🧵 IT'S OUT! My book Cities in Action is now available from Columbia University Press. Why do some cities step up on climate while others stay on the sidelines? And how can we not just explain but empower city action? @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/cities-...
This book was written to be read, and I'd love it if you did! If you're in the US, consider your local bookstore or buy directly from CUP. 20% off with code CUP20. If you can't afford it, ask your local or university library to order a copy—most do on demand these days.
3/ Until that changes, I hope this book gives us food for thought and some optimism. It was fun to discuss political tensions in cities worldwide, how organizations and institutions work in real places, and how to scale climate solutions as nations falter in London at Bayes ETHOS yesterday!
I wish these questions were less timely—that national governments were on top of climate change instead of retreating, and city staff could focus on clearing sewers and organizing cultural events instead of compensating for national policy. #endangerment #paris #climatechange #climateaction
🧵 IT'S OUT! My book Cities in Action is now available from Columbia University Press. Why do some cities step up on climate while others stay on the sidelines? And how can we not just explain but empower city action? @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/cities-...
This is a great interview with my coauthor @cbrandtner.bsky.social about our recent @sfjournal.bsky.social paper: poetsandquants.com/2025/10/28/a... (the paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...)
Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
A pleasure to meet the wonderful faculty and students of CREST Paris and to get to hear their comments on my work with Krystal Laryea and the Civic Life of Cities Lab (civiclifeofcities.org). Great group!
TODAY at 12 NOON Paris time: @cbrandtner.bsky.social talking about "From Suites To Streets: Professional Expertise And The Organizational Pursuit Of Urban Integration"
Come out to Palaiseau to see him in room 3049 or watch on-line: zoom.us/j/9343399288...
The March 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025...
Hello world! We at the AJS are pleased to have our bluesky account all systems go! We’ll be announcing our issues, accepted papers, and other relevant happenings. Watch this space for more.
Ça n'a duré qu'une heure. mais j'espère que ce n'était pas la dernière fois !
Stand Up for Science in Lyon 🪧
Solidarity with our US colleagues is not noble but necessary. Academia is so globally integrated nowadays that an attack against science anywhere is an attack against science everywhere!
Ă€ la prochaine !
@standupforscifr.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Trump portrait 2025
Scientist injecting vials with fluid
​A French university is offering funding to American scientists concerned about potential censorship under the Trump administration. ​
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A screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated March 4, 2025, at 4:30 AM. The post states: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵
I'm sure you know Young & Holsteen's multivrs (prev. mrobust): ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode... // Book forthcoming: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
I’m worried that many Americans have no idea what democracy even means, why it’s important, how it relates to our nation’s history, which is barely taught to begin with. Dems should be running civic workshops and teach-ins to explain, wild as it seems, why democracy is better than a dictatorship.
This looks interesting: 'Elite corporate networks and CEO compensation: the causes and consequences of CEO pay premiums' academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
for ongoing reporting at CNBC - if you’re regular everyday person in the USA directly impacted by cuts to federal spending & agencies led by Elon Musk’s “doge” — then I’d be interested in hearing about your experience. DM’s open here or try me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Announcement for a SPECIAL PANEL ON THE TREASURY with pictures of two speakers. About this event: What is at stake with the Treasury's payment systems? Recent events make this question more pertinent than ever before. Cutting across governance, policy, economic regulation, and the bureaucracies that sit at the core of the democratic state, the Treasury's financial pipes and plumbing are critical for the nation's well-being. In this special session, Elizabeth Popp Berman (U Michigan) and Abraham Newman (Georgetown U) will discuss why these systems matter as well as the risks posed by their capture by non-state actors. Please join us on Thursday, February 6 at 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST for what will surely be an excellent conversation. Please register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSxuanM2TEWy5Hqn4-7KVg
A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.
This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
Program of the climate panel at the ASA Virtual Mini-Conference, on January 30, starting at 4.15pm EST
If today's (tonight's?) ASA Virtual Mini-Conference is on your agenda, make sure to come to this terrific panel on Climate & Society, co-organized by Ioana Sendroiu and myself. With the wonderful Rachel Shwom as discussant, could a panel get any better? #climate #sociology @asanews.bsky.social
The @ethnoat.bsky.social is, hands down, the best resource and community for ethnographic work in management and organizations! Makes me wish I were an ethnographer (and didn't just collaborate with them).
1/ Excited to see this paper with the incredible Patrick Bergemann out in the American Journal of Sociology. We argue that a sense of ownership in a community—what we call territoriality—shapes the emergence of social norms in consequential ways.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
5/ We think our findings have implications beyond neighborhoods, such as whether people have a sense of ownership in their workplace or other communities. More on that forthcoming... Meanwhile, check out the "just accepted" paper in AJS! Please DM for access.
4/ To be clear, territoriality is not inherently good. Feeling ownership of one's space can foster prosocial behaviors and resilience, but it can also reinforce parochialism and bigotry. Exploring these trade-offs in local communities and organizations is a research frontier.
Margins plot showing that effect of new Covid-19 cases on norm compliance increases with territoriality
3/ Using NYC neighborhoods during the early Covid-19 pandemic, we show that where people were more invested in their neighborhood (e.g., through homeownership, stability, or property improvements), norm enforcement (311 complaints) and compliance (staying home) were higher. #call311
Map showing variation in 311 calls and stay-at-home compliance in New York City
2/ What excited us most was the ability to study norm emergence in a real-life setting. Our findings show that neighborhood context shapes what has often been understood as a primarily psychological process. Place matters, once again.
1/ Excited to see this paper with the incredible Patrick Bergemann out in the American Journal of Sociology. We argue that a sense of ownership in a community—what we call territoriality—shapes the emergence of social norms in consequential ways.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Bob loves this paper, as everyone who's attended the @casbsstanford.bsky.social summer institute on organizational effectiveness can attest.