Claude Code 35: Do AI Agents Writing Full Manuscripts at the Social Catalyst Lab P-Hack? In a nutshell: they absolutely do!

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

I love Dolly's songs, including this one.

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
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Me too! I LIKE editing something that is draft 3+; it is satisfying to make something pretty good better. I HATE writing 1st or 2nd draft; so painful. I try to overcome this tendency to revise the old instead of write the new by having some rule like write new stuff 1 hour a day.

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 ...

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.

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.

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!

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?

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...

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

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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.

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

"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'"

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.
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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!

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/...

Figure showing number of school shootings per year since 2008

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...

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added?

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At the 1992 RNC convention, some delegates held up signs that said “Thank God for AIDS” and “Family Rights Forever/Gay Rights Never.” Not exactly as catchy as “Mass Deportations Now,” but just as dehumanizing.

You wouldn’t be referring to a recent job talk haha