Derek Richardson
@drichardsonsoc.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington researching health, organizations, professions, and development.
Thankful that our new article is available online in NVSQ! We (@matthewbaggetta.bsky.social @bradrfulton.bsky.social @renzorivaaguero.bsky.social) test US civil society orgs’ ability to convene diverse members, thereby forming a “diversity layer” of civil society
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November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thankful that our new article is available online in NVSQ! We (@matthewbaggetta.bsky.social @bradrfulton.bsky.social @renzorivaaguero.bsky.social) test US civil society orgs’ ability to convene diverse members, thereby forming a “diversity layer” of civil society
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The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Funding Uncertainty Is Hurting US Health Research — "The R&D ecosystem itself is fragile because uncertainty is a killer," said one policy expert. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Funding Uncertainty Is Hurting U.S. Health Research
'The R&D ecosystem itself is fragile because uncertainty is a killer,' said one policy expert
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November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Funding Uncertainty Is Hurting US Health Research — "The R&D ecosystem itself is fragile because uncertainty is a killer," said one policy expert. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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Dr. Brad Fulton, one of OCE’s lab directors, was recently recognized for his research on philanthropy and racism. Congratulations, Dr. Fulton!
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#nonprofitresearch #philanthropy #socialimpact #equityinfunding #iuresearch #leadership | Observing Civic Engagement Lab
🎉 Big congratulations to Brad R. Fulton from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington!
Brad was the recipient of the 2025 RGK‑ARNOVA President’s Award!...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Dr. Brad Fulton, one of OCE’s lab directors, was recently recognized for his research on philanthropy and racism. Congratulations, Dr. Fulton!
www.linkedin.com/posts/observ...
www.linkedin.com/posts/observ...
Me: *tries to drive to campus*
*immediately spins out and hits a curb*
After two winters in Cambodia, this is gonna be brutal…
*immediately spins out and hits a curb*
After two winters in Cambodia, this is gonna be brutal…
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Me: *tries to drive to campus*
*immediately spins out and hits a curb*
After two winters in Cambodia, this is gonna be brutal…
*immediately spins out and hits a curb*
After two winters in Cambodia, this is gonna be brutal…
🤦🏻♂️😔😔😔
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🤦🏻♂️😔😔😔
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NPR has aired a story about turmoil regarding Indiana University's treatment of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, and the lawsuit its adult advisor filed after the school fired him. The story on preserving free speech for student journalists spreads. https://loom.ly/Q_eRgcg
Indiana University facing lawsuit after claims it tried to censor student newspaper
Indiana University's student newspaper is at the center of a lawsuit by its former advisor who says he was fired by the administration because he stood up against censorship.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NPR has aired a story about turmoil regarding Indiana University's treatment of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, and the lawsuit its adult advisor filed after the school fired him. The story on preserving free speech for student journalists spreads. https://loom.ly/Q_eRgcg
Just me, talking about my dissertation to anyone who will listen 😅 (and enjoying the fall foliage 🍂)
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Just me, talking about my dissertation to anyone who will listen 😅 (and enjoying the fall foliage 🍂)
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As someone who worked on student newspapers for 8+ years, I'm appalled at how IU is treating workers at the IDS. Shoutout to these students for standing up for free speech. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU has now fully cut IDS print. What more is there to say?
The decision came hours after IU terminated Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush.
www.idsnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As someone who worked on student newspapers for 8+ years, I'm appalled at how IU is treating workers at the IDS. Shoutout to these students for standing up for free speech. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below!
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Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series | Center on Global Poverty
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October 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below!
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...
Big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday and provided feedback!
September 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday and provided feedback!
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“As a medical humanist, I reject the shallow and brittle terms on which empathy is so often taught in medicine.”
Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.
Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.
Bedside Manners, by Rachel Pearson
Can empathy be taught in medicine?
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“As a medical humanist, I reject the shallow and brittle terms on which empathy is so often taught in medicine.”
Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.
Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.
Spoiler: transnational organizational settings create ambiguous working conditions for healthcare professionals. In their efforts to negotiate order, interacting professionals find ways to reconfigure work roles and role relationships in ways that disrupt professional status hierarchies in medicine.
Coming up this Friday is our very own @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social talk on the “Opportunities from Ambiguity: How Healthcare Professionals Negotiate Order to Coordinate Patient Care in a Cambodian Nongovernmental Organization”!
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Spoiler: transnational organizational settings create ambiguous working conditions for healthcare professionals. In their efforts to negotiate order, interacting professionals find ways to reconfigure work roles and role relationships in ways that disrupt professional status hierarchies in medicine.
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Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!
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It's that time of year again-- submit to the ESS mini-conference on Health Professions Education! This year's theme is "Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education." Deadline to submit is October 15: ess2026.exordo.com/login. See more info below 👇
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's that time of year again-- submit to the ESS mini-conference on Health Professions Education! This year's theme is "Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education." Deadline to submit is October 15: ess2026.exordo.com/login. See more info below 👇
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I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team
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Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team
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Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It - Studies in Comparative International Development
Studies in Comparative International Development -
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July 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It
Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team
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Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team
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The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social
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New commentary piece in Studies of Comparative International Development with social science colleagues who study global health and international development:
"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@josephharrisbu.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social + others
"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@josephharrisbu.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social + others
July 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New commentary piece in Studies of Comparative International Development with social science colleagues who study global health and international development:
"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@josephharrisbu.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social + others
"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@josephharrisbu.bsky.social @aliciay.bsky.social + others
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Find out all about Indiana University-Bloomington’s Department of Sociology @iusociology.bsky.social & other sociology departments in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online & free for ASA members. Available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide
July 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“The bill would ‘make college less affordable,’ said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, adding that schools could become less economically and racially diverse.”
What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education
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July 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“The bill would ‘make college less affordable,’ said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, adding that schools could become less economically and racially diverse.”
Sharing because I found this to be a useful reference when talking about the current state of higher ed with friends, family, and other people on the outside looking in
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All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities
In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sharing because I found this to be a useful reference when talking about the current state of higher ed with friends, family, and other people on the outside looking in
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A great award for a great article, congrats @profmarycollier.bsky.social!!! 🎉
It's a great start to the summer because I just found out my most recent article, "The Logic of Patronage" will be receiving the Granovetter Award for Best Article in Economic Sociology :)
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The logic of patronage: relational work in Cambodian international nongovernmental organizations
Abstract. How do managers in transnational workplaces adapt financial logics from the Global North to patronage systems in the Global South? This article a
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June 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A great award for a great article, congrats @profmarycollier.bsky.social!!! 🎉
"Scientists fear that the sweeping cuts could do long-term damage to U.S. scientific research, which has long driven medical and financial progress for the nation. 'The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,' said Dr. Harold Varmus.."
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Scientists fear that the sweeping cuts could do long-term damage to U.S. scientific research, which has long driven medical and financial progress for the nation. 'The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades,' said Dr. Harold Varmus.."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I’ve been looking forward to this conference for months! Glad to be back at Migration & Organizations, and big thank you to @profzeke.bsky.social @prithwirajc.bsky.social and the other organizers for putting together a great lineup of presentations!
May 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’ve been looking forward to this conference for months! Glad to be back at Migration & Organizations, and big thank you to @profzeke.bsky.social @prithwirajc.bsky.social and the other organizers for putting together a great lineup of presentations!