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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The responses are nice to provide administrators who don't know enough and took the conclusions of the Vandy report at face value. But the people making the unsupported claims can never be persuaded that the claims are unsupported; it is their sacred project to believe them. More irony!

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The smartest conservative sociologist (IMO) has a good rule of thumb to evaluate research: "Can it be true, or must it be true?" Ironically, at least one conservative sociologist is failing the test by supporting the vacuous Vandy report and calling the UChicago response "unpersuasive."

"So the response from Geoffrey Wodtke was a pleasant surprise. Doesn’t rely on ad hominem, invective, or sheer assertion of authority. Simply examines each piece of evidence and makes the case for why it isn’t sufficient to establish ideological distortion. Well worth reading for anyone who wants to understand this controversy.

Yet I ultimately find it unresponsive to the concerns raised in the report as well as the circumstances that gave rise to them. He seems to treat the report like a peer-reviewed article that just wasn’t ready for publication. But it’s not that sort of document. Not only would the kind of test he calls for require years of effort from an entire research team, but I don’t think it would actually convince anyone not inclined to be convinced. If the authors had picked some bar for ideological compromise and designed a test showing the situation met that bar, U of Chicago profs would just have written responses claiming it was the wrong bar. The piece seems to assume the null hypothesis is that sociology is fine, and it should be treated as such until some clear and high evidentiary standard has been met showing otherwise. And for a lot of people whose opinions might matter, I don’t think that is the null.

I expect I’ll write more about all this later. In the meantime, give it a read, and while you’re at it, check out my own essay on why proving that a discipline has been distorted by ideology is such a formidable (maybe impossible?) task."

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the first time in 10 years as a professor, a significant number of students are treating the drop/add deadline as a 3-week shopping period, where you can come & go from classes as you please. Is it like this everywhere? Never had *multiple* requests to join class after missing the first 20%.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*academic job klaxon* very interesting looking 2-yr postdoc at Toulouse with @ccavaille.bsky.social on the political economy of climate risk and insurance!

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A college degree still offers a strong earnings premium, yet more graduates are experiencing negative labor-market outcomes. On Sept. 29, @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social draws on seven datasets spanning 75 years to examine this shift. Free and open to all. RSVP: bit.ly/CID-RSVP

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who runs for office, and what are the barriers to working-class people governing? At “Who Runs? Candidacy & Class,” visiting speakers and audience members moved from the scale of underrepresentation to the barriers that sustain it, then to possible reforms. A thread. 1/6

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

❗A reminder: if you haven’t already, RSVP for Thursday’s event, “Who Runs? Candidacy & Class,” hosted by our Stone Working Group on Inequality and Political Economy (SWIPE) as part of U-M Democracy Week. bit.ly/whoruns

Graphic for “Who Runs? Candidacy & Class,” part of Democracy Week at U-M. Thursday, September 17, 12–1:30 PM in Room 1430, ISR Thompson Building. Free and open to all. Featuring Noam Lupu of Vanderbilt University, Nick Carnes of Duke University, and Roberto F. Carlos of U-M Political Science. RSVP at bit.ly/whoruns. With support from the Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Very cool. From the thread: "For researchers, this change in models approach unlocks opportunity for iterative, collaborative work with the models, allowing the models to do what they do well (counting) freeing time of expert researchers to do what we do best, using judgment to infer meaning."

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And by 9 minutes we're on to progressive prosecutors that supposedly refuse to prosecute Black people (and only Black people).

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ok so I started listening and it's not even 7 minutes before she talks about a "cartoon with twerking" and the White-bashing media and out-of-wedlock births.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“But what about rampant wage theft”, but make it conservative.

