Jan Marc Morawe

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

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Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights.
That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home.

That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous.

Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed.

www.badinternetbills.com

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

After years of calls, events, and track changes, Brian Drohan and I are excited to announce the publication of our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations and Armed Forces, with @cornellupress.bsky.social in July 2026!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Fascism is not the product of life being too easy. People do not become fairer or more just in their politics because their lives are hard, or because they live in a state of precarity. Come tf on.

African Philosophy and the Politics of Food Systems This open access book argues food systems need to be questioned on ethical, epistemic grounds and posits African philosophy as valuable source in doing so

Proud that our book “African Philosophy and the Politics of Food Systems” is out & Open Access. It’s a collective effort of showing that African philosophy is more than an academic subfield but of central importance for shaping futures on the continent. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New work w/ @kbroussard.bsky.social in @prpr-journal.bsky.social! We find that women with reproductive health conditions (like fibroids or endometriosis) are *more* likely to want a child but, conditional on wanting a child, *less* likely to intend to have one. 1/2 rdcu.be/e5BE6

Link to print version here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My first preprint is up!

Qualitative Methods in the Digital Era: How computation entangles fieldwork?

Drawing on 8 years collecting multiple types of data on Brazil’s environmental state, I reflect on how abductive fieldwork is changing.

Comments welcomed

osf.io/preprints/so...

We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on women’s decision-making in India This qualitative study examined the impact of extended family networks on women’s autonomy in household decision-making in relation to marriage, reproduction, mobility, social visits, household exp...

We decide together, but not equally: extended family influence on women’s decision-making in India: "the nuclearisation of family structures likely reconfigures the influence of extended kin, with relational ties continuing to shape decision-making across domains"

Over 20° in Germany (not Fahrenheit) in February...

We've Lost the Spaces That Foster Friendship We keep offering individual fixes for loneliness while ignoring the disappearance of the spaces where adults once built real relationships.

We didn’t suddenly forget how to make friends.
No partner, no app, no self-help hack can replace real, recurring community.
New @PsychToday, building on research from Bound by BDSM, on what we’re missing in the loneliness conversation.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...

Fascists don’t need us to agree with them. They just need us to believe they can’t be stopped.

Never forget that cynicism can quickly be contorted into complicity.

Women’s pain and psychogenic diagnoses - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Healthcare providers often rely on the following sort of concerning reasoning when encountering patients with difficult-to-explain symptoms: in the absence of evidence for a physical cause, the sympto...

Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out!

It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial.

A 🧵on what we found; please help us share!

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My short article on ‘ontological friction’ is out now! Super grateful to @evasurawy.bsky.social for the incredible support

Very happy with how this book review went. My first publication

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

Do men rely only on women to prevent pregnancies? How do masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraception intersect? Our project's final paper is part of this month's issue of Culture, Health, and Sexuality. Check it out here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@tandfresearch.bsky.social

So cool that our "gender bullshit" got us the QUEST Award. If you want to read about our "embarrassing" effort to include a "0.0000 minority" into our "skew[ed]" and "biased" fetch study of which we obvesuvly had "already know[n] the results", you can do so here

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why does a worse candidate win? Or an inferior song dominate?

New article with @alexgelas.bsky.social, @pantelispa.bsky.social & Gaël Le Mens.

We show that often once A becomes even slightly more popular than B, people choose A much more often.

www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

My new article, now online @sfjournal.bsky.social, examines trends in Black-White inequality by gender in earnings losses among displaced workers. Lost earnings premia, disadvantageous re-sorting, and statistical discrimination play distinct roles in shaping inequality. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married an...

🧵 New paper out! Married couples have long been wealthier, on average, than cohabiting couples. But does this still hold as unmarried cohabitation becomes increasingly common? Find out in my latest paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social available in #OA: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

One reason to talk about the conservatism of the Catholic church beyond the immediate issues with church control of hospitals, universities etc, is that it's pretty commonplace for church ideology to break out of containment. GC ideology originated in Catholic propaganda against trans ppl.

A flyer advertising an online research study with study information, a QR code, and a graphic of a couple holding hands

Our lab at UW–Madison is recruiting young men who are in a relationship with a woman (6+ months) to participate in a ~20-minute online survey study! Participants can enter to win a $50 gift card.

Click here to enter the survey: bit.ly/49U0j9N

Please share with any eligible men you know!

Alice Schwarzer hat mal versucht meinen Vater aus dem Restaurant, wo er Oberkellner war raus schmeissen zu lassen, weil er ihr den Tisch hat wegtragen lassen, nachdem sie mit ihrer Entourage nicht gehen wollte, obwohl er ihr von Anfang und hinterher gesagt hat, er wäre für spätere Gäste reserviert.

Police contact and self-rated health among LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people To examine the relationship between police contact and self-rated health of U.S. LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people.Data were derived from an original nationa…

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Police contact is linked to lower self-rated health for all—but LGBTQ people face more police contact and larger health declines. Gender minorities experience the greatest harms.
#LGBTQHealth #policing

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

This thread about how the Trump administration is trying to give us to symbolic victories instead of making any substantive changes to ICE is now an op-ed.