I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

ok so i bought some consumer data and decided i'd test this single layer neural network with a linear activation function from the image below. after testing it against other algorithms i found that this estimator thing had the lowest variance of any linear unbiased training algorithm??

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Every Saturday a little after noon during the college football season, I whisper to myself, “Wow, Gus looks great.”

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

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Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting.  #ASA #sociology #ASA2025

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.

Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!

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Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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A growing challenge for households and cities across the country

I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

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A profile of @danielagabor.bsky.social, including her time at the Institute for Advanced Study, captures a defining insight about our time: markets aren't free or deregulated, but shaped by the entangled power of private capital and state planning + intervention. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

I know we're all distracted by AI and tariffs, but Trump is also a private equity presidency.

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Let the energy of this building power me to submitting this paper today

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

As FEMA prepares to withdraw, states will have to fully fund climate adaptation. Can state bond banks step up? Today's piece looks at barriers and opportunities, focusing on VT. It won't be easy. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/with-fema-...

I have seen a lot of discussion on the increasing cost of home insurance and insurance companies pulling out of states. I have seen relatively less discussion on banks not writing mortgages in these areas.

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I'm in @theconversation.com today writing about my recent paper on augmented wealth! theconversation.com/youre-probab...

From my perspective, one of the most important discrimination cases involving Cleveland Water's use of tax liens and assorted other policies and practices for water bills is allowed to move forward. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

U.S. Census Bureau's decades long with falling public participation in surveys and trust in government is now compounded by DOGE's handling of data. Distrust in how government uses data is higher among people of color, which can lead to selection bias and skewed data. myumi.ch/jJVMG

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Debtor-creditor relationships are everywhere, including and especially in health care. Glad to see new journalistic coverage of these medical credit products and their implications in the @prospect.org @mirya.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Check out the latest from me in ASQ! I draw on theorizing by Du Bois and Fanon to provide insight into how reactivity to being scored differs across racial groups. You can also find replication files here: www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...

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In case folks were wondering, this was very delicious!!! @spencerallen.bsky.social went off with this one!

“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio theonion.com/state-d...

@maddow.msnbc.com is cooking tonight!

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A lot of people talk about Trump's policies as setting back research and science. I don't think we talk enough about how worrying about the administration saps productivity. I feel like most exchanges I have had with colleagues is about the administration and not the latest and newest research. 1/2

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.