Are you still at #ASA2026? Are you awake right now, at 6 o’clock in the morning? If so, come hear me talk about racial disparities in youth suicide at 8 today! Sheraton Hotel Floor: Lower Level Room: Union Square

Not to be a food alarmist, but you can also get this from eating raw oysters or other shellfish.

SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 21h ago

🚨 BREAKING: 5 dead from rare flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana This is a terrifying situation unfolding along the Gulf Coast. Louisiana health officials are urgently warning beachgoers after a surge in Vibrio vulnificus infections.🧵

Serious Q: If Hassett is still a member of the AEA, could the AEA rescind it for violating its professional code of conduct? Would it? Data falsification, willful misrepresentation of results, & treating a fellow member unfairly (e.g., participating in her political persecution) all violate Code.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

CNBC: But can you understand concerns about Fed credibility w/POTUS wanting to remove Lisa Cook on the heels of these reports he and Kevin Warsh have had several meetings together? HASSETT: Well, the president and Kevin Warsh have been talking together for 20 years. It's a law enforcement matter

Learned a lot talking to Peter Enns for my podcast’s latest deep dive intvw about his new paper "How a Seemingly Innocuous and Intuitive Methodological Choice Confused a Generation of Research on Policy Responsiveness." Some rare good news for democracy? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/deep-dive-...

Deep Dive episode: What if democracy is actually more responsive to public opinion than we think?

I sit down with Peter Enns, a political scientist at Cornell University, whose new research offers an optimistic view of democracy and representation

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Making disparaging remarks about America's dysfunctional safety net has long been a Canadian national sport, but I don't think most Americans fully comprehend the prevalence and depth of the shade thrown at the US these days. Here's just one example, in a news story about devastating BC fires.

Congrats to Jessica Short who has won an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant! @asanews.bsky.social #ASA2026

Totally irresponsible for columnists, journalists, and electeds to keep parroting this nonsense. See Young et al. “The most striking finding of this research is how little elites seem willing to move to exploit tax advantages across state lines in the United States.” www.jstor.org/stable/24756...

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lolol the wapo opinion page now

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

No US sociologists I've talked to had heard of Arday 2 weeks ago. Granted, not a random sample. He didn't publish in flagship soc journals or top soc of ed journals. His apt was in education. If he was famous, it wasn't for his work. And there lies the problem. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 4d ago

Centrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Senate Repubs confirm a guy who refuses to release the Epstein files and treats victims w/ disdain. House Repubs defend a credibly accused domestic and child abuser while treating victims w/ disdain. All on behalf of an adjudicated rapist. Time for op-ed #244 about those poor, left-behind men.

This is not just about Max Miller. Mike Johnson has just given cover to every abuser. He has undermined belief in every survivor’s story. He has set an assumption that accusations are made with malice towards the accused — the ultimate victim blaming. It’s hard to overstate the harm of this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Mike Johnson defends Max Miller despite horrible abuse allegations: "We don't take disciplinary action against members for allegations. It's in his own words 'a nasty divorce proceeding' ... he thinks it's a hit job on him."

Damned "reshape" command.

Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 6d ago

Me: trying to get my ducks in a row My ducks:

Alaska couple indicted in $14M Medicaid fraud case donated large amounts of money, presumably from their theft of taxpayer money, to a MAGA Republican gubernatorial candidate who, as AG, used taxpayer money to pay his kids' Christian school tuition. Layers and layers of grift.

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com · 4d ago

The operators of three Anchorage group homes are facing charges of more than $14 million in Medicaid fraud. The case is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — in the history of the state’s Medicaid fraud unit.

In 2021-ish, I got into an exchange on X with a Very Serious Centrist who acknowledged that Republican censorship of books was unfortunate but insisted it would "only" apply at the K-12 level, and that the GOP would never micromanage college curricula. A half decade that feels like 20 years ago.

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · 5d ago

In a declaration, the board states intention to impose ideological control, under the guise of neutrality: "Faculty..fail in their responsibility if course offerings, syllabi, or class discussions suppress or promote ideas and perspectives that are rooted in political or personal commitments" 2/x

🧵Can't get numb to this: in the Iran War, we have a total vacuum of leadership in the Pentagon and State Dept amid a strategic disaster of America's own making. Two pieces show how: first, Hegseth blaming Trump's bad info on near-empty missile stockpiles on a deputy. wapo.st/4hQVTF0 1/

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

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Trump is imposing a big tax on people's 401(k)s and putting the money in his pocket. And all the Republicans in Congress say that's just fine cepr.net/publications...

Donald Trump’s $24 Billion Tax on 401(k)s

Trump's Truth Social subscription could give wealthy investors market-moving information first, shifting gains away from ordinary 401(k) holders.

cepr.net

Meanwhile the actual Inspectors General tasked with catching fraud within the exec branch have been gutted: leaders fired, positions left vacant, staff cuts of around 20%. Result: around 25% fewer investigations (and have more reason to believe they will be fired if investigations are critical).

You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...

Interpreted broadly, this will make it impossible to assign primary sources in most of the social sciences, history, & humanities and any natural sciences oriented toward solving a problem, whether climate change or cancer or the structural integrity of concrete. But oc it won't be applied evenly.

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · 5d ago

In a declaration, the board states intention to impose ideological control, under the guise of neutrality: "Faculty..fail in their responsibility if course offerings, syllabi, or class discussions suppress or promote ideas and perspectives that are rooted in political or personal commitments" 2/x

"White men who were selected for the draft subsequently expressed less negative attitudes toward Black people and toward policies designed to help them [...], suggesting that interracial contact during military service led to attitude change."

The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey - Volume 119 Issue 4

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I wonder what would have happened on Sept 26, 1983 if AI had been as embedded in military systems then as its fans want it to be now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...

AI war games almost always escalate to nuclear strikes, simulation shows

A new study reveals that AI decision-making during conflicts is naturally prone to escalation.

livescience.com

My book copies have arrived!

CASM is *exactly* what will happen if the GOP is successful in mandating genitalia checks of girls who want to play sports, as in the WA GOP's ballot measure. Especially without bans on pervert glasses. A party as devoid of critical thinking skills as it is of empathy (until it's their loved ones).

This is on top of limiting loans for graduate-level programs that have disproportionately greater number of female students (e.g., nursing). All of a piece with their weaponizing the administrative state to advance pro-natalism/patriarchy. edtrust.org/rti/eliminat...

How the Elimination of Grad PLUS Loans and Classification of Professional Degrees Harm Women and Students of Color

OBBBA’s new regulations impose a lifetime limit on all federal student loans, including undergraduate. This means many students may reach their borrowing limit before completing their degree

edtrust.org

Kim Weeden@weedenkim.bsky.social · last wk.

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

Iván Szelényi (1938-2026), a towering figure in sociology, one of the finest global intellectuals Hungary and Eastern Europe has ever produced, has died. Rest in peace and solidarity. 1/6

About that time the Gestapo killed Polish students for attending a #sociology class