Davon Norris
@davonnorris.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
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Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Wait a minute...you mean to tell me thousands of the most beautiful women on earth didn't all randomly decide to join Twitter in 2023?????
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Doug Downey wants to convince you that schools actually reduce inequality, not expand it. In his conversation with @gtwodtke.bsky.social, they examine how the education system likely compensates for SES gaps and why school reforms are a band-aid fix to root problems.
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Doug Downey wants to convince you that schools actually reduce inequality, not expand it. In his conversation with @gtwodtke.bsky.social, they examine how the education system likely compensates for SES gaps and why school reforms are a band-aid fix to root problems.
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
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I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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ok so i bought some consumer data and decided i'd test this single layer neural network with a linear activation function from the image below. after testing it against other algorithms i found that this estimator thing had the lowest variance of any linear unbiased training algorithm??
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ok so i bought some consumer data and decided i'd test this single layer neural network with a linear activation function from the image below. after testing it against other algorithms i found that this estimator thing had the lowest variance of any linear unbiased training algorithm??
This goes
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This goes
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Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
Every Saturday a little after noon during the college football season, I whisper to myself, “Wow, Gus looks great.”
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Every Saturday a little after noon during the college football season, I whisper to myself, “Wow, Gus looks great.”
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“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
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Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
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Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:
forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...
forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:
forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...
forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...
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Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology
Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...
Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology
Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...
Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...
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easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar
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Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting.
#ASA #sociology #ASA2025
#ASA #sociology #ASA2025
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting.
#ASA #sociology #ASA2025
#ASA #sociology #ASA2025
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Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?
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I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
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I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality
Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha
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September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...
I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!
Thank you so much @davonnorris.bsky.social for the time you spent with the CRELS & CSS fellows and us yesterday, answering our questions and sharing your experiences. .. and then a full house at the Social Science Matrix for your talk.
A memorable experience, including the earthquake❗ 🫨
A memorable experience, including the earthquake❗ 🫨
September 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!
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Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.
September 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.
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Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:
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September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:
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Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky
inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...
inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...
August 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky
inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...
inequality.umich.edu/iss-noura-in...
A growing challenge for households and cities across the country
Filmore Brown worked 7 days a week for over two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house.
Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”
Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”
Brooklyn homeowner losing house over unpaid water bill
Filmore Brown worked seven days a week for more than two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house. Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A growing challenge for households and cities across the country
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I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...
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FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
August 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”