How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other. David Garland's Law and Order Leviathan is now available worldwide. Learn more and order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

This week's Clippings of Soc in the News: @lizchiarello.bsky.social in @us.theconversation.com, Patrick Sheehan in Arts X Science Magazine, Charles Derber in @thenation.com, @nancyberns.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com, & Abigail Coplin in @washingtonpost.com. Read it here: 🔗 bit.ly/3KXjSEd 🔗

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I attended a fantastic talk by @karenhao.bsky.social at @weidenbaumcenter.bsky.social today. She shared really thoughtful insights on the promises and pitfalls of AI. Very excited to read her book, Empire of AI 🙌

What should be done when pharmacists’ and patients’ values collide? We’ve been struggling with this question for over 20 years and finding a resolution requires understanding professional rights and responsibilities. Check out my latest for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/conflict-at-...

We'd like to congratulate PUP author @lizchiarello.bsky.social, whose book Policing Patients was the 2025 Honorable Mention for The Section on the Sociology of Law’s Distinguished Book Award from the @asanews.bsky.social! Learn more about this book here: hubs.ly/Q03Lx_6G0

Policing Patients turned one this week 🥹 I am so grateful for the opportunities this book has given me to speak up for people who use drugs and for people in pain. And I’m awed by the activists, scholars, professionals, and lawmakers who fight for what’s right despite strong political headwinds.

Got to speak with Mark Joseph Stern for the Amicus podcast this week about pregnancy criminalization and why it matters, for all of us. Hope you’ll give it a listen.

#ASA2025 Robert K. Merton Book Award Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Chiarello: @lizchiarello.bsky.social “Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis” @princetonupress.bsky.social 🔗: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I feel incredibly honored that Policing Patients and Trojan Horse Technologies received so much recognition at ASA this year 🥹 1/3 @asanews.bsky.social @asaskat.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @washuartsci.bsky.social

Took home a couple of ASA book awards this week alongside the brilliant @lizchiarello.bsky.social 📚 at @asaskat.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social #SpacesOnTheSpectrum (@columbiaup.bsky.social) #PolicingPatients (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

Yesterday, we saw Jurassic Park media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...

Please listen carefully as our menu options changed once like 7 and half years ago.

Thank you to CBS Mornings for having me on today to talk about my new standup special and my dismal prospects for the NBA draft!!! This was such a thrill!!!

“Conscientious objection” in healthcare is a slippery slope. Physicians should adhere to their professional code of ethics not use personal beliefs to decide who deserves care. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thanks @jefflittle76.bsky.social for organizing! It was a great conversation

Really looking forward to this!

Our latest on ways that states can provide better heath data sanctuaries to at-risk populations (spoiler alert: stop sharing data with health care criminalization states & stop collecting sensitive healthcare info). Thanks to my co-authors @lizchiarello.bsky.social & Wendy Bach

We will be reading and laughing and drinking while also supporting the Iowa Abortion Access Fund… You don’t wanna miss this. @lyz.bsky.social @alisonleiby.bsky.social @ellomelissa.bsky.social @felipetmedina.bsky.social @taylorkayphillips.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/red-state-...

Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…" Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.

STL folks, I would love to see you there!! Books will be available from @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social, the city’s newest independent bookstore 📚

✨ I feel deeply honored that Policing Patients received the Herbert Jacob Award from the Law and Society Association. I love being part of this smart, engaged, and generous community of scholars ✨ @lawandsociety.bsky.social @rad-institute.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

Loved the opportunity to talk with @narcocast.bsky.social about my new book, Policing Patients! ✨ They do riveting and important work—check them out

Loved participating on this wonderful panel at #LSAChicago2025 Thank you @professormutch.bsky.social for organizing us 💗

If you need a place to charge your phone or take a break inside after the storms. Many libraries are open today. At mine it's Summer Reading kickoff which also means free activities for kids and live music. Library opens at 9am. kplmo.org/event/summer...

