Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets Article: Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets | Sociological Science | Posted May 12, 2025

the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes
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(cuz 9 year olds are in on both what preppy means and fake college rivalries for sure)

We threw parties at W&M themed “uva for a day” where this was the dress code - so Hoos maybe?

`dplyr::filter()` is >>>>> imo

this is clever but seems deliberately confusing; Gretchen doesn’t need to make fetch happen.

150% of a Thanos Snap, the Avengers picked the wrong enemy

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

What effect do ideologically extreme candidates have?

"We show that in-party voters, out-party voters, and independent voters are more likely to turnout to vote and partisans are more likely to support their party’s candidate in elections with ideologically extreme candidates"

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So, this paper is passion-project of mine, asking questions about #motivation, proactive social actors, & emotional/affective dispositions. It is a long time coming & is a key piece in the argument for an affective #sociology. Check it out, open access (thx UBC)

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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It looks like you work at a med school. More things will be impacted than you realize based on your reply. Consider that other faculty also do soft money NIH funded research in other units.

This is only even somewhat true for the richest private research universities. Most public R1 programs will be fatally wounded by this policy.

Ahhh - my bad. Depends on the specific example then, but pluralistic ignorance and false consensus might be fun “inverses” here

To me this is just sampling bias. The level fallacies are about misattributing a *relationship* between two vars at a different level of analysis, not inaccurately estimating the mean of one variable. And it seems like you’re talking about attributes, not relationships 🤔

Data from Google trends indicates misogyny, unexpectedly, helps explain the gender wage gap, from Molly Maloney and David Neumark https://www.nber.org/papers/w33405

Abstract of article titled "The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests"

Are Democratic leaders making cities more dangerous than Republicans? Trump + others have repeatedly made claims like this. New paper in Science Advances w/ @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, Dan Jones & Matt Harvey shows that, in short, the answer is no.

This. I’ve often seen people called out for not speaking about something on social media while aware that they were offering important behind-the-scenes support that a public statement would jeopardize.

Folks need to be more careful about what they think they know. There are multiple lanes.

DISI is the most interesting training and collaboration opportunity I’ve ever experienced. If you do relevant work, apply!

Proposal to rename the Population Association of America Macro Data Refinement

That’ll do it

Ok I know I live alone but three cartons is CRAZY

How policymakers and the US population update their beliefs on the use of science and the trust they have in government following a field experiment that demonstrated the ineffectiveness of a policy intervention, from Guglielmo Briscese and John A. List https://www.nber.org/papers/w33239

This is true and everyone should bookmark @victorerikray.bsky.social's "Why So Many Organizations Stay White" as it's going to come in very handy. Unfortunately.

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This is a very good and important paper for scholars of race and identity. Also just one of those papers you read that makes you wonder how this wasn’t done much sooner.

Highly recommend it.

Do austerity cuts spare police budgets? Welfare‐to‐carceral realignment during fiscal crises Did governments shift funding from their social welfare functions to their criminal justice functions after the 1980s? Studies investigating this possible “punitive turn” have been inconclusive and h...

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services.

The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below.
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Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human childhood, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the demands of goal-di...

Maybe of interest: I recently read a great paper that asks/poses a tentative answer to a very related question royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

I’d join! My final 101 lecture (stolen from Brent Simpson) is on happiness - what causes it for individuals, why money can’t buy it, how/why it varies by country, its variation during the life course. In it I mostly cite social psych studies because sociology is so bummer-focused.