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Kaylee T. Matheny

@kmatheny.bsky.social
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Asst prof at Georgetown’s McCourt School & faculty affiliate at JHU’s Poverty & Inequality Research Lab. Forever a Waffle House waitress, public school teacher, and FLI student of Griffin, GA.

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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every year, ASA says if you don’t register by a certain date, you’ll be removed from the program. But as someone who habitually registers like a week in advance, I’ve never been removed. Did they actually do it this year? (For the first time?) Asking for myself.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12/03/2026
Anyone who argues that AI can do your research for you was not the one who did all the work in the group project
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
That’s fair. I used a really nice free program on some personal forms where by the time I found something that worked, I was so frustrated I was like “let them have my info, I’m so over it” 😭 not an ideal solution!
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I have had great luck googling what I need + “reddit” and finding a reddit thread on it! Needed to compress a PDF last week and was very pleased with the results!
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Can shorter courses help community college students succeed? @kmatheny.bsky.social and colleagues find that condensed courses boost grades and reduce withdrawals at Tennessee’s community colleges, though effects on persistence are more mixed. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1346
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’m teaching a qualitative methods class, and my next class session is on writing and feedback. I would love to hear what kinds of feedback researchers (of all disciplines) find most useful and from where (eg friends, peer reviewers, folks outside your area) if you’d be willing to share!
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Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
You can always count on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social to carefully excise the stupid from elite political discourse and neatly put it on display.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Nobody is reading the references in the print journal. They’re just taking up space and preventing an extra article from being featured. Put them online. People are writing and citing from their computers anyway.
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If we continue to insist on using page and word counts for journal issue inclusion, then references should be an online supplement. People should be encouraged to have a robust and thorough reference section, and when people have to choose references, it’s not the big names in the field who get cut.
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If you have population-level data, then how can values for smaller units (eg schools, counties) be “less precise”? Isn’t precision about how close we are to the “truth”? And if you have the truth in hand, why would you statistically penalize smaller units? Asking for myself.
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Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We argue for 3 forms of org capacity: foundational capacity, the pre-existing resources needed to implement a policy; execution capacity, the resources needed to address policy-induced burdens; & provision capacity, the resources to bridge the gap between the policy & target pop.
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My paper with Amanda Lu is finally out! In “Equal Inputs, Unequal Outputs,” we problematize the tendency to design policies without attention to pre-existing resource inequalities. We also develop a policy-focused typology of organizational capacity. t.co/Y5AB0ksx1K
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/01623737241310832
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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Nobody wants to not work anymore.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
it’s so fucked up you have to keep doing chores until you die. i have mopped this apartment like half a dozen times since i moved in a few months ago, isn’t that enough. i did a great job and i’d like to coast on that.
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Pudge
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
This is also true in other wealthy countries. What is different is that US life expectancy, even for those with higher education, is shorter than in peer countries. We're all being hurt by massive inequality, a dysfunctional health care system, and a miserly welfare state.
Figure showing gap in life expectancy between those with and without college degrees, which has growing since 2000.  And for both groups has declined precipitously since 2020.
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
ASA Job Bank: It’s very limited if you’re not in the org. But if you ARE in the org, very worthwhile! Some good soc postings I didn’t see anywhere else. (Linked here: www.asanet.org/academic-pro...)
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Job Bank | American Sociological Association
Are you a sociologist looking for employment? Or are you an employer seeking to hire a sociologist? Visit the ASA Job Bank, the premier employment site
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
AEFP Job Board: I think it’s better this year than last—last year it had few postings. Still good to keep an eye on for the occasional gem of a posting! (You also don’t need to be a member to access this page). (Linked here: aefpweb.org/jobs_search....)
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
APPAM Job Board: Policy-focused listings with a good slate of non-at options. Updated semi-frequently. The board is open to non-members, so you don’t need to be a member of APPAM to access! (Linked here: appam.mcjobboard.net/jobs)
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APPAM Career Connections
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
InsideHigherEd: Many postings and updated frequently, but lots of overlap with The Chronicle of Higher Ed (and seems to have some postings that linger long after the search has closed, so check the year the posting is for) (Linked here: careers.insidehighered.com/jobs/educati...)
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Education jobs | Tenured & Tenure-Track, Four-Year Institution, Full Time | page 2
Education jobs. 221 Tenured & Tenure-Track, Four-Year Institution, Full Time jobs to view and apply for now with Inside Higher Ed Careers | page 2
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
AERA Careers: A gem for both ac and non-ac jobs in education! A little hard to use but lots of different options to toggle through (Linked here: careers.aera.net/jobs/?t731=7...)
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Pretty straightforward, lots of postings, updated frequently (linked here: jobs.chronicle.com/jobs/educati...)
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Education jobs. 4,186 jobs to view and apply for now with The Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Folks on the ed/soc/policy job market! Here are the job boards I checked for positions. These have ac and non-ac jobs, so useful for a broad range of interests! —> HigherEdJobs: Clear, easy to navigate, frequently updated, some unique postings (linked here: www.higheredjobs.com/search/advan...)
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
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Kaylee T. Matheny @kmatheny.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I (re-)post advice for grad students and early career academics, research and anecdotes related to being first gen/low-income, and pics of books and cats. Spending the year in Charm City studying determinants of social mobility before moving to DC! 🏙️
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