Pamela Neumann
@pamelaneumann.bsky.social
Sociologist. Mamá. Hablo español.
In other news my co-authored book with Cecilia Menjívar is officially forthcoming www.ucpress.edu/books/compli...
Complicit States by Cecilia Menjivar, Pamela Neumann - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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And he should be worried. All of the energy and enthusiasm is on Gina’s side. People are going to come out in droves for her and Talarico. If you are in Texas, VOTE in every race. Time to clean house.
Capitol Whip@capitolwhip.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: Greg Abbott told his donors this week he’s losing sleep over the state of his re-election campaign. Abbot’s campaign has spent $146M this year, and he’s still facing the toughest challenge of his political career because Texans are sick and tired of his failed leadership.
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
"Trauma-informed policing recognizes that trauma can affect behavior, memory, emotion, and a survivor’s ability to recount an experience—and that investigative practices themselves can either reduce or compound that trauma and any subsequent investigative challenges." slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Research Gender-Based Policing at Cornell. Here’s How My Campus Police Should Have Responded to Jane Doe. (Gift Article)
Gender-responsive policing recognizes people of different genders can experience crime, victimization, and interactions with law enforcement differently.
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I’m sick of watching our elected leaders dismantle our public school system — and disrespect our teachers and superintendents in the process. My opponent was in Midland last week and said he “proudly stands beside” TEA commissioner Mike Morath...
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
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I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Talarico: "Corrupt politicians are profiting off a corrupt war and Texans are literally paying the price ... this war in Iran is a disaster. It is killing Americans, driving up the price of gas and diesel, it is wrecking our moral standing around the world. And it must end."
My takeaway from this piece, based on a paper that will be in the Harvard Educational Review: Amazon has joined the more notorious tech bros in their single-minded quest for even more power and profit off of schools and kids, and our society and our lives. Dense, terrifying, essential research.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2w agoAmazon's always been a bit of an overlooked influence in education. But its infrastructural control is now becoming clear. It owns the technical substrates on which a lot of digital and AI-mediated education takes place codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/h...
If this isn’t blatant viewpoint discrimination, then I don’t know what is. “The Office of the Provost rejected 57 of 77 applications from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis to retain core curriculum status for the 2027-28 academic year . . . 1/2 thedailytexan.com/2026/09/24/u...
University rejects over 30 courses of a COLA department’s requested core curriculum courses,
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story and headline incorrectly stated the number and percentage of courses of Social and Cultural Analysis that were rejected by the Office of the Provost due...
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Looking forward to reaching this milestone next year
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago"Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings who can smell misogyny and then wedge themselves into a tight crevice until the threat passes." buff.ly/F8vQT1N
Grading on a Friday night. This semester has gotten off to a brutal start. Ugh.
"ThErE aRe A lOt Of SkIlLs ThAt DoN't MaTtEr" translation: there are skills that he doesn't recognize the value of
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w agoEzra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
PARCL LABS: “.. Single family home accidental landlords continue to pile into the rental supply in #Texas. .. Today, 13% of every single family home unit available for rent in Texas is originating from owners who tried to sell their home and couldn't.”
This keeps happening because Texas built it to keep happening.
Another ICE Shooting In Texas And How Texas Republicans Enabled It
This keeps happening because Texas built it to keep happening.
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The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives
Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.
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It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w agoLysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
I have been doing academia professionally for a quarter century and I am still trying to figure out how to do some of these things
Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 3w agoAn important read about class and academic jobs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
Scooplet: after Texas State Representative Brian Harrison and megadonor Monty Bennett publicly complained about the University of North Texas having a large archive of primary sources related to LGBTQ history in North Texas, UNT has taken down a website about it, and Rep. Harrison is taking credit.
“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
texastribune.org
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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A good job should mean you can pay the bills, take care of your family, and come home safe. Greg Abbott turned his back on this promise. When I’m governor, I’ll make the American Dream mean something again for working families.
TODAY is National Voter Registration Day. Make sure you’re registered, make a plan to vote, and vote early. Check your voter registration at MyTexasVotes.com
This guy needs to win because public school food in my son’s elementary is TERRIBLE. #texas
Clayton Tucker@claytontuckertx.com · 4w agoTexas grows some of the best food in America. Texas kids should be eating it. Let’s put more food from Texas farmers in Texas schools while making sure no child goes hungry.
A Michigan program gave families $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month through a baby’s first year. The result: Healthier babies and healthier moms. theconversation.com/im-a-pediatr...
I’m a pediatrician in Michigan who created Rx Kids, one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs – here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health
More than 15,000 families in Michigan have received cash support from Rx Kids. Participants say the program helps them pay bills and maintain their health.
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