Authors: identifying your audience is one of the most important things you can do to make an impact with your book. Look in in this webinar!

Outside the ICE facility in Broadview, IL this morning—

Masked agents in unmarked cars are arriving at work. DHS will be using the de facto detention center as their main "processing" site for the impending Chicago ICE surge.

Protesters are gathering, with a large number of press here as well.

Fellow Chicagoans, know what’s coming.

During a panel about how sociologists can become leaders Frederick F. Wherry, Nina Bandelj, Christina Ciocca Eller, and Adam Gamoran emphasized the importance of writing up research so that it's accessible to those who might use it. A developmental editor can help you do this!

The first full day of #ASA2025 drew attendees from all across the country: 962 from the Midwest, 791 from the Northeast, 720 from the South, and 629 from the West. We also had 400 international attendees, representing 42 countries.

I stand with University of California.

Sociologists did you hear the #ASA2025 opening plenary's call to communicate beyond the academy? A good developmental editor can help your book do just that! @asanews.bsky.social

Another sociology job open!

Sociologists are you job searching? see below

Way to resist, University of California! These affordable, outstanding universities are essential not only to Californians but to US higher ed in general!

See you there, scholars!

Ooops, editors are human too! I have to repost my CORRECTED schedule for book clinics at #ASA2025

Sociologists, remember: This country needs the truths you expose now more than ever. Come see me at #ASA2025 in the Hyatt lobby and I'll make sure your arguments are sharp enough to do good. @asanews.bsky.social

Announcement of 2,100 proposals submitted for the AAS 2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver, thanking supporters and noting review decisions in mid-September.

THANK YOU 🫶

We've received an unprecedented *2,100 PROPOSALS* for #AAS2026 in Vancouver 🤩 Thank you for your time, your enthusiasm, and your support of #AsianStudies.

The Program Committee will get to work and announce its decisions in mid-September. Stay tuned.

Book cover of Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration by Yasmin Y. Ortiga

What happens when workers who were encouraged to emigrate are suddenly unable to leave?

Stuck at Home by Yasmin Y. Ortiga examines how the Philippine state and its aspiring migrants negotiated the meaning of immobility amid the COVID-19 pandemic. #ReadUP

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Keeping your research relevant in an accelerating news cycle When publishing is slow but world events move quickly, how can scholars ensure their work will be read and cited and contribute to academic discussion?

When #publishing is slow but world events move quickly, how can scholars ensure their work will be read and cited and contribute to academic discussion? Author Yasmin Y. Ortiga and editor Jenny Gavacs explain: ow.ly/Fo6L50Wig16 #research #academicsky #media #news

Need a sharp, persuasive argument for your book? See me at at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social for a quick clinic!

I am so happy to share the good news that my book won the following awards at the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), whose annual meetings are taking place next week in Chicago:

Also an AP Pope, although quite a few follow the New York Times Pope

Congratulations Sharon!

It really is happening.

Are you at #aas2025 for the @asianstudies.org conference? Message me if you’d like a quick assessment of your book manuscript or publishing plan!

Russia and China, have ramped up recruitment efforts targeting US federal employees—particularly those recently fired or at risk of termination. These efforts are unfolding aggressively on LinkedIn, where adversaries are reaching out under the guise of job opportunities, networking, and consulting.

I can't even wrap my head around this. When I was on Fulbright, I was just out of college with no family money and only a tiny bit of my own savings. I lived (frugally) on that stipend. Students like me will be genuinely stranded in immigration limbo without a way to afford basic necessities.

Pack the guest seats with all the DEI firepower they can!

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

Russian state media briefly enters Oval Office during Zelenskyy meeting The White House did not address how the unapproved reporter was able to gain access to the Oval Office.

By pure coincidence, of course, Russian state media was *accidentally* allowed into the Oval Office today.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Live updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump in Washington, seeking backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression.

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous.

Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

The military’s leaders have been purged and replaced with Trump loyalists and US Marshalls are now carrying guns. This is a coup.

US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

NSF employees were unlawfully reclassified from career to probationary, and then fired.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...