W. Carson Byrd
@wcbyrdphd.bsky.social
Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
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~A month or so ago the nu faculty assembly voted like 598 to 7 for no deal.
"A Northwestern spokesman did not return multiple requests for comment."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
~A month or so ago the nu faculty assembly voted like 598 to 7 for no deal.
Since the ponds aren’t frozen over yet for pond hockey, the kids are preparing for the season (& The Game this weekend) by playing football in the parks with snow blowing sideways. ❄️☃️
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Since the ponds aren’t frozen over yet for pond hockey, the kids are preparing for the season (& The Game this weekend) by playing football in the parks with snow blowing sideways. ❄️☃️
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BRB inviting all my friends over for drinks and insurance forms.
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
BRB inviting all my friends over for drinks and insurance forms.
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also "racially concentrated areas of affluence" in the planning literature e.g., @tonydamiano.bsky.social and others www.tonydamiano.com/publication/...
Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence: A Preliminary Investigation | Anthony Damiano
Racially/Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty (RECAPs) have become an official focus of policy attention for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the 2015 rule regard...
www.tonydamiano.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
also "racially concentrated areas of affluence" in the planning literature e.g., @tonydamiano.bsky.social and others www.tonydamiano.com/publication/...
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I think people conflate segregated spaces with isolated ones. People in segregated spaces must leave them to access goods and services, wealthy people who exclude others from their communities do not.
www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/1...
www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/1...
Economic Inequality and the Geography of Activity Space Segregation: Combining Mobile Device Data and Census Data
This article combines daily mobility data collected via mobile device and the American Community Survey to create comprehensive measures of activity space segregation across geographic areas in the Un...
www.rsfjournal.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I think people conflate segregated spaces with isolated ones. People in segregated spaces must leave them to access goods and services, wealthy people who exclude others from their communities do not.
www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/1...
www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/1...
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Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Upcoming deadlines to apply to Syracuse U's great Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 2-week summer program! Fellowships available to cover the costs! Pls circulate widely!
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
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"Thus did Harvard allow the public to believe that just one faculty member had been responsible for the millions Epstein had secured to Harvard — or at least, just one faculty member would be punished for the relationships that had inspired that money."
Insightful piece by Larry Lessig on the need for more transparency in Harvard faculty members’ ties to Epstein
The 2020 Harvard Epstein report now looks like a big joke
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The 2020 Harvard Epstein report now looks like a big joke
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The First Epstein Report Ignored Summers. Harvard Must Do Better. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
How could Harvard have allowed this production of Hamlet without the Prince? And will it now commit to a practice that will not protect the elite among us, while shaming those not quite elite enough?
www.thecrimson.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Thus did Harvard allow the public to believe that just one faculty member had been responsible for the millions Epstein had secured to Harvard — or at least, just one faculty member would be punished for the relationships that had inspired that money."
You mean rich white families will seclude themselves from other people?
Reminds me of conversations with @louiseseamster.bsky.social about ‘snob zones’ (& the book: www.beacon.org/Snob-Zones-P...) & the construction of social isolation for status that also perpetuates racial & SES inequalities
Reminds me of conversations with @louiseseamster.bsky.social about ‘snob zones’ (& the book: www.beacon.org/Snob-Zones-P...) & the construction of social isolation for status that also perpetuates racial & SES inequalities
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You mean rich white families will seclude themselves from other people?
Reminds me of conversations with @louiseseamster.bsky.social about ‘snob zones’ (& the book: www.beacon.org/Snob-Zones-P...) & the construction of social isolation for status that also perpetuates racial & SES inequalities
Reminds me of conversations with @louiseseamster.bsky.social about ‘snob zones’ (& the book: www.beacon.org/Snob-Zones-P...) & the construction of social isolation for status that also perpetuates racial & SES inequalities
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
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November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
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My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My wife was sexually harassed by Miles Hewstone as a phd student. He was still asked to review her (and other women he harassed) for jobs and promotions. This is so fucked up.
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
Thankfully, she and many other women testified against him and something was finally done. This is her take on his case:
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Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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storage.courtlistener.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, this is chilling AF.
The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Department of Education is suing Penn (in their quest for "combat antisemitism") requesting detailed information about Jewish faculty and staff.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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After you watch the clip, you can learn more about the various ways Dr. Tanksley engages young people to critically interrogate ‘the ubiquity of anti-Black racism within digital and artificially intelligent technologies’ here: www.tieratanksley.com/projects-1
Projects | My Site
www.tieratanksley.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
After you watch the clip, you can learn more about the various ways Dr. Tanksley engages young people to critically interrogate ‘the ubiquity of anti-Black racism within digital and artificially intelligent technologies’ here: www.tieratanksley.com/projects-1
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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“THIS is what we should be monitoring and protecting. The who and the how and the why of applying priorities beyond the study section evaluation.”
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important.
A new webpage on the NIH site called “Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions” is causing a small kerfuffle on the socials. As per us…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“THIS is what we should be monitoring and protecting. The who and the how and the why of applying priorities beyond the study section evaluation.”
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Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School): high-quality RCT of students entering grades 2-12 in 2004-2005 found no discernible long-term impact on college enrollment rates. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/was...
Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School) | No-Spin Evidence Review
nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Washington DC’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (Vouchers for Low-Income Students to Attend Private School): high-quality RCT of students entering grades 2-12 in 2004-2005 found no discernible long-term impact on college enrollment rates. nospin.evidencebasedpolicy.org/articles/was...
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On Dec 4, @innovateedunyc.bsky.social and I are hosting a webinar unpacking the new ACTS reporting requirements and what happens next. Sign up below.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
On Dec 4, @innovateedunyc.bsky.social and I are hosting a webinar unpacking the new ACTS reporting requirements and what happens next. Sign up below.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Reclassification targeting what are largely female-dominated fields
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reclassification targeting what are largely female-dominated fields
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a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
a) these changes illustrate how the “smartness” in what’s framed as an individual smart or dumb choice (your major/grad degree) is determined by structural factors in how they’re rewarded, not their intrinsic value
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
b) the illustration’s especially stark when those structural factors change overnight
The possible impact of ‘negative outlooks’ & downgraded ratings can also mean institutions who might seek large loans to try & weather the political storm because of funding shortages of different kinds may get less or get them at all as banks see the sector as higher risk than in the past.
Higher education outlook remains negative for 2026, Moody’s says
Enrollment, political and cost pressures abound and will stick around in the new year, analysts said in a recent report.
www.highereddive.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The possible impact of ‘negative outlooks’ & downgraded ratings can also mean institutions who might seek large loans to try & weather the political storm because of funding shortages of different kinds may get less or get them at all as banks see the sector as higher risk than in the past.