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Joel Mittleman

@joeljm.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn. Studying gender, education, ML and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him. sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel…

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325...
Position Summary: The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an open rank (tenure-track) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We are seeking candidates with research and teaching interests in population health and aging. This is the first of an anticipated five related searches over the next four years in a new UNC-Chapel Hill initiative on biosocial health and aging. We seek applications from scholars who exhibit a record of strong and innovative research and excellence in teaching. Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or a related field by July 1, 2027.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Really excited about this project @ianlundberg.bsky.social and I just submitted to @popassocamerica.bsky.social!
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Nathan Hoffmann @nathanihoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My paper "Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation" is out in Social Science Research. Spoiler: In simulations, double robustness appears less important than flexibility, and OLS does pretty well! 🧵👇 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 11/08/2026
The #SustainableED team's first publication is out in @pnas.org. We document the scale of potential pollutant & carcinogen exposure across US K12 schools. 8% of all schools are within a few blocks of EPA registered hazard sites. Exposure risk is highly inequitable. 🧵
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Let’s be colleagues! Penn Sociology has an open, junior search. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311613/...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with University of Pennsylvania | 1311613
University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences: School of Arts and Sciences - Sociology Location Philadelphia, PA Open Date Aug 07, 2026 D...
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Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
ND sociology is HIRING! We have three (yes, 3!!!) lines! (1) Open-Rank, Open Field careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311611/... (2) Assistant Professor, Quantitative Sociology careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311610/... (3) Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311609/...
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Kiara Wyndham @kiarawyndham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As of today, Diversityland is officially out! It’s exciting/terrifying/relieving to let the book you spent years writing out into the world. I’m so deeply grateful for the village of people that helped me make it to this point.
Screenshot of Diversityland available  for sale at Bookshop.org.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026
Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is a soon to be classic graph.
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Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
👋 Meet the Sociological Science Accelerator (SSA), a network for collaborative experimental sociology. Members propose research ideas 💡, the community votes 🗳️to select projects, and winning studies run across multiple labs/online using shared protocols. experimentalsociology.github.io
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Sociological Science Accelerator
The Sociological Science Accelerator coordinates rigorous, reproducible experimental sociology across a global network.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Tenured!!!! A dream come true!
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
On this day in 1946, Claudia Goldin was born. In 2023, she became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics. In 2026, she helped the players’ union for the Women’s National Basketball Association negotiate a nearly 400% raise by demonstrating that the women were woefully underpaid. #WeTheMen
Claudia Goldin throws ceremonial pitch at 2024 Red Sox game. She threw a strike.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣New Article Alert📣 How is gender and sexuality institutionalized in higher education? Using longitudinal data collected on a national probability sample, this study examines whether and when HEIs establish LGBTQ resource centers and studies programs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #SOE
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Contested Diversity? The Institutionalization of LGBTQ-Supportive Features in U.S. Higher Education, 1980 to 2018 - Hannah K. D’Apice, Christine Min Wotipka, 2026
This study seeks to understand the extent of and explanations for the institutionalization of sexuality and gender identity in U.S. higher education institution...
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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
25 years ago, marriage equality wasn't a possibility. Today, it's the law, thanks, in part, to research by the Williams Institute. Our studies & expertise informed policymakers & courts that turned a movement into a right, now embraced by hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples across the country.
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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Our research shows that LGBT people who underwent conversion therapy have a greater risk of suicidality, with double the odds of suicidal ideation, 75% higher odds of planning a suicide, and 88% increased odds of attempting suicide. tinyurl.com/WIChilesamicus @usatoday.com: tinyurl.com/29r8sjym
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Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...
A picture of me, middle-aged white guy, beard, glasses, blazer, on a balcony with a foggy view of the US Capitol in the background.
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Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence - Shay O’Brien, 2026
How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations while others do not? Bringing together economic sociology, political ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One of the more engaging citations I’ve received in awhile. Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence By Shay O’Briena in ASR journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"all fortunes are family fortunes, all power is family power, and all status is family status" That's a powerful line
Screenshot of article which reads: These cases are instructive for social scientists, who typically conceptualize “elites” as individuals with “vastly disproportionate” control over one
kind of resource (Khan 2012:361). But when it comes to the family “class project” of upper-class persistence (Hamilton and Armstrong 2021), effectively, all fortunes are family fortunes, all power is family power,
and all status is family status.
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Mark Chin @mememedianmode.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
1/ Safe travels to all heading to @aefpweb.bsky.social 2026! There are so many awesome panels this year. If you have time, please drop by the paper (2.13) & poster session where my PhD advisees present new work we're super excited for about immigrant-origin youth and their acculturation in the US.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Excited to see Aven Peters' innovative & rigorous study of embodiment and trans identification out in the latest AJS. Aven's study adds an essential new piece to our understanding of contemporary population patterns of trans identification and announces @avenpeters.bsky.social as a major new talent.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just tremendous work by Jen to expose the waste of taxpayer dollars on unallowable expenses under the state's Education Savings Account laws (and the seeming awareness and coverup efforts from the the state department of education).
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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We're recruiting a new cohort of postdocs focusing on health disparities research for our NIH-funded T32. pophealth.wisc.edu/health-dispa... Interested candidates should feel free to reach out!
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Health Disparities Research Scholars
OUR VISION The goal of the HDRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program is to foster training opportunities for the next generation of investigators within health disparities research, with a focus o...
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Great coverage of new work by my colleague Nick Graetz (and collaborators) showing the extent of credit score-based home insurance pricing. Pricing insurance by credit score is a proxy for pricing it by poverty. (Minnesota friends, note the two local examples)
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How Rising Home Insurance Costs Are Linked to Your Credit History
In many states, homeowners with “excellent” credit scores are charged less for home insurance than those with worse scores, even if they live in a disaster-prone area.
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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This administration's policies on data are so twisted that *People Magazine* is covering it now.
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Reminder! First review date is Feb. 28 - just two days from now.
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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I am so excited to be part of this incredible group of incoming Russell Sage Foundation @russellsagefdn.bsky.social Visiting Scholars.
A list of the 19 incoming visiting scholars, including their headshots, names, and institutional affiliations:
Gregory Acs, Urban Institute
Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh
Tony Cheng, Duke University
Bo Cowgill, Columbia University
Peter Hepburn, Rutgers University–Newark
Jelani Ince, University of Washington
Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Connecticut
Christine Jang-Trettien, City University of New York
Gabriela Kirk-Werner, Syracuse University
Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Rachel Meltzer, Cornell University
Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
Ryan Parsons, University of Mississippi
Samuel Perry, University of Oklahoma
Laurel Smith-Doerr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mary Ellen Stitt, Rutgers University
Lauren Valentino, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Caitlin Zaloom, New York University
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Since so many of us are inside & online, it's auspicious the final book cover just came in.
The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Education
Jennifer L. Jennings

Blackboard with chalk and eraser
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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS! Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!
postdoctoral associate at Princeton ad
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/
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The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project
Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
What a tremendous loss. I saw so grateful to get to know Ernest during my time at Notre Dame. Prayers to his family, his memory and his work are a blessing.
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Three #SOGIData notes that I think folks who critique surveys likely know but seem to forget 1. Questions & optimal measures may change dependent on audience. If it is national or includes mostly cis het pop of all ages, that is very different than community specific!
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Postdoctoral fellowship in LGBTQ reproductive health disparities in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. static1.squarespace.com/static/5676a...
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Grateful to have my @amjpublichealth.bsky.social study on the prevalence of ACEs among America's LGBTQ+ high school students highlighted by the @prbdata.bsky.social. www.prb.org/articles/chi...
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Childhood Adversity Casts a Long Shadow on the Health of LGBTQ+ Youth
New data on adverse experiences and gender identity reveal troubling disparities among U.S. high schoolers
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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Grab some cocoa☕ and peruse the PENN POP STUDIES NEWSLETTER! ✏️New pubs by our researchers, including @joeljm.bsky.social & @hthirumurthy.bsky.social 🎉 Congrats Emily Curran, winner of the van de Walle prize! 🎞️ Catch up on past colloquiums with @anacanedog.bsky.social & Margherita Odasso
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Sociologists: Are you aware of any publicly available interview transcript data that I could use for teaching qualitative coding in a graduate methods course? I've found multiple repositories of interview data, but they all (understandably) require students to go through IRB.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The rollout of broadband internet led to increases in suicidal ideation, particularly for adolescent girls: www.nber.org/papers/w3461...
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Broadband Internet Access and Adolescent Mental Health in the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Anna R. Haskins @annarhaskins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Don't forget! Please apply! 📢 ✨ FFCWS Postdoc opportunity I'm leading at Notre Dame! apply.interfolio.com/178605
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
In the early 90s this Jewish family kept getting harassed in Montana, so the entire town of Billings put up menorahs in their windows in solidarity Now Ahmed al Ahmed is part of this tradition too, as he figuratively did the most putting up of a menorah in the window that a human being can ever do
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture. On the back of the photograph she wrote: “‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says. ‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.” The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
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Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#MorningReads More work from Swedish data finds measuring sexual minority status (identity vs. partnership vs. marriage) capture very different populations. #SOGIData #watchgeneralizations
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Who Are We Studying When We Study Sexual Minorities? A Demographic Portrait by Partnership and Sexual Identity in Sweden
This study estimated the size and sociodemographic composition of sexual orientation subpopulations to compare the implications of different measurement strategies. Studies define and measure sexual m...
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