iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

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Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale

The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Running an experiment to study racial discrimination? Going to use names to signal race? Here's a new tool! This helps you to choose the names you want to use based on: 1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send 2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

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CNN @cnn.com · 07/04/2026

Michigan wins its first NCAA men's basketball national title since 1989, defeating UConn 69-63. cnn.it/4siS79a

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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New Science Advances paper w/ Jennifer Candipan: Racial change doesn’t just reshape neighborhoods, it reshapes school punishment. We show Black–White suspension disparities grow in places where Black populations are changing, especially in majority White, suburban, & rural areas.

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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Do you have a good idea of how to spend up to $1,500 to help the community of inequality researchers? Then submit it by Jan 31 (here: forms.gle/2j6GaCwvS77B...) to be included in the new participatory budgeting process of the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section. @asa-ipm.bsky.social

The ASA IPM section is excited to launch our new participatory budgeting initiative where section members can propose new initiatives or projects that the full membership will then vote on. The IPM Section has dedicated $1,500 to be allocated across the proposed projects that receive the most votes by section members.
You can read through the IPM Participatory Budgeting Rulebook linked here for more information about what kinds of projects qualify for funding, how the voting process will work, and the overall timeline for this funding cycle.
To submit a proposal, please use the following link: IPM PB: Proposal Submission Site. The last day to submit a proposal is January 30, 2026. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Fabian Pfeffer at fabian.pfeffer@Imu.de.

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Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD @daphmarts.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

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What We Inherit

Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

How do Black and White Americans assess the legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? Using a series of survey experiments, authors @marissathompson.bsky.social, Sam Trejo, @ajalvero.bsky.social, and @daphmarts.bsky.social illustrate the characteristics that drive racial conceptions

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Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Elizabeth Burland (she/her) @eburland.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

New working paper with a rockstar team!! So cool to work with partners in the state of Michigan who are doing excellent work trying to make college more affordable for Michigan students.

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