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Stanford CDDRL @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#FELLOWSHIPS: CDDRL welcomes applications from pre-doctoral students at the write-up stage & postdoctoral scholars working in any of the 4 program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion & rule of law. APPLY NOW ➡️ ow.ly/vv7s50ZPQLx

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Gillian Slee @gillianslee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thank you! I am deeply honored, and I am grateful for the wonderful intellectual community @lawandsociety.bsky.social provides!

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Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

yes *and* there are more people in prison today who were on probation/parole at the time of arrest than the entire prison pop in 1974. The problem is not only technical violations but how easy it is to get a new charge while on supervision. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

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Are Supervision Violations Filling Prisons? The Role of Probation, Parole, and New Offenses in Driving Mass Incarceration - Michelle S. Phelps, H. N. Dickens, De Andre’ T. Beadle, 2023

Advocates for reform have highlighted violations of probation and parole conditions as a key driver of mass incarceration. As a 2019 Council of State Government...

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UGA Sociology @ugasociology.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

📣New publication alert!📣 What drives rule-breaking or withdrawal from supportive resources after prison? In an ethnographic study published in Criminology, Gillian Slee demonstrates how both everyday indignities and people’s desire for social belonging shape outcomes for individuals on parole.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Wow! Each $1 spent on Universal Pre-Kindergarten generates between $3-$20 dollars in aggregate earnings. That's enough to offset the costs of Universal Pre-Kindergarten through higher tax revenues.

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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Thread below.

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The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS

Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...

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Gillian Slee @gillianslee.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thrilled to be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in UGA’s collegial community next Fall! I am grateful to my mentors at Princeton and Stanford who supported me in this process, and I plan to ‘pass it on’ at UGA while engaging with fabulous colleagues and students. Go Dawgs!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

What happens when the SSA closes field offices? *People have a harder time getting access to services that they are eligible for because of crowded offices. *People with more severe disabilities, lower income and lower education are most adversely affected. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the number of disability recipients in surrounding areas, with the largest effects for applicants with moderately severe conditions and low education levels. Disability applications fall by only 10 percent, implying that the closings reduce targeting efficiency based on current eligibility standards. Increased congestion at neighboring offices appears more important as a channel than higher travel or information costs.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

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