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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 6h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm excited to be on a panel this evening at WHYY's Youth Town Hall, talking with young people about voting and democracy (and age, race, and class gaps in turnout). (This evening 4:30-7:30 at WHYY, 150 N. 6th Street.)

Image of a flyer for the event, it says "your voice, choice, vote" over a 3 cartoon heads & torsos, one looks founding-fathers, one is dude in suit, one looks like a young Black man in a beanie. Also PBS & whyy & "building blocks" logos.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/06/2026

Some personal news: My sabbatical ended last week, just as I landed a deal for the book I've been working on for these 12 months. The Cradle Will Fall is now about half done (just need one more sabbatical) and will be edited by @rlevay.bsky.social at @princetonupress.bsky.social. I'm thrilled!

PUBLISHERSLUNCH DELUXE
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Today's Deals
Politics/Current Affairs
Professor of sociology at the University of Maryland Philip N.
Cohen's THE CRADLE WILL FALL: RESISTING POPULATION PANIC AND EMBRACING THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY, arguing that concerns about declining birth rates are not only overblown, but also represent an opportunity to address great societal issues, connecting the global history of pronatalism with authoritarianism and observing the irony of today's neofascists who are both pronatalist and anti-immigration, and lobbying to use the savings in time, money, and resources that come from low birth rates to slow down the climate crisis and improve our collective wealth, education, health, and elder care, to Rachael Levay at Princeton University Press, by Don Fehr at Trident Media Group (world).

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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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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My awesome kid made this & says: Hi! I’m Charlie, a high school intern at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Any action is good action. Please do what you can to help save the Academy! More action items: save-the-academy.org/ To sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/pe...

A collage on a red background with text about how to try to save the Academy of Natural Sciences, and lots of cool art that I can't do justice to in words. The key info is at the links in the post.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PSA to HS seniors & their adults - do NOT let the stated costs stop you from applying to expensive schools!! Many students pay less to go to fancy places than they would have paid at their state school. Even at places without a stated "free for families below $X" policy.

Screenshot of this webpage, key thing is the headline - "Swarthmore Expands Financial Aid With New Tuition Guarantee"

https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/swarthmore-expands-financial-aid-new-tuition-guarantee -

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are a few great ethnographies of privileged kids (e.g. @shamuskhan.bsky.social) but I am thinking of something that deliberately follows the screw-ups of privileged kids and how/whether their families protect their class position/trajectory. I know many anecdotes, but I can't think of a book.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my Class Class today we discussed Ranita Ray's book, Making of A Teenage Service Class. It's the story of how kids coming from poverty can make all the "right" choices & still end up in low-wage jobs. Is there an equivalent/inverse book that's an ethnography of well-off kids?

Cover of Ranita Ray's Making of a Teenage Service Class. Subtitle: poverty and mobility in an American City. Cover image: looking down at someone's feet, wearing a pair of scuffed red converse sneakers, the ratty/frayed cuffs of blue jeans visible above them.

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thank you @noamscheiber.bsky.social for such a thoughtfully reported @nytimes.com piece about our Class Gap research. Key point: the class gap is NOT an academia specific phenomenon. The cultural & social capital that come from class background matter in many elite settings.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New working paper w/ Hanna Folsz In Jan 2025 Trump issued an executive order targeting corporate DEI programs. Many companies ended DEI fearing financial risk We find that firms that kept DEI performed just as well in financial markets, revenue, etc democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

The Trump administration has used executive authority to influence the behavior of civil society organizations such as law firms, universities, and corporations.
Do corporations that resist executive orders perform worse financially? In January 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal
agencies to investigate and compel firms to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Some firms complied with the order, whereas other firms
resisted by reaffirming their DEI programs. We find that S&P 500 firms that
maintained their DEI programs performed just as well as compliant firms, both
in terms of stock market returns and revenue. The results are robust across various measures of maintaining DEI, including measures based on executives’ public
statements about DEI programs, interest group ratings, firm financial statements,
and shareholder rejections of anti-DEI resolutions. The results suggest that, at
least in some areas, firms can resist pressure from the executive branch with
minimal costs to financial performance.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Wawa next to my kid's roller derby practice is going to be closed for 6 weeks and it is going to be much harder to motivate myself to leave the house at 6:15 on Sunday mornings without a treats-supplier right there. (It's in NE Philly, it's one of literally 10 in a ~3 mile radius! But still.)

