I'm so excited to read this!

Check out my new article in the Journal of Organizational Sociology, where I examine how technology limits the autonomy of entry-level workers. I theorize two subtypes of technical control and discuss its implications for gender inequality
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Hey at least you can press the button for help!

The main person quoted in this story is my undergrad student. Voter suppression of students is strong in Indiana.

@cmpech.bsky.social I think IU admin would find this book pretty informative. Excited to read this!

Hey Seth, I just wanted you to know I made a really good pot of coffee today. Not to strong, not too weak. Just right! Mmm nothing like a good cup of joe. I love coffee so much, I might be addicted 😜. My favorite is Philz coffee, but there are others I like too.

New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

This seems like a terrible idea. What I’ve seen in the classroom is that AI makes it way too easy to cheat and to avoid critical thinking. It is a massive net harm. My fear is that if universities wholesale adopt AI, their graduates will be stigmatized. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

This is shameful. The UNC Board of Trustees fails to vote on all tenure cases in Arts & Sciences, holding faculty in limbo without any explanation or timeline. This affects both assistant profs up for tenure and new tenured hires.

www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

This is so interesting. Does it make a difference if it’s a difficult family tie versus a difficult friend tie? I guess I could just read it :)

"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster!

Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health.

Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Two very good pieces on the same topic. First from Kate Shaw: "The Supreme Court has undermined lower courts seeking to protect the rule of law and emboldened an administration eager to trample it."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.

In the days of grief after his wife's miscarriage in 2015, Kasper Erikson forgot to submit an immigration form.

The Mississippi father thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen when ICE arrested him in April.

Now he’s in a Louisiana prison, facing deportation over the 10-year-old mistake.

After reading this article, I'm eagerly awaking the Butlerian Jihad. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Class evaluations are in! In response to the question, "what did you like least about this course," one student wrote: "The thing I liked least was how often he backed into things. Has a real lack of surroundings."

Killin' it.

Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Got this in the mail yesterday—the newest addition to my bookshelf. [email protected]! Can't wait for the book to come out next month! Link to pre-order 👇

NSF's new research "priorities" seems absurd:
research should not "directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Congratulations to Herbert Gans for a life well-lived. Strongly recommend his famous piece "The Positive Functions of Poverty", which he always stressed was serious & not sarcastic. Also, recommend his books _The War Against the Poor_ & _The Urban Villagers_.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...

I'm disappointed to share that my NSF career grant on anti-Asian dehumanization was terminated. This affects ongoing project activities, which have shown great progress so far, and support for my research team and more.

I'm sad to share that the hiring of the postdoc role is currently on pause.

Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<<

www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...