Valerie Mueller

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Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.

I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.

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This whole thread. The most supposedly inclusive and intellectually-minded institutions are folding like a cheap suit to the extortions of gangster administration.

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

Global Hunger Is Falling Slightly—But Food Remains Too Expensive for Billions — The Food Archive Every July, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report drops — and for anyone tracking global hunger, diet affordability, or food policy, it’s essential reading. Produced ...

Global hunger is declining — a rare bit of good news. But food is still unaffordable for billions. I broke down the latest @fao.org SOFI 2025 report findings in my latest post on The Food Archive.

🔗 www.thenutritionarchive.com/blog/2025/7/...

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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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
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Due to mass confusion, clarifying again:

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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

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Imagine you’re in a meeting and, as you do when you’re bored, you look around the room and watch what your colleague is doing and find them watching porn. Then, they gaslight you and there’s no consequences. Probably will get promoted to mayor or something.

I’m so glad I’m on sabbatical this year.

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

School meals are great: they boost school attendance, nutritional outcomes, and often test scores. But cost is often cited as a challenge. How much do they cost, really?

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New evidence from Bedasso & Mendez Acosta

Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.

Heroes in our public service are taking large risks to fight the kneecapping of American science.

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Bluesky migration peeps, I’m looking for a #migration & #security person who’s interested in writing a 7k chapter for my edited volume (etd: 26/27) - “Immigration in Western Europe: Challenges, Contradictions and Opportunities” (Edinburgh Uni Press). Any suggestions?

I’m so glad someone put what I’m feeling into words. I couldn’t put my finger exactly on what has been bothering me at work but it’s this….all of this..

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Beef or Bear? On Ambition, Academia, and the Art of Letting Go — The Food Archive I’m sure many of you have been watching The Bear —the TV show that follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a brilliant young chef who returns home to Chicago to take over his late brother’s gritty sandwic...

After 20+ years of running at full speed in academia, I’m stepping into a new phase—less Bear, more Beef. A reflection on ambition, burnout, and what it means to let go of prestige to make room for purpose. Check out my new post on The Food Archive: shorturl.at/uyVsC

Five 2-year post-doc positions at the new Arena for Migration and Integration at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) About the positionThis new initiative, housed at the SSE House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP), aims to create a platform to support the sustainable inte...

Five 2-year postdocs at the Stockholm School of Economics. Some knowledge of Swedish is necessary.

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Mid-career academics, I got tenure (effective September) + am doing so some visioning this summer to think about what's next in my career (factoring in the current state of the world + my desire to be helpful). Are there any books, activities, resources you would recommend to support this visioning?

They're middle class and insured. Childbirth still left them with crippling debt. Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

Even in the best of circumstances, a person with private health insurance pays on average $2,854 to have a baby. If pregnancy/delivery doesn’t go well or your baby has special needs, it could literally lead to bankruptcy.

Medical debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy.

📢Great job alert📢
The amazing @isabellaodowd.bsky.social is joining ECF so we need a new brilliant Head of Policy (Climate) to drive climate action for people & nature. Apply by 30th July if £56 - 65k, generous benefits and navigating a critical time in climate policy is for you. www.wwf.org.uk/jobs

Come work with me!

Jooob at NATO

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Make this the worst prime day ever by not buying anything, pass it on

This is a watershed moment.

Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned.

Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education.

He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - $4 trillion in deficits - $1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who'll listen”

After advancing their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill late last night, Senate Republicans are aiming for a final vote within the next 24 hours.

Tell your GOP senator to vote NO on Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Or email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...