Pls share w/ your students -- Univ. of Minnesota's Sociology department is hosting a "how to apply" event for PhD applicants. Visit cla.umn.edu/sociology/gr... for more info. The world of higher ed (and beyond) is in crisis, but sociology can help us better understand the problems + solutions.

New article ahead of print! Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor! Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

We know we haven’t been very active here, but rest assured we are active in real life! Save the date for the LPE in Europe Summer Academy 2026: 10-12 June, University of Glasgow. Call for applications will follow!

Sounds amazing! bsky.app/profile/lpei...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

Huge win for women and also for New Mexico, the economy, businesses, children, and society at large!

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚 www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

NEW — Black organizers and elected leaders gathered today to denounce Trump’s threats to send military forces to Chicago. They are developing a 30-day emergency response plan, which includes establishing mutual aid hubs and Know Your Rights training sessions. thetriibe.com/2025/08/blac...

A great funding opportunity for ABD graduate students in the social sciences and humanities whose research is focused on social justice. cescholar.org

A great funding opportunity for ABD graduate students in the social sciences and humanities whose research is focused on social justice. cescholar.org

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The Supreme Court’s conservatives bear SO much blame for this disaster. They really thought they could let Trump fire every agency leader EXCEPT members of the Fed, and Trump would abide by their stern admonition to leave the Fed alone. Embarrassing stupidity. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Eager to read, and think with, this important book by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/galv...

I have big news: I wrote a book! It’s called The Price of Mercy, and it’s about the violence, cruelty, and dysfunction baked into our legal system, and what we can do about it. It’s full of real-world stories, hard data, and the voices of people fighting to fix what’s broken.

“But if all you teach is hopelessness and that nothing can change,” Terry added, “you don’t train people to look for unexpected contingencies.” www.harvardmagazine.com/social-scien...

Major philanthropic organizations including Knight, MacArthur, and Ford announced they're committing nearly $37 million in emergency funding to keep public media stations afloat after Donald Trump's rescissions package stripped away federal funding. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This oped builds off this news from last week that I want to share because that's a boss headline www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...

Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom's 'big beautiful press conference'

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)

I agree, most students are not trying to cheat. Many students don't understand the benefits or the constraints of AI. I also do not want to police them for use. So here is my syllabus policy & we discuss in the first few weeks of class. Please feel free to use, adapt & share, just cite!

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control. Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

More and more of the original DOGErs are leaving government.(via @almsnatalie.bsky.social). The implication is their influence is declining with Musk gone. We should still remember the damage they have done, which they leave as they exit government. www.govexec.com/management/2...

Just a month left until the deadline for the BJS special issue that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity! We've heard about some really interesting papers in progress so far--consider submitting!

The @law.ucla.edu Behind Bars Data Project is hiring a combined public records analyst and staff writer to help us collect and disseminate data on mortality and morbidity in prisons and jails. This work has become even more pressing of late. Please share and apply! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8221

Let everyone that has breath condemn this wholesale bowing and scraping. Shame on Lonnie Bunch. Kudos to Amy Sherald for refusing to surrender her artistic integrity to the state. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”

A Latino family in L.A. sued over an illegal eviction. The landlord's lawyer, Rod Fehlman, warned in an email that they'd "likely be picked up by ICE and deported prior to trial thanks to all the good work the Trump administration has done." The kicker? Every member of the family is a U.S. citizen.

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

@socprobsjournal.bsky.social featured me on “The Author’s Attic” to summarize this article! It feels cringe for me to watch it 😅, but if you want to learn more, by all means, check it out ☺️ "The Author's Attic" with Faith Deckard youtu.be/6elFmh2LjbM?si… via @YouTube

Always cool to find your work profiled. daily.jstor.org/what-happens...

👀 What a time to propose this policy: "Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle" www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt's recent article on moral reconciling in the legal profession is featured in the latest issue of @contexts.org. The feature was written by @elenavanstee.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Our latest "In Brief" summaries of new #sociology research fea. work on wildfires and out-migration, discrimination and policy preferences, structuring family lending, morals and the legal profession, aging with imagination, and more! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.

We talked to administration officials for this piece who straight up say as much: that a reason they’ve gone so hard at this case is the belief that if they back down too much or lose too much on Abrego Garcia, it risks a “domino effect” that could make it harder for them to do not just Alien…

It's hard to believe, but today is the day -- the release date for Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, a book that @joshpage.bsky.social and I have been working on for most of the past decade. If you’d like to check it out, you can get 30% off by entering the code UCPNEW.

“Trump supporters were [are] willing to put their own lives on the line in support of their [white supremacist] political beliefs” www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonat...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Congrats to the brilliant and witty Mark Granovetter! Also, follow our new @stanfordsoc.bsky.social account bsky.app/profile/stan...

Tens of thousands defy Hungary’s ban on Pride in protest against Orbán