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Megan Tobias Neely

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Sociologist & Assistant Professor of Organization @CBScph. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · May 10

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research | Annual Reviews

This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, “Which cases do I need?” We argue that a core feature of most qualitative rese...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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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 · 19d

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

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Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Congratulations to Vivian Shaw @vivianshaw.bsky.social (2018-19) and Kanoko Kamata (2017-18) on their co-authored article, "Compartmentalizing Intersectionality: Feminist Translations in Anti-Racist and Anti-Rape Activism in Japan," in Gender & Society. doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Compartmentalizing Intersectionality: Feminist Translations in Anti-Racist and Anti-Rape Activism in Japan - Vivian Shaw, Kanoko Kamata, 2025

Feminists scholars based in the United States have long struggled with applying intersectionality to a transnational lens. This article explores intersectionali...

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · May 25

Hedged Out featured in @wsj.com in a piece by Matt Wirz on how private-managers influence the U.S. economy and politics in alarming ways that should concern us all—and especially students, workers, and retirees. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity

Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 14

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands

Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

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Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social · Apr 9

More than 350,000 noncitizen healthcare workers keep our system afloat—many serving in underserved areas. Yet they now face possible deportation.

These workers aren’t just essential—they’re irreplaceable. Let’s protect and uplift those who protect our health.

www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

Over 350K Health Workers Face Deportation Risk

Survey study quantifies the role of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, in healthcare

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Mar 27

In 2017, the Trump administration tried to kill >$200 million in federal grants for teen pregnancy programs bc it wanted to prioritize abstinence-first approaches. The courts prevented them from terminating w/o cause, so the admin inserted the “effectuates” language into OMB guidance on grants.

These 5 words have killed millions in grants and advanced Trump’s agenda

Five words in an obscure regulation are being deployed by Trump’s appointees to kill grants unilaterally across the government.

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joseph francis @joefrancis.bsky.social · Mar 20

My new paper is “The Autumn of the White Patriarch: Identity and Inequality in American Capitalism.”

This is the key chart. It shows how white men’s share of national income has fallen since the 1960s. Imho, this is why we have such identity politics on the US right today. 1/11

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joseph francis @joefrancis.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is the most controversial graph from my new paper.

It suggests that Piketty’s “golden age of social democracy” after World War II only really existed in the United States if you were white and male. 1/5

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · Mar 11

Some good news that may have gotten lost amid the headlines: Costco is raising the average hourly wage to over $30 after negotiations with their workers’ union. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30

Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Mar 8

"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Trump’s Big Gamble on the Future of AI Development

The new administration rethinks public funding for research, leaving it to private companies to chart the path ahead.

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · Mar 6

Trump's budget will starve the poor to feed the rich. The Republican Party are creating a true oligarchy. To fight it and build wealth and power for working-class communities, we need economic democracy.

Read the op-ed I wrote with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for The Guardian.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · Mar 6

The U.S. economy favors billionaires over families.

The GOP’s $4.5tn tax giveaway proves it—paid for by gutting Medicaid & more.

@itsmccarthy.bsky.social & Rashida Tlaib on building a democratic economy that puts power in workers’ hands @theguardian.com ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/commentis...

Quote that reads: In a democratic economy, ownership is extended beyond the wealthy few, to public and private institutions driven by the interests of ordinary people

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · Mar 5

What does it mean to make AI pro worker? “Give workers a seat at the table in that transition.”

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The Biden Administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the US Government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.
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The Government Knows AGI is Coming | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Mar 4

The Government Knows AGI is Coming | The Ezra Klein Show

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · Mar 5

For those teaching, these types of practices by billionaires is a prime example of fictitious capital.

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Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social · Mar 5

Musk’s billions are in heavily illiquid and indebted capital. He has long borrowed against his shares in SpaceX and Tesla, of which the declining stocks accounts for most of his wealth. Investors must be concerned. How long until this house of cards collapses? www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...

How America’s Richest People Can Access Billions Without Selling Their Stock

Many of the country’s richest people, including Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, borrow against their stock while avoiding capital gains taxes.

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · Feb 26

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published

I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

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Michela Musto @michelamusto.bsky.social · Feb 14

Ever find yourself wishing sociology books had more pictures in them? Or maybe you’ve recently found yourself spending more time…um…thinking about the hidden curriculum in US public schools? If so, check out Michael Messner’s newest book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens!

"The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024" ("The High School")

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Guo Xu @guoxu.bsky.social · Feb 14

I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...

Is the U.S. Civil Service really broken? What the research says about bureaucratic efficiency and reform - Haas News | Berkeley Haas

The Trump administration is pursuing sweeping changes to the federal workforce, aiming to increase political control over civil servants and reduce the size of the bureaucracy. The new Department of G...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 15

Write to your Congress-critters and Senators today (especially in red states) and urge them to contact the White House and let them know your thoughts.

Mine are that the purge yesterday likely did considerable damage to the US biomedical research and public health capacity.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 15

Checking in with sources this morning...

The total from NIH was apparently slightly more than 1500 people (out of 5200 HHS Department-wide)

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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · Feb 10

Here’s a short interview I did about the hidden human labour behind AI.

www.context.news/ai/eu-law-la...

EU law 'last best hope' to protect ghost workers feeding AI | Context

New European rules could deliver more equitable future for the hidden labour powering AI

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Feb 4

Every professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org

Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!).

If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.

AAUP

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Feb 4

This is horrifying. And must be stopped.

Weird Soup @cosmicpixle.bsky.social · Feb 4

Is part of that action sending those folks to gulags in El Salvador? God help us. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/a...

El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal | CNN

El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – ...

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