If you or someone you know is a Chicago-area parent whose children are between 5 and 15, please consider taking part in this study to share your experiences parenting during COVID! As someone who parented during the pandemic, I know I have lots of stories I can share.

Concerned about racial profiling after the Supreme Court's decision to legalize it during immigration stops? Join a call TODAY at 7pm ET to learn more about the ruling as well as how you can help organize and protect vulnerable members of your community. Details here: www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

New study using Baylor Religion Survey data finds nuanced links between Internet use and religiosity. Research by Laderi & Uecker suggests online gaming associated with holding atheist/agnostic beliefs; posting original content = more church attendance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“The “silver tsunami” — the gradual exit of baby boomers from the housing market via downsizing, relocation or death — could significantly narrow the national supply gap.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

On Aug 28, as part of the conference below, I'll be presenting new work (co-authored w/ @ikennedy.bsky.social) on the geography of far-right retailers in the U.S. ias.uva.nl/content/even... To virtually attend, and to get the full schedule, contact @lauradupin.bsky.social. Hope to see you there!

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

This is an incredible data source!

Conferencing in Chicago? Come to my presentation on the rise of Christian Nationalist retailing. My presentation is part of the Association for the Sociology of Religion Meeting, Monday at 1:15 in the Michigan Room. Other presenters include @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, Ryan Calder, & Courtney Irby!

The ICE Detention Center Mapping Project is looking for volunteers to help contribute to a crowdsourced tracking website listing the locations of immigration detention centers, who runs them, and who may be held there. Details can be found here: www.unauthorizedcity.com/facilities

Please join us for the following @asamigration.bsky.social events at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social : Sat, August 9th 1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social

I also loved my conversation with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social about the new research I’m doing w/ @ikennedy.bsky.social on Christian nationalist consumers. Read her Substack! If you want to read the full article that inspired our Q&A, the article can be found here: academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...

If you study Latinos and are concerned about federal data being taken away, consider attending an Aug. 12th webinar held by the Latino Data Hub, which will introduce new users to its collection. Sign up here: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New study finds that, of those sampled, 49% of federal datasets were altered since January 2025, and the vast majority of those alterations were neither explained nor documented. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If you're a citizen who is concerned about ICE rounding up day laborers and imprisoning them, consider adopting a day labor corner to help provide legal resources to day laborers vulnerable to arrest. Details on how to get started here: ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-...

Cities across Europe are getting rid of Microsoft products on their computers because they worry the company will give the U.S. government their data, or that Microsoft will stop their service at Trump's behest. www.zdnet.com/article/this...

Check out this new paper I'm on to learn about how Christian Nationalism is entering e-commerce. #sociology #academicsky

You know how Christian nationalism affects politics, but did you know it is a retailing movement too? In an new piece (w/ @ikennedy.bsky.social), we examine the marketing tactics of Christian nationalist retailers, who sell consumer goods to engage in a culture war. academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...

Data alert! A new website has compiled data on African-American wealth holdings broken out by geography and asset type. The website also includes case studies from specific towns and neighborhoods across the U.S. blackwealthdata.org

Read this terrific book! I was fortunate to read early drafts of several chapters, and if you care about both policing and residential segregation in cities, it will open your eyes to the many connections between the two.

Now more than ever, we need third places - places that aren't work or home where one can socialize and meet strangers, like bars. But if a bar's cheapest drink is $20, is it really a third place for all? To learn more and gain conceptual clarity, read this post! www.eater.com/24433384/wha...

As best I can tell the Trump budget imposes a 35% cut ($40m) to the program responsible for the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation www.whitehouse.gov/omb/informat...

Multiple academic conferences are moving outside of the U.S. due to travel fears and even just lack of interest in coming to the United States. How far we have fallen. This will affect tourism and jobs creation, not to mention scientific innovation. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

the Gini coefficient for social ties often exceeds that of income & social ties are concentrated among those with the highest incomes sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

Do you run a data repository, or heavily rely on one of your own research? Check out this article on how to protect your data and data access in these times: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For parents tempted to “do their own research” on vaccines, I strongly recommend listening to this 19-minute podcast on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and how novices should approach information gathering to ensure they get trustworthy results. open.spotify.com/episode/0chP...

