📢 Call for Papers on Intersectional Inequalities in Education RC28 (social stratification and mobility) session at V ISA Forum of Sociology July 6-11, 2025 - Rabat, Morocco Please submit your abstract here: shorturl.at/ZoBdJ 🗓️ Deadline for submission: Oct 15, 2024
Delighted to see the BBC recognizing the power of the dressed cat postcard: www.bbc.com/future/artic...www.mivich.com/the-dressed-....
In the age of social media, we're living through a communications revolution. But this isn't the first one, nor is it the first time cats have been at the centre of social change.
This is fabulous news! Adam is a perfect fit for IES.
President Biden has nominated Adam Gamoran (current William T. Grant Foundation president and former Wisconsin professor) to lead the Institute of Education Sciences. Adam was on my dissertation committee and is a wonderful person. Bravo!
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as key leaders in his administration: Ben
A bit! David and team are hard at work. Looking forward to seeing the results!
Had a great visit to Iceland to discuss the EDUCHANGE project (educhange.hi.is@davidreimer.bsky.social. Also had some time to visit the fresh lava fields.
Laemmli, "Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic" https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-5-114/
Sciences Po Paris is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Sociology, affiliated to the CRIS. Inequality / stratification on comparative perspectives. Many subjects welcome: education, health, minorities, justice, AI, environment, labor market... Job description: www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a no-brainer investment! If it were to be made permanent, the CTC would have enormous long-term benefits for future earnings, health, reduced crime, etc. Benefits would outweigh costs 10:1. Important work by Ananat & Garfinkel: www.nber.org/papers/w3287...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
New in the American Sociological Review! Kate Weisshaar (co-lead), Tania Hutt, and I attempt to better understand patterns of gender and racial hiring discrimination in today’s context of strong pressures to diversify https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224241245706 (1/1)
lol Academia is totally going to eat all its seed corn on why-not-eat-the-seed-corn grounds like “Oh come on I’m busy and it’s more efficient” or “No-one really reads stuff anyway” arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183
