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Emma Zang @dremmazang.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 We’re hiring! Yale Sociology is searching for a Senior Quantitative Sociologist to join our department.

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 12d

Indeed, UNC-CH Sociology is hiring again! Check it out and please share. :)

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.

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 14d

Aren't these happy Lego potted plants the cutest? (Yay for more office plants that I can't kill! 😆)
#lego #plants #officeswag #selfcare

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Christina J. Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social · 16d

It was a pleasure speaking with senior policy correspondent @rachelbooth.bsky.social from @vox.com about my new book—and what my research means for debates about family structure & racial inequality. Read about our wide-ranging discussion below:

t.co/blPn9HmhTU

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 18d

🖤 yes! And thank you for mentioning my work! 😄

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 19d

Excited to get my copy of Inherited Inequality, such an important new book by the brilliant Dr. Christina Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social! I look forward to reading it and teaching it! 😊

#Sociology #Policy #Families #Inequality

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Christina J. Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social · 19d

Don’t miss my first tv interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY tonight (9/19) at 11pm EST on PBS! Full interview will be available on YouTube tomorrow

youtube.com/shorts/AMnSg...

Is the Benefit of the Two-Parent Family a Myth?

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company

youtube.com

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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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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29d

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · 29d

"A lot of people have TOO much to say on topics they DON'T know enough about." - a wise student in my first year seminar course

💯💯💯

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congrats, Shay! Looks great!(And it was a pleasure seeing you at ASA! 😊)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 5

In the face of attacks on research, education, and humanity, we're stronger together than we are on our own. So, I'm deeply grateful to get to be part of the ASA leadership team, to serve alongside Dr. Young, and to help members build solidarity and champion the essential work of sociology.

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Jun 5

We are pleased to announce that Alford Young, Jr. @umich.edu has been elected the 2026-2027 ASA President, and Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: https://bit.ly/3mFBhFz.

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Jun 5

Congrats, Jess!! ASA VP-elect AND the one-year anniversary of Holding Together -- what an exciting week for you!!! ☺️🎉

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 30

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nature graph documenting estimated lives lost from USAID. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z

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Kate Weisshaar @kateweisshaar.bsky.social · May 28

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...

At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure

The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.

www.chronicle.com

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · May 19

💯 This! ⬇️

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 19

When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · May 6

Please add me as well! :)

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · May 1

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available.

Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social

(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).

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

Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews

This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...

www.annualreviews.org

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

kfor.com

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · Apr 25

I've really enjoyed never having to think about measles in my ENTIRE 49 years of life. I guess it was a good run

WIRED @wired.com · Apr 24

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

www.wired.com

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Apr 23

YES to all of this!! Such a great thread. Thank you @hebagowayed.bsky.social for keeping it real!🖤

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Apr 23

"Refugees are the most vetted, no refugee has ever committed an act of terror"

"If an immigrant commits a crime, all immigrants should be sanctioned"

Both sentences, one "pro immigration" one against use the same logic. If we're ever to get out of this, we must insist all humans are just human. ➕

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Apr 21

The plans the WH is considering are not those seen in other high-income countries that aim to facilitate work & childrearing. They are not investing in childcare infrastructure or paid parental leave programs.

They want to return to a time when women were dependent on men.

Pronatalism is sexist.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 21

Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

FSU active shooting cancels campus event that honored Tallahassee hot yoga shooting victim
4:10 p.m. – An event at Florida State University designed to promote safety on campus and among FSU students was canceled − due to an active shooting at FSU on the day of.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Apr 17

the pronatalist movement and the anti-women's-rights movement are one, and they go hand in hand with pro-poverty and anti-ed policy that hurts children.
have kids, even though they and you will suffer.
effective control over women AND the children

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 17

Update:

Note that Head Start was born out of the Civil Rights Movement, a federal investment in America' promise of equal opportunity & in our children from the most disadvantaged communities & families.
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Emily Peck @emilypeck.bsky.social · Apr 17

We got the plan too. www.axios.com/2025/04/17/t...

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Apr 17

Thank you for sharing these! This will be helpful for my class next week focusing on education policies and programs that impact povety.

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