Google maps image of NE Philadelphia, with a search for Wawa showing 10 locations.

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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My newest piece with proud Appalachian organizer Shawna McCown in @convergencemag.com We argue that while data center resistance is winning many of its immediate fights, it can accomplish something bigger: building a multiracial movement of the many. @surj.org j.org @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Is Data Center Resistance a New Vehicle for Multiracial Democracy?

Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 08/09/2026

🧵 About 30% of American adults say they are unaffiliated with a religious tradition, but as people are rejecting ancient epistemic systems, many of us are struggling to find meaning from life, to take care of ourselves, and to even have a concept of what selfhood is. That's a problem.

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Non-religious people still need to think about meaning and selfhood

J. Eric Oliver on knowing yourself without gods

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

(standing in front of the "not getting a lot done" factory) i hope i get a lot done today

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have been making pretty little colorings and I find them pleasing and I am sort of embarrassed to share them but I would like to see more nice colorful things in my feeds so I am just going to post them occasionally.

Drawing made with acrylic markers that kind of looks like a turquoise-slate-blue river with dirt and tree trunks in the foreground and more dark green trees/foliage in the background.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you believe any group of humans is intrinsically inferior and deserves to be hurt or cast out or eliminated, & esp if you have the power & act on that belief - you're not on the right side of humanity. If you bought from or voted for (or etc) someone like that, though - I'm not writing you off.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The marks are not the conmen! The marks are not the conmen! The marks are not the conmen! The marks are not....

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My suspicion is that a lot of the "should we reach out to MAHA" discourse/discussion/debate rests on collapsing the distinction between 1) MAHA leaders & their associated overt pro-MAGA, explicit white Christian nationalist/supremacist beliefs and 2) regular people who've bought into some of that.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a trans man, I appreciate everyone who won't buy anything in the HP franchise because JKR is actively using her wealth and influence to make life harder for trans people. But - it is very hard NOT to give some of your consumer $ to things owned by awful people. I'm not condemning ppl who buy HP.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/09/2026

I'm gonna go to this. I hope you'll go too if you're in NYC.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@victorerikray.bsky.social makes it crystal-clear about what is going on with the Trump administration and universities. It's about re-segregation of these institutions. 1/ www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

ms.now

Opinion | Trump’s next high education target: schools that help Black students

Victor Ray: American universities must stand up to Trump's plan to re-segregate higher ed

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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 05/09/2026

Mount Sinai is failing trans patients and capitulating to Trump. Trump will stop at nothing to erase trans people from public life and deny youth essential healthcare. But in NY, trans patients are protected by state law. We must fight for their rights, not cower in fear.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also the APSA sections have their business meetings at 6 or 630p, right before their receptions. That is WAY better IMO than ASA's model of having them during random session times competing with everything else.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A very inside-academia thought: the APSA norms of 1) sending papers before the panel & 2) having discussants give feedback both make the conference sessions more useful for presenters (vs ASA norms). BUT I do wish the discussants would email most of their feedback rather than reading it out loud.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is so helpful, about how to understand Steinem's connection to the CIA. Whenever I've heard that, I pictured her - I don't know, helping depose Latin American leaders, but had never read up on it. Seems like basically she helped with a non-communist student org that the CIA funded.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good reminder for those of us trying to wrangle final drafts out of our brainstorms and early drafts (for me it's scholarly writing not fiction, but "plot hole" and "logical gao in argument" are the same kinds of things.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/09/2026

This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great conversation with @michellesphelps.bsky.social about why Minneapolis has become a center for 2020s activism and the problem of progressives/Democrats distancing themselves from the 2020 protests. newrepublic.com/article/2146...

