Thank you @asaskat.bsky.social and especially @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Kellogg PhD Fellow Mayra Ortiz-Ocaña and Dissertation Year Fellow Laura López Pérez for their publication in Sociological Methods & Research titled "Using Focus Groups for Process Tracing: Leveraging Group Discussions for Causal Inference." Read it here: https://bit.ly/49VGzDh

two of my favorite sociologists and people on ZM's transition team! @alondra.bsky.social and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

On November 6, 2025 from Noon-1:30 EST, First Publics will host a conversation exploring why and how teaching research methods matters, not only for scholarship, but also for critical thinking and public engagement in light of the contemporary polycrisis. Register here: buff.ly/rWfrkxE

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

This essay by sociologist Marco Garrido is so good. Essential reading for Latin Americanists. doi.org/10.1177/0735...

Thrilled that @benbraun.bsky.social will join the IAS School of Social Science as a visiting professor in 2026 and will convene this crucial discussion on "Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy." ✨ Apply to join this seminar or with another topic of your choosing: www.ias.edu/sss/sss-fell...

NYC giving me much needed hope this morning. 🤩

Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and especially Sebastián Rojas Cabal for giving me the opportunity to talk about my book, Indicators of Democracy (and so much more!) newbooksnetwork.com/indicators-o...

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

death cult demands more death asociologist.com/2025/04/01/d...

México no es el único país que está llevando cada vez más atribuciones al ámbito federal ¿Por qué los sistemas federales están centralizando la capacidad de legislar? Joel Mendoza Gómez escribe en el blog de federalismo en Nexos federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/03/noso...

Yesterday, my dear friend, the extraordinary Colombian sociologist, Tatiana Andia passed away. She did so on her own terms, dying in the manner that she lived. Her courage, her laughter, her wit, her love in the face of cancer leaves us with many lessons, most of all about how to live.

Powerful statement from the Data Foundation. “"These abrupt changes to data and evaluation systems across government take away the very tools we need to understand program effectiveness and ensure public dollars are well spent," datafoundation.org/news/press-r...

"Silicon Valley may have built the computational part of the modern world, but the rest of that world...still exists. Knowing something, even a lot, about computers guarantees no knowledge about the world beyond them.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I corresponded with Michael Burawoy recently. He wrote: Teaching has always been important to me and, perhaps for that reason, I have always found it extremely difficult to write about...my efforts tend to distort rather than capture what is lively, dynamic, uncertain, experimental, inherently open.

Universities don’t have to pretend that DOGE is a normal government commission or a standard deregulatory effort. Putting it in those terms normalizes anti-democratic actions

New! "Lead with Your Heart" finds @aminghaziani.bsky.social in conversation with @alondra.bsky.social about doing public sociology, on the page and in the White House: contexts.org/blog/qa-nels...

Next semester I will do some FREE (online) events with members of progressive organizations and universities from more “peripheral” places again. Interested? Send me an email!

Just look: the gvt. of Mex. president @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social will abolish @INAImexico, used by journalists to reveal graft, and @coneval, which evaluates social policy, and allocate less money to @FGRMexico's capacity to investigate corruption. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/rec...

The disappearance of CONEVAL is bad for the poor and bad for democracy. I spent a decade studying their work and wrote a book about it. There is room for improvement, yes. But CONEVAL is essential accountability and keeping the state focused on protecting social rights. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

THE BEST.

What was the thing about being a dual citizen: Oh yeah, having to worry about the same thing twice.

Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it. For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies." Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1883...

watching the shock and horror as trump’s cabinet roles are announced and thinking everyone needs to get familiar with this word

You guys. Look what came in the mail today

Being a dual citizen is fun bc you get to experience two countries backsliding towards authoritarianism

Cool job alert: AP in the History of Science and Technology (very broadly defined) @ UGA www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/401...

Finalizing your syllabi and thinking about equitable assignments? See Estefan and colleagues' (2023) Teaching Sociology piece and further recommended text compiled by Becky Supiano (2023) on equitable classrooms. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So excited to see this special issue on Science and the State finally out in Public Culture. Co-edited with the amazing @alondra.bsky.social; @sonjavw.bsky.social; Joy Rohde; Joshua Barkan; Christo Sims; Charis Thompson. read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...