It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible. Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize — the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u

I was lucky to overlap with Brian at the University of Michigan through a mutual friend when he was a law student. It was clear then he was really devoted to making the country a better place for all. He needs our support! I am not surprised in the least to see him leading the way in Chicago.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South Full details here: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u... @asanews.bsky.social

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

Scholars of political and cultural diffusion take note...this preprint and thread are important. Congrats to the authors on their massive amounts of data & analyses!

Who's cited most across borders? 🇺🇸 The U.S. leads gov-to-gov refs by a wide margin. 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇨🇦, 🇦🇺 follow. Also, 30 countries—mostly Least Developed—were never cited. 📚 Same for academic refs: 17 of top 20 gov-cited countries also top in academia. 🤯 43% of scholarly works include a U.S.-based author.

We feed you. They hunt us.

📊 Over 9,000+ studies rely on DHS data. 🗺️ The figure below shows decades of global data use. That’s what’s at risk if we don’t act.

With graduation this week, there are hundreds of Harvard students in their graduation regalia with their proud parents from all around the world. Taking photos on the library steps, getting a special dessert in town... I love seeing those parents every year, but especially this year. It's beautiful.

The Bukele govt sent the US a list of MS-13 leaders in US custody whom they want sent back, because they know about a gang deal with Bukele that Bukele wants to keep secret. Trump already sent one back. Here are the names, all based on Jose Olivares' reporting for @dropsitenews.com:

Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez (Vampiro de Monserrat Criminales). Another member of MS-13's ruling Ranfla Nacional, leader of the gang's Mexico Program and one of those named by DOJ, along with Cruger, of leading negotiations with the Bukele government.

Inequality and starvation is a choice. The $16 billion to hire new ICE & CBP agents... could instead be... $16 billion to meet what the World Food Programme needs to "assist 123 million of the hungriest people in 2025." www.wfp.org/news/wfp-req...

Great new-ish article by Sang Won Han & Eunsil Oh. They use RCA with survey data to uncover three cultural profiles in East Asia about gender & family beliefs. Great way to measure shared vs. heterogenous "culture." Now I am curious how these profiles change over time... doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

How to use google search without AI results. I have used this "hack" for the past 5 months. No regrets.

A really great, short interview with Jocelyn Viterna that gets right to the core of Bukele's political rise and popularity in El Salvador. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The bottom 60% of U.S. households earn $38K/year on average. To afford a "minimal standard of living," they'd need $67K. "Americans are working harder than ever, but the benefits of that hard work are not being distributed in a way that supports upward mobility.”

Very proud of my awesome niece! She wrote this important op-ed about a new concealed carry bill in Arizona. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

American leaders: please lend your voice to condemn the unjust pursuit & arrests of brave journalists in El Salvador. @vanhollen.senate.gov @repyassansari.bsky.social @repdexteror.bsky.social @frost.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov

You need to know about this. @hrw.org @hrc.org

Nooooo this is crossing a terrible threshold :( I pray these brave journalists are safe.

This dataset is truly awesome. Check out this example map (especially Latin America) from their report introducing the dataset. Thanks to the authors & contributors! @chriswblair.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

A direct strike on her home.

The best (visual) summary of global migration patterns...ever? I'm definitely using this in class... www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Thank you Kathleen Kingsbury, Jeremy Ashkenas, Quoctrung Bui, Sara Chodosh, Aileen Clarke, Nathan Gordon, Jessia Ma, & Spencer Cohen.

I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu

JD Vance's argument against due process rights mimics Nayib Bukele's sleight-of-hand from 2022: "All of the focus of international human rights, including by the NGOs, is focused on the rights of criminals. ... The honorable people--nobody cares about their rights." www.youtube.com/watch?v=v05i...

Other prisons in El Salvador are even worse.

Thanks to @amowreader.com & others for gathering and making this dataset public

Upping some resources on El Salvador & Nayib Bukele for those interested. Some great articles on Bukele's ability to seize & maintain control of El Salvador as a third-party outsider by @manuelmlndzs.bsky.social - www.journalofdemocracy.org/authors/manu...

Bukele & Trump meet today. Here's my quick primer on how folks like Tucker Carlson, Tom Cotton, Matt Gaetz, Sara Carter, Elon Musk, and others helped nurture this relationship: revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bukelismo-a-...

I study the global spread of ideas, so... Bookmarking this one.

Great way to wrap up the day lol

How do local expressions of dissent become global? 🌎🪧 In the first paper of my PhD—just accepted in the American Journal of Sociology (!!!)—I show how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent global infrastructures for diffusion. 🔗 tinyurl.com/44s2wkvp 🧵 (1/7)

Consider signing: Open Letter from U.S. Sociologists and Social Scientists Condemning the Trump Administration’s Disastrous Actions on Foreign Aid docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter of recommendation programs wildin

Harvard just announced a hiring freeze amid Trump & Musk bullshit. This isn't just bad in terms of academic freedom but also Harvard is a big area employer more generally, providing stable jobs with good benefits. Very sad news for Cambridge.

Re-upping my write-up of the development of Musk and other MAGA politicians’ admiration of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Lessons from El Salvador revista.drclas.harvard.edu/lessons-from...

El Salvador has offered to incarcerate US citizens and deported migrants. In this short article, I outline the recent relationships between MAGA politicians in the US and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele that made this possible. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/bukelismo-a-...

The drop in life expectancy in Gaza from the 70s to around 40 as reported in a new lancet study and visualized by @monachalabi.bsky.social

This was a big success from the Biden admin and the Dem majority in 2018-2019, and it meant that unaccompanied children facing deportation could have the assistance of a lawyer. Now that’s going up in smoke, and it will devastate both the kids and many of their lawyers, whose job was funded by this.

Exceptionally helpful background on universities' finances

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

The U.S. needs to fund the CDC and USAID... New ebola & marburg cases/deaths in Uganda, DRC, & Tanzania apnews.com/article/ugan... www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/p...

My friend Morgan Wills made a really helpful interactive data visualization of this spreadsheet: kumu.io/morganwills/...