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Transcript: Why Minneapolis Has Become the Center of 2020s Politics

Author Michelle Phelps explains why Minneapolis has been at the center of recent racial justice movements.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great essay by Beth Baltzan at American Phoenix - lots of good points drawing on the Williams & Abbott report (& a mention of my work too). Key point = good policy is not, by itself, good politics. www.amphoenixtrade.c...

Heading of a blog post
Main text - "Bending Elite Opinion toward the Working Class"
Above that - "Aug 31, written by Beth Baltzan"
Below headline - image of a subway station, with "mind the gap" seen prominently on the platform.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is simply incredible to me that no one wants to learn from this history. Biden DID NOT do any Sister Souljahing. He largely embraced the protesters, and cast Trump and white supremacy as the real threats to civil order. That worked! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Took a real vacation and did no work for 5 full consecutive days, plus a number of other days as well. Saw friends and family, and spent Sunday - Wednesday backpacking on the Olympic peninsula. A few pics from that:

The Dosewallips River, with a few logs in the foreground and green pine/cedar/etc trees all around. So much green.

The Dosewallips River, seen between two big trees, with some forest floor in the foreground, and more trees across the river. The river is a gorgeous turquoise-y slate blue color.

A footbridge over the Dosewallips River, The river is a gorgeous turquoise-y slate blue color. There are lots of trees.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Quakers were a big part of supporting me and my friends when it wasn't even less safe to be a queer young person - in the 90s - they paid for me to go to the LGB & not-yet-T March in DC in '93. (I was 16.) And here they are being good again when it's not politically easy. I'm a big fan of Quakers.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026

🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...

A photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk with national flags on it, seemingly at a meeting in an office. His omnipresent aide, Natalie Harp, is sitting behind him, staring at him with an unnatural smile, her eyes shrouded with pupils not visible.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The first law of American politics is that pundits will draw sweeping conclusions from a single, narrowly decided result. A race decided by less than 0.5 percent of votes cast: had it gone the other direction, the headlines would be about the unstoppable force of progressive candidates.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I can't believe I still have to be on a panel on day 4 of #ASA2026 at 2pm, but I'm also really excited about talking about "gender ideology" with a great group. If you're here and have any capacity left, we will be in the lower level of the Sheraton, Bowery room. (& I don't think you need a badge.)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/08/2026

This is what we mean when we say we're living under fascism. You might not feel it in your own personal life every day. But you and all of us are vulnerable at any second to this kind of malicious exercise of fascist power. This isn't freedom.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ok two meta-comments here: 1. If you're at ASA, you can come see me & @jessicacalarco.com and @nvancleve.bsky.social discuss @philipncohen.com's book Citizen Scholar tomorrow (Monday) at 8a, I imagine we'll get into some of this. (Sheraton 2nd floor, metropolitan ballroom West) +

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/08/2026

As Brad Wilcox reports for the umpteenth time, "children raised in 'intact' families are far more likely to thrive in school and life than are their peers from other households," I must reshare my own classic analysis, "Cars are good for kids." Read on! (Links below) /1

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Observations at #ASA2026 day two - 1. Part of why I like sociologists and sociology conferences so much is that - while I appreciate the social functions of "small talk" - I really am not good at it or interested in it most of the time. But asking a sociologist what they're working on is great fun.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Observations from day one of #ASA2026 1. I like academic conferences. I like (many) sociologists, I like sociology, I like thinking and talking about how the social world works. I have heard so many interesting talks and had so many great conversations & met so many interesting grad students.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/08/2026

I’ve written for publications that actually staff fact checkers. This kind of claim would never have a shot of being published there. The author on this byline is actually an editor, which is even sadder

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Great point by @sociologistray.bsky.social at #ASA2026 - in order to contribute to solving real-world problems, sociologists need to work WITH people and institutions we believe are part of perpetuating those problems.

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