New article with Natasha Quadlin and Jordyn Wald. Regrets, she's had a few.
Women with computer science and engineering degrees are unusually regretful of their major choice
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Accepting nominations for the ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, honoring someone whose work has made outstanding contributions to the practice of sociology and significant impacts outside the discipline, esp in advancing human welfare. More info here, self noms encouraged
“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks
Trump admin's budget would gut the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with a 44% cut in funding, reduced from $77 to $43.5 b.
Cut could translate to 4 million people—living in every part of the country—losing housing assistance. Virtually every city would lose infra funding from CDBG.
I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement.
www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...
What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
The thing we have to reckon with is that most universities cannot afford to stay open if he pulls their funding. And Trump has not been obeying court orders to release funds during pending litigation.
Send us your best undergrads! Can't think of a more important time to be training a new generation of scholars in conducting research with and for government.
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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.
Figure 1. Trends in Biannual US Infant Mortality Rates, 2012-2023
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.
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#MedSky
The President cannot shut down an agency created by Congress. That is illegal.
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
This was a really touching article on the life and death of Michael Burawoy. 47 years at UC Berkeley. He loved the community and the community loved him back.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/06/m...
Follow the Money, But Also the Data The usual adage in these things is to follow the money, and see who benefits. But we should also watch for control over data. For tech bros, data is the means of control. At last count, Musk employees1 have control over sensitive student aid data, small business administration data, federal employee data (including data from job applicants), social security and tax refund data, and are seeking data from the Department of Labor (think the Bureau of Labor Statistics), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Data (weather data). At the same time that they are hoovering up this data, public data sources are being shut down.
Here are some basic questions that the media & Congress could ask:
Can public & private businesses trust Musk with their data?
How many of the officials accessing sensitive data have security clearance?
Do older adults know that Elon Musk now controls payment of their Social Security & Medicare?
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.
Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.
As of this morning, it’s gone.
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Here's my piece on Trump's illegal pause of federal spending.
Trump proposed a sweeping order and the WH privately sent memos to begin carrying it out while publicly walking it back.
A judge has temporarily stayed the action.
I talk about what's at stake.
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
What does appear to be true is that that the internal communication to agencies is different than what they're now telling the public. The agency actions (e.g. why Medicaid payments appear to be cut off) appear to be in line with those internal communications.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a midday press briefing that she would have to “check back on” whether Medicaid was implicated by the funding pause. Leavitt said more broadly that “assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.” The federal government does not pay individual Medicaid members directly, unlike with programs like Supplemental Security Income. Rather, Medicaid funding is paid as grants to states, which run the programs, said Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families.
"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence
www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I reviewed Brian McCabe and @evarosen.bsky.social 's Sociology of Housing! It "demonstrates how racism and entrenched power have brought us to where we are today: A housing market defined by immense wealth, deep poverty, and persistent inequalities."
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