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One of the particular points of emphasis I raise here is about the centrality of graduate degree holders in the Democratic coalition. The share of the electorate with a grad degree is increasing even faster than those with a BA 2/x

🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x

I really hope this doesn’t affect the quality of the data collection process. ACTS notwithstanding, I’ve had almost exclusively positive experiences over the last 20 years with the IPEDS Data Collection System and the Help Desk in particular.

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

The conservatives on the court are segregationists.

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
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“In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?”

What was different at No Kings 3 was that war was one of the top motivations listed: 73% of participants reported peace/anti-war as a motivation for joining, making it the third most common motivation behind immigration (76%), and Trump (75%). Here are these motivations since the beginning of 2025:

Consistent with the turnout at protests against the Trump regime since it first took office in 2017, the majority of participants at the event were female, predominantly White, middle-aged, had voted for the democratic candidate in the previous presidential election, and were highly educated

Anti-War Sentiment Surges at No Kings 3 Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. My team and I collected surveys from 198 people who were randomly selected from the t…

Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. Here are some of the main findings from our research at the event in DC organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social: danarfisher.com/2026/03/29/a...

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one

Road trip pause for ~5 weeks of conferencing and other nerdy fun in DC 🤓

Presentation title slide: "Taking the 'Lipstick Lobby Brigade' Seriously: Toward a Study of World War II-Era Women Lobbyists" 1940s lipstick ad text: "In Defense of Glamour: Patriot Red. The Brave New Shade" Shamira Gelbman | Wabash College | gelbmans@wabash.edu

I'm presenting today at #ESS2026 👀

I'll introduce my new project on WWII-era women lobbyists drawing on initial findings and questions raised through archival work with the @ncjw.bsky.social Washington Office Records

3:30 PM in Salon 2 in the Marriott at Metro Center

Abstract description, how do scholars bring their research to into practice.

Last panel, Democracy Reconsidered, peopling politics, intervention and response. Panelists Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, Ernesto Castaneda, moderated by Christine Slaughter.

Abstract for interest groups influence on policy, a sociological perspective

Now a panel on Agenda Setters: Interest groups and civil society in the policymaking process. Beth Baltzan, @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @carolinewlee.bsky.social

Abstract of panel on connecting regular people to politics. Why has voting decreased among low income non voters? Too much of politics ignore non voters, how do we bring back in

Next panel includes @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @dorianwarren.bsky.social on bridging the political disconnect. How do we build a more inclusive democracy?

Description of panel on race, gender in political staffers

First panel has James R Jones (Rutgers-Newark, Prof, studies racism in Congress), Beth Pearson (chief of staff, Sen. Warren, fmr AAAS-STPF fellow with ASA) and @alondra.bsky.social on Personnel is Policy. They reflect on how sociological training&research affected their policy paths

Psyched to be here at Peopling Politics, Bringing the People Back in, a symposium on race, class and inequality in US politics.
Excited to hear some of my longtime intellectual heroes outside of psych like @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @alondra.bsky.social and @povertyscholar.bsky.social

And so First Things (the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life) joins evangelicals in making the pivot from “Christian nationalism isn’t a real thing” to “Actually, Christian nationalism is awesome and we need it!”

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“The library doesn’t own the archive. It can’t freely digitize it or put the images online. The intellectual property still belongs to Gannett… And yet… it’s hard not to feel that whatever the legal paperwork says, this archive belongs, in spirit, to the people of Poughkeepsie.”

The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.

“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Potown represent!

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

our recommendations: 1) Connect Politics to Problems and Solutions Make it clear that there are (and can be) political and policy solutions to many of the real problems people face. 2) Recruit Political Practitioners from Low-Income and Working-Class Backgrounds Risk of social disconnection compounds across marginalized identities. Addressing these disparities fully requires prioritizing intersecting aspects of identity including age, race, disability, sexuality, and gender identity. 3) Increase the Frequency, Quality, and Duration of Contact with Low-Income and Working-Class Communities Meaningful progress requires moving away from individualizing approaches and instead prioritizing social solutions aimed at creating relational change.

If we're going to have a democracy, we need to include everyone - so we have recommendations for how to do that. The DNC today launching a listening campaign to have volunteers talk to people who voted in 2020 but not in 2024 is a good start - but it will need to be done right.