Freedom to be rejected by private schools because of who you worship, who you love, the disabilities you were born with, and how well you “fit.”

don't worry everyone, i will bravely continue to only boost the profile of junior scholars who i come across in my highly biased in-group network. it would be immoral to randomly assign this.

Homicides in Maryland trended down for a decade before former Gov. Hogan took office in 2015. Subsequently, homicides reversed course, climbing significantly over his two terms. After he left office, gun violence rates declined in 2023 and are on track to do so again this year.

🎉 The University of Michigan Regents have approved promotions for Kevin Stange and Christina Weiland (@weilanch). Congratulations and #GoBlue ! myumi.ch/G4GQV

Thread coming next week!

Also it’s a short and very straightforward paper so take a quick look if interested!

On Brown’s 70th anniversary, school choice is, indeed, the civil rights issue of our time. Private school choice replaces state constitutional duties with a lottery ticket, enabling private schools to violate kids' civil rights by excluding LGBTQ & disabled kids.

Love this from Pamela Herd 🐀: 'It is a political choice to build an administrative infrastructure that makes it easy for the public to access government benefits or to shift all of that burden onto individuals.”

In a lot of soc. sci. (at least sociology) articles, one sees a focus on young Black men who did not complete high school (e.g. highlighting their high incarceration or low employment). What share of Black men 19-30 did not complete high school?

Only 11%. 89% completed.

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings.

When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities.

When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

I wish more external observers who see campus protests as evidence of the (alleged) homogeneity of thought at universities understood (a) selection effects; and (b) that most faculty defend students' right to peacefully protest even if they disagree w/ students' demands of uni.

Love this piece by Deborah Carr on the outcome of the Golden Bachelor & how sociologists studying relationships among older adults have uncovered some important ways that such relationships differ from those at younger ages. cnn.com/2024/04/25/opi…

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

We don't have to imagine a self-serving hypothetical. When I worked at the University of Tennessee, actual nazis twice reserved a room and gave speeches.

The police *protected* the nazis, ensuring they were safe and could speak.

Open access: Paola Cantarelli, Nicola Belle', Pamela Herd 🐀 & Don Moynihan find that COVID-19 vaccination intention is +vely impacted by reducing #AdministrativeBurden - findings especially relevant for those 64+ and with neutral or high vaccination intention tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Doug Wolf masterfully presented our research on the effects of states' #COVID policies on drug overdose deaths in 2020. Activity limitation policies increased OD deaths. Economic support policies reduced OD deaths. #PAA2024 Maxwell School Center for Policy Research Center for Aging and Policy Studies Jennifer Karas Montez

This is a movement hoping to bring back Jim Crow era level organizational segregation and they aren't pretending otherwise.

Really looking forward to this!

The attack on Dr. Cross is outrageous. In my qualitative research project, I have a boilerplate methods paragraph I insist all the authors use when describing the data collection process. It's the same data, I don't want it described differently in different articles!