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sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism umich.edu/~motorres

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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 7h
The American Sociological Association is now accepting nominations for the Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology, due 1/1/27.
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Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology | American Sociological Association
This award honors ASA members’ outstanding contributions to sociological practice. The award may recognize work that has facilitated or served as a model for
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 9h
On September 29, Governor Newsom signed SB1093 - "Mobilehome Parks: Disaster Assistance." This bill is the result of hard work from MH leaders in Los Angeles, Ben Allen's office, nphs, and (most especially) Ryan Sears! Many congratulations! Read more here: www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/29/g...
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Governor Newsom signs legislation to accelerate wildfire prevention projects, strengthen fire response, and harden communities against future disasters | Governor of California
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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 14h
What is happening in Brazil in October, and why does it matter? We asked a philosopher, a social scientist, a journalist and an organizer. Now up on North South Notes, featuring Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha, Piero Locatelli and Stephanie Weatherbee Brito: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to-wat...
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How to watch Brazil this month
Four illustrious guides to a crucial cycle
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Administrative Burdens are political tools--and those in power, and those who already have enormous resources--control how they're deployed--or not!
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love a sentence where each new word is a total surprise: "Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. artificial intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on."
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Sinema's ex-boyfriend explains why he trashed her house | Exclusive
"I was pissed at the system and I took it out on her art," Matthew Ammel told The Arizona Republic in an exclusive interview. Hear his side of story.
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Camilo 🏆 @cam.bio · 30/09/2026
me, a half hour ago, unaware of anyone named Hubert Harrison me, now: everyone's talking about Hubert Harrison
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Camilo 🏆 @cam.bio · 30/09/2026
Huh and just found out a few minutes ago from @miamidsa.org that @drkwoba.bsky.social will be in Miami tomorrow to talk abt hiw book about Hubert Harrison bsky.app/profile/moto...
The Center for Global Black Studies Presents Book Talk with Dr. Brian Kwoba Director of African and African American Studies at University of Memphis on his book Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. This is at the Merrick building Room 306 on the UM Campus, Thursday Oct 1, 2026 at 5PM
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cool paper by @juliango.bsky.social expanding the canon of writers in history theorizing the relationship between race and class, "Theorist Ignored: Hubert Harrison and the Birth of Racial Capitalism Theory."
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.
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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peer review, explained
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re calling it the greatest MacArthur genius pick since Barbara Fields
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 MacArthur Fellows! @macfound.org www.macfound.org/programs/awa...
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MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026
"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
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Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These people simply do not share our same values
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"one of the nation's top pollsters and messaging strategists" indeed, though I can't tell if this line is supposed to draw voters to Emmanuel or repel them
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John Anzalone
John Anzalone is one of the nation's top pollsters and messaging strategists. He has spent decades working on some of the toughest political campaigns in modern history and helping private-sector clie...
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I tried this last year for the first time. (Undergrad class, students met in small book clubs over the term & then wrote a book review together and presented it to the class.) Worked surprisingly well in a 30-person class & it was fun to see them taking ownership to teach content to their peers.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 03/06/2026
Some personal news: My sabbatical ended last week, just as I landed a deal for the book I've been working on for these 12 months. The Cradle Will Fall is now about half done (just need one more sabbatical) and will be edited by @rlevay.bsky.social at @princetonupress.bsky.social. I'm thrilled!
PUBLISHERSLUNCH DELUXE
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Today's Deals
Politics/Current Affairs
Professor of sociology at the University of Maryland Philip N.
Cohen's THE CRADLE WILL FALL: RESISTING POPULATION PANIC AND EMBRACING THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY, arguing that concerns about declining birth rates are not only overblown, but also represent an opportunity to address great societal issues, connecting the global history of pronatalism with authoritarianism and observing the irony of today's neofascists who are both pronatalist and anti-immigration, and lobbying to use the savings in time, money, and resources that come from low birth rates to slow down the climate crisis and improve our collective wealth, education, health, and elder care, to Rachael Levay at Princeton University Press, by Don Fehr at Trident Media Group (world).
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A shrinking minority of Americans looks at Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and sees the fundamental issue as “how will people noticing this affect antisemitism in the U.S.? Nobody talk about it!” This point of view is parochial, narcissistic and shameful and thank god it’s going out of style
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Anne Kort | The Virtual Paleontologist @virtpaleo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I, like many in the paleontology community, have been devastated to hear about the planned closures for two major museums in the past two weeks. I have seen more coverage of ANSP, so I want to highlight the Sternberg Museum of Fort Hays State University in Kansas. sternberg.fhsu.edu
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Explore Great Plains natural history at the Sternberg Museum (Hays, KS): fossils, rotating exhibits, educational programs, tours, and camps.
