Michelle Jackson

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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

from the family of Virginia Giuffre: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.... He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

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New Postdoctoral Research Associate positions at @Princeton's Office of Population Research!

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers.

Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):

ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

STEM deserts, similar to education deserts, are rural, suburban, and urban areas where students have limited access to school-based STEM curriculum and coursework opportunities. Using administrative data from the Houston Independent School District following a state policy change to high school graduation requirements, this study develops measures of STEM deserts and identifies the students most likely to live in them. Findings reveal that Black and Asian/Pacific Islander students, students from non-English-speaking households, and those from lower socioeconomic neighborhoods are disproportionately likely to live in STEM deserts compared to White students, students from English-speaking households, and those from higher socioeconomic neighborhoods.

1/ 🚨 New publication in Educational Researcher

"Who Lives in a STEM Desert?"

🔗: doi.org/10.3102/0013...

We introduce student-level measures of “STEM deserts”—areas where students have limited nearby access to STEM courses and curricular pathways.

#STEM #EdPolicy #Equity

Thrilled to see this paper finally out in #BJS, which delves into the work of getting work on project-based platforms. It's hard work! Often invisible, affective and always gendered #Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social

Definitely not just you!

When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality Educational categories play a crucial role in shaping students’ access to resources, but we know less about what happens when resources associated wit…

Delighted to see Tiffany Liu's paper appear in Social Science Research. A really careful analysis of what happened when the College Board automatically linked SAT testing accommodations to students’ school-based Section 504 plans. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aw, that's lovely. I remember our meeting well, and am looking forward to seeing more of your work in the years to come. Congratulations again!

So delighted to hear this! Congratulations!!!

Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.

"We find that children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water exhibit modestly better cognition in secondary school...” -Eric Grodsky and colleagues in Science Advances.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Then again, it is only "one" of the worst majors.

The Division of Rationalized Labor — Harvard University Press A pathbreaking study of why, paradoxically, workforce specialization and job responsibilities have increased hand in hand.In the United States and other late-industrial countries, the division of labo...

A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2018-19 CASBS fellow @mivich.bsky.social - "The Divisions of Rationalized Labor" - has entered the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚

Michelle's initial book ideas developed here 😏

About this @harvardpress.bsky.social book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Submit your paper to the RC28 summer meeting in NYC! Thank you NYU organizers @siweicheng.bsky.social and Mike Hout! as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology

Jólakötturinn is huge, as big as if not bigger than a house, and only comes around for Christmas. Some say Jólakötturr (as sometimes shortened) is the pet of the a family of trolls known as the Yule Lads who are Santa’s helpers in Iceland. It’s also said that he has a particular taste for ungrateful children. The legend of the Jólakötturinn was not written down for publishing until the early 19th century. At first a more obscure countryside myth, the lore of Yule Cat has only grown since and is now internationally known and celebrated. It is theorized the practical purpose of this myth may have been to aid in wool production in earlier seasons of the year which children took part in helping with. ❄️❄️ ❄️❄️❄️

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one!

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Call for Papers: the ISA RC28 Summer Meeting at New York University, New York, USA on August 5-7, 2026

Abstracts must be submitted by February 15, 2026 (11:59 pm EST). Authors will be informed of the committee’s decision by April 2026. as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

Always wanted to have gini coefficients and other inequality statistics of different sources in one dataset? Here you are. The Integrated Inequality Data, from WIID, Worldbank, LIS, and SWIID. osf.io/5cguq/overview

BEYOND MEASURE The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism WHY AI UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY STAMPEDE THEORY NIHILISM AND TECHNOLOGY THE DIVISION OF RATIONALIZED LABOR

A bit of a theme emerging for my holiday reading list.

Very much agree. If science behaves anyway close to what Kuhn understood it to be (paradigms, normal science, etc), then LLMs would be particularly bad at discerning the quality of contributions that don’t fit standards of practice, both very good and very bad.

What can we learn from RFK Jr's 'erotic poetry'? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal | Marina Hyde The US health secretary’s ‘digital affair’ with Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only option, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

You might enjoy Marina Hyde's column on this from last week: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

why it’s good for scientists, engineers, administrators, diplomats and jurists to be artistically literate

Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm really pleased that the argument rings true. And interesting to hear what digital technologies have done to journalism - I wonder where that goes next.

Congratulations!

My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.

Thanks! I hope so!

Thanks!

Thanks so much, Mike! Hope that you are well!