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Koji Chavez

@kojichavez.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. Allergies under control.

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 9h
Meet Gabriel,  Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
IU sociology is hiring! We have a wonderful department and exceptional graduate students. It's a great place to work. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34396
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Open Rank Organizations/MHO
The Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a rank-open (tenured or tenure-track) position beginning in the fall of 2027. We seek an individual with expert...
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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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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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This got lost in a comment, so going to put it back up here, because I think its super interesting. There was this Axios article that got some discourse play last year based on a survey where people were asked how much you have to earn to be financially successful. Gen Z says they need 587k
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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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Corey Moss-Pech @cmpech.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out my new article in the Journal of Organizational Sociology, where I examine how technology limits the autonomy of entry-level workers. I theorize two subtypes of technical control and discuss its implications for gender inequality www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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“The System Sucks”: Computer Programs and Technical Control in Entry-Level White-Collar Work
Researchers often examine how technology controls the labor of precarious workers while demonstrating the limits of technology on controlling professional workers. Drawing on a subset of 46 in-depth i...
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The main person quoted in this story is my undergrad student. Voter suppression of students is strong in Indiana.
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@cmpech.bsky.social I think IU admin would find this book pretty informative. Excited to read this!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 10/06/2025
New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This seems like a terrible idea. What I’ve seen in the classroom is that AI makes it way too easy to cheat and to avoid critical thinking. It is a massive net harm. My fear is that if universities wholesale adopt AI, their graduates will be stigmatized. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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Kate Weisshaar @kateweisshaar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires. www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster! Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health. Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities
Negative social ties, or "difficult ties," are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidity. Using ego-centric network data and DNA methy...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Two very good pieces on the same topic. First from Kate Shaw: "The Supreme Court has undermined lower courts seeking to protect the rule of law and emboldened an administration eager to trample it." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...
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Opinion | Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/05/2025
In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form. The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April. Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
After reading this article, I'm eagerly awaking the Butlerian Jihad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Class evaluations are in! In response to the question, "what did you like least about this course," one student wrote: "The thing I liked least was how often he backed into things. Has a real lack of surroundings." Killin' it.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/05/2025
Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Corey Moss-Pech @cmpech.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Got this in the mail yesterday—the newest addition to my bookshelf. Thanks@uchicagopress.bsky.social! Can't wait for the book to come out next month! Link to pre-order 👇
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Sam Vortherms @svortherms.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NSF's new research "priorities" seems absurd: research should not "directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
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Updates on NSF Priorities
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations to Herbert Gans for a life well-lived. Strongly recommend his famous piece "The Positive Functions of Poverty", which he always stressed was serious & not sarcastic. Also, recommend his books _The War Against the Poor_ & _The Urban Villagers_. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
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Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
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Franki Kung @frankikung.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more. I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...
A teacher in Warrick County is speaking out after Indiana Governor Mike Braun removed Dolly Parton’s “Imagination Library” from the state’s budget.

Imagination Library is a book-gifting program for children under 5 in hopes of fostering early literacy.

With the pending removal from the state’s budget, the program will have no funding to get books into the hands of families.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."
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'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
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Matthew Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Of the 50 hardest-hit schools on this list, 32% are in states that voted for Trump. Losses range from $36.2 to $129.7M—per school. We can organize around that. Electeds, even Republicans, don’t want mass layoffs in their districts. (NB: If you reply by celebrating people’s pain, I’ll block you.)
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Students, be aware that you can’t depend on UNC’s administration to protect you from ICE. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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UNC-Chapel Hill will ‘comply’ if ICE seeks students on campus, chancellor says
Schools and colleges are no longer considered “sensitive” spaces protected from immigration officials, under a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security.
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Juan Manuel Pedroza @ijuanathesaurus.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New paper on donations to immigrant-serving legal aid. We track donations to immigrant-serving legal aid nonprofits with DOJ accreditation over time. We find a dramatic rise in financial contributions to these organizations during Trump's first election. www.socialdemography.xyz/post/the-201...
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The 2016 United States Election and Financial Support to Migrant-Serving Legal-Aid Organizations
A new article published by the International Migration Review is out now: • Pedroza, Juan M., Stephanie Potochnick, and Robert Santillano. “The 2016 United States election and financial support to migrant-serving legal-aid organizations.” International Migration Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241309573The article is a collaboration with colleagues who are social scientists and policy scholars.UCSC has published a press release for the study:"As Donald Trump prepares to take office for a
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is a rich text - Pelosi literally broke a hip while making calls to help a 74-year colleague with esophageal cancer nab the job over AOC
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What the IU provost has done to CRRES is pretty devastating. CRRES has been a key part of my own success here at IU. Without CRRES support, particularly their undergraduate research program, I wouldn't have been able to conduct my research. Pretty sad day at IU.
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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results
from a Mixed-Methods Study
Lauren Valentino
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Evangeline Warren
Ohio State University
This sequential mixed-methods study examines how Americans ascribe meanings to the concepts racism, sexism, and classism. We first conduct interviews (N = 40) using a symbolic boundaries
elicitation approach, gathering examples of scenarios that do and do not “count” as racism, sexism, and classism. We then use these examples as vignettes in a nationally representative
survey-experiment (N = 2,000). Results reveal striking evidence for cultural heterogeneity in how Americans understand and define racism, sexism, and classism. We find that a person’s definition of these concepts depends on their emphasis on intentionality, unequal
treatment/outcomes, and power (a)symmetry. We also find that political partisanship, gender, age, and income shape the importance of these.
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
New in the American Sociological Review! Kate Weisshaar (co-lead), Tania Hutt, and I attempt to better understand patterns of gender and racial hiring discrimination in today’s context of strong pressures to diversify journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… (1/1)
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
What an amazing mini-conference on Racialized and Gendered Organizations! I was blown away by all the exciting and innovative research. So much fun to be around such a great group of people. Thanks to Maritess Escueta, @bonniersiegler.bsky.social , and Sharla Alegria for letting me help plan.
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
If you’re at ESS, we are starting the Work in Racialized and Gendered Organizations Mini-Conference at 1 pm Washington Marriott at Metro Center, Washington, DC, Salon II. See you there!!
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Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Here's a great conversation with Adia Wingfield about corporate DEI efforts and racial inequalities at work. Always insightful stuff...
marketwatch.com
Companies have invested billions in DEI. Why isn’t it helping Black workers?
Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are missing one key thing about the way we work, this sociologist says.
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