz.com/buildings

Rahim Kurwa@rahimk.bsky.social · last wk.

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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Got my first spammy 'reading group' 'invitation.' Does this mean I've made it as an author?

In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

Ancient history live! 🏺 On Sept 18, 2 artifacts from our Roman Archaeology Lab were featured at The Human Factor VIP reception, showcasing NC State research from Petra & Aqaba, Jordan! Faculty members Tate Paulette and Kate Grossman were on hand to guide guests through the display.

I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.

After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

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"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 2w ago

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

Thus, the Vanderbilt Report is ultimately a rejection of empiricism, an effort to pretend that over half a century of peer-reviewed scholarship in many different fields either didn't happen or is somehow invalid for the simple reason that it conflicts with the authors' priors.

I have been this deer.

Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · 2y ago

this owl just inhaled a pound of cocaine

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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It's official! I'll be giving a talk to launch my new book at Octavia Books on Dec 8! EXPOSED: A COLLEGE IN CRISIS PUTS SCIENCE TO THE TEST is about the folly of leading w/ science and tech alone, w/ a rompish case study featuring students on campus during Covid. From @wwnorton.com! Link below!

Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test | Lisa Wade, PhD

For half a century, Americans have been told that science and technology is the future. We invested in the so-called “hard sciences,” while casting the “soft sciences” as

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"If Rubin were actually sincere about not having sufficient evidence to make sweeping claims about the discipline, then she would not make such sweeping claims about the discipline. Yet she does. Over and over again." @juliango.bsky.social on the U Chicago responses to the Rubin report on sociology.

guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

scatter.wordpress.com

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 3w ago

Syracuse missed its undergraduate-enrollment target, creating a $30-million deficit. Now its new chancellor wants a mostly faculty committee to propose “disruptive and potentially unpopular” reforms — and answer what a $95,000-a-year education is worth. https://chroni.cl/4xLOIlR

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

Gemini: A Gemini is someone you can trust to help you hide a dead body, but you can’t trust them not to dress the body up in a clown costume and parade it around a bit.

Wow. I teach her 2016 article in my classes when we cover race and education. It's a powerful way to think about individual action in the face of structural inequality. This follow-up article highlights that tension to a greater and more painful degree.

In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Feel free to be mad at me and I encourage blocking. But I will simply remind you that knowing who to be mad at is PRAXIS. Direct your fury at the actual targets.

A member of the Braves Triple-A affiliate, the Gwinnett Stripers, rescued a kitten from traffic in late August, and the team called on fans to help name the cute kitty. ChipPurr Jones was the runaway answer and the kitten (with the help of treats) threw out the first pitch

He described NC cities as “blood-soaked killing fields” while in public, in NC.

Danielle Battaglia@daniellebattaglia.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump claims NC crime among worst in country. His attorney general says otherwise #ncpol Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

“Despite its serious ethical flaws”. . . We decided to do it again? What?

isaac@sevier.io · 4w ago

Hey, uh, what the fuck