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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
uh, let me be clear, *most unclear and wishy-washy drivel conceivable*
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@cspan

Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Hope Harvey @hopeharvey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder that the Martin School is seeking applicants for an Assistant or Associate Professor position in Public and Nonprofit Management (broadly defined). Please consider applying or reach out if you'd like to hear more!
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The online gambling industry in Brazil was legalised in 2018 and has since been blamed for widespread household income losses due to addiction... Lula described the industry as a ’cancer’ in his announcement, adding that ’either we remove the tumour, or it kills us.’”
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Brazil's Lula bans online gambling ahead of presidential election
Lula, who is currently in a tight presidential race against Flávio Bolsonaro, said the industry was a "cancer" that he must "remove".
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
instant classic dig episode
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two weeks ago, we swept municipal elections in Providence, RI. It’s the latest and a truly spectacular victory for the US left and will allow my city to become a real innovation hub for progressive solutions to the housing crisis, including rent stabilization and social housing.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah so profs are gonna have to unionize like yesterday
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 24/09/2026
Nate Silver @NateSilver538 . 4h Onthe Edge Nate Silver The whole "don't anthropomorphize Al" thing is very Woke 1.0. People trying to police language that is perfectly natural in some cases and ending up in a web of contradictions.
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✊🏻 news.wttw.com/2026/09/23/n...
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Northwestern’s Non-Tenure, Adjunct Faculty Launch New Unionization Bid
Wednesday marked the launch of a new union organizing drive by non-tenure eligible and adjunct faculty at the Evanston-based university after two years of organizing conversations.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
and why did they yassify the two on the left?
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apply for @snfagora.bsky.social 's Postdoctoral Fellowship by November 5. See details here! snfagora.jhu.edu/fellowships-...
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Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Postdoctoral Fellows Program SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ren Farley, a giant among sociologists and Detroit scholars. As a student I got to take his legendary Detroit class. We were in touch again a few years ago about a project I was working on using data he had collected years before. I'll always remember him as a kind and generous scholar. RIP.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
turns out people overwhelmingly do not agree with the Supreme Court's claim that unlimited corporate money in elections is a-okay, and are similarly skeptical of the idea that the Constitution actually requires us to live like this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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How States Are Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision
As it turns out, normal people do not like political corruption as much as the conservative legal movement does.
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Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you want to learn more about how Black families choose schools, here are resources from me and others that provide important context, nuance, and deep analysis: 4/
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/09/2026
shoutout to infinite mac, without which this would not have been possible www.them.us/story/early-...
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You Can Now Look Back at the Early Trans Internet. Yes, There Were Memes
Three years of TGForum posts were found on a CD-ROM — and uploaded for all to browse.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
military junta polling at +31
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Berlin is going to be getting a government led by die Linke - while the SPD campaigned on continuing to work with the CDU, it’s not mathematically possible even with the support of the Greens
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Legacy admissions is the real compact that highly rejective colleges have with the Trump Administration. For all their talk of merit and transparency, no one in the White House cares about legacy preferences.
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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For all their talk about eliminating barriers to diversity, not one Ivy Plus school has eliminated legacy admissions. Stanford decided it would rather give up millions in state financial aid dollars than give up legacy preferences.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 17/09/2026
In my new Expert Voices column @science.org, I argue that the Trump admin's science strategy (as written in Kratsios' Science: A Golden Age)--which gives more authority & funding to the private sector to direct the research enterprise--will harm science, and further erode its public accountability.
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Escaping a downward spiral for science and public accountability
In late July, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), released Science—A Golden Age, setting forth a strategy to revitalize US research and innova...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18/09/2026
It should invite some serious introspection and critical examination that almost all of Biden's most important Middle East foreign policymakers and advisors are also functionally totally supportive of Trump's own program.
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Biden envoy Amos Hochstein defends Trump admin’s nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
Hochstein, who negotiated civil nuclear issues with Riyadh under Biden, said the alternative is Saudi Arabia turning to China or Russia
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The files from New York Times v OpenAI are insane. I'm no big city lawyer but seems like it's a bunch of open bragging about theft?
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 18/09/2026
I am *losing it at Vetaw's comment.
"I'm devastated," Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, one of the city's most vocal advocates for maintaining the unit, said in an interview. "These horses can see and do things that regular officers can't. They were a unique tool that I was glad Minneapolis had."
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