Lauren Olsen

My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...

The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

River Road Asset Management

Wolf Hill Capital Management

🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:

Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO

River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW

Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

It's 9:43am.
Me in the office:
Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet.

Opinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me

An incredibly insightful and important piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social

“The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside Alyssa (& hope to resume doing so post sabbatical) and she’s wonderful. Quick, clear, and a real lover of authors and books. I hope you’ll reach out and share your sociology book project ideas with her!!

I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

Kindergarten Panic: Parental Anxiety and School Choice Inequality by Bailey A. Brown

How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents.

Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Education #Sociology

where’s the ADL when real shit is going on

Picture of me holding the book Who Pays for Diversity at a book exhibit

Book selfies are the best selfies #ASA2025 @ucpress.bsky.social

A book cover with title “Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry”

Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices.

www.reclaimcontrol.tech

If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

!!! Congratulations!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics

Casey Means and MAHA Remove the 'Public' From Public Health | Opinion On Wednesday, Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, a holistic doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next U.S. surgeon general.

Check out my new @newsweek.com op-ed on the nominee for surgeon general!

"Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes."
www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of Curricular Injustice Interviewed by Hayden J. Fulton on February 28th, 2025 Lauren D. Olsen, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author of Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical …

New Books Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 (Columbia University Press, 2024)

Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social

asaskat.com/2025/05/03/q...

“The initiative is a case study in how a local news outlet on the cutting edge of nonprofit news embraced a new application of its mission to serve and inform its community, taking on work at the nexus between journalism and housing advocacy in partnership with other local organizations.”

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

YouTube video by Spencer James Parks BULBOUS BOUFFANT - The Vestibules - rotoscope animation

You might enjoy this lovely sketch with some other great words: youtu.be/0uuCNAwXGaQ

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

Good morning bluesky. If you care about defending higher education and diversity and science and Democracy, you might want to sign our letter at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd.

We wrote it to capture what we think are consensus values in/about higher ed.

Our new website to links to all the others.

Food Banks Left in the Lurch as U.S.D.A. Shipments Are Suspended (Gift Article) A representative of a nationwide food pantry network, said U.S.D.A. officials had informed him that some food aid distributed by the federal government was under review.

In case you missed it, the USDA has suspended food shipments to US food banks!!! We need to donate to our local food pantries!

I encourage you to read this article from The New York Times about the food banks. Here's a gift link you can read it for free www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏

Good morning, we have over 1200 signatures. Keep sharing here and on your other social media but even more effective = send directly to people you know.

bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

Things are awful right now + there is SO much work to be done.

Your research and scholarship is important.

If you are a 1st-time book author + would like to celebrate your accomplishment in community w others at ASA this August — or know someone who would — pls DM me or @ahmccumber.bsky.social!