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SCRIPTS Berlin @scripts-berlin.eu · 01/08/2025

🔍Explore a new Article by @kzippel.bsky.social #PublicationFriday 🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures. 🔗 ogy.de/iho2

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 03/08/2025

↪️ "DEI as Infrastructure--and Why We'll Miss It When It's Gone" by Jessica R. Gold (Northeastern), Laura K. Nelson (@lauraknelson.bsky.social), and Kathrin Zippel (@kzippel.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Wowza this issue is phenomenal. Three comments. 1. Protect the dolls. 2. Check out the special section on defending DEI - curated to include some of my favorite scholars on the topic (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....) 3. Their Spotify playlist includes Fugazi. FUGAZI. So yea. Amazing issue.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Highly recommend this book. (And I mean that. I've left copies in Little Free Libraries because I think everyone should read it.)

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 01/05/2025

We also have a detailed report of weekly changes to #NIH grants that we will start publishing regularly, thanks to the excellent work of Emma Mairson: grant-watch.us/docs/2025-04...

Screenshot of a page from the report. It begins:

Grants by State

The following table breaks down active, terminated, and new grants by state. “Lost funding” is the amount of money awarded to grants that was not paid out because of terminations. Percentages reflect the share of grants of that type in each state that have been terminated.

So far, the total lost funding across all US states and DC is approximately $2,528,143,000...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/04/2025

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars.

CSV of table:
Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value
Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075"
Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113"
Engineering,94,"$33,472,485"
Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740"
Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312"
Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738"
STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063"
"Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904"
"Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I’ve said this again, and again, and again, and again. Science is a fragile ecosystem. This administration has forever damaged it. There is no going back. All that is left is making the crash landing as soft as possible.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 25/04/2025

This really surprised me. I keep hearing that higher education is completely alienated from and mistrusted by the public - especially elite schools

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/04/2025

This one is great, too. Very good news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

There are loads more methods and substantive details in the paper. Check it out if you're inclined: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

On the methods: if you've ever done large-scale bibliometric analysis, you know how difficult (nearly impossible?) it is to do comparative analyses across disciplines *and* time. Alex Gates @complexgates.bsky.social did magic using methods from statistical physics to allow us to do this comparison.+

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

DEI is essential to actually carry out university missions to provide the best, most innovative teaching and research. When DEI programs are deliberately designed, as is the case with the ADVANCE program, those involved do not have to sacrifice their own productivity. Resources really do matter. +

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The ADVANCE program thus created a spillover effect: by providing symbolic and actual resources to teams of administrators and faculty to change the structure of academic STEM-removing barriers faced by women faculty-they also created conditions for the faculty involved to do their own research. +

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Contrary to grumbling that DEI programs are a distraction from the core mission of universities - that they're administrative "bloat", we find the opposite: research-active faculty who received an ADVANCE aware published *more* papers *in their core scientific area* compared to a matched sample.

Figure 1. Author productivity relative to the year of ADVANCE award: average discipline-, year-, and career-normalized annual productivity relative to the year of ADVANCE award for (A) ADVANCE authors and (B) their matched authors.

The graph shows an increase in publications rates for ADVANCE authors compared to their matched authors.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

As we were writing this paper the NSF ADVANCE program was "archived" (cancelled). A heavy moment for us mid-paper. The results are important - check it out: ADVANCE is one of the (if not the) longest running NSF programs, and, unusually for the NSF, is a collaboration among multiple directorates. 🧵

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🏛️ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintain—or boost—#ResearchProductivity. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 26/02/2025

This is good and welcome. I wish it included universities.

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/podc... interessant & wichtig. manches teile ich nicht ganz, zB die Idee eines 'wissenschaftlichen Chefberaters' in der Regierung. Aber die Betonung von Autonomie von Forschung (und Lehre, nicht alle sind MPG!) sowie von Diversität als 1 derer Qualitätsmerkmale: ja!

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Wissenschaft und Gegenaufklärung: Max-Planck-Präsident Patrick Cramer im Podcast

Im Gespräch mit Carolin Emcke spricht Patrick Cramer über die Bedeutung von Expertise in der Politik, die Vorteile und Risiken internationaler Forschungszusammenarbeit und wie Forscherinnen und Forsch...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is a great thread.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/02/2025

For those pointing out that his casinos went bankrupt: Yes, but he leveraged those bankruptcies for personal profit, which seems to be what he's trying to do to our country now.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/02/2025

He's running our country like one of his casinos, where the lights and the noise keep people from noticing the grime (and the crime) all around them, and where the free buffet and the chance at a big payoff are designed to make people forget that the house always wins.

