Accepting nominations for the ASA Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, honoring someone whose work has made outstanding contributions to the practice of sociology and significant impacts outside the discipline, esp in advancing human welfare. More info here, self noms encouraged

“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks

Trump admin's budget would gut the Department of Housing and Urban Development, with a 44% cut in funding, reduced from $77 to $43.5 b. Cut could translate to 4 million people—living in every part of the country—losing housing assistance. Virtually every city would lose infra funding from CDBG.

I spoke with @audiosand.bsky.social for @npr.org All Things Considered about the fact that the "Anti-DEI" movement is an anti-Civil Rights Movement. www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

The thing we have to reckon with is that most universities cannot afford to stay open if he pulls their funding. And Trump has not been obeying court orders to release funds during pending litigation.

Send us your best undergrads! Can't think of a more important time to be training a new generation of scholars in conducting research with and for government.

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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.

Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.

🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky

The President cannot shut down an agency created by Congress. That is illegal.

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

"We obviously can't do anything" is not a tenable response to a crisis brought about by actors using every lever at their disposal to do things no one thought they could do.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

This was a really touching article on the life and death of Michael Burawoy. 47 years at UC Berkeley. He loved the community and the community loved him back. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/06/m...

Here are some basic questions that the media & Congress could ask: Can public & private businesses trust Musk with their data? How many of the officials accessing sensitive data have security clearance? Do older adults know that Elon Musk now controls payment of their Social Security & Medicare?

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Here's my piece on Trump's illegal pause of federal spending. Trump proposed a sweeping order and the WH privately sent memos to begin carrying it out while publicly walking it back. A judge has temporarily stayed the action. I talk about what's at stake. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

What does appear to be true is that that the internal communication to agencies is different than what they're now telling the public. The agency actions (e.g. why Medicaid payments appear to be cut off) appear to be in line with those internal communications.

"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

I reviewed Brian McCabe and @evarosen.bsky.social 's Sociology of Housing! It "demonstrates how racism and entrenched power have brought us to where we are today: A housing market defined by immense wealth, deep poverty, and persistent inequalities." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For all housing policy scholars! Please make your submissions for the Cityscape symposium that @philipgarboden.bsky.social and I are editing on landlords and HUD assisted populations. All methods, disciplines, and housing programs welcome! www.huduser.gov/portal/perio...

Excited to be included in this seminal collection of work on the Sociology of Housing by @evarosen.bsky.social and Brian McCabe! Is this what we do here? #exacademictwitter #sociology #housing #academic

I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n

This is the best analysis of what is happening at Harvard. This is part of an orchestrated movement against higher education by operatives on the right.