I kinda love when the wapo editorial board gets absolutely owned in the comments..
Dan Morrison (he/him)
@danielrmorrison.bsky.social
Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, ignorance. The views expressed on this platform are my own and do not reflect the views of The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
I drove ~600 miles today. This is work, y'all
Sociology majors up 110% year over year at UAH. #socialscience #data #peoplescience
@ryanboyd.bsky.social I'm drafting a semi satirical essay comparing one of their editors to Tucker Carlson.
Does anyone have a copy of Moira Weigel's article "Hating Theory Today" from the Winter 2026 edition of October that they would share with me?
instead of the 5 stages of grief, maybe there are 5 stages of grievance
My new piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social with @cyberlyra.bsky.social comes at an urgent moment in science policy. New OMB rules and EOs threaten to politicize science and strip it of the democratic norms, autonomy, and pluralism meant to protect science as and for democracy issues.org/merton-redux...
Merton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in Democracy
The decimation of democratic processes that undergird state-sponsored research may be ultimately more consequential than funding cuts.
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Neil Gross has studied the professoriate but his book Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (Harvard University Press, 2013) is not cited in the Vanderbilt report. His coedited book with Solon Simmons, Professors and Their Politics. Johns Hopkins UP, 2014, is.
It's nice to not have to have a take on everything.
I think everyone should watch/listen to this panel. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is brilliant as usual. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
Opinion | Why No Kings Isn’t Working
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New SKAT blog post out today! Check out this research brief written by Daniel Morrison and Monica Casper, "Introducing Problem Convergence: The Case of Brain Injury." asaskat.com/2026/05/18/i... @danielrmorrison.bsky.social @mjcasper.bsky.social
Introducing Problem Convergence: The Case of Brain Injury
Research Brief by Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper We have been studying the social worlds of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for fifteen years. In th…
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Does the Yale report suggest that they should increase the number of seats in entering classes? Making Yale more affordable is a good thing. But if the # of seats does not significantly increase, it's a very incomplete way to address access issues.
One of the great things about getting older is figuring out what is for you and what is not.
All of this could have been avoided if decision makers had taken their liberal arts classes seriously and learned the basics.
Really appreciating Huntsville as a city today.
I'm just catching up on @thomaszimmer from a few weeks back. Listen media.steady.page/post/27faead...
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Don’t believe me, ask @danielrmorrison.bsky.social. He saw an early version of this paper. It’s waaay more developed now! #HigherEd #Pedagogy #Academia #CollegesAndUniversities #Education
Brooks shoild read more: A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan. Episode: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr... . Media: pdrl.fm/7a3b46/pdst.... . <p>The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookin... -- Sent from Podcast Republic.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by Robert Kagan, a historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a conversation about the pressures facing American democracy, the security of elect...
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All it took was a more permanent position at Yale and a dinner or two and Brook changes his story about universities. yaledailynews.com/articles/dav...
New pub on Valentine's Day. Check out Sociological Perspectives doi.org/10.1177/0731... And big thanks to Claire Whitlinger!
Facing Slavery as Saving Face: Racial Cynicism in Student Perceptions of Universities Studying Slavery - Claire Whitlinger, Daniel R. Morrison, 2026
As institutional reckonings move from the margins to the mainstream, an increasing number of colleges and universities have sponsered efforts to examine their i...
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So many articles discuss how boys are not maturing at the same rate as girls. They more or less explicitly say it's biological. Then all the reasons turn out to be social and relational, not biological. How Parents Can Better Prepare Their High School Boys For College share.google/Y2xsYDeKSw5S...
How Parents Can Better Prepare Their High School Boys For College
Why timing, temperament, connection, and developmental realities—not intelligence—shape how boys experience high school and college readiness.
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Cancel culture strikes at a certain southern state university.