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TristanBridges.bsky.social @tristanbridges.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Reviewing @jessicacalarco.bsky.social's "Holding it Together" for The British Journal of Sociology was a treat, but tough. It's a difficult book to do justice to in 2 journal pages. I hope it puts more of her books in people's hands and on their shelves. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net. By Calarco, J., Portfolio Penguin, 2024. 336 pp. £24.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780593538128

Click on the article title to read more.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Open Gender Journal @opengender.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Submissions are open 👀

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Childless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm very excited to read this!!!!

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Marcel Raab @raabm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In our paper, we adapt @joannapepin.bsky.social's visualization of U.S. couples' money arrangements to the German context. Using German Family Panel data, we show how these arrangements vary by cohort and age group. Replication files + high-res plot: github.com/maraab23/Cou... #FReDA #pairfam

A plot illustrating cohort and age group differences in partnership and money arrangements among couples in Germany using data from the German Family Panel. The weighted distributions are shown as tile plots. Across cohorts, the share of couples that put all money together is decreasing. This is mainly driven by the changed behavior among married couples. Check out the full article for more details: https://doi.org/10.1177/237802312413014

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Fantastic opportunity for a PhD student to work w/ @macartan.bsky.social + team in Berlin! 👇

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Right—post Me Too, victims are attributed status and support that they never actually gained, and so are portrayed as powerful, resourced, and vindictive against the lonely, besieged accused.

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

⏰ Please share widely! We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq) wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

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Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Here’s the abstract and the link to the ungated version: bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Tobias Rosefeldt @rosefeldt.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Heute in Print: mein Tagesspiegel-Artikel zur Berliner Hochschulpolitik. #IchBinHanna

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Kathrin Zippel @kzippel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

2 research positions (Pre or PostDoc) at Freie Universität Berlin for at least 2.5 years in gender equality, intersectionality, diversity, equality, higher education and science studies, diffusion of ideas, organizations, political sociology, and globalization. Deadline Oct 28, 2024

fu-berlin.de

PS-GENDER-Researcher-2024

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Brigitte Studie heute präsentiert! Ost West Sexismus Gewalt Karriere Mutterschaft Politik …

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

How effective are measures intended to mitigate employer biases against care work-related career disruptions? New research by Rivera et al. suggests that COVID-19 impact statements in tenure decisions at US universities mitigated caregiving and gender biases: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Berufungsakten zeigen: Die Darstellung von Berufungen als meritokratische Bestenauslese wird erst in den 1970ern alternativlos. Fragen der sozialen Passung werden deswegen nicht weniger wichtig, müssen aber seitdem meritokratisch rationalisiert werden. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Screenshot der Titelseite des Artikels mit Titel, Autorenname und Abstract

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.

Screenshot of the first page of the contribution, showing title, authors' names and running text.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Picture a radical feminist. Now picture a radical intersectional womanist. Both have existed in almost identical form (and organized!) since at least the 1810s (and before but that's not my field). (Is that shocking? No idea anymore)

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

So are we doing conference threads here yet? Because I'm starting my #ASA24 #ASA2024 conference thread with interesting events/panels/etc. I'll continue to add here! First: Computational and Mathematical Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Data (a *stellar* lineup)

Sunday, August 11, 2:00 - 3:30pm, Palais des Congres de Montreal, Floor: Level 5, 511A

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

The start of the academic fiscal year means it's time to officially update my website 🎉 www.lauraknelson.com

Screenshot of a terminal showing a git commit command with the message "updating job title and adding new position", followed by git push

screen shot of my personal website showing and end date for my previous, assistant professor job (June 2024), and new section for my new associate professor (with tenure!) job, starting July 2024

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Kathrin Zippel @kzippel.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Dear Berlin friends and colleagues: please join us for Myra Marx Ferree's talk on Monday, 15th July 2024, 06:00 – 08:00 pm, DeZIM.Saal, 3. OG, Mauerstr. 76, 10117 Berlin Please register here until 13th July, 4:00 pm www.dezim-institut.de/en/events/ev...

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DeZIM_talk | with Prof. Myra Marx Ferree and Prof. Ilse Lenz

Political Demography: Family Change and Contemporary Gender and Immigration Politics

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