π£ New Podcast from IRP: @rourkeobrien.bsky.social on the Impact of Spending by Different Levels of Government
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@jeremylevine.bsky.social
Sociologist. Writing second book on crime victim policy in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston. Professor at Michigan. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
π£ New Podcast from IRP: @rourkeobrien.bsky.social on the Impact of Spending by Different Levels of Government
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Worse than that: her argument was universities deserve it *because DEI didnβt fully fulfill its promise of diversity and inclusion*
09.12.2025 12:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βHow do I make this about ME?β
07.12.2025 21:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 00% chance Liddle Marco is a 11.5 Brannock
07.12.2025 19:44 β π 40 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Derek would recommend (and has recommended) just doing this. Also, dont hang your suits in the shower to get out wrinkles when you get to your destination; it will result in puckers. Just hang or lightly iron. youtu.be/rJQbpTW7HSk?...
06.12.2025 18:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thatβs a good point, thanks for raising.
06.12.2025 15:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anyway, now that the FIFA Peace Prize ceremony is done, when does the bombing of Venezuela start?
05.12.2025 17:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would have said Ann Richards, is that right? (well, technically, I would have said "Ann....something" because I forgot her last name but remember how her picture stood out in the state house hallway).
04.12.2025 17:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is disgusting, un-American, and evil. And the men standing there and grinning are pathetic pieces of dogshit
03.12.2025 23:00 β π 70 π 14 π¬ 0 π 2Kavanaugh Stop.
03.12.2025 17:53 β π 72 π 35 π¬ 6 π 0Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains Itβs Because of the Presidentβs Personal Bigotry
02.12.2025 23:35 β π 2767 π 1088 π¬ 41 π 18Announcement for the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics CID Speaker Series featuring Margaret Frye, presenting βTheorizing Success in an Unfair Job Marketβ on Tuesday, December 9 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM at ISR 1430 BD, 426 Thompson St. Includes a web address to learn more.
One week from today! Donβt miss our own affiliate from #Umich #Sociology @maggiefrye.bsky.social as she presents, βTheorizing Success in an Unfair Job Market.β
Learn more and save your seat: inequality.umich.edu/maggie-frye-...
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27.11.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Empirical fact vs. normative interpretation - you state the former, but readers seem to always project/think you implied something about the latter. No matter how clear the writing is, distinguishing the two always seems to be a challenge!
27.11.2025 13:38 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies
π Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
π©π»βπ» Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
This is horrible news.
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
Awful
22.11.2025 12:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Got a compliment from a stranger on my outfit while walking back from lunch. Can't tell me NOTHIN for the rest of the day.
21.11.2025 17:32 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Colgate University used to provide 50% of Colgate's tuition toward the tuition of the child of *any* faculty or staff member employed the university, to attend *any* college. We're talking like $30,000/year scholarship, effectively. No idea if they still do it, but what a signal of your value!
21.11.2025 15:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 079-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
Heβs been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
I chortled
14.11.2025 15:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Coverage of forthcoming collaborative research in Race & Justice: stateline.org/2025/11/12/b...
13.11.2025 19:22 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Wrote about the other big outcome of the NYC election and how Chicago moved in the other direction
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/o...
Doing an independent study for a student (because I am dumb*) on racism & freedom in America and we just read/re-read Lani Guinier's still relevant critique of Brown v. the Board: edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...
*Dumb because I get 0 credit for this, but she asked & I'm happy she's learning
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you β€οΈ, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
11.11.2025 21:28 β π 40 π 25 π¬ 9 π 1+1 to this.
11.11.2025 20:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Take 2 positions of this government: Your American-ness is limited to birthplace, not the ideas of the nation + the attack on birthright citizenship, & you get a nakedly white supremacist government (to say nothing of the move to limit legal asylum to white South Africans).
11.11.2025 17:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When the Alice Goffman kerfluffle happened, no one mentioned the scene in her book where a guy had a neighbor/nurse remove a bullet so he didnβt have to go to the hospital & risk running into cops. No one realized why that didnβt quite make sense, & how removing it likely was more dangerous than not
11.11.2025 03:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A gunshot wound can change your life in seconds. For survivors, health care is nonnegotiable. We canβt talk about gun violence without talking about ensuring victims have access to affordable health care.
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