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Caroline Lee

@carolinewlee.bsky.social
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Sociologist.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At some point I will stop pitching our book, but we argue that these considerations, not neoliberal austerity, are the backdrop to political control. hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557111...
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The Postliberal University
An urgent exploration of the political and social conditions that shape contemporary higher education governanceIn the 2010s, many state governments began to...
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.
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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...
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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology
The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 22/09/2026
What happens when “fake news” determines press access? Recently, Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House after attacking their coverage. In Contexts, sociologist Jared Wright shows how the label becomes a weapon for deciding who can scrutinize power. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Harry and Meghan decide to lay low in Torquay. Basil doesn’t know that they’re nonworking royals and keeps deferring/referring to them as if they are working royals. Hilarity ensues.”
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
local news you can use!!!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Also if you’re looking to support organizations fighting this abuse, we were represented by CUNY CLEAR family defense clinic. They can always use your donations. www.law.cuny.edu/academics/cl...
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Family Defense Clinic
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🚨👩‍🎓 We're hiring a Full Professor in Macrosociology! 👩‍🏫🚨 Join us in beautiful Heidelberg 🏰 starting April 1, 2027. Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding the position www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #Sociology #sociologyjobs #AcademicSky
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Job vacancy: Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” (f/m/d) - Max Weber Institute of Sociology
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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wholesale enshittification
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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just mind-blowing. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
For Memorial Day a poem by my son’s namesake, Henry Lee, bombed by friendly fire after surviving Bataan: www.parsonsnose.com/radio-theate...
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Parson's Nose Radio Theater Podcasts | Parson's Nose Theater
Radio theater - podcast presentations of classic works and stories from Shakespeare to Twain to Dickens
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"approximately 15% of churches in our sample engaged in direct political advocacy during the 2020 and 2024 presidential election cycles, and about 8.4% during the 2022 midterm" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”
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NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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ASU Center for Work and Democracy @cwd-asu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Need a new podcast for your commute? Tune in as former UAW Chief of Staff, Chris Brooks, shares his reflections on organizing in higher education and the auto industry with the hosts of “Reinventing Solidarity.” open.spotify.com/episode/3715...
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Episode 67 - How Can Workers Win?
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
Auditing AI by the Marquand House Collective
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Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
You know what I don’t need? Drug ads in my dermatologist’s office.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TQZDI... One of the particular points of emphasis I raise here is about the centrality of graduate degree holders in the Democratic coalition. The share of the electorate with a grad degree is increasing even faster than those with a BA 2/x
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x
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Simon Tonev @stonev.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I really hope this doesn’t affect the quality of the data collection process. ACTS notwithstanding, I’ve had almost exclusively positive experiences over the last 20 years with the IPEDS Data Collection System and the Help Desk in particular.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The conservatives on the court are segregationists.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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weatherboard.bsky.social @weatherboard.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?”
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
What was different at No Kings 3 was that war was one of the top motivations listed: 73% of participants reported peace/anti-war as a motivation for joining, making it the third most common motivation behind immigration (76%), and Trump (75%). Here are these motivations since the beginning of 2025:
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Consistent with the turnout at protests against the Trump regime since it first took office in 2017, the majority of participants at the event were female, predominantly White, middle-aged, had voted for the democratic candidate in the previous presidential election, and were highly educated
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. Here are some of the main findings from our research at the event in DC organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social: danarfisher.com/2026/03/29/a...
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Anti-War Sentiment Surges at No Kings 3
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. My team and I collected surveys from 198 people who were randomly selected from the t…
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one
Big Think article header: How the metaverse will revolutionize K-12 and higher education
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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Road trip pause for ~5 weeks of conferencing and other nerdy fun in DC 🤓
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Shamira Gelbman @shamiragelbman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'm presenting today at #ESS2026 👀 I'll introduce my new project on WWII-era women lobbyists drawing on initial findings and questions raised through archival work with the @ncjw.bsky.social Washington Office Records 3:30 PM in Salon 2 in the Marriott at Metro Center
Presentation title slide: 

