💼 Why do some CEOs earn way more than others? Henriksen, Poulsen & Avent-Holt find: – Elite network ties boost CEO pay – Weak boards enable pay premiums – Worker wages drop after CEO windfalls Status drives inequality—from the top down. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/... #SER @daventholt.bsky.social

Funding awards are down in nearly every division, and total new awards approximate levels of new awards in the early 1990s. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The four-day, thirty-two-hour week: analysing organisational success and failure https://osf.io/5mvcq The four-day week signals a shift in how work is organised, but what determines whether that shift takes hold across workplaces? While there is considerable evidence that a four-day week #sociology

As a reminder here: this is not Trump's money! He is impounding funds illegally based on the most obvious fig leafs to settle grievances. It is an extraordinary abuse of his public office. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Trump administration canceling National Endowment for the Humanities' grants www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

"those who credit manufacturing jobs f/ a glorious past America mistake correlation f/ causation. . .In reality, their parents & grandparents had that life b/c of unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates & strong social policies" 🎯 @jessicacalarco.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Universities’ current strategy—cower and capitulate—is failing spectacularly. They should go to court. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

“At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, leaving experts aghast and fearful about what lies ahead.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c...

"I get my news from a broad variety of sources. I follow not only Elon Musk directly but also outlets that screenshot his posts without analysis."

The administration is hobbling the #NEH. State humanities councils are gutted. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

This is politics by extortion. K-12 schools are being forced to choose between getting the federal funding they need and throwing their students under the bus. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/03/t...

The Tumblr meme factory has kicked into gear

If this is how universities reapond to a survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education… #highered www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...

“Columbia’s concessions today strike at core principles of academic freedom and self-governance in the higher education sector,” says Kristen Shahverdian, PEN America's program director for Campus Free Speech. Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

“What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

A lot of comments on the attempt to dismantle an academic department. Equally alarming is the demand to centralize power into the university president.

"Why Welcoming the Nazis is Better for the People of France" by Marshal Philippe Petain.

Trump targeting the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

Information produced by the state is a public good. This administration seems dead set on destroying basically all public goods, from public health to education to weather forecasting. It’s breathtaking in its simplicity and its harm.

Because the military is not a social institution I guess… 🧪

“It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”

Pure scientific censorship. Welcome to the American Soviet Society …https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1 @academicsky

School meals are more than just food—they're an investment in our future. My article for @newstatesman.com explains how a mission-oriented approach can tackle food insecurity while catalysing innovation across sectors for sustainable food systems and economic growth. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/igLY61e

Cutting the Department of Education to save money is like cutting your fingernails to lose weight.

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

New escalation of direct censorship of fully vetted research that is well underway, at significant cost, & employing many highly-skilled people who will face immediate layoffs without warning When you stop a research project in the middle, you don't get half of the information. You may waste it all

Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/

Last December I did a podcast interview with @prospectmagazine.co.uk about "Super Election Year 2024," looking back and forward. You can listen to it here. 👇

Got motivated to write an op-ed after reading Citizen Scholar by @philipncohen.com. Print version of this piece ran statewide in South Carolina in Post and Courier on Friday. Non-paywalled version here. Please help spread the word. We need to push back open.substack.com/pub/kenkolb/...

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

“Undermining the NSF is not just a threat to universities and researchers — it is a threat to the well-being of every American.” 🧪 www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Excellent piece by @ebharrington.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

“We’ve gone dark,”

Let's say that one wanted to go from 0 to computational social science. With the end goal being to write a real research paper using this approach. What are the texts and resources that you would suggest to achieve this goal?

My today's Substack: Poison for the soul Review of David Lay Williams’s “The Greatest of All Plagues” branko2f7.substack.com/p/poison-for...

Do not obey in advance. 🧪

We're hiring a fully funded PhD student in #sociology here in wonderful Copenhagen! Please share! Learn more 👇 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Thousands of workers and subject matter experts fired across multiple science and regulatory agencies cen.acs.org/careers/empl...

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

The current administration has launched an assault on everything that has made America safer, stronger, and smarter, so that the country can be stripped down and corruptly sold for spare parts. #StopTheSwindle

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

As the new administration attacks the Arts, artistists are pushing back. A world without science and the arts makes us all worse off. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...

This is a great thread highlighting what this administration’s actions are doing to higher ed. And remember that this is what they want, to break universities in the US.

Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted

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