Reposted by Brenden Beckweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106582519
Reposted by Brenden Beckpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE) 1184121894
Reposted by Brenden BeckVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I spent the morning reading John Levi Martin's absolutely brutal takedown of the Vanderbilt report's assessment of politicization in sociology. I recommend it and hope it gets as much attention as the initial (crap) Vanderbilt report. A Reader’s Guide to the Rubin Report osf.io/preprints/so...osf.ioOSF 314649
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 21/09/2026I heard Malcolm Gladwell on the radio pushing to hire more cops. Where will recruits will come from? Depts struggle to keep the officers they have. ICE is lowering their standards to get just 10,000 new hires. And Gladwell wants to find *500,000* more officers. This will not be easy. 030
Reposted by Brenden BeckBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026the degree of both autonomy and corruption inside tiny police departments in the U.S. is ridiculous. 261329218
Reposted by Brenden BeckDavid Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe Great American Property Tax Freak OutThere has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening 416342
Reposted by Brenden Beckceej @ceej.online · 12/06/2024My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.” 1304555525
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 02/09/2026On the Daily, I heard the founder of Flock say he started the company after a spate of gun thefts from parked cars in his neighborhood. I don't know if that's the real origin story, but, if so, how is blanketing a city with cameras easier than telling people to take their guns inside?! 110
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 18/08/2026I finally read the WSJ's article about "liquidating sociology" and there are a couple good points. We probably could stand to talk about social improvement and stability more, but it also contains some head-scratchers like... 110
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 18/08/2026I listened to @doctorow.pluralistic.net on On the Media predicting that the AI bubble will burst and cause a recession. Maybe! But it reminded me of the old joke "Marxists have predicted five out of the last two economic crises." 220
Reposted by Brenden BeckJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Yet another city seeing homicides plummet to historic lows. And the article is long, in-depth, and posted on the front page of the website. It's a case of significant crime decline getting prominent treatment (with a mention before the first ad of the national decline). It's genuinely good to see!nytimes.comMurder Drops to Historic Lows in BaltimoreAfter decades of notoriously high murder totals, Baltimore and the people whose work entails dealing with the city’s most violent crimes are adjusting to a new reality. 412635
Reposted by Brenden Beckjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/08/2026Since the speed camera discourse has invoked our recent study, I figured I’d also flag how we threaded the needle on this issue—we can have traffic enforcement without allowing cops to use the cameras to stalk their exes. www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-speed-ca... 0165
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 17/08/2026Researchers are studying gentrification less recently, partly because they/we turned their attention back to more wide-spread forms of spatial inequality like segregation and suburbanization. In a new article, Hwang and colleagues do an *amazing* job of synthesizing the three phenomena. They find... 240
Reposted by Brenden BeckWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The cure to male loneliness crisis sending young men on journeys. You used to be bundled off on an expedition with a 20% chance of killing you and a 20% of making you see or do horrors. You’d come back and write a cryptic journal and drink heavily. Can’t do this anymore, because of woke. 938437
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 13/08/2026I'm struck that AOC & Mamdani's statements disavowing "woke 1" don't mention police violence. Deaths from police encounters are as frequent today as they were in 2020, but the issues has lost a lot of salience. AOC et al. could remind the public of the context. 061
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 10/08/2026There's understandable worry that using speed cameras will disproportionately target Black & Latino neighborhoods, but as this new research makes clear, there's also disproportionately in the traffic collisions that speed cameras are meant to reduce. 162
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 09/08/2026Molly Young is so good mollyyoung.substack.com/p/a-velcro-b... 000
Reposted by Brenden BeckYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 06/08/2026That’s enough to fund 11 years worth of $2000 monthly housing vouchers for all 5300 individuals facing homelessness in DC right now. 418582
Reposted by Brenden BeckNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Matt Damon at the end of The Odyssey [getting in his boat]: I Odyssey about a girl. 251469168
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 28/07/2026Homicides of white and wealthy people get more press attention. In this excellent new study, @jbenmenachem.com interviews journalists to understand why. Short version: journalists often recognize the inequity but feel constrained by resources and demands for novelty. doi.org/10.1111/1745...doi.orgWhich deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcityPast research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper a... 0139
Reposted by Brenden BeckWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/07/2026This is Chubbers. He is catching a wave. But more importantly, catching a vibe. 14/10 (IG: nataliepaigebentley) 198135341590
Reposted by Brenden BeckTony Cheng @tonykcheng.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New w/ @shelleyliu.bsky.social in Science Advances We show that a police trust-building proj: - raised police trust among non-Black respondents - lowered it among Black respondents - cut non-Black support for BLM + racial equity policies doi.org/10.1126/scia... Funding: @RussellSageFdn 0157
Reposted by Brenden BeckNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what? 20846331581
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 15/07/2026Yesterday a man was fatally struck by a tractor trailer while fleeing ICE agents. This tragedy, in Florida, highlights a change in my thinking (and maybe scholarship and journalism writ large) around fatal law enforcement interactions. Thread. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...nytimes.comMan in Florida Fatally Hit by Truck While Fleeing ICE, Official SaysDetails were unclear on Tuesday about what exactly happened at a gas station in St. Augustine before the man was killed. 110