Crown candy is asking for dry ice… a lot of it. If anyone has connections to freezer truck/walk in unit rentals that run on generator drop a note to @kzieff.bsky.social cc: @ksdknews.bsky.social @firstalert4.com

@biblioracle.bsky.social provides an excellent argument for why professors should avoid LLMs. Worth a read.

Don’t miss @alondra.bsky.social’s powerful piece. Her insightful critique of institutional capture and complicity is a lesson to us all. time.com/7285045/resi...

“To remain on advisory boards that have been stripped of meaningful advisory function is to become that shopkeeper, to lend legitimacy to a process that has been systematically delegitimized."

I promise I will never demand an apology for cross posting

Just finished reading Samantha Simon’s excellent book, Before the Badge. It offers deep insights into the construction of police violence and provides insights into a socialization process to which few of us have access. Highly recommend ✨ Don’t miss her AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social!

ICYMI: “LSA has also created spaces, such as the Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop(s), that can serve as on-ramps for finding and plugging into networks…many exciting projects in which I am involved came together via an #LSA connection.” (Sindiso MnisiWeeks) bit.ly/LSAMnisiWeeks

On the fence about submitting a proposal for the LSA Advance Grant program? Read more about how 2024 grantee @daniellerudes is using her funds to help sociolegal scholars develop #QualitativeResearch skills. bit.ly/3AzJQZo #LSAGrants #LawAndSociety

Are you attending your first conferences this year? Are you a seasoned attendee looking to get more out of your conference experiences? Watch our video to learn how past #LSA Trustees make the most of #ConferenceSeason! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGb... #LSAChicago2025 #CareerAdvice

Every human body, and life, is a blend of biological and cultural processes and nowhere is that more evident than sex biology and the human experience. That blend is what “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary” @princetonupress.bsky.social is ultimately about.

If you're upset about the attacks at NSF/NIH and other science agencies, Trump is now flooding them with political appointees rather than the scientists you're used to working with. Politics, rather than science, will now govern them. My piece in Science w/@donmoyn www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I spent the day with @michaelsierraa.bsky.social’s powerful book on police culture. Can’t wait to discuss it at @lawandsociety.bsky.social!!

Sociologists assemble! Make plans to meet up with colleagues & demonstrate the necessity of sociological inquiry at the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting. Coming this summer to Chicago! Online program is now available: https://bit.ly/ASA25Program. Register for early-bird rates! bit.ly/RegisterASA25 #ASA2025

My research has been supported by an #NSF CAREER Award for seven years. Without those funds, I could not have written a book, supported students, shed light on the overdose crisis, and advocated for change. The destruction of the NSF will do irreparable harm to science and to vulnerable communities

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Happy Independent Bookstore Day to all who celebrate!! 🤓📚💗@leviathanbookstore.bsky.social

CDC’s Funding for State and Local Public Health: How Much and Where Does it Go? Nice overview and breakdown using FY2023 data by @kff.org ... 🛟health policy medsky policysky polisky sociology lawsky 😷idsky 📉

Street Drug newsletter just dropped. Latest OD numbers, #openscience, Duterte, #harmreduction events, & more! opioiddatalab.ghost.io/april-newsle...

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

What a fantastic symposium featuring @staceytovino.bsky.social @anyaprince.bsky.social @michaelrulrich.bsky.social @jillwieberlens.bsky.social and other fantastic folks at Iowa Law this week! Thinking about the benefits and harms of data collection. Lots to chew on.

So excited for today’s symposium on reproductive health privacy @ Iowa Law. jgrj.law.uiowa.edu/symposium-2025 ready to learn from great speakers @michaelrulrich.bsky.social @jillwieberlens.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @staceytovino.bsky.social Alex Rosenblat, Adi Youcht & Phoebe Jean-Pierre

I’m delighted to speak at the Iowa Law symposium Our Bodies, Our Data with this amazing group of women!

Is this Heaven?

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...