Dan Morrison (he/him)

How Parents Can Better Prepare Their High School Boys For College Why timing, temperament, connection, and developmental realities—not intelligence—shape how boys experience high school and college readiness.

So many articles discuss how boys are not maturing at the same rate as girls. They more or less explicitly say it's biological.

Then all the reasons turn out to be social and relational, not biological.
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Candle aflame

Huntsville AL

Cancel culture strikes at a certain southern state university.

The ‘Masculinity Crisis’ Is Real. This Forgotten Book Explains Why.

Did you see this @tristanbridges.bsky.social? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/m...

I don't exactly believe in NYE magic or miracles, but this may be one of them.

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New article with the wonderful @jonathancoley.bsky.social on cisgendered organizations:

Christian Universities as Cisgendered Organizations: Discriminatory Policies Toward Transgender and Nonbinary Students in Christian Higher Education

AI predicts a Missouri victory

Yesterday, AI predicted the outcome of a game that is happening now.

Get you some brilliant and consistent coauthors. Best thing about academia when you don't have several people in your subfield at your own university. #sociology #paperaccepted

A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.

Thanks @victorerikray.bsky.social for this piece that clearly explains Charles Mills's perspective on liberalism. So many seem to misunderstand. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Really looking forward to having this article with @jonathancoley.bsky.social out into the world. Re-reading the proofs now and there are some great lines in here.

You have SSSR! I suppose I have SSS, SSSI, 4S, etc etc

Man who had an inappropriate relationship with a student in the past and an obvious conflict of interest now opines on a problem that might not actually exist.

Billionaire Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale calls elite college undergrads a ‘loser generation’ | Fortune share.google/YQEDNaDYSMbU...

I'm considering not renewing my ASA membership this year. Given funding cuts and all the things, I won't be able to come to the annual meeting in NYC this coming August.

Am I alone in this?

Can Liberalism Be Saved? The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

Is it true that a very famous Harvard Law professor should know something about the career of his friend and book party attendee Henry Kissinger? The guy was very busy. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Did you see Gee's interview with the Chronicle? I think he said lots of university presidents agreed with over half of the Compact.

KING: Backroom agreements have no place at U.Va. The University’s agreement with the Trump administration reeks not only because of its terms, but also for the method in which it was composed.

Student journalists have something to say

KING: Backroom agreements have no place at U.Va. - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper share.google/ckWOOF4b6mGc...

Hey @npr.org students compare college prices all the time. It's ridiculous to say otherwise and to have someone on morning edition who misrepresents reality.

Paper accepted. Very exciting! Waiting to hear back on a second resubmission...

So many creeps in public life.

His influence didn't waiver, even as many of did predictions turned out to be wrong.

Someone should call this the ballad of Larry Summers

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
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what if my email machine notified me when I'm not copying the right person

Kai T. Erikson, eminent sociologist and historian of disaster | Yale News share.google/9zyj5PbeQQKe...

Yes! Paper conditionally accepted.

Not based on solid evidence. That's haunting

If @samadlerbell.bsky.social and/or @mattsitman.bsky.social ever come near southwest Missouri I would be happy to take them to Branson.

There are quite good and respectable sociologists at... checks notes... Princeton. And many other places!

I don't get exercised about this kind of thing very often but he's got a HUGE platform. And his collaboration with Cornel West gives him cover.

Many of his statements are demonstrably false or misleading.

Honestly the most garden variety symbolic interactionst would be much more consistent and cogent than George.