A teaser. Where it begins:

It's been a bit of a banner year for me professionally, particularly publications-wise; given that I remain on the job market, here are some of the highlights.

Working on a piece about "brain drain" and what Louisiana needs to do to keep homegrown talent. A brief thread of relevant facts 1/n

Getting real, real fast. Big news to come!

Big career news coming soon from me. I'm giving up tenure and leaving academia. Super excited about this next chapter to come!

I am 100% using a knife to open this box

Greatest xmas movie of all time.

My latest feature story just went live 64parishes.org/tugs-and-lines

We been here for years (1828).

Ugh. Fire sale. I'm guessing Kamara is next. Dark days ahead www.nola.com/sports/saint...

Just submitted my first "big" grant application as the lead project director ($650k, USDA AFRI/NIFA). Process took up 6 weeks of my life. But I learned a lot.

Cubs win. Never a doubt!

Never thought I'd go back to handwritten exams, but here we are. To speed up grading, I scan them all and type in my comments/feedback with Adobe comment tool and then just email them back.

🍎 Millions of children in the U.S. struggle with food insecurity. In this policy brief, @orgulozturk.bsky.social (@sc.edu) makes the case for expanding the Community Eligibility Provision Program, the largest schoolwide free meals initiative in the U.S. Read the brief: scholars.org/contribution...

I got my hands on new data regarding evictions in South Carolina (h/t Legal Services Corporation). This is gonna be a big story.

The GOP's recent tax and spending law makes cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that many low-income Americans rely on to buy groceries. Professor @kenkolb.bsky.social shares what this will mean for grocery stores on @npr.org's The Indicator.

What is going on with the cubs?

Do Mississippi River pilots really make too much money? A thread 🧵 1/17

Interviewed on NPR about importance of local food retail. "they offer healthy food, but they also provide jobs. They're businesses where people are coming and going. They produce foot traffic... They fill all sorts of other community needs besides just filling people's shopping carts."

Saw a presentation with a qualitative data analysis coding technique that might be done better with AI. I'm still a skeptic, but it could work #ASA2025

I've gotten lost in the Chicago Hyatt Regency about three times already. Room layout is baffling. Having fun at the conference though. Enjoying this year's theme #ASA2025

SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!

Dan is the best!

Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Ken Kolb, Furman University! @kenkolb.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/POPfellows

It's been a while. First ASR article featuring ethnomethodology and conversation analysis I've seen in a long time. Maybe like 10 years, unless I'm missing one. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I've been selected to be an inaugural fellow of the American Sociological Association's new Policy Outreach Program. For the next year, we will meet with legislative offices, think tanks, and policymakers to learn how to gain more influence on public policy and popular opinion.

Going to Chicago for #ASA2025 next week. Been watching this channel to get my food goals in order. Found this review of a brunch for James Beard awards nominees in '24. I'm in the background at 2:08, jogging to the mimosa bar for a refill. Lost that award, but gained 5 lbs youtu.be/J1hA_RtMfa4?...

One hour after my post, same story came up from another New Orleanian in the local paper www.nola.com/entertainmen...

RIP Ryne Sandberg. I'm a cubs fan to this day because when cox cable came to our block in New Orleans when I was 8 years old it was either WGN (cubs) or TBS (Braves) and the cubs were always on when I got home from school. Used to tape Cey-Sandberg 5-4-3 double plays to learn his footwork at 2b.

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

When it comes to home cooking, household size matters. Average household size in US is 2.51. Percentage of households of people living alone is now 29%. Was 2.94 and 19% fifty years ago. The everyday realities of home cooking (is it worth the time? Will it save enough $$?) are changing.

We are excited to welcome @billhauk.bsky.social of @sc.edu to the network! Hauk's research focuses on international trade, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and political economy. Learn more: scholars.org/scholar/will...

By Age 30, 29% of Americans will follow a parent's footsteps and end up working for same employer

Fish on in Newburyport, MA a few minutes before sunrise.

Hot damn! @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now shipping @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's lively and incisive new book on the reorientation of US policing and punishment toward the relentless extraction of resources from America's most vulnerable. Only $26! tinyurl.com/LegalPlunderBook

Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, my book w/ @joesoss.bsky.social, is now available. 30% off through @uchicagopress.bsky.social (see below). Look out for info about book-related events beginning in late-August.

Chris is the expert. If you see anything steel related in the news, check his stuff to learn what is really going on.

New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

Thank you! I'm so glad to be part of SSN - it's so important to make research accessible and approachable right now.

Write an op Ed about steel and tariffs and then got a call from an nbc news reporter www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Write an op Ed about steel and tariffs and then got a call from an nbc news reporter www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

This is the most granular analysis my team has done of community assets in its struggle with gentrification. Pink parcels are LLC owned. Overlay is of non-profit, land-banked parcels.

AI hallucinations. I had a student try this last semester. DeepSeek just created quotes, journal articles, page numbers, and years out of thin air. It's easy to miss if you aren't looking closely. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

#Trump has claimed that steel #tariffs will bring back American manufacturing jobs. In this op-ed, ‪ @kenkolb.bsky.social writes that targeted tax credits would better help support workers & modernize the steel industry. Learn more in @postandcourier.bsky.social. ⤵️

Published an op-ed recently. Here is a enhanced version (free) with hyperlinks to all data sources

Grades are in. 17th yr in the books.

Tomorrow, a new tool to create mixed income affordable housing called “green social housing” is going before Council. It’s not going too far, I think, to say this is one of the most consequential things Council could do to support affordable housing—all over the city.

Being chair is largely a thankless job. But today felt good. Got to watch as my Dean told a junior colleague she had just earned tenure. So awesome. So happy.

Saw the news about verifying @bsky.app accounts and linking them to your own website/domain. Looked at instructions and was thinking, "okay, I can do this..." and then got to "set DNS to _atproto" and totally got lost bsky.social/about/blog/4...