Michaela DeSoucey
@mdesoucey.bsky.social
sociologist of culture, food, consumption, markets, risk & trust, organizations, authenticity, heritage politics, likes vintage stuff & tennis
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 · 5d agoNEW: 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:
🔬 Career opportunities: The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is inviting applications for postdoctoral researchers and visiting researchers in: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Field of wealth and social inequality (postdoc only).
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UNC Sociology is hiring! 🐏 We're looking for someone at assistant or associate level in ANY area, willing to teach in our dept's Management & Society program (i.e. courses on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, social psychology, non-profits, work and family, AI and work, etc).
Assistant or Associate Professor
The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant or Associate (tenure-track or tenured) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We w...
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Today in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social we have an excellent piece on gummies, chews, and powders by Michaela DeSoucey and Emma McDonell. sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/09/g...
Gummies, Chews, and Powders: The Contradiction of Super-processed Superfoods - Science Politics
In an ironic twist, highly processed products are increasingly used to satisfy consumers’ desire for real food. But açaí and moringa extracts are no substitute for access to fresh meals and the time t...
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Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
And now I will do a thread of anti-ICE art and displays at the MN State Fair. First: the textiles
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Let’s be colleagues! Penn Sociology has an open, junior search. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311613/...
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with University of Pennsylvania | 1311613
University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences: School of Arts and Sciences - Sociology Location Philadelphia, PA Open Date Aug 07, 2026 D...
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Went to submit a peer review tonight (doing my part!) and the journal (w a Wiley interface) asks a bunch of questions w a 1-5 scale, per usual, but does NOT specify if 1 is high or low. 🙃🙃🙃
If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:
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At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c
Truly not the most pressing thing in the news, but SMH WHAT A HOT MESS: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
No qualifying bids, so State Health Plan will restart search for new insurer
The initial request for bids came in less than a year and a half after the state switched to Aetna from Blue Cross NC.
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Leopards eating faces, foreign disinformation edition www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...
Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
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A clarifying essay by Michael Schwalbe about the lessons sociology teaches to analyze the social world & why those foundational approaches & knowledge of how people navigate organizations, institutions, & everyday interactions can ‘puncture the fascist version of reality upon which control depends.’
Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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A Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/r...
A Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew
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fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children. This is a good thing.
The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is calling out Hershey for "quietly replacing" the candy's chocolate and peanut butter ingredients
Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inventor accuses Hershey of "quietly replacing" ingredients
Brad Reese claims Hershey is cutting costs by relying on cheaper ingredients, risking the Reese's brand.
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From the LiveFromNewYork community on Reddit: Reverend Jesse Jackson's dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham". One of my favorite WU segments. Jackson's powerful preacher delivery is fan...
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