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"I believe that urban governance is about clarifying the rights & responsibilities that urban residents can expect to have, what I think of as the social compact between the city & its subjects." @westbassoff.bsky.social

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign promises mean to the city.

theconversation.com/making-progr...
@westbassoff.bsky.social's take on urban governance in NY! Such a fantastic piece!! :D

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics | Columbia University Press Winner, 2025 Sociology of Development Book Award, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological AssociationChina’s breathtaking economic developm... | CUP

@yingyaowang.bsky.social is teaching us Political Sociology this semester at UVA & it's a blast!
This is her recent book on mid-level bureaucracy & policy paradigms in China. Her book won the ASA (2025) Sociology of Development Book Award! :D
Link: cup.columbia.edu/book/markets...

We published our first newsletter this morning for Science Politics! Science Politics is a new publication that pairs academic rigor with journalistic storytelling to explore intersections of science and politics.

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Has to be the most expensive set of essays on food in India! Very excited to read the rest of the chapters!!
Congratulations @rituparna37.bsky.social & @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social
Thank you for letting me channel my interest in food!! :D

Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

@rituparna37.bsky.social & @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social's new book 'Food, Culture & Society in India: Social, Political, Economic & Cultural Perspectives' is out!
Link: doi.org/10.3167/9781...
Please find a chapter here by yours truly
Thank you @rituparna37.bsky.social @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social :D

Invisible Illness by Emily Mendenhall - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Very importantly,
@emendenhall.bsky.social's new book, 'Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID' is going to be out in January (2026) with California Press!!!
Link: www.ucpress.edu/books/invisi...
Super excited! Yayayy! :D

@emendenhall.bsky.social & @ayowahlberg.bsky.social taught me about complex chronic conditions. I learnt to engage with different approaches to chronicities & widely, publication process itself.
The result - doi.org/10.1016/j.so... titled, 'Interembodiment among Long Haulers and their Carers' :D

My first set of posts here are going to be about fantastic scholars who've taught me so much about reading, writing and research in the past couple of years. So grateful (and gleeful) to have learnt from them!

@emendenhall.bsky.social @rituparna37.bsky.social

Before I taught tonite, I read Jina Kim's brilliant introduction and paused at this beautiful line:

“I examine some of the ways that queer people have
acted as infrastructure for one another through sickness and death, when nothing else in the world will hold us."

Cover of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River by Austin Zeiderman. Cover features pale and dark green eliptical shapes which could be fish or leaves. The title and subtitle are in a white box in the upper left and the author name in a white box in the lower right.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Artery" by @azeiderman.bsky.social , which relates the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. #LatinAmericanStudies #Anthropology
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CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update February 26, 2025 CDC provides an update on recent developments in the multistate outbreak of avian influenza A(H5N1)

Great to see the CDC providing an update on the #birdflu outbreak.
Key points
1/ The CDC has sequenced the H5N1 viruses from recent human cases in Wyoming and Nevada. The data are now publicly available on GISAID:
Wyoming: EPI_ISL_19749443
Nevada: EPI_ISL_19726293
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...

Flyer text THE PAHL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CRITICAL SOCIAL ISSUES Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists Philip N. Cohen What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research, Citizen Scholar explores intellectual work on social media, communication on topical issues, the role of political activism, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity. For social scientists seeking to reach a wider public, Citizen Scholar provides tools and strategies for intellectual engagement and imparts invaluable perspective on how to lead a fulfilling professional and civic life. Thursday, February 13, 2025 3pm - 4:30pm SSMS 4315 First 50 attendees receive a free copy

Next week on Thursday I'm speaking at UC Santa Barbara, at the new Pahl Center, for a book talk on Citizen Scholar. And they're giving away books!

This is what we get when we treat billions as a proxy for brilliance: men who know nothing but think they know everything because their money lets them do whatever they want.

A photon checks into a hotel. When asked if they need help with their bags, it responds, "No, I'm travelling light". 🧪

U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage The annual federal count finds more than 770,000 people living in shelters or outside. It cites rising rents and the recent surge in migrants as key factors behind the increase.

There's is enough wealth in the US for everyone to have a home, but it's concentrated in the 1% who plan to squeeze everyone else to poverty and death to get wealthier. An 18% increase in homelessness due to unaffordable housing is a feature of the system not a bug.
www.npr.org/2024/12/27/n....