Harvard administrators pushed a faculty committee to cancel a long-running, biannual symposium featuring tenure-track women’s research, citing legal concerns about hosting a single-gender event. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

meanwhile, I'm teaching my PhD econ course on the Political Economy of Corporations this semester, so re-sharing the publicly-available "Political Economy of Corporations Curriculum" lenorepalladino.notion.site/Political-Ec...

New op-ed in the LA Times by myself & Dave Stovall. We wrote this because are watching in horror the ways this administration is terrorizing Children of Color. Black & Brown children deserve better than this. We all deserve better than this. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Does your work or field of study relate to counting or characterizing populations, or generating/using population data to make decisions? If "Yes" to any of these, then this conference is for you. Submit your session proposal by Oct. 23: buff.ly/cpJKBKC

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org! We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫 job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

Assistant professor of sociology @drschut.bsky.social explains why she 💚s PAA. Watch and share this video to tell the world about this unique, interdisciplinary, supportive space for population research. And see it in action at #PAA2026.

I was recently reminded that it’s job market season so it’s a good time to remind folks to control the narrative with your cover letter!: practicalphd.net/2021/07/12/c...

"we will not stop...We will continue to pursue research questions at the heart of diversity science even as they wain in popularity within the field. We do this, not because we are naïve, but because these questions and this work matters to us and to the communities we care about."

A few new details have come to light, most of them noted in this essay by Judith Butler. My dismay has only deepened. It is a shocking violation of institutional trust—and I write as an undergraduate alumnus and 20-year faculty member of a place that has meant so much to me. Devastating.

📢 Job Posting! 📢 We are hiring TWO postdocs at Detroit PEER at Wayne State (detroitpeer.org)! We are looking for one quant/mixed methods expert and one qual/mixed expert to work with me & @jeremylsinger.bsky.social on attendance research. Apply by Oct. 10, but flexible on start date! Please share!

FYI: I'm currently in the process of interviewing and hiring a virtual assistant with a 9/1 start date. If you are U.S. based, have experience assisting academics, can provide references and/or know someone who might be a good fit, feel free to reach out! Finding my email address isn't difficult..

Okay, here is a finished draft of the syllabus for my Fall graduate seminar on social theory. Reading list is at the bottom. drive.google.com/file/d/1Yqy9...

Hi friends! I'm super happy that we have an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Job ad just posted (link below). Please share widely. fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Headed to Chicago for #ASA2025! On Monday, I’ll present “Heterogeneous & Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the US” (w Elizabeth Bair, Hedy Lee, & Atheen Venkataramani) in the Policies, Politics, & Population Processes session at 8am (🥴).

I'm a @motherjones.com reporter looking to speak with federal workers (past and present) at SAMHSA, particularly those whose portfolios included substance use disorder/fentanyl/opioids. My signal is abbyvesoulis.09. As always, you can remain anonymous. 🙏

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

Good news for everyone who a few weeks back was like, dammit I can’t believe they’re making me support Harvard!

Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies

Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Doc students and recent grads: applications are due *June 30*! Advisors and mentors: please share.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My mother-in-law was sharing this new Durham bookstore with me and now I have a new space to check out. Though, unless they got paletas around the corner, I'm unlikely to switch from The Regulator. indyweek.com/culture/daug...

Also, best paletas in Durham are at Pincho Loco Ice Cream. You're welcome.

Science has published a letter I helped write, as part of Advancing Queer & Trans Equity in Science (AQTES), about why it's important for universities & other institutions to protect trans and gender-nonconforming scientists, and some practical things they can do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

7 Stories From Incarcerated Writers for Juneteenth

We are seeking to hire a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor for appointment beginning July 2026. Candidates should have a specialty in #urbanplanning #housing and #quantitativemethods and/or #planninglaw #landuse #finance. To apply visit jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/254...

Love this!

Yes. This trend is not new. But many have ignored the warning signs. Because grappling with the resurgence of misogyny requires that we grapple with the bigger forces that (I would argue) are driving the appeal of misogynistic messaging. Like financial capitalism and neoliberal policy regimes.

For the rare individual who's lost employment in ed research organizations and doesn't otherwise see this, I'd strongly recommend the webinar June 12.

This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.

I was honored to speak at @stanfordaaup.bsky.social's Rally to Defend Education and Research last Friday (May 30). You can watch my speech here: youtu.be/WLyH9JM8CF8 Grateful to Matt Schlege (‪@climatto.bsky.social‬) for sharing it on his channel. @aaup.bsky.social

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

Great thread from the always thoughtful @michellesphelps.bsky.social. Also: read her book! bsky.app/profile/mich...

Congratulations to our Annual Award recipients of 2025! ICYMI: View the #PAA2025 Awards Ceremony youtu.be/rqaU3_XKjw0?...

I'm supporting my amazing colleagues from HIVE at SF General in this year's SF AIDS walk. You can donate here to support their work to fight for reproductive justice for people living with HIV and help them achieve their family-building dreams

But what about celebrating rejections--can we do that? If so, when and HOW should we celebrate? I'm attending EPSA in Madrid and hope to open a discussion on this topic: celebrating submissions, rejections, and more of the "little things" we do to keep shared knowledge and truth-telling alive.

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

New pub alert!! Delighted to share a pub with 2 of my graduate students on how the growth machine is an agent of racial capitalism which we demonstrate through a media analysis of gentrification coverage. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/1535...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

LA jails just posted their 18th death for this calendar year -- this time a 53-year-old at Men's Central.

The Trump administration has made devastating cuts to essential reproductive health research. It sends a message that they're "turning their back on science, on compassion, on caring about women," says Diana Greene Foster of @ansirh.bsky.social

This top line--"nearly 800 NIH grants"--was made possible by every scientist who reported their terminated grant to us. 🙏 Small acts add up, and the country is finally learning the full scope RFK's vandalism. And don't stop now! Report your terminated NIH grant here: forms.gle/FnGLkUtK3M58...

⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

Sending lots of support to the NSF and NIH program officers who have been serving the science community in so many ways. Thank you 🙏

In February, the Trump administration abruptly cancelled funding for all six Retirement and Disability Research Consortium centers across the country. They claimed that doing so saved “about $15 million.” I feel like the research did a lot more for society than rendition to a Salvadoran gulag.

If only millennials went out to eat more avocado toast! Been saying it for years…