I’m the managing editor of a scientific journal. Feeding a manuscript into a generative AI is breaking the confidentiality of peer review.

I wrote a piece with @cyberlyra.bsky.social for @issuesinst.bsky.social on why reading Merton’s writings from the 1930s and 40s helps us better understand our current moment. Look for it in June, or DM me for a copy! (2/2)

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Recently, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools quietly published updated standards that no longer explicitly require med schools to teach about health equity. In my piece, I argue that this rollback harms us all & that medical schools have an obligation to keep teaching this content.

In a new piece in Nature, @markhisted.org and I cut through the chaos at NIH and argue that what is really at issue is a shift in how we govern science—away from power sharing with scientists, Congress, and civil servants and toward presidential consolidation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New book: The Limits of Diversity (@nyupress.bsky.social) by @estherdchan.bsky.social Comparing secular and evangelical college campuses, the book shows how diversity and inclusion frameworks can reproduce inequality across multiple lines of social difference. nyupress.org/978147983474...

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

Isuroon is direct support to the Somali community www.givemn.org/donate/Isuro...

You know what would be a great way to get even more people available to protect their communities from ICE? A general strike

🚨 Please comment if you can find the time and circulate widely. The LCME Standards — and their application in med schools — are not perfect but they are the ONLY national requirement incentivizing med school leadership to have *at least something* on social inequalities!!!

My student Hannah Zadeh just completed an excellent dissertation on the inclusion of race coefficients and predictive stats more generally in medicine. a main takeaway: AI tools lock in on these factors in part because **researchers have been doing the same thing** www.proquest.com/openview/f22...

Adding immediately www.wired.com/story/chrome...

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive!

Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester.

the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...

this is when you need a database of everything this lot uniquely fucked up, how much money it wasted, how long to fix it, and the no. of people injured/killed as a result. Paired with photos of the responsible officials. You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism.

My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...

The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors: Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

An incredibly insightful and important piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social “The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside Alyssa (& hope to resume doing so post sabbatical) and she’s wonderful. Quick, clear, and a real lover of authors and books. I hope you’ll reach out and share your sociology book project ideas with her!!

I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents. Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Education #Sociology

where’s the ADL when real shit is going on

Book selfies are the best selfies #ASA2025 @ucpress.bsky.social

Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices. www.reclaimcontrol.tech

If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics

Check out my new @newsweek.com op-ed on the nominee for surgeon general! "Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes." www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...

"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 Books Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 (Columbia University Press, 2024) Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social asaskat.com/2025/05/03/q...

“The initiative is a case study in how a local news outlet on the cutting edge of nonprofit news embraced a new application of its mission to serve and inform its community, taking on work at the nexus between journalism and housing advocacy in partnership with other local organizations.”

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Good morning bluesky. If you care about defending higher education and diversity and science and Democracy, you might want to sign our letter at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd. We wrote it to capture what we think are consensus values in/about higher ed. Our new website to links to all the others.

In case you missed it, the USDA has suspended food shipments to US food banks!!! We need to donate to our local food pantries! I encourage you to read this article from The New York Times about the food banks. Here's a gift link you can read it for free www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

Good morning, we have over 1200 signatures. Keep sharing here and on your other social media but even more effective = send directly to people you know. bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

Things are awful right now + there is SO much work to be done. Your research and scholarship is important. If you are a 1st-time book author + would like to celebrate your accomplishment in community w others at ASA this August — or know someone who would — pls DM me or @ahmccumber.bsky.social!

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Will they marvel or be like “the Palestine movement warned you guys for years but you hated Palestinians more than you loved civil rights”

Every teacher’s union in the country should go on strike immediately