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What shapes who runs for office, who becomes a viable candidate, and how does class influence who ultimately governs? Join @noamlupu.bsky.social, @nickcarnes.bsky.social, and @robertocarlos.bsky.social for “Who Runs? Candidacy & Class." Sept. 17, noon–1:30 p.m. Free and open. RSVP: bit.ly/whoruns

Promotional graphic for “Who Runs? Candidacy & Class,” part of Democracy Week at U-M. Thursday, September 17, noon–1:30 p.m., Room 1430, ISR Thompson Building. Lunch begins at 11:45 a.m. with RSVP; the event is free and open to all. Headshots identify panelists Noam Lupu of Vanderbilt University and Nick Carnes of Duke University, and moderator Roberto Carlos of U-M Political Science. Presented by the Stone Center’s SWIPE initiative with support from U-M’s Initiative for Democracy and Civic Empowerment. RSVP at bit.ly/whoruns.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They're on to you, UChicago MAPSS

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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

College is back in session, but data show that September and October are the highest risk months for campus sexual assault. In my latest for @theconversation.com, I break down what we know about assault on campus, why data are so mediocre, and what colleges have tried to do about it.

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

❗ Big news: Our September issue is now live! ❗ We have a lot of great things for you to read in this issue, which we'll be posting about in the coming days. Click the link below to check it out. journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTY/curr...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ope, nevermind, it does look like they reference the allegations (in addition to the "terrifying" stuff about the art itself)

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026

“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:

A Kehinde Wiley portrait of four Dominicans — two men relaxed on the ground, two women standing, one subject of each gender having white skin while the other has darker skin. The four appear immersed in a backdrop of flowers — an aesthetic signature of Wiley’s work.

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Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The national racial income gap has changed relatively little, but its geography has shifted considerably. ISR’s @robertmanduca.bsky.social finds disparities narrowed across much of the South while widening in parts of the Northeast and Midwest.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Coming home after a meaningful #ASA2026, where I symbolically made my transition to a new stage of my career as a criminal legal scholar, beginning my term as Sociology of Law council member & accepting the Distinguished Article Award from the CLD section. Just as cool: caught a Liberty-Aces game!

ASA best paper award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance section.

Four sociologists at Barclays for a Liberty-Aces game

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Who wore it better? (L)The carpet in the #ASA2026 Exhibit Hall (R) @cicojournal.bsky.social

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Out: A Republican is a Democrat who has been mugged In: A DSA member is a capitalist who reads

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The current anti-university coalition is an odd marriage of small-c (sometimes big-C) conservatives that see college as a place for job training where you acquire job-specific skills, and the authors of the Vandy reports, who appear to be philosophers who reduce college to intellectual masturbation.

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Check out our own @ninsolera.bsky.social 's important work on food insecurity highlighted in the July issue of Michigan research. #umich #academicsky

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Gross, antisemitic nonsense, yes. But that aside it’s so funny she put a comma after “bro”. Truly the cherry on top.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Agreed to review a book for a press because it helped me justify buying a new sweater. I bought the sweater, but haven't gotten around to the review, so now I am trying to use the money I'll get from the review to justify the new jacket I want. I'm just going to continue doing this over and over...

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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am from Chicago. Why do I sound like a Valley Girl? 🤔 Report here: www.brownspromise.org/statesofsegr... For all your segregation tracking needs: edopportunity.org/segregation

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State Segregation Ranking — Brown's Promise

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Vivek Sankaran, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and child advocacy law expert, said he was troubled that Michigan State Police went to Buttigieg’s door with such a vague allegation that didn’t present any indication that children were imminently at risk.”

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Also, lol at the criminologist/sociologist, who likes to tsk-tsk his colleagues for being too “politicized,” complaining that we don’t study “whether we have Venezuelan gangs in Colorado.”

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The Trace @thetrace.org · 23/07/2026

A recent study found that both direct and indirect exposure to gun violence is linked to higher rates of chronic pain. Whether someone has lost a loved one or they’ve been shot themselves, the study’s lead author said, their mental health and physical health are inextricably linked.

