Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it closed, the server was opened to reveal a little man who took a bow. 012216
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseChris "🍻🍻" @thecellarmonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Aww ... not feetloaf for dinner again 1952309274
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s… 313174833319
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Potential linguistic trend alert: Third time recently that I have seen a confusion of “paramount” and “tantamount.” 000
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes. I think sociology has a lot of problems and is in a lot of trouble. I specifically think it is too politicized and not committed enough to “getting things right.” I have thought these things for over 25 years and not been especially shy about it. And yet, Jaysus… 1/n 182
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That said, while I adore JLM, he’s Editor of AJS and hence the most powerful person in US Journal Sociology. If he wants to tout the “methodological rigor” of current sociology, he could revise their open science policy so it doesn’t make sociologists sound like stubborn & slow-witted schoolkids. 192
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes, a “blue ribbon panel” report is one thing, but if the idea is giving a sole-authored discipline subreport deserves some special status because of its connection to that panel, the author either needs to be more qualified than Rubin is or evince more extensive work than what Rubin did. 0110
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I see a LOT of Tesla Cybercabs training in my part of Palo Alto. Bluesky readers may be gratified to know that while they are striking the first 2-3 times one sees them, they look increasingly plastic and grubby with successive appearances. 000
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Overall strong critique by JLM. Many points scored with flair; a few by being misleading. But his 40 pages are just the first of *three* critiques of this “report” by Chicago faculty? I’m on Book 7 of Dungeon Crawler Carl, so in no position to judge how other sociologists spend their time. 2101
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026tell em terry 410832
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseNoah Haber @whaleactually.com · 08/09/2026... and that's where Registered Revisions comes in The Registered Revisions Meta Trial Pilot Report is OUT NOW!! osf.io/preprints/me... But new(ish) policy involves developing a new(ish) multi-headed trial design, workflows, infrastructure, piloting, mistakes, and a super team. And it's all here. 22117
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseTamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Excited to share new work with @jeremyfreese.bsky.social. We investigate whether the genetic risk of depression predicts how people are evaluated in social interactions. People with higher depression PGI were perceived as less competent (cognitively, physically and socially). doi.org/10.1016/j.so... 1144
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes 872464163
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Lurking within the new Ariely scandal is the incentive problem of editors giving R&Rs that ask for new analyses (that need to turn out a specific way) or even in psych whole new experiments (ditto). 5486
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I dunno. Sounds like a wild idea, but Pizza Huts had such a distinct architecture and so it would be nice if something could be done with the ones that have closed instead of just tearing them down. 010
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Repent, sinners, for Late Sociology is at hand. 1113
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sure, but there does seem like something lost with the abandonment of unsupervised, deliberative writing as a skill college might offer students the opportunity to improve. 160
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I feel like if universities were not making AI deals for all their students to use, a perennial take would be “What about all the students who can’t afford to get their own AI subscriptions?” 110
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseCD Seadragom @seadrag.com · 24/08/2026Yeah you know what, sure, fuck it, let's open the phone number with Nando's 2785280
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.data4democracy.substack.comWith Fear and FavorInstitutions don’t have courage. They have incentives. 11197451
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A day later, I find myself still very saddened by the Arday saga and its end. I guess both very saddened personally and then also dismayed and discouraged professionally. He was subjected to a lot of gratuitous cruelty, preceded by what seems an extensive spell of deeply unfortunate enabling. 1275
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Read that Tyler Austin Harper piece in the Atlantic that folks on Bluesky have been complaining about. Definitely brought back some memories of experiences I am too prudent to recount. 030
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Free academic mystery/satire idea: plot twist reveals that, all along, the notorious online tool for fabricating experimental research data, Fraude, has been leaving a watermark. 1143
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 10/08/2026For the next week, we are looking after a dog named Mochi. Officially Mochi is a cross between a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and a papillon, but I think she looks more like a cross between a Cavalier King Charles and Emma Stone. 140
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hoping to go for a glorious bike ride today but first we must nebulize a bunny. 020
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 08/08/2026(Skipping #ASA2026 because I dropped my membership. Anybody who is interested in methodology who is there, can you help gauge and seed interest in a reviewer boycott until ASA Council allows its journals to have open science policies for quant soc? Thanks.) 2288
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Some rough press for activisty sociology lately. But ASA is this weekend, so those folks will be able to come together in unity, be nourished by each other’s work, and have meaningful conversations about promoting research excellence! 020
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Arday has resigned so presumably that story will be winding down. As mid-year sociology dramas go, it ranks up there, but still doesn’t touch the cray-cray months of Regnerus Summer. 130
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Somebody has a thread on X showing examples where it looks like Arday has used the same interview quotes in different papers from supposedly different participants. If true, YIKES. 340
Reposted by Jeremy FreeseAnnual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The 2026 volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. The most read article is "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social @fabriberna.bsky.social, William Foley, and @scottdoney.bsky.social Read it here arevie.ws/4wyNIBJ 2157
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The glory of summer makes me squirrelly. I saw a woman today with a baseball cap that said “RETIRED” and I wondered about the message it would send if I bought one and resolutely wore it to every faculty meeting. 090
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Arday case becoming a fascinating episode. First there were folks trying to dismiss/downplay the plagiarism because it came from a “race realist.” But now also clear other side was overly credulous of exaggerated claims of Arday’s fabulism/incompetence. Like the world is grifters all the way down. 481
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Very sad that Sociology no longer has this program, but, alas, it also didn’t make sense for ASA to be the ones running an NSF grants program given how nakedly politicized and anti-science it is. 241
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I have a 25 hours in a car solo followed by 50 hours on a bike. Taking recommendations for audiobooks or podcasts to pass the time, or projects I can do with Claude Dispatch. 100
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Interesting read for sociologists given how sociologists vary in whether anthropology is to be seen as a role model or cautionary tale. 3175
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I don’t know what your game is, Alice, but no. 030
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I have not followed this Mitch McConnell story at all, but I know it’s serious. Unfortunately now that Smiths song is in my head, only with his surname in the chorus instead of “Girlfriend.” 250
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Denmark should announce that they are gifting Greenland to Belgium just for lulz. 020
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If I could bring back cancel culture for just one person, it would be Sam Ezersky. 170
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 03/07/2026At a sports bar watching Australia-Egypt. Not looking good for me getting another use out of this Raygun costume. 000
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Did you know? The “Lost Colony” was founded on Rianoke Island in 1587. When a ship arrived in 1590, the colony appeared abandoned, with the only clue being the word “CROATIAN” carved onto a palisade. 100
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I’ve been given the service task of our department newslettter, and I’ve decided that what should set us apart from other newsletters is hard-hitting investigative reporting. If you know of any scandals that would rock Stanford Sociology to its core, my DMs are open. 1110
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Alienating more science-minded members over and over for years and then sending the radical flank into a spiraling tizzy by telling them no once? chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/what-are-s...chronicleofhighereducation.substack.comWhat Are Scholarly Societies For?They are meant to cement scholarly authority. Sometimes, they threaten it instead. 150
Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The new CHE article on sociology brings together a lot of voices to paint a picture of a discipline that is long on drama and (seemingly?) short on fresh ideas. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...chronicle.comThe War for SociologyA contest to lead the American Sociological Association distilled the field’s many conflicts. One was foremost: Should scholars be activists? 140
