NYU Abu Dhabi is hosting RC28's spring meeting April 15-17, 2027. If you're a social scientist interested in inequalities, stratification, mobility, education, or demography, consider submitting an abstract by December 15, 2026. Info at our website: rc28-abudhabi.com/index.html

RC28 Conference · Abu Dhabi

RC28 Conference in Abu Dhabi — program, committee, deadlines, and registration information.

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QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGISTS: Need advice! Emily Shafer and I are using what people typed into a text box on a survey as qualitative data. What should we do when quoting them in a Soc paper? Correct misspellings, typos, "bad grammar? Put it as they typed it? With or w/o "sic"?

I'm proud to say that I was among the new Fellows elected to the British Academy last week (in the International Fellow category).

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x

Felix Busch, Wenhao Jiang, and I just published a piece in Social Forces asking what explains the increased wage gap between those in professional and managerial (PM) jobs vs all other jobs in the US. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The role of graduate education in the rising wage premium for professional and managerial occupations, 1980–2019

Abstract. Part of the rise in US wage inequality comes from a widening gap between professional/managerial (PM) and other occupations (NPM). We examine the

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Man Xu and I just published "Nonunion and Cohabiting First Births in the U.S.: Racial and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Predict Nonunion Births for Men as Well as Women"in the new journal, Populations. You can find it here: www.mdpi.com/3042-4372/2/...

Does AI do p-hacking? Yes it does open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

Claude Code 35: Do AI Agents Writing Full Manuscripts at the Social Catalyst Lab P-Hack?

In a nutshell: they absolutely do!

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Has anyone flown out of Terminal 4 (International) in JFK in the last week that could tell me what TSA lines look like and whether TSA PreCheck lines are faster? I'm trying to calibrate how early I need to get there Saturday night.

My latest in PNAS about changes in SES and voting: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Elites moved toward democrats more than nonelites moved away: Income, education, and occupational class in US presidential elections, 1980–2020 | PNAS

Recent discussion of voting in US elections claims a strong movement of White working-class voters away from voting for Democrats, with much discus...

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George Farkas, my coauthor on Households, Employment, and Gender has died of brain cancer. He studied what helps kids learn, his rigor matched by his deep caring about poor kids being able to learn reading better. He taught me the uses of FE models. RIP, my friend.

Scholars of law: Come work with a smart, diverse, globally oriented faculty group on law at New York University Abu Dhabi, where I am Dean of Social Science. Faculty position is open rank. Apply here:https://apply.interfolio.com/174761

I'm Dean to a research-active group of economists at NYU Abu Dhabi, a vibrant international city. We are hiring a senior economists. Come and work with us! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/173053

Looking for an Asst Prof position in Political Science? Come work with us at NYU Abu Dhabi. I'm dean to a great group of comparative politics scholars in the truly cosmopolitan city of Abu Dhabi. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/173054

Raewyn Connell is indeed a lovely and creative scholar. Interesting to read her view of her career intersecting with the personal.

TristanBridges.bsky.social@tristanbridges.bsky.social · last yr.

Really lovely tribute to Raewyn Connell, her work, and her enduring legacy in The Sydney Morning Herald. (h/t @mam52.bsky.social) www.smh.com.au/national/rae...

I love Dolly's songs, including this one.

Yourqueerprof@drcompton.bsky.social · last yr.

Songs for when your occupation is your primary.

10.9% couples include at least one sexually diverse partner—twice+ rate seen when only one partner’s identity is counted. Most bi & multi-identity individuals have het partners; g/l & straight adults often partner within their identity. #SOGIData @chrisajulian.bsky.social @wendymanning.bsky.social

When an AEI economist describes the conservative economist nominated to be the BLS head as “utterly unqualified and as partisan as it gets,” you know it’s bad.

Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head

E.J. Antoni, a staunch critic of the agency, had emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among some influential Trump advisors, including Stephen K. Bannon. He has questioned the legitimacy of ...

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I just finished a memo to reviewers for an R&R and just realized that it is 19 single-spaced pages long. Now I have to try to get that in half or more. Ugh.

This article by Franklin Foer filled in a lot of gaps for me. The goal is the destruction of the professional managerial class—the people who conduct scientific research, run libraries and museums, predict the weather, and monitor food safety. It is the Chinese Cultural Revolution for America.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2y ago

Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.

And yours truly!

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2y ago

NASEM sociologists signing: Richard Alba Lawrence Bobo Dalton Conley Karen Cook Nicholas Christakis Kathleen M Harris Mike Hout Arne Kalleberg Douglas Massey Afaf Meleis Alondra Nelson Stephen Raudenbush Dorothy Roberts Florecia Torche Mary Waters Yu Xie docs.google.com/document/d/1... #WarOnScience

What I keep turning over at 3am: How do we design an education system that cultivates people to have the courage to stand up, and stand together, for something greater than themselves?

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2y ago

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

Check our new paper! Health Care Stereotype Threat During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 3 @kris10gustafson.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

Health Care Stereotype Threat During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 3

Objectives. To determine the levels and differentials in health care stereotype threat experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic by individuals with sexual or gender minority identities. Methods. The N...

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RIP Sandy Jencks, a great social scientist www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88

His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

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"everything [they] say about what they’re doing is false, including what they say about their motivations. The ignorance and chaos are real, but you should never lose sight of the underlying thrust of their actions. For what’s happening... is an attempted autogolpe... a 'self-coup'"

Paul Krugman@pkrugman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Don't just ask how Musk/Trump actions serve their supposed purposes. Ask how they aid the attempt to seize power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe

I usually love horror films. They don't scare me, but in light of this new administration, this is the scariest frucking movie I have ever seen.

If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

Recent BAs: You'd be working for one of the most brilliant and productive social scientists in the world at Princeton if you got this job!

Florencia Torche@ftorche.bsky.social · 2y ago

JOB ALERT: I am looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral scholar to work with me in projects related to social stratification, human capital formation and health disparities. Data management and statistical analysis skills required. The position offers competitive salary and benefits.

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on ESR @europeansocreview.bsky.social Education and Social Mobility: Celebrating Richard Breen’s Contribution to Sociology Deadline for submission: 15 of June 2025 More details on the call 👇

Our latest in JMF: US unmarried folks vote more for Dems than married since 1980. Biggest reason: higher % of married voters are white. Also, married folks are more religious-->voting against Dems (among whites). OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just 2 days after the 12th anniversary of Sandy Hook, the US has its 83rd school shooting of the year, surpassing last year's record for the most school shootings. This breaks my heart. And my heart will keep on breaking b/c the US won't change anything. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...