Exciting new multi-institutional center on population aging in the US South, co-led by the amazing Dr. Christine Mair!

Serious censorship and academic freedom issues in play at Tulane. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Optimum coding environment, achieved

Thrilled to have a "Long Read" in The Guardian today, which is adapted from my new book. It argues that while Trump is obviously a threat to democracy he's also the product of a longer-term crisis of capitalism that the left must address and can address. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For everyone attending #SSS2025 in Charlotte this week: consider attending the "Roll of Honor Session to Recognize Larry Isaac," winner of SSS' distinguished career award. I'll be presiding over the session and presenting alongside several of Larry Isaac's other former students. Thursday @ 4 p.m.!

6 Intl students at UNC-CH had their visas revoked yesterday. No explanation. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Absolutely awful... but also entirely opaque. "‘First of all, I'm hardly on social media.’" ... "‘Second of all, I'm not writing, and I'm not posting anything.’ And then, thirdly, his social media page is very private." www.technicianonline.com/news/two-nc-...

🔥On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! 🔥 DC and Nationwide (see map in link for locations) Handsoff2025.com Bring friends 🌱💕🦋 to fight back against Trump/Musk power grab.🔥🙏 app.sosha.ai/s/YteiOKxT

PLEASE REPOST Two colleagues and I have been looking at corporate racial justice responses to the George Floy murder/BLM protests. Top line finding is influential DEI staff mattered. I suspect that the current DEI backlash is at least in part a response. theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...

“What’s under threat isn’t just #academicfreedom, it’s lifesaving research, climate & public health research…our collective future.” — Chenjerai Kumanyika, national AAUP Councilmember at today’s press event on the AAUP/AFT lawsuit against the Trump admin weaponization of federal research funding.

My sign for today's march

How is university leadership is responding to contemporary political threats? 1) Legal authorities are the loudest voices in the room, 2) they actively promote capitulation to authoritarian decrees, 3) they readily sacrifice principles and marginalized students/faculty/staff/units to save brand.

We're past the red line, folks. Political censorship of classroom content. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

Pro-crime agenda

I fixed NSF's flowchart...

NSF will need to revise their guidance on Broadening Participation to align with the new executive orders. To help with those revisions, I wrote an updated version of their policy. You're welcome.

This and...further related research on the qualitative character of diversity discourse in high tech. doi.org/10.1080/0038...

Yes, we absolutely should be talking more about #meritocracy in schools and organizations! But it's curious when those claims are made by people who are actively working to remove sociology courses from general ed requirements. Makes me think that the goal is actually to silence those discussions.

Scholars of employment and workplace inequality: learn more about the new chair of the EEOC. The link provides details to previous writings and media appearances related to DEI. www.eeoc.gov/andrea-r-luc...

Sadly, just another 3 examples of particularistic mobility in football coaching. Black coaches (and executives) are rarely given the same chance to succeed as white coaches. andscape.com/features/ran...

It's 2am and I'm perversely antagonizing Gemini for it's hallucinations. Like, what's wrong with you? There's medication for this...

Our Handbook on Inequality and Social Capital is now published! We have 28 excellent chapters and nearly 50 contributors, all spanning multiple disciplines and continents. If you have trouble accessing a chapter, send me a personal message. www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

BibLaTex, XeLaTex, alouette, oooooooo...