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Pamela Metz
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Dir of Chapter Development @scholars.org.
Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021)🚢

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Pamela Metz @pamelametz.bsky.social · Aug 8
Hello Sociology friends! Excited to be in Chicago for #ASA2025 with @scholars.org. Point me to your sessions!
scholars.org Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · Aug 8
SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!
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jinxungoh.bsky.social
The first of the two is a collab with political scientist Nathan Chan. We used two waves of CMPS data (including the latest 2024) to examine relationship between meritocracy and deportation sentiments among Asian and Latino Americans
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November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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jinxungoh.bsky.social
Submitted two papers today and the last of 2025. This semester has been rough… 10/10 do not recommend. Gonna cry and vomit from exhaustion. Wake me up when it’s 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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heavyredaction.bsky.social
Earlier this month, lawsuits brought against OpenAI suggested the potential of ChatGPT to cause serious mental health harms in users.

In light of these cases, the Cal State U system must not continue providing ChatGPT to students.

My opinion essay in @insidehighered.com today
Screen shot from Inside Higher Ed: Views It's Time to Pull the Plug on ChatGPT at Cal State Recent lawsuits suggest ChatGPT poses an unacceptable risk to our students' mental health By Martha Lincoln
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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ctscholarsnetwork.bsky.social
Join Us for the 3rd Annual “Moving Beyond Implications” Conference on Thursday, January 15, 2026.

The event invites researchers and policymakers to gather for a full day of evidence-based discussion to inform Connecticut policy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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angelamli.bsky.social
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.

👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
Abstract for "The truly isolated: Spatial isolation of advantage in the United States" by Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, and Patrick Sharkey, published at Urban Studies
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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bhighsmith.bsky.social
🚨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
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povertyscholar.bsky.social
So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.
Screen shot of article text that reads: “Michener is on the board of her local food bank, where they have been grappling with not only how to feed everyone in need but how to address the whole system —how to make the line of people who need food shorter. The bank started a community advocates program to equip those who need food with civic skills: Do you know how to reach out to your elected officials? Do you know how to tell your story? They're getting involved in the political processes that determine what kinds of wages their employers have to pay them or whether they have access to benefits, Michener said. "The most surefire way to strengthen these programs is to strengthen the political power of the people who rely on the programs."
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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wdlopez.bsky.social
Ways to support immigrant communities:
1. Donate to advocacy orgs
2. Attend a KYR training
3. Educate yourself (read!)
4. If there's enforcement in your area, consider offering to pick up groceries, take kids to school, etc.
5. Vote like your life (and those of your neighbors) depends on it!
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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eleanorkrause.bsky.social
Policy implication: Supporting legacy energy communities likely requires deliberate human capital policy (not just physical capital investment incentives) to help regions rebuild and recover.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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eleanorkrause.bsky.social
tldr: Recent collapse of coal mining emp in Appalachia ➡️
- No detectable increase in postsecondary training investments;
- Big rise in govt transfers, driven by Medicaid (& not explained by ACA alone)
So, safety-net use rose, but human cap investment didn’t (unlike responses in other settings)
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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eleanorkrause.bsky.social
New paper 🚨!

Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition

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Adjusting to the energy transition: Training and transfers in coal country
Between 2011 and 2016, coal mining employment declined by over 50 percent in Appalachia, producing sharp earnings and employment losses in coal-depend…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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mboaz.bsky.social
The 2025 Kentucky Law Journal Symposium was a fantastic success. So grateful for all of the speakers, students, and members of the community who came to discuss immigration law. www.kentuckylawjournal.org/symposium
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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scholars.org
We're excited to launch our Southwest Borderlands chapter! The chapter includes members from institutions along the U.S./Mexico Borderlands and focuses on issues central to the borderlands region.