"Taking the 'Lipstick Lobby Brigade' Seriously: Toward a Study of World War II-Era Women Lobbyists"

1940s lipstick ad text: "In Defense of Glamour: Patriot Red. The Brave New Shade"

Shamira Gelbman | Wabash College | gelbmans@wabash.edu
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Last panel, Democracy Reconsidered, peopling politics, intervention and response. Panelists Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, Ernesto Castaneda, moderated by Christine Slaughter.
Abstract description, how do scholars bring their research to into practice.
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Now a panel on Agenda Setters: Interest groups and civil society in the policymaking process. Beth Baltzan, @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @carolinewlee.bsky.social
Abstract for interest groups influence on policy, a sociological perspective
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Next panel includes @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @dorianwarren.bsky.social on bridging the political disconnect. How do we build a more inclusive democracy?
Abstract of panel on connecting regular people to politics. Why has voting decreased among low income non voters? Too much of politics ignore non voters, how do we bring back in
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
First panel has James R Jones (Rutgers-Newark, Prof, studies racism in Congress), Beth Pearson (chief of staff, Sen. Warren, fmr AAAS-STPF fellow with ASA) and @alondra.bsky.social on Personnel is Policy. They reflect on how sociological training&research affected their policy paths
Description of panel on race, gender in political staffers
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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Psyched to be here at Peopling Politics, Bringing the People Back in, a symposium on race, class and inequality in US politics. Excited to hear some of my longtime intellectual heroes outside of psych like @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @alondra.bsky.social and @povertyscholar.bsky.social
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And so First Things (the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life) joins evangelicals in making the pivot from “Christian nationalism isn’t a real thing” to “Actually, Christian nationalism is awesome and we need it!”
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J.C. Kælin @jckaelin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
One of the #GreatestPeople the world has produced! #OTD #TDIH #February23, 1868. #BOTD: #HBD #WEBDuBois! #AfricanAmericans #Geniuses #Sociologists #Historians #Activists #Writers #Freemasons #CivilRights #NAACP #NiagaraMovement #CivilRightsSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“The library doesn’t own the archive. It can’t freely digitize it or put the images online. The intellectual property still belongs to Gannett… And yet… it’s hard not to feel that whatever the legal paperwork says, this archive belongs, in spirit, to the people of Poughkeepsie.”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”
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The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History
The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If we're going to have a democracy, we need to include everyone - so we have recommendations for how to do that. The DNC today launching a listening campaign to have volunteers talk to people who voted in 2020 but not in 2024 is a good start - but it will need to be done right.
our recommendations:
1) Connect Politics to Problems and Solutions
Make it clear that there are (and can be) political and policy solutions to many of the real problems people face.
2) Recruit Political Practitioners from Low-Income and Working-Class Backgrounds
Risk of social disconnection compounds across marginalized identities. Addressing these disparities fully requires prioritizing intersecting aspects of identity including age, race, disability, sexuality, and gender identity.
3) Increase the Frequency, Quality, and Duration of Contact with Low-Income and Working-Class Communities 
Meaningful progress requires moving away from individualizing approaches and instead prioritizing social solutions aimed at creating relational change.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The people we spoke to - across racial groups, and across geographies in Pennsylvania - told us they feel disconnected from our leaders and our political system, that politics looks like a game played by privileged people. They don't feel like politicians really care about them or their communities.
an American flag fading into a group of people (or rising out of it) and a quote from one of our respondents, talking about what she thinks about when she thinks about politics - "People in power have money and don't fully understand the struggles like being in debt, raising a child, or being on welfare — that's a disconnection."
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/02/2026
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
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NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals
By Luke Voyles
DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362
Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government
systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because
government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the
households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed
18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New
Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and
how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/02/2026
And they want us to suffer. Because human care is incompatible with capitalism. As other sectors have profited from automation and outsourcing, care has remained too labor-intensive to be simultaneously profitable, affordable for all who need it, and paid well enough to avoid shortages of care. 2/
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