Class cancelled because of the super typhoon! This is a chance to try out my new mic to record a lecture. 🤓 Stay safe!

Just a few months ago many investors were convinced that Trumponomics would energise America’s business environment. These ten charts show how that has not been the case

Game boys were OG!

@bsky.app really needs a drafts feature. My brain can’t write a coherent tweet in one sitting without wanting to tweak and mull it over for 3 business days like an email

Just wrapped up the Canadian Sociological Association’s 2025 Annual Conference~ the waterfront was beautiful!

Grateful for this generous and careful review, Wilfred!

But Hillary’s emails huh

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Will #artificialintelligence and automation cause huge unemployment? Is the tech revolution going to deliver on its promises of transformational change to workplaces, the economy and beyond? Professor Judy Wajcman uncovers the truth behind the hype, and separates #AI myths from reality.

Repairing storm-damaged homes has grown so expensive across the U.S. that insurers are increasing premiums and dropping vulnerable properties to protect profits.

I still have $10 of Skype credit damnit

THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

New research article! 🎉 my work shows that, similar to how firms offshore profits and operations to avoid tax liabilities, firms also offshore emissions and avoid emissions liabilities by listing in cross-border jurisdictions that are distant from their home jurisdictions. doi.org/10.1002/csr....

CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors. Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply. buff.ly/4hw5BJq

Ah yes, his qualifications as recounted during the senate hearing committee included “could deadlift 50lbs”

Shocked and in disbelief that Professor Michael Burawoy was killed in a hit and run. He was a pillar of the discipline. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (@aakashkalyani.bsky.social), Bloom (@nickbloom.bsky.social), Carvalho, Hassan, Lerner, and Tahoun: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

IR scholars who use probabilistic annotations like P (A U B) and Nash equilibria but without actually understanding math and probability should be banned. Nash didn't get a Nobel prize for treating equilibria as metaphors and word salads

Trump’s inauguration will break tradition and will be held indoors due to cold weather. Meanwhile, Yellen et al slogging it out at Biden’s inauguration:

I'm very grateful for Alecea Standlee's generous review of my book, Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi, in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Canadian officials said they specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states, where the pain of tariffs would affect Donald Trump's allies. nyti.ms/3Wj7zVl

1/16 "Free trade is perhaps the closest thing to a universally held value among economists." The problem is not that "free trade" is in fact a bad thing. It is that most economists don't seem to have a sense of what "free trade" actually looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

Reminder that “masculine culture” was what killed Activision and caused an exodus of their most talented designers and writers to competitors

Janet Yellen, at age 78, is about to step down. You might agree or disagree with the way she has helped manage the U.S. economy, as Treasury Sec, chair/vice chair/member of FedReserve and economist; chair Council Econ Advisors during Clinton and an academic. What is clear: wow. Real public service.

A student apparently snuck a shot of me in the middle of lecture. 🤓

JOB ALERT: I am looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral scholar to work with me in projects related to social stratification, human capital formation and health disparities. Data management and statistical analysis skills required. The position offers competitive salary and benefits.

Political turmoil at home. Apart from short-term reductions in poverty among the lowest income decile, Trudeau deteriorated federal finances during his entire time in power and was dogged by conflicts of interest. I’m looking forward to change.

Perfectly sums up China.

New from me in Social Problems -- "The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States" -- in which I set out an analytical strategy for reckoning with the emerging set of complex issues at the intersection of climate impacts and homeownership doi.org/10.1093/socp...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Study finds CEOs use of war metaphors (a masculine framing) signals undue risk to financial analysts. Better to use metaphors that emphasize collaboration, long term stability and measured ambition to signal strategic prudence, not reckless competition. hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

Antitrust is just political sensationalism. For all the genuine issues ESG has, antitrust is hardly one of them.

President Biden is expected to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in large sections of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other federal waters. The move relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.

Happy new year!

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com Jimmy Carter “described his second career as ‘waging peace.’ That work remains far from finished, and it remains for those who admired Mr. Carter to continue,” the editorial board writes.

South Korea is not a serious country.

Using data on Chilean firms to examine whether credit lines and government-backed credit guarantees mitigated the impact of the withdrawal of international capital during the pandemic, from Acosta-Henao, Fernández, Gomez-Gonzalez, and Kalemli-Özcan https://www.nber.org/papers/w33283

Merry Christmas! Celebrating Christmas with a classic at an outdoor theatre 🎄

New article! What eases/blocks mobility from firms? We reveal how gender, race/ethnicity, firm origins, and firm prestige significantly influence how far professionals can move both geographically (between nations) and professionally (between fields). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My doctoral students were kind enough to arrange a Christmas dinner and gift exchange! 🎄

Entrance exam at MIT in 1869.

Spending cuts incoming in Brazil. Like his first term, Lula's priorities have been disinflation and income transfers to the poor. This meant higher taxes and high real interest rates for a larger government budget surplus before net interest payments to keep public debt manageable.

Received my reviewer copy of Odd Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation. Written by two towering figures, the book is a captivating tale of elites, power struggles, and economic planning in some of China’s most tumultuous years. Thanks to Jon Unger at the China Journal for the invite.

Hmm I think low income groups have low mobility (fewer chances to study or work out of state), which means they probably won’t have many ties outside of their city/town of residence to begin with. Maybe Marsden wrote something (?), but we can infer as much from (low-)income homogeneity in networks.

We should have a Substack Festschrift for Paul Krugman 😉