Reading through some of my 2023 data and doing analysis this week…Mississippi problems are America’s problems.

It was an honor to endorse this book by @nathankatz.bsky.social. This is a MUST READ for anyone interested in democracy and campaign finance!

Someone sent me this.

Everyone should read this fantastic piece. This hit close to home as we just spent the last few weeks covering the gender wage gap, motherhood penalty, and comparative work-family policies. Neither my students nor I can imagine this material being banned.

The most senior Republican woman in the Senate leading the charge to make it harder for Republican women to vote. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Hear Dorothy E. Roberts @upenn.edu dive into her new memoir in this episode of Fresh Air. Roberts explores her parents' research and her surprise at learning that she was included as participant number 224 in the files. @nprfreshair.bsky.social @npr.org n.pr/4ayU0ZN

What is conventional wisdom getting wrong about rural America? ASA member Shannon M. Monnat @smonnat.bsky.social @syracuseu.bsky.social, w/ Tim Slack (LSU), highlights some common misconceptions and why correcting them matters. @us.theconversation.com

Really excited to have my first article from my thesis published today in one of my favorite journals❤️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

Friends and colleagues, Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

I remember flipping through teen vogue growing up in the middle of no where Mississippi, and I was planning on having my Sociology of Gender students write an op-ed style piece designed for Teen Vogue readers as their final assignment next semester. This is a major loss for young women.

Showing a film on racial inequality today. Which would be unlawful in Mississippi had we not fought back against the state’s anti-DEI bill.

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Honestly, this is why we need a qualitative data lab. People are dunking on these folks or calling them stupid but they are *reasoning about politics* and in similar ways, it’s just really difficult to decipher & we don’t have the long form interview data at scale that we would need to get insight.

Hey, happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day everyone. I am celebrating with the traditional bisexual beverage: iced-coffee.

Every word of this. 👇🏾

Despite what some Democratic consultants suggest, the pro-democracy party’s first question shouldn’t be, “Does stopping fascism poll well?”

A 🧵 I hope inspires: In April, Mississippi passed HB 1193, one of the most Draconian anti-DEI laws in the country. The law aims to prevent public schools, colleges, and their employees from “engaging” in divisive concepts.

Obsessed with this thread/substack. A must read for anyone studying campaign finance/electoral politics.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Whenever I think of Putnam, I think of a quote from a mom I interviewed, who told me: "The last thing I need is another email from my employer, telling me to invest in a little self-care."

How can instructors provide effective feedback to students to help them become better writers? This Class Notes article by Emily Tingle discusses some strategies you might find useful! buff.ly/3QXoTMV

Starting off People-ing Politics Day 2 with panel on Racism in Politics. @michaelrosino.bsky.social of Molloy U presents rich ethnographic research on participants grappling with racism within progressive grassroots orgs. His book w @uncpress.bsky.social is out now! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

My 10-year-old told me she wants to start getting more "first-hand news." So, we signed her up for @teenvogue.com's newsletters, because I can't imagine a better source for young people trying to navigate the world right now.

We are excited to announce the addition of 3 new faculty members - Julia Thomas, Dr. Gillian Slee and Dr. Derick S. Baum. Please give them a warm welcome and a hearty "Go Dawgs!"

I often feel proud to be a sociologist. Today I'm extra proud. @asanews.bsky.social

Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-toc/. Want a playlist for all this sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

As a range of government websites and databases go dark, a look at some of the heroic efforts to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data that could otherwise be lost. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1...

A new paper finds that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use — which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Finally coming up for air! The preliminary draft of my book is officially in the hands of the book workshop attendees. Feels crazy to step out from under the urgent writing grind. Excited (and a little nervous) to hear their thoughts, but for now, I’m gonna enjoy the breather.

Burawoy’s final lesson to us all is how he is being remembered. Yes he was a brilliant scholar, yes he shaped the discipline, but the outpouring is about who he was as a person, a gracious mentor, a kid human being, an advocate for justice. May we all be as lucky.

Banned words include "female" and "women," but not "male" or "men."

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Updated my Archival Ethnography partial bibliography with a few additional entries. drive.google.com/file/d/1UtF3... #RPVMethods #RPVQual

It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

In addition to campaign finance, I would add that many of the Democratic appointees in federal agencies are also incredibly close to corporate interests, not only because some have gone or will go through the revolving door, but because they are surrounded by colleagues who have/will as well.

I don't think it's a generation/age issue primarily, it's that Dem strategists are drawn from a very narrow (elite-college-educated, loved politics from like age 12) pool, and then get socialized/trained by senior strategists. I wrote an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/camp...

It feels like our discipline is not equipped to handle this existential threat. We need to be mobilizing our resources - professional associations, unions, alumni, etc. - and make a political push against these crackdowns. And no, a statement is not going to cut it. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Hello BLUESKY! The Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association is thrilled to be joining this community! Follow us to talk politics and sociology and everything in between (so, like EVERYTHING)!!

Thank you! Also a great chance to reshare two of my (and my students) favorite episodes featuring @binarythis.bsky.social talking Sara Ahmed and Judith Butler! - thesocietypages.org/theory/2020/... - thesocietypages.org/theory/2024/...

The most valuable lessons I learned as part of UGA’s Writing Intensive Program published with @firstpublics.bsky.social