Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If I were to say something like “I looked into a scholar’s work at another university because I assumed he is a DEI hire,” I’m pretty sure my university would at least be having a conversation about that. That’s basically what Cofnas did 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Part of the issue with the Cofnas situation seems to be academic freedom vs personal conduct. The video seems to have been taken down, but Cofnas basically said he targeted Arday because he assumed he was a DEI hire, which is effectively saying he targeted him because he’s Black.., 110
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Of the over 500 signatories on this list, it seems, based on my brief investigation, that a very small number said or signed anything publicly in defense of Rumeysa Ozturk. I’m sure this was just an oversightjohnarmstrongmaths.comAs academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities. 100
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thank god Jamelle made this videoyoutube.comThe pundits have completely lost the plotYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 000
Reposted by Chris MaggioNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It remains very funny that there's an entire ecosystem of radical revolutionary left-wing populists who all have the exact same same social views as David Brooks. 491423165
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If “value neutrality” means they can’t put a pride flag up at my kid’s school then count me the fuck out 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Critics of the AAUP endorsement can’t decide if endorsements are bad because of political neutrality or if this endorsement is bad because they don’t like the candidate, just like they can’t decide whether academia should be apolitical or should actively bring in conservatives 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This feeds into another point that I think is lost in this conversation, which is that political beliefs are not inherent characteristics, but particularly in the case of academics, often positions that emerge from evidence 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 02/08/2026One thing I don’t understand is the heavy involvement of philosophers in these claims of bias. Am I really to understand that, in making their various arguments that rely invariably on subjective interpretation, these philosophers are exhibiting no political bias? 100
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Has anyone laid out a good case for 1) what is the actual problem with academia we are trying to solve regarding viewpoint diversity, 2) why it is important to solve this problem, and 3) how we should solve it, providing evidence to support all 3? 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Not the first of this type of study these authors have put out btw 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026New meta-analytic study looking at 114 field experiments on hiring discrimination, probably the majority of which have sociologist authors. Completely flies in the face of this claim from the WSJ article academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...academic.oup.comThe racialized penalties of immigrant origin: meta-analytic evidence on hiring discrimination in twelve countriesAbstract. The role of discrimination in shaping the life chances of immigrants and their descendants is central to debates in the sociology of immigration. 000
Reposted by Chris MaggioPat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A provocation from behind a paywall but Chris gives a flavour. #Sociology certainly has problems but this seems so badly researched and so inaccurate that it’s really just another anti-woke hit job. 021
Reposted by Chris MaggioEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is a masked ICE agent in upper Manhattan today. He walked up to a woman simply recording and pepper-sprayed her in the face. Watch the video. 👇 8190142
Reposted by Chris MaggioChloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 4325135
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Have any of the people supposedly defending objectivity in academia spoken out against this fallacious article? So far I’ve only seen them wholeheartedly or tacitly supporting it 010
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026One thing the viewpoint diversity people seem to be getting mixed up is whether they want a completely objective, apolitical academia, or they expressly want more conservatives in academia 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026According to this analysis the retraction rate of computer science articles stands out against all other fields. The authors point out there could be a variety of reasons for that, but interestingly I’ve seen no calls to liquidate computer sciencearxiv.orgThe Retraction Epidemic in Science Across Publishers, Fields, and Countries 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026One reason I don’t really care if academics represent the views of the public is that students are already exposed to the views of the public- college is a place where they can learn to question those views, whether they end up changing their mind or not 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The people uncritically promoting this article seem pretty comfortable pushing a bunch of inaccurate claims because they support their political agenda- sounds awfully familiar 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026If you block me on social media for respectfully challenging your claims you don’t get to talk about viewpoint diversity ever again 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Someone allegedly promoting diversity of thought on X and who I have had many pleasant interactions with has blocked me because I politely disagreed with him. Hope he at least sees the irony 000
Reposted by Chris MaggioCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026In the past two weeks, Trump has recorded his lowest-ever approval ratings from whites without college degrees, across either term as president. yougov.com/en-us/articl... 17326106
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This, of course, also assumes that quantitative methodology is inherently superior. I use these methods in almost all of my work but the idea that we can have a more complete understanding of the social world without qualitative methods is ridiculous 010
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The people promoting “viewpoint diversity” are saying we should liquidate an entire discipline because they don’t like its viewpoint 020
Reposted by Chris MaggioRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort. 743591
Reposted by Chris MaggioTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now. 211352410
Reposted by Chris MaggioMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/... 13516148
Reposted by Chris MaggioWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Trump looked at Venezuela, where a regime figure conducted an internal coup with US assistance, thought “actually, I did that” and decided he could easily conduct regime change anywhere on earth. A war caused by him being a blithering idiot. 415719
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The idea that you are among small number of serious thinkers in an entire field is so narcissistic and anti-social it really makes you wonder what the purpose of all this is 110
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I normally spend more time critiquing sociology than defending it but this is just a parade of bs that does not get at any of the actual issues in the discipline 010
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Overall, so many falsehoods, misrepresentations, and faulty assumptions in this article made by people who claim to be white knighting for “truth.” Embarrassing 022
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026What if sociologists thought deeply and just landed on emancipation and social justice as important? Why would this be difficult to believe, unless you are so arrogant that you think you are one of the only “deep thinkers” in the field 120
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Thoughts on this articlewsj.comEssay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves. 4256
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Should someone be discriminated against in academia due to their identity? No. Should someone be “discriminated” against in academia due to their viewpoint? It depends, and we all know it depends, because there are lines many conservatives would draw as well 100
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026variety.comFired ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Says She Was Pushed to Report on Events ‘That Never Happened’ Under Bari Weiss’ Leadership at CBS NewsFired '60 Minutes' correspondent Cecilia Vega said the 'new administration' at CBS News -- indicating Bari Weiss -- asked her to report on events that 'never happened.' 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026One important fact in this whole conversation is that only around 20% of PhD holders identify as conservativethompsoncenter.wisc.eduFaculty Perspectives on Academic Freedom, Free Expression and Campus Climate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I used to work catering events at Stanford’s Hoover institution when I lived in the Bay Area- I can promise you they are doing scholar-activism 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Many representations of academia seem to forget that economics, business, philosophy, and criminology exist 000
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The example from journalism is probably a good one to think about as we argue about diversity of thought in academia 010
Reposted by Chris MaggioDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty. 341692332
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026One irony of encouraging policies that support “viewpoint diversity” while railing against “scholar-activism” is that the former is in fact scholar-activism 030
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026One challenge in understanding this trend is that we only have data back to 2015 so we don’t really know when it started 000
Reposted by Chris MaggioRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Just a reminder that the guy they put in charge in Minnesota is now speaking at white supremacist conferences in Europe. 523493945
Reposted by Chris MaggioChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania. 33459151504
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Update to include 2019 and 2022 data but same story 100
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026When Pew counts the unauthorized population it includes those with and without deportation protection. It only gives us disaggregated data for 3 years, but using ChatGPT I put together a table that tells a really different story when you separate these two out 111
Reposted by Chris MaggioRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 09/07/2026I am expecting a wave of red-state public universities limiting the ability to employees to participate in professional associations that are deemed too "woke." This case out of Texas is just the beginning. Also, with budgets tightening, conference support is going to shrivel anyway.insidehighered.comNorth Texas Denies Faculty Conference FundingThe institution joins other universities that have worked to limit conference funds for professors due to anti-DEI pressures. 412365