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 09/07/2026As Zoom meetings, sprawl, and working from home have proliferated, even this city booster has been surprised by how sticky urban centers have proven. The most profit-driven firms recognize the importance of dense meat space. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/09/b...thecityreporter.nycBig Business is Leasing Record Office Space in Mamdani’s New YorkSome of the biggest names in banking, law and artificial intelligence are expanding their footprints in Manhattan and Brooklyn office towers. 000
Reposted by Brenden BeckRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids 18782022330
Reposted by Brenden BeckJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Rural areas increasingly dominate the grim homicide rate "leaderboard." Now, that's a tad unfair--they surely dominate safest places too, bc places w small pops have much more volatility (1 extra homicide can swing a rural rate, not NYC's). But still: urban/rural homicides rates are converging. 73712
Reposted by Brenden Beckjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/06/2026"If it bleeds, it leads"—many people assume crime news is just about chasing clicks. After interviewing 58 crime journalists across 40 newsrooms, I found something more complicated. My first dissertation paper is live at @sociologicalsci.bsky.social 🧵 sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... 315143
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 16/06/2026My great grandfather was a “bridge policeman“ and a tobacco grader (they don’t make jobs like they used to). His son, my grandfather, went to law school on the G.I. Bill and became a Kentucky state supreme court justice. That social mobility level-up helped my mom and then me in immeasurable ways. 0111
Reposted by Brenden BeckMatthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Excited to see my review article on “the cultural study of law and social crisis” is now online—and open access www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...annualreviews.orgThe Cultural Study of Law and Social CrisisThis article reviews cultural sociological approaches to law and considers how they may sharpen analysis of social crises. As the United States faces myriad law-related crises, such as rising authorit... 192
Reposted by Brenden BeckAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085402416196
Reposted by Brenden Beck𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Getting into the shower too quickly and having to wait for the water to warm up… 1433412342
Reposted by Brenden BeckAdam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Surely they've suffered enough? 250189472533
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 10/05/2026Cheaper and more effective?! No thanks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o... 020
Reposted by Brenden Becke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/05/2026wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like 194116332196
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 05/05/2026This Rachel Aviv story was a Pulitzer finalist today and it's incredible. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comMary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’tSome psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? 010
Reposted by Brenden BeckJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/05/2026i’m deleting my repost of a fake account impersonating an nba reporter. i didn’t look close enough and i was fooled, and that’s on me. the basketball court does NOT fold up like a backgammon board after the game and the players do NOT sleep in it until the next game 656699847
Reposted by Brenden BeckJeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Philadelphia reported 39 murders through April which is the fewest reported there since 1963. New York City reported 75 murders through April 26 which is on track to be the fewest murders through April ever reported (previous low was 86 in 2018). 1433285
Reposted by Brenden BeckDavid Harvey @davidharvey.org · 24/04/2026“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” ― Anatole France 14417
Reposted by Brenden BeckRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 26/04/2026The entire budget request for the National Park Service in 2026 was about $2 billion. When any federal lawmaker ever tells you there isn’t enough money for something, they’re lying to you. 015748
Reposted by Brenden Beckceej @ceej.online · 24/04/2026selecting the window seat and immediately closing the shade to protect my fellow passengers from witnessing the blasphemy of human flight 272600336
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 22/04/2026Come work with me! My department is hiring an assistant research professor to lead the newly formed CLEAR Institute. The job is a 1-1 teaching load with expectations for research and external funding development. HMU with any questions! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/273...jobs.rutgers.eduAssistant Research ProfessorThe School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) at Rutgers University–Newark invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure track Professional Practice Professor appointment at the Assistant or Assoc... 000
Reposted by Brenden BeckAmerican Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026A new study coauthored by ASA member Theresa Rocha Beardall @trochabeardall.bsky.social focuses on where police killings of Native people are taking place and finds that mortality risk is multiple times higher in and around reservations. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social bit.lyPolice disproportionately kill Native people on or near reservations, UW study findsRoughly 3 in 4 Indigenous people in the United States killed by law enforcement were on or near reservations, a new University of Washington study found. 0105
Reposted by Brenden BeckKiara Wyndham @kiarawyndham.bsky.social · 20/04/2026So excited to share that Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb is available for pre-order! Use code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. www.ucpress.edu/books/divers... @ucpress.bsky.social 0154
Reposted by Brenden Beckstu @rinbcage.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This isn't the right time for anachronisms 116837
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net · 15/04/2026It's tax day, so it's time for my annual reminder that tax evasion costs us 63 times more than property theft ($1 trillion vs $16 billion). 100
Reposted by Brenden BeckJohn Roman @johnkroman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce. 614853
Reposted by Brenden Becksam @samthielman.com · 10/04/2026how much money does the marine corps lose 65106122419