Do you work on development, democracy, or state institutions? Apply for a Kellogg visiting fellowship and hang out with me for the semester or year! Apply by October 1 kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships

In the holocaust why did some people rescue strangers while others were perpetrators or bystanders? "Bystanders see themselves as passive people, lacking in control and low in efficacy. The Nazi self-image is as victims who need to protect themselves and their community."...(cont)

Great to be a guest at @casbsstanford.bsky.social Stimulating conversations w interdisciplinary scholars researching orgs: what org ethnography adds, what defines a strong org, & better understanding well performing public sector orgs in low income countries.

Great time with Medici Institute, at HEC Paris this year. Fun to talk org culture and motivation in public sectors with curious orgs scholars. Convos about what org purpose is, whether it’s just “purpose washing” profit, when it matters to workers, and when/why it helps orgs to embrace a purpose

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

You can act on false conspiracy theories about the government, and violate numerous laws, and that is fine. But if you suggest that government is not dysfunctional, you will get fired from DOGE:

Sociologists: What are your favorite qualitative papers whose contribution is primarily to show HOW something works, to illustrate the mechanism of a social relationship, or illuminate a process?

Apply now: Summer 2025 interdisciplinary workshop on Public Sector Organizations Who: Grad students, postdocs, & assistant profs in social sciences When: 7/21-23 Where: Univ of Notre Dame (USA) Apps Due: 5/15 Details: tinyurl.com/PSOE2025 Apply at: tinyurl.com/effectivesta...

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If "patriotism in American history" sounds like a promise to scrub uncomfortable truths from history, gild the lily, and run a propaganda machine through our education system, that's because it probably is.

**JOB ALERT** Notre Dame's new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. $75k/year, $15k research expenses, open area, & up to 2 years. Come work with great Sociology colleagues in a resource rich environment. apply.interfolio.com/164239

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

Corporations realizing that Black people, and their allies, dont want to shop with spineless corporations removing workplace protections. If you dont stand for something when its hard, you dont stand for it at all. Costco & Trader Joes can have all my money. finance.yahoo.com/news/target-...

Public servants are GD super heroes. They get shat on & mocked but when we really need them, they still come through for us. working thru the weekend to process requests to change gender on birth certificates in Washington, so people's gov ID can = their birth cert, can = their gender identity

Honestly its like a freefall where you think you are nearing rock bottom and then you get to "sacking people who fight white supremacist terrorist groups" and discover a whole near level

This is how kleptocracy works, and why it is such a dangerous, slippery slope to get away from elite government officials (and whatever Musk is) from putting financial interests in a blind trust

Research African governance? We seek contributions to an interdisciplinary edited volume addressing institutional performance and democratic citizenship beyond traditional notions of voting--deliberation, small publics, public sector accountability etc. Apply 2/15 drive.google.com/file/d/11nRF...

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

I have studied African governments for over 20yrs. Abolishing term limits is the slippery slope to personalistic quasi authoritarian rule. This should be a hard line for all Americans, including conservatives who value the constitution ogles.house.gov/media/press-...

Merry Christmas & happy Hanukkah for those who celebrate. Give yourself some grace & rest this season. If the season felt too short, it’s bc it was. Thanksgiving 11/28 is the latest it falls, cutting up to 6 days from the season. Our grades were due 12/23, so work lurked later than usual too.

I have to admit I got a belly laugh out of this one

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Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵

A horrifying story of a Montana oncologist accused of giving chemo to patients who didn’t have cancer (and died as a result), among other things. Incredible reporting by @propublica.org, a social autopsy of how organizational structures, social pressure, & financial incentives create malfeasance.

I always knew we shared a love of public sector research. Turns out we have the same breakfast preferences too.

Grateful for farmworkers around the world, whose work feeds us all.

What you might not realize is that recipes are not protected IP. Its time consuming to develop & photo new recipes…and you pay them nothing. Showing personality thru other authored text helps get them cookbook deals etc. If you don’t want preamble, pay for a cookbook or use NYT food

Oh the irony Got an email that I had to do cyber security training and I should click the link. Came from an outside org I’d never heard of. I asked & IT confirmed legit. the first lesson was “never click links in emails you receive from unknown, untrusted sources.”

The family behind the US Supreme Court case over transgender rights are friends from when we lived in Nashville. It takes incredible love and bravery to fight as hard and as high as you can in pursuit of rights, especially in today’s political climate. Every legal precedent is also a real human

This title is deeply misleading @npr.org. On diet, lifestyle, tackling chronic disease and taking on big food & pharma there’s a broad coalition of support. On things dangerously not supported by science, may and should face pushback.

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!