I am not sure I have seen *any* movie more than seven times. But if I did, it was this one because my HS friend owned it and put it on whenever I came over.

What we need is boosters for our sociology departments.

Went down a rabbit hole and found this embarrassment. This is not "AI Fluency," it is outsourcing the work of being a student. Don't talk to me about teaching "AI Fluency" if everything on the list involves putting words into a chatbot and reading the result. ai.osu.edu/learn-ai

Academia rewards originality, as long as it looks exactly like what came before.

I had been looking for the right way to put this, but this sums it up well. It's currently harder to come up with threats to inference than to run a billion regressions, but the former is also a lot more valuable.

When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.

I am reacting badly to every part of this. Using proxy variables to solve an unsolveable mathematical problem? Trying to automate your way out of making hard theoretical choices? Calling period effects "time"?!

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

FSU is hiring 2 APs in spatial data science! Open to any social science discipline, including sociology. This makes at least 5 faculty jobs at FSU this year open to Soc PhDs. Consider applying if you do spatial research! (ad says Geography, but it's open field) jobs.omni.fsu.edu/psc/sprdhr_e...

What attending a conference out of your field feels like Them: everything’s a social network, even this conference! Me: haha... Them: someone should do a network analysis of network analysis Me (thinking): surely my coffee isn’t a network Them: take this cup, for example

I'm seeing a lot of people freaking out about "Sociology from six PhD students to zero", but what it means is sociology has six PhD slots over the next two years and they've decided to put them all in one year.

Is childhood exposure to local wealth inequality associated with upward income mobility achieved in adulthood? Yes! Check out my new paper, just published in @natureportfolio.nature.com here: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #EconSky #Sociology #Demography

This is what I think we're missing. There's going to be another big round of automation, and it will be much more useful than whatever general-use LLMs can do.

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I don't have any clue whether he will win his lawsuit or not because I am not a lawyer, but they're not even doing a good job pretending he violated any policies. The logic they apply here works equally well for writing a nasty review of the latest Taylor Swift album.

There was a period of my life when I wanted to be just like Hahrie Han. I still kind of do. This is richly deserved.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

The guys who automated petard production: OMG! You're never going to guess what we've been hoisted by!

I like how this post is framed so that never having sex leads you to do things like become more educated, and make you less likely to drink alcohol. Clearly this is all very causal.

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

When the people who create a graph call it a "visualization" it always looks something like this:

Anyone got a running list of universities that have signed this?

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp! We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks. Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

Research Topics: "The effect of climate change on between-occupation income disparities." "A conversation analysis of gene expression." "The causal effect of drug usage on religious service attendance" (FIELD EXPERIMENT TIME)

Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers? academic.oup.com/sf/article/1... I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Just as a reminder: There are very limited spots, but there *are* mechanisms to hire faculty who fit with strategic university priorities at U of T, and sometimes the current faculty know what they are. Reach out to colleagues in your discipline if this is of interest to you.

I didn't even think about the effects of these two together. If there are 140,000 new engineering graduates in the US each year but half of spots are no longer available *and* you're getting rid of all the H1B engineers, you're removing the US as a country that can do engineering.

I've been aggressively culling my feed of "resistance" content. If it's important to know I'll find it out a few hours later. But because I get the news a few hours later, posts like this sound like lines from The Bald Soprano:

I spend a lot of time being very annoyed with "now more than ever-ism." David Autor / Larry Summers define it like this. It is useless to repeat that we need to deregulate everything / abolish capitalism / foster "civil debate" on campus / etc. in response to *everything.*

Region D contains half the world's population. If you don't pick that one you've lost your mind.

🚨 We’re HIRING! 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University (SUNY) is seeking two tenure-track Assistant Professors in Global Inequality & Justice (start Fall 2026). Come join a vibrant, growing department at New York’s top public university! 📍 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/172669

Decided to update my profile to include the "views are my own" disclaimer because of this craziness. I try very hard to be the most boring poster on the internet so it's unlikely it would become a problem, but apparently there are people who watch this stuff now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This paper from @tomlyttelton.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social is amazing. It shows that removing educational requirements can have big impacts for workers...except that employers don't really hire those workers below the normal education level anyway.

New paper with Jeremy Fiel @ricesocsci.bsky.social. We find school finance reforms reduced inequality of school funding by income, but did not reduce inequality by race/ethnicity and in some cases increased funding inequality by race/ethnicity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Criminology (in our Sociology department)! Tenure track. 2/2 teaching load. Great colleagues. Fantastic location. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

Today I misread the world occupation "Nonelectrolytic" as "Neurolytic" and I am not ready for a world with Neurolytic Metal Plating and Coating

Am I the only person who thinks these response options are very, very bad? Not how they answered. The actual response options. These are not even close to mutually exclusive.

teams to win after being no-hit through 8 2/3 innings or more, expansion era (1961): Today BAL (vs LAD) 9/10/2023 NYY (vs MIL) 8/23/2017 PIT (vs LAD) 7/9/2011 LAD (vs SD) 5/16/1997 ATL (vs STL) 7/26/1991 LAD (vs MON) 9/24/1975 CHC (vs NYM) 9/13/1969 ATL (vs HOU) 6/14/1965 NYM (@ CIN) @EliasSports

"The geography of tertiary education inequality in EU" just out in @europeansocieties.bsky.social with @mvaldes1989.bsky.social and Ilaria Lievore An outcome of the mapineq.eu project

reviewer 1: excellent work reviewer 2: burn it all down reviewer 3: why does this exist the editor: minor revisions i stared at the wall for forty minutes then changed "utilized" to "used" in seventeen places

UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

My brother sent me this

In what can only be described as the most toxic search optimization in history, someone has put up a website named "Pizza Near Me" that supposedly exists in Plano, TX. This will pop up in your Google Maps even if you are in Canada.