Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Not breaking news: women can be sexist too. A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.

There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.” They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.

Very important that anytime Helen Andrews is mentioned, we repost this CSPAN debate where her former lover accuses her of being a sociopath www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

Republican presidents were in charge during the years with the highest layoffs: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2025. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

The Dem's gerontocracy problem began well before the Boomer vs. Millennial conflicts. It stems from Boomers' exclusion of those born 1965-1980 from slots & party support. These folks would now be peak political age: experience + name recognition, w/o being old. Instead Gen-X got the CBSN treatment:

I know we're all watching election returns but don't let this get lost in the mix: the Heritage Foundation is calling on the HHS to conduct a 'safety' review of oral contraception jessica.substack.com/p/the-group-...

There’s nothing more American than your family going from being a target of bigotry to being a purveyor of it within a generation or two.

Alternative headline #1: Panera embarks on a half-baked solution to make more dough. Alternative headline #2: venture capital takeovers are crumby. Here's proof. (I'll be here all night, don't forget to tip the wait staff...)

Mariana Wolfner Mariana Wolfner has spent her life studying a creature so small it could rest on the tip of her finger. In her hands, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster becomes something extraordinary, a key to understanding how life is shaped, sustained, and passed on. On a windy fall…

Week 1: I completely overhauled the syllabus this year, and I'm so excited to be reading new articles along with the students! Week 11: What the hell was I thinking? Every term. Without fail.

From 2012 to 2022, the median pay of private uni presidents increased by 49%, not inc. bonuses, housing, jet use, etc. The median pay of FT faculty rose by 16%. (Inflation: 28%.) % change slightly greater at publics, tho off lower base. Source: Chronicle's analysis of 228 large endowment unis.

75-year temperature trend for Alaska. Seems bad. 😢 @alaskawx.bsky.social

Because who needs scientific data on the earth's vibrations when you have vibes, amirite? More penny-wise but pound-foolish cuts to science from the Trump administration.

Who could have ever predicted that the primary public* output of Sora would be videos that sexually exploit women, spread racist "welfare queen" narratives, glorify state violence, and mislead voters about political opponents' positions? *that is, not including the private child porn collections

A one-two punch of dark humor. Top post: @janierola.net announces a fantastic new grant that will allow him to do his own research for 6 years. (Congrats, Jani!) Bottom post: Halloween yard decoration of a headstone that reads, "I did my own research" & a skeleton emerging from grave.

This was my big news for today - six years of funding to do my own research! I will be recruiting soon, most importantly, a Senior Research Fellow on a five year contract, plus a couple of postdocs for shorter stints: people who know EU-Silc, PSID, SOEP, or have experience on using register data

Cool new post-doctoral position in my lab on the area of human social chemosignaling. What role does odor and olfaction play in shaping social behavior? (Here also is a 10-minute video about this new line of work in the Human Nature Lab: humannaturelab.net/making-of/so... .) Please share.

I feel guilty about giving a talk that someone, even if it's just one person, in a semi-captive audience has seen before. Surely some overlap is OK. But how much? At what point is it disrespectful to 2nd talk's organizer and audience to give a repeat (or moderately revised) talk on same project?

A year ago. Seems like a decade ago. (Pic: Cornell sailing center on Cayuga Lake)

This is a great interview with my coauthor @cbrandtner.bsky.social about our recent @sfjournal.bsky.social paper: poetsandquants.com/2025/10/28/a... (the paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...)

There is a reason all the money from ordinary workers wages to those at the top. We rigged the market: interview on Mostly Economics with Kim Weedon www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvt...

RSF kills 460 patients and visiting family members in the last functioning hospital in Al Fashir, Sudan. Thousands of other civilians killed throughout the city. CNN and PBS had brief stories about the massacre, but in general coverage of Sudan has been much better in non-US media.

Now do AI.

So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

I wish half the attention that's being absorbed by the Nazi-tattoo guy and rape apologist in ME would be expended on the AK race instead. Peltola, if she decides to run, has a real chance of taking a senate seat from Dan "Who?" Sullivan, a B-list Trump toady w/ all the charisma of a wet noodle.

One problem with Vance's argument is that it was not immigration restriction in 1924 that led to rapid union growth--indeed that coincided with a fiercely anti-union decade of Republican governance--but the New Deal's National Labor Relations Act of 1935.

Nativism is a remarkable combination of bigotry and stupidity.

A huge congratulations to DOCTOR Haowen Zheng, who defended a fantastic dissertation on how changes in family formation and in the spatial distribution of jobs in US affects who moves, where they move to, & who benefits most from moving. Haowen starts a post-doc at Michigan's Stone Center in Jan.

🧵1/6 New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.

Oh yeah...remember that extreme edge case in West Virginia I wrote about the other day? Yeah, that was an estimate. The actual example is even worse than I thought:78% of their gross income if they earn just $1 over the cut-off.

My cat put her head in a Dorito bag, got stuck, became disoriented, panicked, and had to be rescued. All while her brother looked on with the cat equivalent of a laugh. Just in case you thought YOU were having a bad day.

New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1

Breaking: the New Kids on the Block didn't tell the whole truth about where they lived.

To learn a foreign language you can try: 1) full immersion 2) F2F class w/ speaking, reading, listening 3) class w/o practice 4) Duolingo w/o hover-over hints 5) Duolingo w/ hints & Google Translate #5 is least effective: you'll earn gems but suffer out of app. For student learning, GenAI is #5.

More generally: the institutional processes that deter and punish bad behavior when informal compacts based on norms and trust break down work can reasonably well (but imperfectly) when bad behavior is rare, but they break down when bad behavior is rampant. See also American politics in Trump era.

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

If any wavering trustee needed a sign that no self-respecting school should sign on to Trump’s protection racket, this is it.

Sometimes headlines are lost in translation. Sometimes they are just lost. ("Coffee made with civet poop is still a mystery.")

Remember: Trump eliminated fed data collection on food insecurity. The final report, due in Oct, will use data collected in Dec 2024. The GOP plan all along was to cut SNAP — by 20% in BBB, now by 100% via shutdown & refusal to use contingency funds — AND to hide systematic evidence of the damage.

Revenge of the Zs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In this article, @weedenkim.bsky.social explains why sociology continues to lag behind other social sciences and summarizes @philipncohen.com's frustrating experiences lobbying for change on the @asanews.bsky.social publication committee. hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...

"We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals’ behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals’ initial preferences and the collective outcomes they jointly bring about." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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America's collective assessment of leaders is like an episode of Chopped: To men: you left off a key ingredient, your chicken was raw, and your Lucky Charms hash tasted like dog's vomit. To women: your food was delicious but a parsley garnish was askew so for this reason you've been chopped.

This is why some programs are skipping next year's admissions cycle altogether. From teaching and service perspective, arguably better to admit 6 students every 2nd year than 3 every year. Oc, it screws over the off-year's graduating srs, especially if multiple programs skip admissions in same yr.

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

It's so cute that United Airlines thinks I want or need an app to help me navigate the Ithaca airport.