I'm honored to receive the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Sexualities Section for my paper "Networked Sexuality: Boundary-Making under Unsettled Categories". It's been a rough few months, and I'm grateful for lil reminders like this that say, keep going.

Congrats Milly!!!!!!!

Milly Yang@millysoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Feeling incredibly honored and grateful to receive an honorable mention for the Student Paper Award from the ASA Sociology of Population section!

This is exciting!

ASA Int'l Migration@asamigration.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SUBMIT TO THE IM SECTION MINI-CONFERENCE, "MIGRATION + CRISIS: Friday, August 7 before the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting in New York City. forms.gle/gVsjqJPJCc7m... Submission deadline: April 15th!

Interesting discussion... I've been grappling with whether to code political speech 'at face value' as it's the easiest to operationalize yet invites trouble since people don't usually subscribe to those accounts themselves. And if we code the connotations, it's hard to ascertain its validity

Journal of Politics@thejop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Political Speech for Democratic Realists" by Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246 Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!

SPQ is excited to announce a Special Issue on Social Status! We are inviting scholars to submit their theoretical and empirical articles that examine status by December 15th, 2026. Below is the information for the Call for Papers. #SPQ

I read a paper today that uses Bayesian instead of Frequentist statistical inference and hmmmmmmm, it’s quite cool.

A perfect addition to my ‘method or theory?? why not both ;)’ reading list as I continue my quant side quests this year

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In which Rogers Brubaker, Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co comment and Greta Krippner and I reply. Read if you like getting into the theoretical and technical weeds of the relationship between categorization, quantification, and different imaginaries of the relationship between variables and persons.

Adding to my reading list for Political Behavior. I wonder how this relates to the 'reactive ethnicity' literature, at first glance it reminds me of it

Mashail Malik@mamalik.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

My favorite academic advice blog posted a new bit!

Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana@zraresearch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’ve been thinking a lot about writing, so wrote a bit about the process side of things: practicalphd.net/2025/12/02/i...

Cool work

Kristopher Velasco@kvelasco.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My latest article is now up on ASR. In it, we argue that the U.S. LGBTQ movement is in the midst of a widespread, conflictual process of generational turnover—with important implications for the future of the movement. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Heavy news these days. There’s some kind of ancient magic in the tides of Coronado Island that calms my mind.

This weird feeling after finally submitting a manuscript that's been too long in the making, like I'm able to close a chapter of my life, but in a sense, the real game is just starting...

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Bryn Mawr College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology with a specialization in social movements! The applications are due on September 19th. It is a fantastic place to be a scholar and educator—please spread the word! I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!

Assistant Professor of Sociology

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I'll be sharing my paper at Harvard's “Migration & Immigrant Incorporation” Workshop on Sep 30. This is (to my knowledge) the first to merge 13 waves of the Pew National Survey of Latinos. I traced TWENTY years of trends in (anti)-immigration attitudes among Hispanic Americans. Join me!

💥I published a book review!💥 A massive thanks to Alex for the shoutout. Go check it out! Especially relevant to ppl studying immigration, public opinion, politics, and policy reform. @columbiaup.bsky.social

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thrilled to see the first review of my book in International Migration Review: "In Our Interest is a gift... Empirically rigorous, theoretically generative, and normatively pragmatic, [it] is that rare book that will reshape the debate." By @annjiang.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Aligns with an idea I had, just last month 🫡 Is this a sign to write it out or...

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

🚨 My review of In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular is forthcoming (!) in International Migration Review. The book is just out, by @akoustov.bsky.social, and offers a bold take on migration politics. I look up to his work, so it feels unreal that IMR asked me to review it.

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Can’t wait to see all the new science that will be presented this spring at #PAA2026! Everyone is welcome, so please think about what research you have to share. Early career scholars, feel free to reach out if you have Qs about the submission process or @popassocamerica.bsky.social!

Population Association of America@popassocamerica.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

REMINDER: section reception (co-sponsored with Asian and Asian American section) tonight, Sunday, 8/10 West Toronto West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Toronto 8-10:30 pm

If you see me in Chicago at #ASA2025, feel free to ask me about my tried and true Chicago food map 👀.

ASA SKAT@asaskat.bsky.social · 12mo ago

👋 Meet nine of our SKAT Section student members, and learn more about their research. Remember to say hi to them in Chicago at #ASA2025! asaskat.com/2025/08/06/m...

Are you an early bird attending #ASA2025? Grab your coffee and join us bright and early this Saturday :). I'm presenting on the surprising findings of immigration and right-wing movements. I'll discuss why some immigrants hold seemingly contradictory opinions.

Not sure if I cleaned the data or the data cleaned me. After wrangling 20 years of Pew Hispanic surveys, a harmonized dataset now exists. So does a slightly more harmonized me (maybe). #sociology #data #survey #jokes

Last month, I wrote a book review as part of Prof. Jake Watson’s grad seminar. Being the savvy mentor that he is, he encouraged me to reach out to International Migration Review. They were interested, and today, I officially submitted my review.

Nothing like finals week to make me wildly fantasize about all I’ll accomplish in the three months of summer. The self-expectations are are high, the calendars are color-coded, and the delusion is fully operational. 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

So excited to see this out in the world—I’ve been looking forward to this remote control piece. Congrats to my advisor on this timely pub! 📄👏🏼

David FitzGerald@fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · last yr.

Read how the U.S. systematically externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers. Open access in Migration Studies. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Important work...✍️ Citing this in my working paper

Juliana Horowitz@jmhorowitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we released a major @pewresearch.org survey of LGBTQ adults looking at: ▶️ Views of social acceptance for LGBTQ people ▶️ Personal experiences with acceptance, discrimination ▶️ Experiences with coming out ▶️ Identity ▶️ Community, friends and LGBTQ spaces Read on for findings from each section.

Super interesting...✍️

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · last yr.

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Some light news in a heavy week: my paper was accepted by #ASA2025 for the panel “Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism” (co-sponsored by @asapolisoc.bsky.social & @asamigration.bsky.social ). I look forward to engaging with folks on migration and political trends--in Chicago!

New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