Our section is hosting a pre-conference for the ASA annual meeting—Science, Knowledge, and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures. Join us on Friday, August 7 in NYC! The call for papers is now open, with abstract submissions due April 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press showed children and parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center clad in jackets and sweaters, some of them holding signs that included ‘Libertad para los niños,’ or ‘Liberty for the kids.’”

📚 New Books Q&A with Diana Graizbord, author of Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2024) Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa @dgraizbord.bsky.social @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social asaskat.com/2025/12/12/s...

Philly Marathon ✅

Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Upcoming Virtual Panel! Navigating the Academic Job Market for SKAT Scholars Details ⤵️ 🗓️ Friday, November 14, 1-2pm ET SKAT section members and other ASA members on the job market are invited to join. Panelists will speak about their recent experiences navigating the market, followed by a Q&A.

Federal agents have deployed tear gas upon the people of Chicago for the past three consecutive days as a part of “Operation Midway Blitz.” Articles below. (1/3) news.wttw.com/2025/10/23/b...

400 Rogers Park Neighbors Rally After ICE Arrests 4, Including Tamale Vendor blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology

Check out the latest @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social conversation with @uicpublichealth.bsky.social Professor Claire Decoteau talking about her new @uchicagopress.bsky.social book Emergency. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & below globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2364394/epis...

New in Sex&Sexualities by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social ! "Color Outside the Lines" offers methodological tools - ethnography attuned to ephemerality and a palimpsestic approach - to study queer nightlife and changing social worlds. doi.org/10.1177/3033... #QueerMethods

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

This is sickening. A patient seeking care is swooped up by these goons. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Calling all student members in SKAT!

An act of bravery. Read the #BethesdaDeclaration here: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... #SupportNIHStaff

*New Pub* In Sex & Sexualities, a new @asanews.bsky.social journal, @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social and I use queer nightlife as a case to rethink what counts as evidence and how to study social change. Read it here, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #sexualities #queernightlife

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

New article out! I demonstrate how Chicago’s kink scene responded to COVID-19 and Mpox by creatively recrafting nightlife online, safeguarding cherished venues, and transforming sites of pleasure into spaces of health mobilization. #sociology

In the past month, the NIH terminated many ISGMH grants focused on HIV prevention, LGBTQ health, and training early career scholars. The effect on our institute has been devastating. Director @mustanski.bsky.social spoke to @nbcnews.com about the impact. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

This is a shameful moment in the history of the American university.

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

New Book Q&A with Ya-Wen Lei, author of The Gilded Cage (Princeton University Press, 2023). The winner of the 2024 Robert K. Merton Book Award. Interviewed by @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social asaskat.com/2025/03/18/q...

Together with more than 45 other organizations, ASA signed a public statement reaffirming our commitment to academic freedom, stable research funding, and policies grounded in scientific evidence. unitedsciencealliance.org

“The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: - malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique - treatment for cholera in Bangladesh - …” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Hoping for more blue skies amid these dark days, and to engage with people #onhere who are building a better world ☀️ #firstpost