Social Science Research is preparing a special issue focused on a critical but underexplored dimension of AI: its role in widening or narrowing social inequalities. The deadline for abstracts is now Nov 17th. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Free to read! New research in Socius from ASA member Spencer Allen @spencerallen.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social shows that, while broadband access has increased in the U.S. since 2013, gaps by race, education, and poverty still persist. @sociusjournal.bsky.social‬

Excited to share my recent publication in @sociusjournal.bsky.social ! Despite improvements to home broadband, racial/ethnic, educational, and income disparities continue to prevent equitable internet access. We can’t assume that everyone is online, and policy can address cost and access limitations

@spencerallen.bsky.social: tell me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student without telling me you're a @burgards.bsky.social student.

We are the #BakersAndTheBest sometimes @um-psc.bsky.social because of our amazing trainees like @spencerallen.bsky.social 💛💙🧁

Shout out to @spencerallen.bsky.social for starting our short week off right! Thanks for sharing with us! #GoBlue 😋

My employer, Dartmouth College, is only Ivy not to sign a "defend higher ed" letter. But as our newspaper reports, an uncommonly high number of mild-mannered faculty have signed a letter demanding that our president join the fight. Even the economists. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025...

Very busy morning in Ann Arbor, where I’ve spent the morning baking a copious quantity of Maize & Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies for @umsociology.bsky.social’s grad student recruitment this week!

When the world is falling apart and you have a bottle of pure NH maple syrup that’s about to go bad, you make maple cupcakes! Thanks @sashakillewald.bsky.social for the recipe 🧁🍁

My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes

Happy Valentine’s Day to all the infectious diseases of the world, may your love spread voraciously as public agencies have a harder time tracking and preventing your existence 😷🤒

It’s giving Reviewer 2. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

In my expert opinion, grad school is significantly more palatable with an Alaska-shaped cheese board

I think I chose the most inopportune historical moment to submit an NSF graduate research fellowship proposal on “Political Polarization in Education and Health Outcomes” 🙃😭

A new #umichresearch study by @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social found that broadband connection was a key factor in reducing mortality and incidence during the early COVID pandemic. From Michigan News: news.umich.edu/digital-life...

My pub took north of 1,550 days (thanks Excel!) from start to finish to complete. So much has happened in that time…

🎊 We're proud to share the first publication from @um-psc.bsky.social trainee @spencerallen.bsky.social. The findings in this 🧵, which show how internet access mattered for COVID outcomes, are reported just as net neutrality has been struck down in federal court. @umisr.bsky.social #UMich

I’m very excited to announce that my first paper has just been published in SSM-Population Health! (and it’s open access!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/

I've been fully on here for all of an hour and I'm already enjoying myself more than other platforms

I’m very excited to ring in the new year by joining the Social Science Research team as a Managing Editor! (And, after several months of lurking, hello Blue Sky!)