This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/

I once paid for a “native speaker” English proofreading service that replaced every instance of “data” with “information.”

We’re excited to announce our new Replication Policy at ESR, resulting from our continued commitment to excellence in research. From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR! Find out more at: academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

General Instructions

Submission of Papers The European Sociological Review publishes original research articles in all fields of Sociology. Submissions should usually be around 8,0

Job market season is around the corner, which means that it is recommendation letter writing season. To you all in search committees: let’s normalize only asking for recommendations from shortlisted candidates! Academia is already busy work as it is.

We are hiring! IAS and Media & Information Technology division at LiU are hiring a PhD student to develop visualization techniques for understanding and mitigating segregation and urban inequality Apply before July 15: liu.se/en/work-at-l...bit.ly/45Gugqj

PhD student in visualization with a focus on collaborative visualization design.

i suppose an "In Defense of War Crimes" turn was inevitable but that doesn't make it go down any easier www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/o...

Opinion | Do We Still Understand How Wars Are Won?

Israel and Ukraine don’t have the luxury of fighting fecklessly.

Students who were pro-Apartheid in the 1980s probably also had trouble making friends in college, who gives a shit www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/s...

On Campus, a New Social Litmus Test: Zionist or Not?

Some Jewish students say they’ve been dropped by old roommates and sorority sisters and ostracized from campus clubs and teams because of their views — which are sometimes assumed.

New paper "Estimating causal effects from panel data with dynamic multivariate panel models" published in Advances in Life Course Research: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#causalinference#bayes#stats#lifecourse#sociology@invest-flagship.bsky.social

Estimating causal effects from panel data with dynamic multivariate panel models

Panel data are ubiquitous in scientific fields such as social sciences. Various modeling approaches have been presented for observational causal infer…

Our PhD student Jack Odeo's paper on algorithmic suturing related to urban networks in Nairobi was just recognized as highly commended article for 2023 in the journal IJURR www.ijurr.org/article/algo...

ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa - IJURR

The ‘last mile’ is not only a powerful metaphor of contemporary life, but also the tangible site of a challenge, whether for governments wanting to reach their citizens or companies wanting to reach t...

New sociology journal alert! Theory and Social Inquiry rises from the ashes of Theory & Society.

introducing theory and social inquiry

The below is a letter from the editorial board of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry. Here is the statement in its original PDF form. While I had no hand in this, I wholly endorse the endeavor. ...