The U.S. Census Bureau has now reached a tipping point. Its staffing is so low that it's canceling future waves of longstanding surveys such as the Census of Governments. It's inevitable that other surveys are next. Call your reps to preserve funding for the Bureau! www.npr.org/2025/04/17/n...

Our article on using LLMs for text classification is out now in SMR! 🤖🧑‍💻💬 We compare different learning regimes, from zero-shot to instruction-tuning, and share recommendations for sociologists and other social scientists interested in using these models. doi.org/10.1177/0049...

I dunked on this incompetence defense, but that's unserious & this is serious: This is at most a climb-down meant to neutralize a mobilizing opposition, but most likely a temporary one that's empty & sure to be reversed, soon. Incompetence is a just pretext; fascist takeover's still the agenda

🚨 Breaking: The NSF director just announced how the agency and DOGE intends to terminate active grants: "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

“The evil purpose of sending this out to professors who have, in fact, protested antisemitism on campus, is just trying to get them to name names about other faculty on campus,” Penley said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Amid declining trust in governments, refusal to fill out Census forms is a worldwide problem, fueling a population data collection crisis. This essay recommends digitizing data collection and using new tools like satellite imagery to supplement existing methods. theconversation.com/global-popul...

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

I’d love to hear what scholars of Latin America think of Trump’s tariff plan. Didn’t Latin American economies try something as disastrous in the 70s/80s with “import substitution” plans? Please tell me if I’m wrong, or where to look for an answer. @iansociologo.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social

This Saturday, 4/5, @indivisible.org is organizing a nationwide rally to tell Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and all the billionaires that our democracy is not for sale. Come out and make your voice heard!

Happy to share my new paper with Cat Dang Ton and @eollion.bsky.social on how to use generative LLMs for extracting information from textual data (conditionally accepted at Sociological Methods & Research) Here's a rundown.. osf.io/preprints/so...

New in European Sociological Review: “Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation”. Economic inequality lowers LS among lower earners – but it *raises* LS among higher earners. academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

New survey of the world's billionaires finds their philanthropy becoming more hands-on. Before, they might've donated to a cause, but now they're "more strategic," founding "professionally managed" charities, which comes with greater control over outcomes they want to see www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r... (h/t Jason Koebler)

On 4/1, WI voters have a chance to elect a pro-worker majority to the WI Supreme Court, making decisions that impact whether Wisconsinites will have fair wages, fair elections, and the right to join or not join a union. Help knock on doors to get out the labor vote! www.mobilize.us/wiaflcio/eve...

From what little I know of USSR history, similar purges of experts & bureaucrats happened. Eventually the regime realized it needs these folks for the state to function. So they enticed them back w/ perks like slightly more freedoms just for them. What will experts do when the US reaches that point?

Periodic reminder that pretty much all social media activity you can engage in, including on Bluesky, is being surveilled. Do be thoughtful about how you use social media. www.404media.co/the-200-site...

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

Labor productivity is up 15% in U.S. restaurants over the past 5 years. Why? According to a new paper, due to habits formed during COVID, consumers have shifted from dining in to taking out. Restaurants are increasingly built upon takeout orders, not in-person dining. www.nber.org/papers/w33555

Tomorrow! The Public Humanities Noted Scholar Lecture Series hosts @alexhanna.bsky.social and Prof. Beth Coleman to discuss Generative AI, race, and postcolonial computing. In person and on Zoom. Co-sponsored by us and the Public Humanities Hub. publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event...

Using large language models to organize conferences and assign papers to panels... Effective or ineffective? Ethical or unethical? What do you think? Here's a paper that argues it is a great complement to human expertise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On Yelp, in 2024, the leading category in which women listed new businesses was 'home services,' like construction and plumbing. Female-led growth in home services outpaced growth in other categories like beauty services and restaurants. trends.yelp.com/sheconomy-se...

If you're concerned about what will happen to public data on government websites, I encourage you to check out (and volunteer with) the Data Rescue Project, which is attempting to synthesize and systematize data preservation efforts around the web. www.datarescueproject.org