My op-ed for The Chronicle about American law schools pulling out of US News #rankings.
Turns out it's a killjoy, but worth reading, I promise.
What I'd really like right now is that someone makes a good argument why I'm wrong. Thank you 🙏🏽
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-rankings-revolution-hardly
Yesterday Kathrin Zippel held her inaugural lecture as an Einstein Professor for #Sociology and #GenderStudies at FU Berlin. She hosted me in Boston and continues to be a mentor since then. Her talk was on the concept of implicit #bias and its role in addressing #genderinequality and #diversity in #academic institutions. Very promising for the things to come in #Berlin.
Oh, and the buffet at the reception was just stellar! 🤤
Heute beginnt die Gemeinsame Herbsttagung der @dgsoziologie
-Sektionen Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung & Organisationssoziologie: "Wettbewerb und Organisation – Vergleichende Perspektiven" von @JulianHamann1, @kosmuetzky & Anne K. Krueger an der Humboldt Uni mit einer Keynote von Raimund Hasse.
Researchers using Twitter's firehose—a feed of every public tweet, like, retweet, and reply—have found evidence that hate speech is more widely shared on Twitter since Musk took over. I think this is something we all suspected and saw anecdotal evidence of, but this is some of the first data showing it.
“The toxicity of Twitter has severely increased post-Musk’s walking into that building," one of the researchers behind the work says.
The full story on WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/heres-proof-hate-speech-is-more-viral-on-elon-musks-twitter/
#Interdisciplinary reflections on #biographical accounts in #sociology and #history - interesting #methodological piece comparing research practice, anonymization, and archiving in oral history and biographical methods in sociology. New in Current Sociology, by Jakub Gałęźiowski & Kaja Kaźmierska
Dino Desire: Two T.rex for Sale! Artified fossils, desirescapes, and selling the unvaluable.
A new blog post (by me) about TWO, count them, TWO upcoming sales of T. rex fossils. Will these charismatic (and destructive) fossils resist value? We will see!
#fossils #palaeontology #artcrime #artmarket
https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2022/11/dino-desire-two-t-rex-for-sale.html
More than every third #student in Germany was at risk of #poverty in 2021, a share that is much higher than in the general population (37,9% vs. 15,8%). #Housing costs are a main factor.
The third relief package of the Federal Government is intended to support students, who are especially affected by the current high prices because of their low incomes. In 2021, 37.9% of the students in Germany were at risk of poverty. Based on first results of the 2021 statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC), this information is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) to mark the International Students’ Day on 17 November. The relative risk of poverty was even significantly higher for those students who lived alone or shared accommodation with other students only. Just over three quarters (76.1%) of them were at risk of poverty. For comparison: 15.8% of the total population in Germany were at risk of poverty last year.
Jelena Brankovic
Lord Elend
Matt Burgess
Martin Lutz
Donna Yates