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Jerome Hodos

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Lost in Megalopolis: Global urbanism, sociology, city politics, planning, street vitality. Professor, Franklin & Marshall College; mistakes all my own.

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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As others have noted, this is the systematic dismantling of social science research and knowledge production. The fate of human society will not be improved by having less knowledge about it. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The OPT rule is out, and it's a mess. DHS is aware that this rule will be challenged in court, but didn't even bother to do a defensible analysis of the costs. For example, their estimate of costs that this rule will impose on the public over 10 years is a range between $241 million to $29 billion.
Due to high uncertainty in regulated parties’ behavioral responses, DHS uses ranges to estimate costs and transfers. These ranges reflect different scenarios for how many OPT fees the educational institutions would fund. If all OPT fees are paid by schools, the main impact would be the transfer of payments from the fees. If some OPT fees are not paid by schools due to reduced participation, there would be opportunity costs from the lost OPT participation. DHS estimates the annualized costs of the proposed rule would range from $32 million to $8.2 billion, with a primary estimate of $4.1 billion discounted at 3 percent. Discounted at 7 percent, the estimated annualized costs of the proposed rule would range from $34 million to $8.2 billion, with a primary estimate of $4.1 billion. DHS estimates the 10-year total costs of the proposed rule would be $275 million to $69.9 billion, with a primary estimate of $35.1 billion discounted at 3 percent (see Table 10). Discounted at 7 percent, the estimated total costs of the proposed rule would be $241 million to $57.7 billion, with a primary estimate of $29.0 billion.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I had no idea these existed. A bit more sour than bitter if I'm honest, which is too bad.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In his final national team game, Leo Messi has 1 goal and 2 assists, so far. I was lucky enough to see him in person play for Barcelona, it feels like many years ago now. I hope you were lucky too. There will be great and legendary players in the future, but we will not see another like him.
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Courtney Tenz @courtneytenz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another misunderstanding is that sexual violence can be ended through education. There is not a single evidence-based program for perpetrators that has reduced sexual violence. What schools call an educational intervention is making perpetrators sit down to read the sexual-misconduct policy and asking if they have any questions. It’s having them write an essay. None of these things work.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quebec election returns blog (in English): montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...
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Quebec election live: PQ set to form government; majority still unclear
The Conservatives have made a historic breakthrough, with leader Éric Duhaime on track to secure a seat in the National Assembly.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In general, trainings are a poor substitute for cultural change in an organization. They’re lecturing the people with the least power to abide by values that those with more power don’t hold for themselves.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote this somewhere else, but there’s a more radical list of demands that does take on frats more explicitly. As for trainings… they’re primarily useful for helping victims understand what happened to them and connecting them with resources. They don’t reduce sexual violence.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Measles gradually making its way from Lancaster toward Philadelphia. This outbreak never should have happened, and it's going to get worse before it gets better. www.inquirer.com/health/chest...
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Chester County has more measles cases than most entire states in the country
Nine out of 10 unvaccinated individuals who come in contact with measles will get sick.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apparently my child's social circle now calls non-videogame time "analog play." This one has had me smiling to myself for more than 24 hours now.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4. But that reconciling it with the full-on Tucker Carlson nationalists-embrace-the-fash approach takes continual work and always threatens to unravel. You should never treat your adversaries' coalitions as an impregnable monolith, because they are not. There are always cracks and tensions. Finis.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Why not both?"-dot-meme. Also, impeaching Trump *is* a kind of ethics reform. And what makes Emanuel think that package has any better chance of passing than impeachment? Trump can't veto impeachment.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, impeaching Trump *is* about ethics.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a) Retention is a growing problem at many colleges/unis. b) The graphs here look like homeownership collapse charts from 2008-15. I'd love see a comparison of Great Recession housing and current college "bubbles" and their impacts on first-gen owners/attendees. www.inquirer.com/education/co...
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Temple enrolled a record number of first-year students in 2025. But it lost nearly a quarter of them
Many colleges are facing greater challenges holding on to students, but dropouts say schools could do more to address their needs.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty good, skillful use of photography in this piece, pushing the boundaries a bit (most Amish don't want to be photographed). Also duly noted that Anemone Portcullis has moved on from her previous stint as the Times' truly awful higher ed reporter.
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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 04/10/2026
Curtis Sliwa with speech bubble coming out of him
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've got two: First, I saw Alien in the theaters; this would be before I was a teenager. Second, my parents (especially my father) took me and my sister to the scary creature double-features on weekends at the drive-in. This would be movies like Sssssss, Bug, etc.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Que golazo de Cavan Sullivan!
