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Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2y ago

This. I’ve often seen people called out for not speaking about something on social media while aware that they were offering important behind-the-scenes support that a public statement would jeopardize. Folks need to be more careful about what they think they know. There are multiple lanes.

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.

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Great podcast with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

Best of 'How To': The Infrastructure of Community

Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.

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Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family. doi.org/10.1177/0003... 1/

Our latest paper, in PNAS, makes a case for studying what makes people travel to neighborhoods racially different from their own. Maybe some places help counter residential segregation. We found some surprises. 1/ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Social scientists: Do you use SafeGraph? Our latest paper does a quality assessment of (one aspect of) the popular large-scale dataset. A few serious problems and what to do about them. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Are Large-Scale Data From Private Companies Reliable? An Analysis of Machine-Generated Business Location Data in a Popular Dataset - Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, Mario L. Small, 2024

Large-scale data from private companies offer new opportunities to examine topics of scientific and social significance, such as racial inequality, partisan pol...

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🗓️ Register now for the NIAS symposium 'Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment' (June 17-19). 🌆 Explore spatial segregation & urban dynamics with Martin Ruef, Olav Sorenson, @marioluissmall.bsky.social, Nicole Marwell, Sunasir Dutta and Jon Bannister. nias.knaw.nl/events/conne...

NIAS-symposium Connecting Urban Inequality to the Built Environment | NIAS

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I keep thinking about @marioluissmall.bsky.social’s brilliant book Unanticipated Gains and what the fragmentation of the last 4 years—both IRL and online—means for lost capacity

Interesting piece by @marioluissmall.bsky.social on the implications of new/big data sources in social science. Focused mostly on social media (for good reason), but I think it applies to other data, too. To me, big idea is: We gotta rethink how we interpret results. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

More sociologists should return to this topic. Loneliness, isolation, anomie, the lack of someone to talk to---these are socially structured problems. www.wsj.com/articles/lon...

Loneliness Isn’t Just Bad for Your Health—It’s Deadly

People who report often feeling lonely or being socially isolated are at an increased risk of death from any cause, new research suggests

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I wouldn't miss the new book by @marioluissmall.bsky.social and @jessicacalarco.bsky.social "Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research" www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

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