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What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

This got lost in a comment, so going to put it back up here, because I think its super interesting. There was this Axios article that got some discourse play last year based on a survey where people were asked how much you have to earn to be financially successful. Gen Z says they need 587k

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

Check out my new article in the Journal of Organizational Sociology, where I examine how technology limits the autonomy of entry-level workers. I theorize two subtypes of technical control and discuss its implications for gender inequality www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

“The System Sucks”: Computer Programs and Technical Control in Entry-Level White-Collar Work

Researchers often examine how technology controls the labor of precarious workers while demonstrating the limits of technology on controlling professional workers. Drawing on a subset of 46 in-depth i...

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The main person quoted in this story is my undergrad student. Voter suppression of students is strong in Indiana.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · last yr.

Two-thirds of voters at Indiana University Bloomington’s sole on-campus polling site used their university ID to vote last fall. Indiana banned students from using these IDs for voting this spring. boltsmag.org/indiana...

@cmpech.bsky.social I think IU admin would find this book pretty informative. Excited to read this!

New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

This seems like a terrible idea. What I’ve seen in the classroom is that AI makes it way too easy to cheat and to avoid critical thinking. It is a massive net harm. My fear is that if universities wholesale adopt AI, their graduates will be stigmatized. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure

The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.

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"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities

Negative social ties, or "difficult ties," are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidity. Using ego-centric network data and DNA methy...

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Two very good pieces on the same topic. First from Kate Shaw: "The Supreme Court has undermined lower courts seeking to protect the rule of law and emboldened an administration eager to trample it." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

Opinion | Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican-led House approves tax bill after grueling all-night session, taking a major step forward for Trump's agenda.

In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form. The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April. Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing

ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

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After reading this article, I'm eagerly awaking the Butlerian Jihad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

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Class evaluations are in! In response to the question, "what did you like least about this course," one student wrote: "The thing I liked least was how often he backed into things. Has a real lack of surroundings." Killin' it.

Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Got this in the mail yesterday—the newest addition to my bookshelf. Thanks@uchicagopress.bsky.social! Can't wait for the book to come out next month! Link to pre-order 👇

NSF's new research "priorities" seems absurd: research should not "directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Updates on NSF Priorities

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Congratulations to Herbert Gans for a life well-lived. Strongly recommend his famous piece "The Positive Functions of Poverty", which he always stressed was serious & not sarcastic. Also, recommend his books _The War Against the Poor_ & _The Urban Villagers_. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...

Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.

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I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more. I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

Franki Kung@frankikung.bsky.social · last yr.

We're hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar! Come join our @conflictcollab.bsky.social at Purdue PSY in the fall 🎉 The role involves opportunities to research and lead writing projects on humanizing organization, conflict mgnt, workplace discrimination, goals, and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1tke0...

Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Chris Muravez@chrismuravez.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

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Of the 50 hardest-hit schools on this list, 32% are in states that voted for Trump. Losses range from $36.2 to $129.7M—per school. We can organize around that. Electeds, even Republicans, don’t want mass layoffs in their districts. (NB: If you reply by celebrating people’s pain, I’ll block you.)

Riley Acton@riacton.bsky.social · last yr.

Very helpful data aggregation on the financial impacts of the proposed 15% #NIH indirect rate 👇 datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Students, be aware that you can’t depend on UNC’s administration to protect you from ICE. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

UNC-Chapel Hill will ‘comply’ if ICE seeks students on campus, chancellor says

Schools and colleges are no longer considered “sensitive” spaces protected from immigration officials, under a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security.

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