Cancel culture strikes at a certain southern state university.

Did you see this @tristanbridges.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/m...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... New article with the wonderful @jonathancoley.bsky.social on cisgendered organizations: Christian Universities as Cisgendered Organizations: Discriminatory Policies Toward Transgender and Nonbinary Students in Christian Higher Education

Yesterday, AI predicted the outcome of a game that is happening now.

Get you some brilliant and consistent coauthors. Best thing about academia when you don't have several people in your subfield at your own university. #sociology #paperaccepted

Thanks @victorerikray.bsky.social for this piece that clearly explains Charles Mills's perspective on liberalism. So many seem to misunderstand. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Really looking forward to having this article with @jonathancoley.bsky.social out into the world. Re-reading the proofs now and there are some great lines in here.

Man who had an inappropriate relationship with a student in the past and an obvious conflict of interest now opines on a problem that might not actually exist. Billionaire Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale calls elite college undergrads a ‘loser generation’ | Fortune share.google/YQEDNaDYSMbU...

I'm considering not renewing my ASA membership this year. Given funding cuts and all the things, I won't be able to come to the annual meeting in NYC this coming August. Am I alone in this?

Is it true that a very famous Harvard Law professor should know something about the career of his friend and book party attendee Henry Kissinger? The guy was very busy. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Student journalists have something to say KING: Backroom agreements have no place at U.Va. - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper share.google/ckWOOF4b6mGc...

Hey @npr.org students compare college prices all the time. It's ridiculous to say otherwise and to have someone on morning edition who misrepresents reality.

Paper accepted. Very exciting! Waiting to hear back on a second resubmission...

So many creeps in public life.

Someone should call this the ballad of Larry Summers

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

what if my email machine notified me when I'm not copying the right person

Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist and historian of disaster | Yale News share.google/9zyj5PbeQQKe...

Yes! Paper conditionally accepted.

If @samadlerbell.bsky.social and/or @mattsitman.bsky.social ever come near southwest Missouri I would be happy to take them to Branson.

Listening pdrl.fm/7a3b46/pdst....

It doesn't have to be this way.

Listening Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’. Episode: www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll... . Media: traffic.megaphone.fm/THECHRONICLE... . -- Sent from Podcast Republic.

how many zoom calls have I been on today

Teach a new prep, create a lot of content. Teach a class for the 5th or 6th time, create a lot of content.

This is a bright side account now. Today, the sun is shiny and the temps are mild.

It's a beautiful morning in North Alabama

Be the kind of academic that others want to collaborate with.

Read more @lioneltrolling.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

open.substack.com/pub/johnganz... Ganz back at it here

Always read @thomaszimmer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thomaszi...

Reading this morning. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Hey that's JT @insurgentprof.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Interesting move Source: Bard College search.app/4uGYr

Sometimes I think about how telling it was that Reagan misunderstood Born in the USA.

Which sport would Jesus watch? Pickleball!

It takes everyone a full week to read and take notes on a tenure file and then 5 hours to write the letter. Right?

Classes start Wednesday.

Compelling biography of a long life lived mostly in public.

Flight cancelled. Who do I know that lives near O'Hare?

Badge pick-up & registration counters open today, 7:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Foyer, Hyatt Regency, East Tower, Ballroom Level. #ASA2025

well, Substack confirms its monetization and promotion, even if accidental, of Naz* content and Crooked Media decides to distribute their daily email via Substack not two weeks later.

Once again offering to meet with folks at #ASA2025 in Chicago starting Saturday. If you need someone to read your cover letter or talk about the job market or just to sit quietly and keep you company during what can be a very stressful time, reach out. I'll buy coffee/tea. #sociology

I've never regretted sending a note of thanks or congratulations.

Never change, Vanderbilt

Excellent as always @americanstudier.bsky.social

I've been thinking a lot about bad faith myself recently open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

It's the best day of the week, #ScholarSunday! Thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social for your keen eye and consistency.

Another defense of "intellectual diversity" that doesn't reckon with what this would mean in the areas that most students at U.S. universities study, such as engineering, business, health sciences, computer science, data science, economics, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Yeah it's a situation