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Beautiful move from the US team; that was a sublime pass.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was today years old when I learned that Joan Didion and Anthony Kennedy knew each other in high school.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So if I'm counting properly, all this was for about £100 million/year in financial benefit. There were 4 player transfer fees of this amount this summer in the big European leagues (City paid 2 of those). Beyond the fraud itself, let's think about what this enabled in sporting terms.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the way. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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How best to punish City? Restitution over retribution, then hand club to the fans | Jonathan Liew
There are no real precedents and emotions are still raw, but good can come from this mess if ownership models change
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My child started learning to play the drums this week. I'm happy for them, but oh the racket. It's deafening all through the house.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the way. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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How best to punish City? Restitution over retribution, then hand club to the fans | Jonathan Liew
There are no real precedents and emotions are still raw, but good can come from this mess if ownership models change
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That so-called mainstream outlets see the bigoted ghouls at The Manhattan Institute as worthy of interviews and profiles (rather than derision, scorn, and exile) is evidence of their debasement and an indictment of the mainstream.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A core part of the problem is that parents want their sons to be able to access male privilege more than they want to stop sexual violence. You have to let go of the fraternities. And the men’s only athletic teams. And any other boys clubs.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For a lot of students, their university has become what sociologists call a “total institution.” Their school is their school, but also their employer, their landlord, their grocery store, their healthcare provider, their coffee shop, their gym, and, yes, even their police department.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/10/2026
Montreal’s automated metro REM is considerably surpassing ridership expectations this fall, with average daily ridership settling in at 130,000, even before the opening of the airport branch, expected next year.
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Réseau express métropolitain | L’achalandage du REM bondit
Loin d’être en retard, l’achalandage quotidien du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) a bondi de plus de 60 % durant l’été, au point où il est dorénavant bien au-delà de ses cibles, selon La Caisse, qu...
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cornell PR: "A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible, will make victims feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault." PR Pro: "It is hard for so many problems to exist in one sentence."
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Cornell, the DA and the communication choices that deepened a crisis - PR Daily
Communications is shaping -- and worsening -- the alleged gang rape at Cornell University.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the right balance between obscurity and ubiquity for a pop-culture reference.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wicked Good Intelligence
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And that is, the ability to contract about 1 world-class, top player per year for 9 years. If you are able to find value for money in the transfer market, it might amount to 2 top players per year. That's a lot! And I say this as a longtime City supporter, going back decades.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So if I'm counting properly, all this was for about £100 million/year in financial benefit. There were 4 player transfer fees of this amount this summer in the big European leagues (City paid 2 of those). Beyond the fraud itself, let's think about what this enabled in sporting terms.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here we go. Premier League ruling on Man City (redacted): resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleagu... Premier League statement: www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An interesting post that I think makes a bit of a category error. Having an intense seminar style course involves extensive reading which required someone to craft those thoughts in writing. There’s a constitutive relationship here that is not necessarily fleshed out. Even the assignment described
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grim joke: Why hire for a field that doesn't have a future?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was at a dinner last night where I disagreed with the mom of a frat boy over how bright the line was between consensual/consenting "boys will be boys" stuff like hazing and, you know, drugging and gang rape. The extent of enablement was breathtaking.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a great chart, and it does sound like it was a lot of work to get everyone to assess the policies and make their recommendations.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This comparative analysis of civic tech vs. DOGE is really great. It's eye-opening work.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026
Table stakes for the next Dem President should be tearing up every single 287(g) and throwing them in the trash.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm looking forward to checking out this book! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
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A political scientist studied the rise of grassroots activism in local government. Philly was his case study.
Stephen McGovern's "Mobilization Politics" details how Philly activists employed bottom-up tactics to win major policy victories in criminal justice reform and protections for immigrants and workers.
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watched the video for that song everyone's talking about. The song itself is pedestrian, and that's fine; but why does the action in the video *directly* contradict the lyrics? It muddles the whole thing fatally.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In her 2026 Theory & Society article, Rubin’s lists some criteria for detecting whether politicization compromises scholarship. […] Rubin violates every one of these.”
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Philadelphia Union @philadelphiaunion.com · 27/09/2026
MAKE THAT 12 STRAIGHT UNBEATEN. #DOOP | @pennmedicine.bsky.social
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Jerome Hodos @jhodos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a lovely interview with Sylvester Stallone. It's rare, I think, to find someone so honest, with the clarity just to tell his life like he has realized it was. His introspection and his grace are both hard-won and deserved. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/m...
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Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.
The legendary actor on his disturbing childhood, his Hollywood missteps and the pain he caused to his loved ones, his body and himself.
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