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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Savannah Cox @savannahcox.bsky.social · 1d

Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:

forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology

Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 12d

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 13d

Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting.

#ASA #sociology #ASA2025

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 14d

Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?

academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.

Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality

Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · 15d

Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much @davonnorris.bsky.social for the time you spent with the CRELS & CSS fellows and us yesterday, answering our questions and sharing your experiences. .. and then a full house at the Social Science Matrix for your talk.

A memorable experience, including the earthquake❗ 🫨

a speaker stands behind a podium and gestures with his left hand, next to a table, a screen projecting his slide, and windows behind him

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Christina J. Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social · 22d

Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.

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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a....

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · Aug 29

Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

www.annualreviews.org

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · Aug 26

Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social‬ whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky

inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · Aug 18

A growing challenge for households and cities across the country

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 17

Filmore Brown worked 7 days a week for over two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house.

Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”

Brooklyn homeowner losing house over unpaid water bill

Filmore Brown worked seven days a week for more than two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house. Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about.

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Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social · Aug 15

I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 13

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around

“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · Aug 14

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 8

A profile of @danielagabor.bsky.social, including her time at the Institute for Advanced Study, captures a defining insight about our time: markets aren't free or deregulated, but shaped by the entangled power of private capital and state planning + intervention. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

Daniela Gabor: “Nobody is defending free markets any more”

The radical economist on why the West needs a complete overhaul.

www.newstatesman.com

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Aug 7

I know we're all distracted by AI and tariffs, but Trump is also a private equity presidency.

George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 7

This is a "devil's in the details" situation if there ever was one.
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday that aims to allow private equity, real estate, cryptocurrency and other alternative assets in 401(k)s, a major victory for industries looking to tap some of the roughly $12.5 trillion held in those retirement accounts.
The order will direct the Labor Department to reevaluate guidance around alternative asset investments in retirement plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, according to a person familiar with the plans who requested anonymity before the order was formalized. The department will also be tasked with clarifying the government’s position on the fiduciary responsibilities associated with offering asset allocation funds that include alternative holdings.
Trump will also direct Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to work with counterparts at the Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal regulators to determine whether rule changes should be made to assist in the effort. The SEC will be asked to facilitate access to alternative assets for participant-directed retirement plans.
Top officials in Washington have been weighing a directive for months that would ease the legal concerns that have long kept alternative assets out of most worker defined-contribution plans. Retirement portfolios are mostly concentrated in stocks and bonds in part because corporate plan administrators are reluctant to venture into illiquid and complex products.

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Emily Parker @emilyparker.bsky.social · Jul 29

📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.

doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019

Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Anya Nakhmurina @annut.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎉 Happy to announce the 2nd Yale Municipal Research Conference!

📅 November 1, 2025

📝 Submission deadline: September 12, 2025

🔗 Submit: forms.gle/sRWkEt4EbosR...

Seeking research on:

· Municipal reporting & debt
· Tax policy

(More details in the screenshot)

Please share widely! 🔄

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · Jul 18

Let the energy of this building power me to submitting this paper today

Image of the south concourse of Michigan central station in Detroit, MI

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 30

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yeah it is that & how that process is tied to a lenders ability to sell a foreclosed property. But I imagine some of these effects will be somewhat delayed by the securitization chain. I would suspect lenders underwriting in climate risky areas likely have an incentive to sell loans to GSEs

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Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social · Jun 18

As FEMA prepares to withdraw, states will have to fully fund climate adaptation. Can state bond banks step up? Today's piece looks at barriers and opportunities, focusing on VT. It won't be easy. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/with-fema-...

With FEMA withdrawing, states will have to fill in the gaps, but how?

State bond banks could be part of the answer

susanpcrawford.substack.com

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Davon Norris @davonnorris.bsky.social · Jun 18

I have seen a lot of discussion on the increasing cost of home insurance and insurance companies pulling out of states. I have seen relatively less discussion on banks not writing mortgages in these areas.

Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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