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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2h

There was a period of my life when I wanted to be just like Hahrie Han. I still kind of do. This is richly deserved.

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 5h

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 29d

The guys who automated petard production: OMG! You're never going to guess what we've been hoisted by!

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

Check out "Number of people in household"

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

Not only can you pass on your genetics without having sex, and not only can you have sex and never have a kid, but the idea that you're removing people who are predisposed to being unhappy fundamentally misunderstands what causes unhappiness. And also, *why* these people are unhappy.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

In fairness, the authors do not do this. Instead, the authors frame this in an equally crazy way: That not having sex will remove these sorts of people from the gene pool over time. And not that people who don't have sex are more unhappy because...they don't have sex.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 2d

I like how this post is framed so that never having sex leads you to do things like become more educated, and make you less likely to drink alcohol. Clearly this is all very causal.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 2d

A study of over 500,000 Brits and Australians finds that people who never have sex are more educated, less likely to use alcohol and smoke, more nervous, lonelier, and unhappier. Regions with high income inequality had more sexless residents. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Phenotypic associations of sexlessness with health, psychological, and behavioral outcomes.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 3d

RCTs work for medical research (if your sample composition is good enough, big "if") because by randomizing the individuals you are randomizing many contexts. But in behavioral and social science research the context is much broader than "your body" so its generalizability is always in question.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 3d

RCTs are as useful as the assumption that there aren't any other factors that interact with your treatment. Sample composition is a major confounder, but if people are experiencing the treatment in non-laboratory contexts any of those could also interact with the treatment.

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CSN-RÉC @csnrec.bsky.social · 7d

job

TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@westernu.ca #cdnsoci

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

When the people who create a graph call it a "visualization" it always looks something like this:

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone got a running list of universities that have signed this?

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 6d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Roza Meuleman @rozameuleman.bsky.social · Nov 19

✨New (open access) article in ESR with Gerbert Kraaykamp!

We demonstrate that cultural capital is positively associated with a higher occupational position due to access to more resourceful networks.

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 8d

You could imagine a situation where OA leads to an adjunct industry of people writing up our work for public consumption, which more or less happens in the life sciences and economics. But the scale of sociology research is so small compared to those fields it probably wouldn't.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 8d

I was like "what is CMAT" and then I googled it and apparently she killed a political comeback attempt in Ireland with a song? That's pretty neat.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 10d

Research Topics:
"The effect of climate change on between-occupation income disparities."
"A conversation analysis of gene expression."
"The causal effect of drug usage on religious service attendance" (FIELD EXPERIMENT TIME)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14d

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped.

Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'.

- What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices?
- What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

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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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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 11d

10% Luck
20% Skill
15% Concentrated Power of Will
5% Pleasure
50% Pain
100% Reason to Remember the Name

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 12d

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 16d

Not gonna lie "creepy or suspicious follows" are not rare for me right now.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18d

I'm trying to think of a state where it would make sense to run an anti-choice candidate and I can barely think of any. Maybe Arkansas again. The Dakotas? Utah? Majorities support choice in Kansas, Montana, Iowa, and West Virginia. Seems unlikely anti-choice stances would win voters there.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18d

Depends on the configuration of preferences, but given that these states keep electing anti-choice Republicans I imagine the issue has low salience for gettable voters. If you're going to compromise on something, it should be a high-salience issue. Like an extreme pro Wal-Mart candidate in Arkansas.

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Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18d

Just as a reminder: There are very limited spots, but there *are* mechanisms to hire faculty who fit with strategic university priorities at U of T, and sometimes the current faculty know what they are. Reach out to colleagues in your discipline if this is of interest to you.

Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 18d

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs.

no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18d

At $100,000 per H1B visa, Amazon alone will end up paying $1 Billion. Or, more likely, laying off most of their international staff.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

Jonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 18d

I didn't even think about the effects of these two together. If there are 140,000 new engineering graduates in the US each year but half of spots are no longer available *and* you're getting rid of all the H1B engineers, you're removing the US as a country that can do engineering.

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