🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday  🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures. 🔗 ogy.de/iho2

↪️ "DEI as Infrastructure--and Why We'll Miss It When It's Gone" by Jessica R. Gold (Northeastern), Laura K. Nelson (@lauraknelson.bsky.social), and Kathrin Zippel (@kzippel.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Update: www.lauraknelson.com/publication/...

Wowza this issue is phenomenal. Three comments. 1. Protect the dolls. 2. Check out the special section on defending DEI - curated to include some of my favorite scholars on the topic (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....) 3. Their Spotify playlist includes Fugazi. FUGAZI. So yea. Amazing issue.

Highly recommend this book. (And I mean that. I've left copies in Little Free Libraries because I think everyone should read it.)

We also have a detailed report of weekly changes to #NIH grants that we will start publishing regularly, thanks to the excellent work of Emma Mairson: grant-watch.us/docs/2025-04...

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

I’ve said this again, and again, and again, and again. Science is a fragile ecosystem. This administration has forever damaged it. There is no going back. All that is left is making the crash landing as soft as possible.

This really surprised me. I keep hearing that higher education is completely alienated from and mistrusted by the public - especially elite schools

This one is great, too. Very good news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

There are loads more methods and substantive details in the paper. Check it out if you're inclined: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On the methods: if you've ever done large-scale bibliometric analysis, you know how difficult (nearly impossible?) it is to do comparative analyses across disciplines *and* time. Alex Gates @complexgates.bsky.social did magic using methods from statistical physics to allow us to do this comparison.+

DEI is essential to actually carry out university missions to provide the best, most innovative teaching and research. When DEI programs are deliberately designed, as is the case with the ADVANCE program, those involved do not have to sacrifice their own productivity. Resources really do matter. +

The ADVANCE program thus created a spillover effect: by providing symbolic and actual resources to teams of administrators and faculty to change the structure of academic STEM-removing barriers faced by women faculty-they also created conditions for the faculty involved to do their own research. +

Contrary to grumbling that DEI programs are a distraction from the core mission of universities - that they're administrative "bloat", we find the opposite: research-active faculty who received an ADVANCE aware published *more* papers *in their core scientific area* compared to a matched sample.

As we were writing this paper the NSF ADVANCE program was "archived" (cancelled). A heavy moment for us mid-paper. The results are important - check it out: ADVANCE is one of the (if not the) longest running NSF programs, and, unusually for the NSF, is a collaboration among multiple directorates. 🧵

🏛️ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintain—or boost—#ResearchProductivity. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

www.youtube.com/live/87ivs8L... Mit @julianhamann.bsky.social Teresa Koloma-Beck Michael Grünberger @paulita.bsky.social @buceriuslaw.bsky.social

This is good and welcome. I wish it included universities.

www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/lei... #gender

www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/podc... interessant & wichtig. manches teile ich nicht ganz, zB die Idee eines 'wissenschaftlichen Chefberaters' in der Regierung. Aber die Betonung von Autonomie von Forschung (und Lehre, nicht alle sind MPG!) sowie von Diversität als 1 derer Qualitätsmerkmale: ja!

This is a great thread.

For those pointing out that his casinos went bankrupt: Yes, but he leveraged those bankruptcies for personal profit, which seems to be what he's trying to do to our country now.

He's running our country like one of his casinos, where the lights and the noise keep people from noticing the grime (and the crime) all around them, and where the free buffet and the chance at a big payoff are designed to make people forget that the house always wins.

#Wissenschaftsfreiheit Wer dieses o 1 darauf basierendes Statement f d eigene Institution - @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @mpifg.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @badw.de @bbaw.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de zB - aufsetzen will, nur zu! Infos bei mir

Reviewing @jessicacalarco.bsky.social's "Holding it Together" for The British Journal of Sociology was a treat, but tough. It's a difficult book to do justice to in 2 journal pages. I hope it puts more of her books in people's hands and on their shelves. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Submissions are open 👀

I'm very excited to read this!!!!

In our paper, we adapt @joannapepin.bsky.social's visualization of U.S. couples' money arrangements to the German context. Using German Family Panel data, we show how these arrangements vary by cohort and age group. Replication files + high-res plot: github.com/maraab23/Cou... #FReDA #pairfam

Fantastic opportunity for a PhD student to work w/ @macartan.bsky.social + team in Berlin! 👇

Right—post Me Too, victims are attributed status and support that they never actually gained, and so are portrayed as powerful, resourced, and vindictive against the lonely, besieged accused.

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

Here’s the abstract and the link to the ungated version: bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Heute in Print: mein Tagesspiegel-Artikel zur Berliner Hochschulpolitik. #IchBinHanna

2 research positions (Pre or PostDoc) at Freie Universität Berlin for at least 2.5 years in gender equality, intersectionality, diversity, equality, higher education and science studies, diffusion of ideas, organizations, political sociology, and globalization. Deadline Oct 28, 2024

Brigitte Studie heute präsentiert! Ost West Sexismus Gewalt Karriere Mutterschaft Politik …

How effective are measures intended to mitigate employer biases against care work-related career disruptions? New research by Rivera et al. suggests that COVID-19 impact statements in tenure decisions at US universities mitigated caregiving and gender biases: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

Berufungsakten zeigen: Die Darstellung von Berufungen als meritokratische Bestenauslese wird erst in den 1970ern alternativlos. Fragen der sozialen Passung werden deswegen nicht weniger wichtig, müssen aber seitdem meritokratisch rationalisiert werden. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Picture a radical feminist. Now picture a radical intersectional womanist. Both have existed in almost identical form (and organized!) since at least the 1810s (and before but that's not my field). (Is that shocking? No idea anymore)

So are we doing conference threads here yet? Because I'm starting my #ASA24 #ASA2024 conference thread with interesting events/panels/etc. I'll continue to add here! First: Computational and Mathematical Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Data (a *stellar* lineup)

Humboldt-Universität Berlin suspends professor after allegations of sexualized violence: www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/nach-...

The start of the academic fiscal year means it's time to officially update my website 🎉 www.lauraknelson.com

Dear Berlin friends and colleagues: please join us for Myra Marx Ferree's talk on Monday, 15th July 2024, 06:00 – 08:00 pm, DeZIM.Saal, 3. OG, Mauerstr. 76, 10117 Berlin Please register here until 13th July, 4:00 pm www.dezim-institut.de/en/events/ev...