Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/6cTpB24

Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall. I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

One cool trick to increasing trust in elections and government: make everyone a public official. Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

More skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social . Still a couple of small parsing errors ("the participants" and "David"), but clear stratification among thanked entities in Social Science History versus samples of articles from five adjacent disciplines, 1976-2025.

Businesses have long used their bills/receipts to call attention to government policy. In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.

Looking forward to sharing my book at the Colby College Sociology colloquium on Thursday! @mayrl.bsky.social @philipjfang.bsky.social

@mayrl.bsky.social and I have written about what's happening how as a kind of cascade of recognition. When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.

I've been thinking about reasons it's hard to convey the importance of the Musk/Treasury thing and maybe one factor is that people don't realize how *much* of the world is government?

RIP

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars! We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/b...

Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.

Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.

An incredibly hot take that I have is that liberal/progressive leaders invoking Christian language because that is what they truly believe is actually a good thing because letting the conservative right have a monopoly on Christianity is catastrophically stupid

Apply to be an editor for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! ASA’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities is looking for editor applications from individuals and teams. Applications due March 28, 2025. Read the call here: https://bit.ly/4jsHxZN #ASA #journals #sociology #research #editor

UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science. – Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533 – Application deadline: 10 Feb – Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... @ucdsociology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

By the way — if you're curious to learn more about the modern Religious Left, boy do I have the book for you: www.amazon.com/American-Pro...

Job Alert➡️ The Department of Sociology & Anthropology @westvirginiau.bsky.social invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) appointment in #Sociology, open area of specialization. Review of applications begins Jan 24, & will continue until filled. sssreligion.org/announcement...

I went to graduate school to study with a well-known scholar of colorblind racism, and the idea that powerful people couch their hatred in euphemism to avoid social sanction seems increasingly quaint when the world's richest man is doing the Nazi salute at the President's inauguration.

As the new year ramps up, don’t forget about the SSHA conference (our 50th!) in Chicago this November. For more details and to submit a paper see: ssha.org/conference/

New podcast interview about my book! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Letters reveal a decades-long school voucher expansion strategy by politicians and church officials who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate. New, @propublica.org

"Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations" with @mayrl.bsky.social is inching along. Behold: automated collection, parsing, and matching of acknowledgments from seven ASA sections, covering award-winning publications (and a few comparators) spanning 1979-present! Fine-tuning still, but looks face-valid!

1. Anyone who follows me knows that I am, shall we say, a big believer in hiring more religion reporters. But I wanted to take a minute to detail just one of the reasons I say that, like, all the time. More to the point: let’s pull back the curtain to explain what this kind of work looks like.

Some of your archival needs may be met here ---> go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

@mayrl.bsky.social and I have written about these kind of efforts as classification struggles over the perception of the state itself. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Never mind your job, what about His? nypost.com/2024/11/20/t...

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else: go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G

It's LIVE: Political Sociology has its first Starter Pack! Follow us all here: go.bsky.app/QaLr2JG

The University of Rhode Island is hiring for *two* faculty positions in computational social science this year, associate or advanced assistant. Deadline December 15: jobs.uri.edu/postings/14232

We need to fund the National Archives 👇

Where will you be Friday, September 27th? Watching me and @mayrl.bsky.social talk about positivism at the New School for Social Research? That's great; since you already know about it, I don't have to advertise, I guess! :) Register: event.newschool.edu/afterpositiv... @columbiaup.bsky.social

Come work with me! Colby Sociology is hiring a TT Assistant Professor. Area open, ability to teach race and ethnicity a plus. Applications are due October 1. I'm happy to answer any questions. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/149849

@mayrl.bsky.social, @nickhwilson.bsky.social, Matthew Mahler & Josh Pacewicz examine the growing ties between historical sociology & ethnography - a useful case study of interchange between scholarly communities. New & open access in Social Science History! 🏺🗃📗 #sociology #histsci #STS #AcademicSky

Damon Mayrl & coauthors draw on methodological writings by ethnographers & original interviews w historical sociologists to examine the growing ties between the two fields, a useful case study of interchange between scholarly communities. New in Social Science History, OA! 🏺 #sociology #histsci #STS

Great talk with Geoffrey Gordon (UVA Poli Sci) about *After Positivism* for NBN! @mayrl.bsky.social partner in crime; if you listen to the podcast, you don't have to read the book (after buying it!) @eischwartz.bsky.social Pod: shorturl.at/yRZmP Book: shorturl.at/qUh2g

w00t! @mayrl.bsky.social As before (with my monograph), thanks a million to the inimitable @eischwartz.bsky.social! #history #methods Check it out! tinyurl.com/3ewhapt4

More from the skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social and @ahmccumber.bsky.social . This is the per-article average of "self words" in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1965-2022, with their major editorial transition in 1977 marked. The rise and fall of a concept!

Watch (sub)disciplinary paradigmatic closure occur! Initial plot from calibration project on a customized social-psych journal corpus (JPSP, 1965-2023). Co-citation graph. (From the skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social )

Important sociology research on this question: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

We’re like three months away from a Dave Ramsey approved budgeting plan that involves spending 2 decades being slightly malnourished so you can pay off debt 2 months faster than if you didn’t

Just a reminder that our Public Policy Postdoc position deadline is this coming Monday, February 12! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

couldn't stop thinking about this so i had to make it and share it with you forgive me