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Michelle Jackson
@mivich.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford
https://www.mivich.com/
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Happy 🎂 to the normal curve! #OTD 1733 Abraham de Moivre published a description in Latin. It had the catchy title Approximatio ad Summam Terminorum Binomii (a + b)n in Seriem expansi [Approximation of the Sum of the Terms of the Binomial (a + b)n expanded into a Series] 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Join INVEST as a Visiting Fellow! Our fellowship call is open 3.11.-28.11. Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral researchers and beyond who wish to spend time at the flagship, exchange ideas, and build new research collaborations.
Read more and apply
invest.utu.fi/fellowships/
INVEST Fellowship Programme - INVEST Research Flagship Centre
What is an INVEST fellowship? INVEST fellowships are 1-3 (or up to 6) months visits to the flagship to collaborate...
invest.utu.fi
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Sometimes I like to dream about being from a nation where you always know where you'll find your country name in an alphabetical list.
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The wonderful 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics brought to mind this Soviet poster which embodies a different set of ideas: "Let Us Speed Up the Pace of Technological Progress!"
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
#Nokings protest in Big Sur, CA
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"To be invited to this interdisciplinary fellowship environment is really cool... I’m pretty stoked about it."

- @coreydfields.bsky.social (quoting Confucius...)

college.georgetown.edu/news-story/s...
Sociology Professor Corey D. Fields Named to Prestigious Behavioral Sciences Fellowship at Stanford - College of Arts & Sciences
Fields will be working on a book project that explores recent discourse in the U.S. around issues of public health and racial inequality.
college.georgetown.edu
October 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others

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August 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor!

Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor
facultypositions.stanford.edu
September 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years #ESRC #AcademicSky
UKRI announces first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years
A ground-breaking UK-wide scientific study will help improve the lives of future generations by studying 30,000 children born in 2026.
www.ukri.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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PhD studentship with quantitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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PhD studentship with qualitative focus: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts
Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
www.ias.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Master’s alum Ryan Cieslikowski shared research and commentary in a recent KQED news article on Stanford’s legacy admissions practices.

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August 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The @isa-rc28.bsky.social #rc28 network organizes an online conference on 20/21 January 2026, without conference fee. It allows scholars from all over the world to submit their work. www.sciencespo.fr/cris/fr/actu...
RC28 Online Meeting on Educational Inequalities
20th - 21st January, 2026 - Call for Papers
www.sciencespo.fr
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is a great essay on the digital economy: aeon.co/essays/the-s.... If you enjoy this, you should put Fourcade&Healy's The Ordinal Society on your reading list.
The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything
aeon.co
August 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Sociology at Nuffield College invites applications for academic visitors during the 2026-27 academic year www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
Sociology Visitorships - Nuffield College Oxford University
The Nuffield College Sociology Group invites applications for a Visitorship at the College during the 2026-27 academic year (between early October 2026 and late June 2027).
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Measuring intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China and Russia during the transition to market economies, using new Markov chain methods, from Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, and Albert Park https://www.nber.org/papers/w34124
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM