idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

And, broadly: Step 1: Make public X as shitty and stressful as possible Step 2: Sell private X as the antidote Step 3: Funnel public X funding into private hands

The audiobook for my novel drops today, and it's a blast to listen to these actors play these parts. Check it out on Audible/Libby, request at your library, write a review, drop some stars, etc.

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”

My colleagues are quite smart. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

See y'all at the conference this wkd...

Straight facts 🎯….respect Kurt Loder!

My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for his latest book, Long Live Queer Nightlife!

Requesting immediate follow up over the summer and then getting an automated Out of Office reply is the opposite of my love language.

It's faaaaarrrrr more likely I would publish an article entitled "Woody cover..." about a Woody Guthrie cover, not about trees and shrubs.

Listen to @jonwynn.bsky.social on the “Give Theory a Chance” podcast discuss how he "tweaked the formula" for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory!

That there’s a police state.

"Cities might speak different dialects, but they share the same grammar of exclusion," writes sociologist @avpapachristos.bsky.social on the everyday practices of urban segregation. Read "Don't Go"--and our entire spring issue--free through 8/11 at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... #sociology

@dsilver432.bsky.social provides an incredibly precise, fun, and surprising overview my sociological research and fiction writing. "Wynn, like any good confidence artist..."

Happy to have invented the "Summertime Manhattan” (#canadadry Cherry Ginger Ale + Rye Whiskey).

Join Jonathan Wynn in a Reflection on "Teaching the Sociological Multiverse", published as part of our Teaching Theory series this past year. buff.ly/Q0gYKn5

I know @atrubek.bsky.social did a substack about Belt's covers, but I also had one in the works. I talk how I got started doing book covers, the process, and a general breakdown of Belt's covers! I also made a video of all our covers (minus a few new ones) workdavidwork.substack.com/p/006-making...

Condolences to all who don't celebrate "Now You Have to Make Lunches" Day.

It's so hard to tell what's satire or not these days. But, I guess if you don't know history, life online is much easier.

once again...

Issue #2 of Janice Irvine's Substack dropped: "In this post, I wonder: why are psychoactive plant spirits and energies so uncritically gendered in many Western psychedelic subcultures, which, in other ways, lean toward progressive politics?" Read on! janiceirvine.substack.com/p/must-we-ge...

Live Q&A tomorrow (5/20, 8pm) on my novel, The Set Up, with heavyweights Margot Douaihy (two-time NYTimes Best Crime Book of the Year author of Scorched Grace), Ana Reyes (Bestselling author of The House in the Pines), and Scott Brown (writer/producer of Sharp Objects). www.youtube.com/@wynnj26

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

New GTaC! @jonwynn.bsky.social talks the The Set Up (beltpublishing.com/products/the...), his debut work of fiction releasing on May 20th! thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j... @sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social

"The Sociology major was dissolved..." NYTimes OpEd: West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

137% TARIFF ON RESPONDING TO ONE OF MY BETTER JOKES WITH A SMALL, TIGHT SMILE AND CHANGING THE SUBJECT

They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.

The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.

The best stage of publishing is between "turning in the MS" and "release when people can notice typos." Sadly, that phase has ended and The Set Up is in the wild! ;) @beltpublishing.bsky.social

Things are pretty bleak in higher ed, and gift funds are a place where departments like mine can have some freedom to help people in their communities. Please consider donating to UMass Sociology's Gift Funds to help our grad and undergrad students! umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-...

“Many people portray this as a war on the elite in higher education…[but] so much of what is being taken away are the programs that make science look more like America.”

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Profitable Research Does Not Need To Be Fucking Profitable

Fg yikes people what are we doing here?

Can we not valorize Harvard, which is only defending *private* universities, and not defending academic freedom, free speech, etc.?

Check this one out: "Theorizing Affective Motivation: Motives, Seeking, and the Mundanity of Pleasure." It's a banger!

Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.

No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.

Duke falls to what I am coining as the "White Lotus Curse"

The Tufts and Minnesota students were detained by ICE *off-campus*. While we don't have to wonder "what to do when ICE shows up in our classroom" faculty feel utterly helpless in protecting our students... and terrorizing for international students themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Wild #s

Check out this banger Annual Review piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social The Cultural, Definitional, and Institutional Politics of Healthcare | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/41WP8rO

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

We’re all gonna die

An iconic author meets critics / colleagues / companions today at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston. From left to right: Profs. Jon Wynn, Celeste Currington, Fred Wherry, and Ellen Berrey. Stimulating—and sassy. #sociology #longlivequeernightlife

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides. Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com