🔔 New pub alert!
Caylin Louis Moore. (2026). "Collateral Decision-Making: The Case of Pretrial Detention and the Criminal Courts." American Sociological Review, online first.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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NEW: Marie Labussière, Thijs Bol, "Are Occupations “Bundles of Skills”? Identifying Latent Skill Profiles in the Labor Market Using Topic Modeling" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Would 100% get on bus driven by this chap
April 23-24: Two-day online National Academies workshop on enhancing scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences. The program is here (bit.ly/NASprog), including links to (free) registration.
I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.
Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.
It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."
A really great substack by the ever-brilliant @dsilver432.bsky.social charting the rise and fall and sometimes rise again of sociological research areas, discourse, and interests. Sadly, I find myself somewhere in that mid-20th century world...
thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/sociologys...
Delighted to find my "Greatest of All Plagues" in such excellent company (including @guidoalfani.bsky.social, @mivich.bsky.social, @aaronreeves.bsky.social, @samfriedman.bsky.social).
Happy birthday! Hope that you had a wonderful day.
Delighted to share our revised paper (w/ @juliaturner.bsky.social & @jacobbastian.bsky.social ) showing that Universal Pre-K has broad effects on local labor markets — effects well beyond only mothers. Larger effects for full-day programs. nber.org/papers/w33767
#EconSky #EarlyChildhood #ECE
Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR
Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right
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Was just using OpenAlex (which I agree is great!). Definitely worth registering and buying the credits for API calls.
Weaponized interdependence is happening
When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls.
New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Organizations have long used records of individuals’ pasts to assess risk, and increasingly they do so with algorithms. This may seem to eliminate leniency for problematic pasts, yet scholars note algorithms do not erase discretion, only relocate it. Extending this insight, we offer a theory of how organizations continue to make exceptions, through rules rather than in opposition to them. We leverage the case of tenant screening, where gatekeepers consider unpaid debts, criminal records, and eviction histories with both rules-based algorithms and traditional judgment. Interviews with landlords, property managers, and real estate and tenant screening executives reveal that, to decide which records to overlook, gatekeepers of both sorts rely on narrative and analogy. Yet with algorithms, exceptions must be codified in advance and interoperable with records’ classification systems. The result is that only applicants with culturally salient and institutionally legible circumstances benefit. We discuss implications for theories of algorithms, exceptions, and inequality.
New article by CREST Sociology's Hesu Yoon in the American Journal of Sociology: "Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening"
Link: doi.org/10.1086/739108
This also happens when you’re going to sleep and at random times during any given week.
It is reasonable to ask whether scientific work is biased. It is bizarre to prosecute a "value-free analysis" argument under a paper title that uses value-laden terms associated with one part of the ideological spectrum.
A great write-up on brand-new research I was involved in. We used a really different approach from the ones that we & many others have used previously to estimate how many Covid deaths there *really* were--almost 20% more than known. Our results broadly accord w others but add new demographic detail
I think it's an interesting and important research question, but it's troubling to see a version of record that looks like this. I might also question some of the decisions made re. ideological anchoring, but I keep getting stuck on that table.
That, plus "reasuring" and "reasuriog"
To be less gnomic about it, my concern with table 2 is either that it accurately represents the data (in which case I worry about data quality), or no-one ever looked at it properly (which raises questions about the review process).
Take a look at table 2
Happy global birthday to OVERINVESTED! 🎂
Celebrate with me & join a discussion organized by Dr. @audreyharroche.bsky.social in conversation with Prof. Tina Miller at Oxford Brookes University
📅 30 April, 16:00–17:00 (UK time)
Online event open to all; register here: brookes.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
Our paper on international educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the US is now open access👇👇👇
Did no one ask why table 2 looked as it does during the publication process?
I think that Brynjolfsson et al.'s "Canaries in the coal mine," on the effects of AI on entry-level workers, is one of the more interesting/important papers.
