Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Barbara Kiviat, @mintytem.bsky.social, @dr-yang.bsky.social, Jacob W. Richardson, and @tylerleeds.bsky.social!

@ndsociology.bsky.social is hiring an Endowed Chair in Demography at the Full level! Building ND Pop Analytics: populationanalytics.nd.edu. Check out the ad here: apply.interfolio.com/171683 Share widely!

Friends attending @asanews.bsky.social! I have some time remaining on my schedule. Let me know if you want to meet up!

Great postdoc opportunity here at @ndsociology.bsky.social! Project: “Novel Empirical Approaches to Examine Spatial-Social Integration and Suicide.” careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310854/... @asanews.bsky.social

Erin McDonnell's (@profmcdonnell.bsky.social) amazing new paper "Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration" is online now at the Annual Review of Sociology. Check it out!!! @ndsociology.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Delighted that my newest article, coauthored with Brian Soucek, is out at the Cornell Law Review.

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Sermo Interruptus An academic blog about talk in the news

The incomparable David Gibson has started a blog about "talk in the news." Check it out! david-r-gibson.net

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

I'm SO EXCITED to have these two wonderful scholars join our community. Welcome to Notre Dame, Tim Hallett (@timhallett.bsky.social) and Catherine Riegle-Crumb!

Crushing it!!

Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships Resources, guides, and key information for Art & Letters faculty and staff

Sociology friends and
@asanews.bsky.social, Notre Dame Sociology @ndsociology.bsky.social) has a late-breaking postdoc opportunity. Share widely and Apply!

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I am organizing the Political Culture Regular Session at the @asanews.bsky.social Meeting in Chicago, August 8-12, 2025. Submit your papers to ASA by the Feb 26 deadline @kjhealy.co @mintytem.bsky.social @jenniferlena.bsky.social @maggiefrye.bsky.social @amische.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social

🚨new paper!🚨 in “Tax Law as Muse” B Soucek and I trace the history of government taxation as a story of control over “the arts.” We discuss the biggest ever tax on culture, rarely discussed. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How the Senate Voted to Confirm R.F.K. Jr. as Health Secretary The Senate confirmed Mr. Kennedy by a vote of 52 to 48 to lead the department responsible for public health.

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said.

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In case you are unable to join the online tribute honoring the life and contributions to sociology of Michael Burawoy today, Feb. 8, at noon (12 pm Eastern), you can watch the recording on the ISA YouTube channel afterward https://bit.ly/414VbLC

STATEMENT: CAP’s Alondra Nelson Condemns Dangerous Repeal of AI Executive Order

My statement on the repeal of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

A bipartite citation analysis of people thanked in ASA publications from seven sections, spanning pubs from 1979-the present.

"Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations" with @mayrl.bsky.social is inching along. Behold: automated collection, parsing, and matching of acknowledgments from seven ASA sections, covering award-winning publications (and a few comparators) spanning 1979-present! Fine-tuning still, but looks face-valid!

Check out this paper that @ndsociology.bsky.social's William Carbonaro, Kenya Lee, and Amy Langenkamp recently published in ASR, titled "Racial Inequality in 8th-Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements." doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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Apply to be the Dean of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame!@notredame.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social

Hi D'Lane -- please add me to the sociology starter pack (@mintytem) and also Erin (@profmcdonnell). Thanks!