Chapter leaders: Amy J. Bach & Anne-Marie Núñez

Learn more from their SSN chapter page:
Southwest Borderlands | Scholars Strategy Network
The Southwest Borderlands chapter, launching in November 2025, includes members from institutions along the U.S./Mexico Borderlands in West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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annarhaskins.bsky.social
The delight that comes when you get a signed copy of a friend's important book in the mail -- ❤️🔥 -- way to go Shannon and co-authors @russellsagefdn.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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sophieehill.bsky.social
My antitrust attitudes paper with Nick Short and Jacob Brown is out now @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

We find:
- voters are skeptical about M&A
- current law marginalizes important public concerns (layoffs, bailout risk, lobbying)
- expert/public cleavage > partisan diffs
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert-Public Cleavages Nicholas Short, Sophie Hill and Jacob Brown Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework for understanding ideological capture, rooted in expert-public cleavages, and measure its presence in an important policy domain (antitrust review of business mergers) with an original survey of the public and of antitrust lawyers. Our results suggest that the main framework for evaluating anticompetitive conduct, the consumer welfare standard, marginalizes important public concerns but is deeply popular among antitrust lawyers. With prior vork showing the standard arose not from conventional processes but from judicial and bureaucratic activism, we conclude that antitrust policy evidences ideological capture. Keywords: political economy, bureaucracy, regulatory capture, economic ideas, public opinion Figure 4 The Public Is Skeptical that Large Mergers Deliver Some Economic Benefits Bar charts Note: A plurality of the public disagrees that large mergers lower prices (their main purported benefit) or make it easier to start a new business but agrees that large mergers increase innovation. Respondents were less certain about the effect of large mergers on product quality. Figure 5 The Public Agrees that Large Mergers Have Significant Social Risks Note: A majority of the public agree that large mergers weaken the ties between companies and local communities, create companies that are too big to fail, have too much power to infringe on individual liberties, and have too much influence in politics. Figure 3 Expertise Outweighs Partisanship in Shaping Support for Replacing the CWS
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
"The east Charlotte church where the raid took place on Saturday said it was suspending services & yard work until congregants felt safe to gather again, 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez told the Charlotte Observer. “We thought church was safe and nothing gonna happen,” Vazquez said. “But it did happen.”
Federal immigration officers begin sweep in Charlotte, North Carolina
Local reports say targets include church parishioners doing yard work and workers hanging Christmas lights
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November 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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profciara.bsky.social
This is the piece cited: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... ⚖️✍🏾
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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iwbcollab.bsky.social
Reflecting on his work & acknowledging the importance of research in the policymaking process, Dr. Martínez said: "My hope is for a future where policy prioritizes human life and dignity, where communities have the tools to protect each other, and where our research helps make that future possible.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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iwbcollab.bsky.social
We're excited to share the latest entry in our interview series, "¡Hablemos!," featuring Dr. Daniel E. Martínez.

Read the full interview here: iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
¡Hablemos! With Dr. Daniel E. Martínez - Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative
By Sophia Benavente and Thomas J. Rachko, Jr. Dr. Daniel E. Martínez, Distinguished Scholar & Associate Professor in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona and Co-Director of the Binatio...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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iwbcollab.bsky.social
Read our new ¡Hablemos! Interview with Scholar Affiliate, Dr. Blanca A. Ramirez, assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin:

iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
¡Hablemos! With Dr. Blanca A. Ramirez - Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative
By Sophia Benavente and Thomas J. Rachko, Jr. Dr. Blanca A. Ramirez, assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin, examines how immigration laws and policies shape everyday life...
iwbcollab.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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drchikaokafor.bsky.social
Full research & media coverage:

📄 Research: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
🎙️ NPR: soundcloud.com/chika-okafor...
Seeing Through Color Blindness: Social Networks as a Mechanism for Discrimination | The Journal of Law and Economics: Vol 68, No 3
Abstract I study labor markets in which firms both hire via referrals and are race blind or color-blind. I develop an employment model showing that despite initial equality in ability, employment, wag...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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drchikaokafor.bsky.social
New policy brief through @ipratnu.bsky.social: Why "colorblind" policies fail to achieve meritocracy—even when employers are completely race-blind and workers have equal qualifications.

Especially in the current moment, many assume colorblindness guarantees fairness. My research proves it doesn't.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
You can find the National Academies of Science report here. The bottom line is that we can use the tax system to vastly reduce poverty.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2916...
graph shown poverty reduction effects of EITC and CTC
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Results from a National Academies of Science report presented by @lisagennetian.bsky.social: impact of EITC and expanded CTC cut poverty in half #appam2025
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.

(The link preview is bad, but it's:

Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality

by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
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November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM