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Justin Huft

@justinhuft.bsky.social
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Part time researcher in sociology. Full time lover of The Muppets. PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Race, gender, religion, social psych.

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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ok, I know I've said this before, but I'm really excited about this piece. I test whether hybrid masculinities moderate the relationship between masculinity threat and masculine overcompensation. They do! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Alex DiBranco @alexdibranco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am so excited that part 2 of the @irms.bsky.social white paper, "Countering Male Supremacist Ideology and Violence: Challenges and Recommendations," is live! Took a Sunday night push until 4am to carve out the time to get the last of the edits and citations finished www.theirms.org/publications...
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Countering Male Supremacist Ideology and Violence: Challenges and Recommendations — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
This white paper , the second in a series, identifies key limitations to current approaches to understanding and challenging male supremacism that create barriers to effective communication and practi...
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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 05/10/2026
+++ PUBLICATION ALERT +++ My first solo-authored PhD paper is finally out in Network Science! I am so happy that it finally happened! TL;DR: Representatives in Congress do not just disagree on issues, they oftentimes do not even talk about the same things at all. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Measuring issue-level polarization in congressional speech using community detection-algorithms | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Measuring issue-level polarization in congressional speech using community detection-algorithms - Volume 14
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Tamta Gelashvili @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The final paper of my PhD is now out in @democratization.bsky.social! I ask how and why regime type impacts far-right mobilization. My starting point was a paradox: the far right is global, yet most of what we know about it comes from research on a handful of countries in Western Europe 1/9
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Far right mobilization in hybrid regimes: evidence from Georgia and Ukraine
How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is now open access! After riding on fire engines, doing field observations, and interviewing lots and lots of fire fighters, I'm really happy to see this accessible to the public. We hope that it's valuable to firefighters and generative for sociologists.
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Burcu Türkoğlu @burcuturkoglu.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Delighted to share that my article has been published in International Political Sociology. It is open access. Read it here: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
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Governing through Repression: The Spatial Logics of State Power in Turkey (1923–2019)
Abstract. This article offers a juridico-political and spatiotemporal analysis of repression by examining how legal and extralegal modalities of state powe
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very appreciative of this recognition. #asa2026
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Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Over the last five years, sociologists have published about a million high-quality refereed articles on inequality, and during that time period inequality globally has doubled. 🔥 -- paraphrasing Adina Sterling at ASA plenary on the need for sociology to have real world impact.
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our work on cancer mitigation among CA firefighters is out! We find sociocultural factors form key barriers to health uptake in a professional field, and that cancer mitigation requires reconfigured cultural, symbolic, and social capital. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #sociology
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CAPITALIZING ON CHANGE: HABITUS TRANSFORMATION AND CANCER MITIGATION IN THE FIELD OF FIREFIGHTING
While cancer remains the leading cause of occupational death among firefighters, cancer mitigation efforts are not always successful. This study exami…
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Brandon Andrew Robinson @drkittygirl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
My book is now arriving to people’s homes! If you preordered, maybe yours will arrive this week as well!! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Thanks for the love and support y’all.
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Does religiosity increase fear of death? Decrease it? Turns out it's a little of both! Grounded in identity theory, I introduce a framework to categorize underlying identity meanings to explain this. doi.org/10.1177/0190... #sociology @spquarterly.bsky.social
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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Can we unlearn race? Yes—through neuroplasticity and structural change. The brain rewires, but society must, too. The Racialized Brain: The Neurosociology of Race and Racism by Rengin Firat is out now in the UK See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
ASA members Rory M. McVeigh, William J. Carbonaro, Chang Liu, and Kenadi Silcox @notredame.bsky.social find that status hierarchies are at the heart of political polarization, stalling efforts to tackle issues like climate change and health care. @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Politics and Privilege | Columbia University Press
In the United States, the bottom 50 percent of households hold only 1 percent of the nation’s wealth. Scholars and commentators have long viewed democracy ... | CUP
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.令
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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I’m a campus sexual violence researcher and I started thinking about this in the context of traumatized students. Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.
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JHSB @jofhsb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In our June issue, @cvbrooks.bsky.social examines how social capital, social bonding, and network stress affect different health outcomes of Hispanic immigrants in Indiana. Read here to learn more: bit.ly/4lSnEfK @IndianaUniv @asamedsoc.bsky.social
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Social Psychology ASA Section @asasocpsych.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028
Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.
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Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
NEW PREPRINT: RELIGION UNBUNDLED Earlier this week at #ASA2025, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, Brian Steensland, and I presented ideas for a new paradigm for the 21st-Century sociology of American religion. Full MS at SocArXiv for all those interested: osf.io/preprints/so...
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This snapshot of the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting shows the numerous presenters who will be sharing sociological knowledge during the meeting. That’s 1,055 presenters on Saturday; 880 on Sunday; 948 on Monday; and 679 on Tuesday.
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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Headed to #ASA2025 in Chicago? 🏙️ Join the conversation on Bluesky! Follow ASA's Section on Medical Sociology and connect with us and others by using #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth Let's share ideas, build community, and reimagine health together!
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It’s almost here! #ASA2025 starts the day after tomorrow. There’s still time to grab a train, plane, or automobile and meet us in Chicago for this gathering of sociologists that all your colleagues will be talking about! Register online or on site! bit.ly/RegisterASA25  #Chicago #ASA #sociology
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This fun little article about Affect Control Theory and The Troubles got an honorable mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section. Currently celebrating with ice cream. #sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Regina N. Bradley @redclayscholar.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Syllabusin' folks: There is no Sinners without Blues epistemology and there is no Blues epistemology without CLYDE WOODS….
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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So, this paper is passion-project of mine, asking questions about #motivation, proactive social actors, & emotional/affective dispositions. It is a long time coming & is a key piece in the argument for an affective #sociology. Check it out, open access (thx UBC) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New publication! We explore opposition to COVID mitigation strategies and mandates. We use social identity theory and identity theory. White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies mdpi.com/3198468 #mdpiyouth via @Youth_MDPI #sociology
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White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies
Research suggests that opposition to COVID-19 mitigation strategies and mandates has been notable among young adults, especially those who are conservative. The current political climate, through whic...
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is? NO We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference
The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you haven't seen Trenton's Stata resources, you're missing out. He has created an excellent collection of commands, explanations, and workshops. Super helpful!
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Trenton Mize @trentonmize.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.
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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I will always remember him as the 1st professor to show up at the barricades & the last to leave whenever there was a student protest on campus. Here he is on the steps of Wheeler Hall lecturing on Foucault as students chained themselves to the roof protesting austerity. 📸 @zunguzungu.bsky.social
A stately beaux arts building on the left with dozens of students sitting on the steps. In the middle, Michael Burawoy stands with a megaphone wearing all black and staring at the camera with a friendly smile.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 24/01/2025
ICYMI: In "The Continuing Association between Racial Prejudice and Government Assistance Beliefs," Lawrence M. Eppard et al. consider racism, racial inequalities, and support for social policy responses incl. welfare and social services. Free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... #sociology
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Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Teasing new research on religion, race, & health just accepted at Soc of Religion with @elenavanstee.bsky.social. This was a super fun collaboration inspired by great work from folks including @mattmotta.bsky.social & @pennye.bsky.social. #socsky
Racialized Religion & Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey by Evan Stewart and Elena G. van Stee, Accepted at Sociology of Religion. 

Abstract: Research has examined differences in vaccine hesitancy by religion and by race. Complex religion theory, however, argues that research should examine these two social forces in concert with one another to understand how the religious experience is racialized. Applying this theoretical approach, we examine the interaction of religion and race in a new module for vaccine hesitancy included in the 2022 General Social Survey. We find that the association between religiosity and vaccine hesitancy observed in other work is racialized. Stronger religious commitments are more strongly associated with more vaccine-hesitant attitudes for Black Americans than for White Americans. Yet stronger religious commitments are also more strongly associated with a higher likelihood of vaccine self-reports for a flu vaccine or a COVID-19 vaccine for Black Americans, after accounting for vaccine hesitancy attitudes. These indirect negative and direct positive associations between religiosity and vaccine reporting are important for understanding racialized differences in vaccine uptake. We use these findings to discuss how theories of racialized and complex religion can better serve the study of health and well-being.
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
To everyone planning on attending the @asanews.bsky.social conference in Chicago: I'll be arriving a day early, and there will not be any more hot dogs or pizza left in the city when you get there. Really sorry you had to find out like this. #ASA2025 #sociology
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Very happy to have published this, and grateful for two excellent co-authors. I think we found some interesting stuff! #Sociology
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 08/01/2025
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Ah, we've reached that point in the year where we are finalizing our courses. I would love to share some of my own thoughts on teaching classical theory. This is the oldest of the bunch. Well, almost as old as a paper on the challenges of our heuristics #sociology sethabrutyn.com/2019/09/20/t...
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The Pedagogical Dead-End Known as “Classical” Sociological Theory
This is the first in a series of (increasingly more practical) posts about teaching classical theory; or, perhaps, not teaching it. I have written about  this elsewhere, recently tweeted a thr…
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ASA Political Sociology @asapolisoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's LIVE: Political Sociology has its first Starter Pack! Follow us all here: go.bsky.app/QaLr2JG
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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Christopher Seto (criminovelist.bsky.social) and colleagues examine how Christian nationalism inclines some adults to deny racial inequality in policing. Read more at bit.ly/3ZyPu6A
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New publication! We explore factors that contribute to early leaving in dual diagnosis treatment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Clinical Characteristics of Early Leavers From a Private Dual-Diagnosis Program
Objective: Early leaving in substance use disorder treatment may be the single largest variable undermining treatment success. Existing work on early leaving tends to explore either client factors,...
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
As we head into conference submission season, I propose we settle sociology beefs with Mario Party: win the balloon-popping game, and I'll back your agency-over-structure argument.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 02/12/2024
What does gentrification look like in small cities? Zhe Zhang, Shelly Kimmelberg, and Robert Adelman take us to Buffalo, NY in their new trends piece! Free to read, download, and share through Dec. 15: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Happy Friday! Here is some pain! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a sociological theory of social pain
A serious consideration of pain has largely been absent in sociology, especially physical pain's close neurobiological relative, social pain. Social pain is the process by which rejection and exclusi...
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Do you have recommendations for teaching classical or contemporary sociological theory? I'm teaching a social theory class next quarter, and I'm really looking forward to it! Curious to see what readings, videos, etc others use. #sociology
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One of the toughest parts of being here is that I already used all my good jokes at the old place.
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