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Even If You've Never Been Shot, Gun Violence May Still Be Hurting You

Surviving a gunshot wound, losing a loved one to a shooting, or simply witnessing gun violence can leave people with chronic pain long after the event, according a new study by Rutgers University.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is darkly funny insofar as the argument is, effectively, "America has always been intensely racist, from the very beginning, and therefore we must, as originalists, assume Congress likely had racist intent and interpret laws accordingly." Something something CRT.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

From Flowers's brief on behalf of Richard Epstein in the birthright case: We must always remember that the framers were deeply racist, so their laws should be interpreted as being similarly racist.

It is important to bear in mind that America, at
the time of ratification, labored under intense racial prejudices. This very Court held that the right
to vote is not among the privileges or immunities
of American citizens, thereby allowing States to
deny the suffrage to women and non-whites. See
Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 171 (1874). And
Congress did not extend the naturalization laws to
individuals of African descent until 1870, two
years post-ratification. Even then, the laws did not
allow other non-whites to apply for naturalization.
It is not likely that the American people
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understood the Fourteenth Amendment as automatically conferring citizenship on the children of
aliens who, owing to racial prejudice, Congress did
not deem worthy of naturalization.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 21/07/2026

We used these data for key research on workplace inequality: Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005 www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/ASQ10.pdf Black Underrepresentation in Management across U.S. Labor Markets www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/AAAPSS0...

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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Oh no, this one is even worse, misunderstanding 501c3 AND not understanding endowments 😕

Tweet from Sean Westwood: “Odd that "get billionaire money out of politics" and "universities with $50B endowments should be unrestricted political actors" come from the same people.

Tax exemption is a subsidy. Subsidies come with strings. No principled reason those strings bind a regular 501(c)(3) but not a university.”

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Does Westwood engage in good faith or is he blinded by his political beliefs? If the former, someone should tell him this is “up is down, grass is blue” levels of wrong regarding the history, intent, practice, and theory of the 501c3 designation. It is almost an exact 1:1 opposite of true!

Tweet from Sean Westwood: “No, but the academy cannot pretend that the political views of half the country are illegitimate and still expect funding and support from the public.

If you believe there needs to be pushback against the right, the place for it is a PAC or a campaign, not a 501(c)(3).”

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the evaporation of IRL third spaces and the role of online as the new publics has essentially broken everyone's brain, imo

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City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

⚠️ Online first! ⚠️ Do immigrant neighborhoods face the same eviction rates as non-immigrant neighborhoods? New paper by Leung, Louis, Rangel, and Desmond at the link below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Joe LaBriola @joelabriola.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Pleased to be quoted in this Seattle Times article on inequalities in home insurance premiums between White and Black / Hispanic households. I suggest these inequalities may contribute to racial inequalities in the wealth-building effects of homeownership. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...

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Homeowners of color pay higher insurance costs in WA, nationwide

New research finds a link between the cost of homeowners' insurance and the racial makeup of a neighborhood.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not hard to see what's been happening here. A few high profile political scientists publicly disagreed with him, so now he has decided the entire discipline is ideologically captured. The way he thinks--emotionally, los of motivated reasoning--has always been very transparent.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re jokingly keeping a tally of how people on a different social media website are responding to an essay you wrote so you can dunk on them, you are a huge loser lmao

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In the universe next door, the map did include Jewish neighborhoods and exactly the same people are outraged he’s equating Jews with foreigners.

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Jennifer Mascia @jenmascia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As expected, DOJ sued to overturn Virginia's new assault weapons ban — and also sued California over its "Glock ban" and handgun roster. That makes 7 gun-related suits from the Civil Rights Division, which historically enforced anti-discrimination statutes. My latest w/@bychipbrownlee.com:

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Department of Justice Sues Virginia and California Over Gun Restrictions

The lawsuits accuse the states of unconstitutionally banning assault weapons and pistols that can be easily modified into machine guns.

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MDefenders at Michigan Law @mdefenders.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do you smell something? Police increasingly justify searches based on the smell of weed, yet only 20% of these searches discover contraband. Our model brief argues that discretionary opinions perpetuate implicit bias and result in racially biased outcomes: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...

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