I only watch CBS during March Madness, so a bit stunned to see they apparently air NCIS, NCIS: ORIGINS, NCIS: SYDNEY, CIA, FBI, FBI: INTERNATIONAL, FBI: MOST WANTED, CSI: VEGAS, BLUE BLOODS, BOSTON BLUE, SWAT, FIRE COUNTRY, SHERIFF COUNTRY, MARSHALS, TRACKER, and THE EQUALIZER. Seems like a theme?

This work is elite, in more ways than one! And in my opinion, this is sociology at its best! Check it out!

There’s still time to join our own conference organizers @davonnorris.bsky.social and @jeremylevine.bsky.social for our 1-day conference, Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism, Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky Check out the schedule & register by Monday, 3/30: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

This is dumb

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome @shayobrien.bsky.social, Postdoc @mitshapingwork.bsky.social , to CID as she presents, "Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence.” Learn more and RSVP: myumi.ch/3RWWp

ISR researcher @jeremylevine.bsky.social studies why victim compensation laws often fail survivors. His new project evaluates a New York policy change removing the police report requirement to see if it improves access for victims and informs reforms nationwide.

Squad!!! We also gotta shoutout the baller women up and down the ISR org chart like the trinity running our @umichstonecid.bsky.social: our fearless leader Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social , Melissa Bora keeping everything humming, and Nicole Bonomini broadcasting us to the world!

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇

Had a conversation about this a few days ago. I am on the side of them being called “boneless wings”!

Great opportunity for folks in these debt streets!

in the 1960s, two species of fish were documented in a university Cuyahoga River water quality survey. as of today, we've collected more than 70 different species of fish since we started Cuyahoga River survey work in 1990.

This tracks closely with the argument I’ve made about the U.S.: scarcity is litigated, not regulated. Civil law countries have much more regulation but far fewer lawsuits. The housing crisis isn’t about too many rules; it’s about who can afford to sue over them.

The rule of law can’t survive this

It was just so wonderful.

The set design for this is awesome

Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

Came across this dope piece by @kwhankins.bsky.social and co-authors. It made me stop packing for vacation. Really interesting stuff that pairs nicely with sociological insights on financialization. I will have to work this into my credit and debt class next year. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Keeping our work going at the UMich Stone Center!!

This is so good.

Huge!

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Jerome’s in the house!! I said Jerome’s in the house oo ow oo ow!!!

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I still don't understand when exactly Trump decided Venezuela was the enemy or why.

“I would engage you in a battle of wits but you are clearly unarmed.”

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

I swear!!!

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????

Doug Downey wants to convince you that schools actually reduce inequality, not expand it. In his conversation with @gtwodtke.bsky.social, they examine how the education system likely compensates for SES gaps and why school reforms are a band-aid fix to root problems. Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij

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??

This goes

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

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

Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here: forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...

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...