#RecipeOfTheDay is the flamboyantly delectable Peach Melba Pavlova! I prefer to make most elements a day in advance (as explained in the recipe intro) but that’s for ease, not an essential step. www.nigella.com/recipes/peac...

"Genetic variants associated with personality have widespread associations with other attributes, including social, economic, and medical outcomes." Important knowledge for social scientists: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Example where a public statement by an academic association is appropriate/necessary. "Can't be neutral in a moving train."

Sociological research www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/07/98359/

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To the absolute shock of no one in academia: "The university not only screened out candidates based on their commitment to diversity ideology—it also screened out candidates based on their protected identity characteristics." www.city-journal.org/article/corn...

Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down

#Sociology was well represented at the 2025 meeting of Heterodox Academy @heterodoxacademy.bsky.social #HxA2025. First, Abigail Saguy was recognized with the teaching award 👏 🏆

I just updated my spreadsheet of crime-related papers published in top Economics journals: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The causal effect of prison. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/r...

A hopeful sign for higher education jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/21967?l...

If your university still dances to the tune of "DEI" don't be too shy to share this. They may get mad but it's important to question authority with facts, right? www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/rethinking...

The inaugural Heterodox Social Science conference was a roaring success with loads of fun!

Had the pleasure of sitting next to Alan Sokal, my hero, at this fun event in London.

Ron Clark was the most influential social/behavioral scientist of his generation.

My attempt at sociological imagination @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

If anything could get me to America these days, it would be to eat Paul Carmichael’s food again!

A win for Travis Hirschi and social control theory.

Thanks to generous support by @open-society.bsky.social, the We Have Never Been Woke book tour is going international this summer, kicking off with the #UnitedKingdom. I have dates "on the books" at @ox.ac.uk, @ucl.ac.uk, @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social, and the Equiano Project 🧵

Boys’ advantage in science was larger in more gender-equal countries. This suggests innate, not socially constructed, differences. Larry Summers had a point. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.

A scholarly journal published pro-Palestinian activism dressed as dispassionate media analysis—and then refused to retract the paper after its shoddy methodology was pointed out.

Fabio Rojas makes a case for a sociological equivalent of positive psychology. Hear, hear! open.substack.com/pub/templeof...

Jack Whitten retro @ MoMA

My latest for Washington Post Opinions looks at Trump's war on colleges, which is shaping up to be a quagmire: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"The announcement came four days after a former protégé and colleague posted on LinkedIn that Hardeman poached her work and passed it off as her own." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Regarding the matter of academic freedom freebeacon.com/campus/a-top...

Only 6% of Chicago shootings lead to arrests. This level of criminal impunity reflects intolerable government failure.

Innovative study demonstrating what we already knew. There's a tremendous left-wing skew among university employees.

Chair flips table www.nationalreview.com/news/univers...

Midweek Treat: #RecipeOfTheDay is Chocolate Tahini Banana Bread, and I commend it to the house! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...

So this is why we can't have nice things anymore. We lied too much and too often to advance a sacred project at the expense of truth. Here's the article: dailycaller.com/2025/03/31/e...

Funny because true

Always a delight to be able to tell you that the old-fashioned but enduringly inviting Coffee and Walnut Layer Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! It’s also this month’s #Cookalong: prize is a signed book of mine of the winner’s choice, and link to enter is in the recipe intro www.nigella.com/recipes/coff...

Did anyone in Bluesky notice that hacker posted NYU admissions data on their homepage? I assume NYU would have reacted if the data were inaccurate. Radio silence @nytimes.com as well. Big news unfit to print?

"A significant minority of diagnoses are fraudulent or mistaken. In many cases, there is no empirical basis for granting common accommodation requests ... the current state of disability accommodation compounds inequities in student achievement." www.chronicle.com/article/do-c...

From the department of intersectional studies in arts and culture. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Ya think? www.chronicle.com/article/high...

University of Wisconsin cares more about decency than diversity. freebeacon.com/campus/unive...

Too little, too late. But I take it @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

Skiing is Fun. Santa Fe is beautiful.

Slotkin's speech was great if the idea is to win elections by appealing to persuadable voters in swing states. On the other hand, if the idea is to lose elections ...

One of the most transformative albums I ever owned, and still one of the greatest records out there. RIP #DavidJohansen open.spotify.com/album/4O8ikI...

On the bright side, there's a new job opening: The Free World is looking for a leader.

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/