“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Not hard to see what's been happening here. A few high profile political scientists publicly disagreed with him, so now he has decided the entire discipline is ideologically captured. The way he thinks--emotionally, los of motivated reasoning--has always been very transparent.

If you’re jokingly keeping a tally of how people on a different social media website are responding to an essay you wrote so you can dunk on them, you are a huge loser lmao

In the universe next door, the map did include Jewish neighborhoods and exactly the same people are outraged he’s equating Jews with foreigners.

As expected, DOJ sued to overturn Virginia's new assault weapons ban — and also sued California over its "Glock ban" and handgun roster. That makes 7 gun-related suits from the Civil Rights Division, which historically enforced anti-discrimination statutes. My latest w/@bychipbrownlee.com:

Do you smell something? Police increasingly justify searches based on the smell of weed, yet only 20% of these searches discover contraband. Our model brief argues that discretionary opinions perpetuate implicit bias and result in racially biased outcomes: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

In Boston, BBURG was a bank consortium that bucked the trend in postwar redlining by explicitly offering mortgages to Black homebuyers….but only if they bought in Black neighborhoods, seen by BBURG as a strategy to limit the violence that comes with integration. Segregation, but wokley (sorta)

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

Glad she referenced the Norway and Sweden comparison, which gave the game away (even though it was already obvious)

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

wtf

On X, a “heterodox” philosopher screenshotted what he said was substandard leftist scholarship in sociology (it's not, but that’s beside the point). Funny part is: evidence of supposed weakness was the methods…which are word-for-word endorsed in a methods book written by a “heterodox” sociologist.

This is insane.

Oh man, this politically motivated bias in sociology is so bad, look at this contrast. I wonder what happened to these guys' careers! Oh, huh, you're telling me Regnerus was subsequently promoted to full professor and Stewart got a bunch of articles retracted and fired from his job?

I trust this guy with upholding the standards of science, for sure.

how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026

Justices Gorsuch, Sotomayor, and Jackson concur in Hunter v. US to get pretty close to saying that plea bargaining is unconstitutional. Worth a read.

Assuming authors don't write headlines, the article doesn't identify what needs to be changed? Assign conservative takes on gender to gin up disagreement? And does soc of gender categorical deny existence of sex? I thought it was just: gender & sex aren't the same. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...

'Sociology research is politically motivated, and therefore untrue. My evidence is that a bunch of undergrad classes assigned a pop press book by a civil rights attorney that made misleading points. To show how the book was uncritically accepted, here's a well-known critical review by a historian.'

I quaintly maintain that “will anyone be held accountable for the mass murder of children?” is not, in fact, a strange question.

Such a weird scenario of geopolitics here, considering the official U.S. position, to the extent we have one, was up until a few days ago that the current Iranian regime sucks and we can't even trust their footballers to spend a night in the country.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

He’s blaming SSRIs for school shootings before doing the studies he claims are happening, but on top of that, he is saying school gun violence is something they are funding at NIH. Didn’t Jay Bhattacharya say NIH no longer funds policy relevant research, only research that is directed at clinicians?

I don't think that's what the constitution or Supreme Court has said? (second screenshot, specifically referencing the word "classifying")

Vozinha was spectacular for Cape Verde. This is shameful.

From last February: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/audr...

"When you watch from down on the field, it’s easy to feel like part of the show. Up high, your role as part of the crowd is unmistakable." - the point where the essay really starts to sing.

Jimenez is such a baller that I *almost* felt bad when Saka abused him earlier this season www.youtube.com/shorts/RQHtS...

Embarrassing and corrupt.

Full-fledged assault on the principle of disparate impact, has been bubbling up for quite some time.

Awful

I like this point by @reginarini.bsky.social over on Twitter re: the Boghossian et al. report. The report claims a "no politics or morals in research" argument, but in the details, it's really a disagreement with the postmodernists about *where the line should be drawn*, not an absolute position:

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What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali. The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Just recommended “accept” on someone’s AJS R&R. It’s a hard journal to get in to so it feels great to read an outstanding manuscript and affirm its awesomeness.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

"North Carolina law states victims...are not eligible for compensation if the victim was “participating in a felony at or about the time that the victim’s injury occurred" ... or “engaged in contributory misconduct” around the time of their injury..."

War is peace, mandatory courses are intellectual freedom www.chronicle.com/article/a-fl...

Great reporting here, and quite sad. How terrible to treat someone this way.

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⚠️ Our June issue is now live! ⚠️ In addition to a great set of articles, editors @annowens.bsky.social and @ordinarysquares.bsky.social introduce the new cover and the new City Books section, in which we highlight new books in urban sociology. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Communities are paying the price for Trump cutting programs that help survivors and prevent gun violence – while he's pushing billions in payouts for himself and political allies, including January 6 insurrectionists. That says a lot about whose pain counts — and whose doesn’t.

Gotta be the most corrupt presidential action in the modern era?

Where leading social science research meets real world impact.

Using anything correlated with race is discrimination in admissions; while nothing that is correlated with race is discrimination in gerrymandering.

BTW it’s now been 10 weeks since the bombing of a girls school in Minab killed ~120 children, and the US has yet to offer any explanation or statement of apology.

It’s kind of a metaphor for American democracy in the 2020s. After Jan 6 2021, the coup appeared dead and even GOP elites were looking to oust the authoritarian wing. A few years later the same wing controls all of government and intimidated much of civil society into submission