Pamela Oliver

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Professor Emerita of Sociology, U of Wisconsin Madison she/her (they/them ok too)
I study #SocialMovements, especially US Black movement in the 1990s and 2000s. I also research & advocate on racial disparities in the criminal legal system. My social media comments are mostly responses to others or reflections on academic life in general. I live in #Madison #Wisconsin. I am active in the #CBSM section of the AmSocAssoc.
Image: Older White woman twitter:@PamOliver1800
Professional websitehttps://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/
Professional bloghttps://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/
ORCiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YPeToqMAAAAJ&hl=en
Pamela OliverAug 24, 2024
Show threadCarl T. BergstromAug 13, 2024

Papers are not the output of scientific research in the way that cars are the output of automobile manufacturing.

Papers are merely a vehicle through which a portion of the output of research is shared.

We confuse the two at our peril.
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The entire idea of outsourcing the scientific ecosystem to LLMs — as described below — is a concept error that I can scarcely begin to get my head around.

sakana.ai/ai-scientist/

Show threadPamela OliverJun 25, 2024
The clear error is in a frequency table: reported frequencies just do not match those in the public data. Error could just be failure to report selection criteria. There are other problems with the analysis as well, but I don't think the junior scholar really wants to deeply engage that article.
Pamela OliverJun 25, 2024
#academicchatter #sociology I found an error in a data table in a published article that uses public data in a top journal. Wrote to author, they confirm it is an error, they got data from more senior scholars who have not responded to them regarding error query. Not clear whether or how much it affects the substance of the findings. A junior scholar is getting findings with different data that contradict that article. Should likely error in 1st article be discussed in the new paper?
Pamela OliverJun 19, 2024
#sociology #academicchatter #histodons We need to cite a lot of no-author news articles in a qualitative content analysis in addition to the usual references. Thinking about creating a separate list of these. Any advice about usual practices or formats?
Pamela OliverJun 8, 2024
mekka okereke Jun 8, 2024

🤣🤣🤣

1. Someone in NYC had the great idea to introduce congestion pricing, to discourage car commuters. Seems like a good idea, no? The law was set to pass but...

2. Someone in NYC forgot that about 40% of NYCs city center cops, are car commuters! Only 2.5% of city center workers are cops, and slightly under 2% of all workers would pay the congestion pricing. So it's a lot of cops driving in to the city center.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/11/04/congestion-pricing-study-finds-law-enforcement-are-manhattans-most-numerous-car-commuters

3. Do I need to tell you what happened next?

Congestion Pricing Study Finds Law Enforcement Officers Are Manhattan's Most Numerous Car Commuters - Streetsblog New York City

The area around Ground Zero is going to be ground zero in the battle over congestion pricing exemptions.

Pamela OliverJun 8, 2024
JA WestenbergJun 8, 2024

Don’t ignore what’s going on in Sudan.

@theindex is one of the few social news publications actively covering the crisis.

This is a humanitarian flashpoint, happening in real time, while most of the world stays silent.
https://mastodon.social/@theindex/112583375261302698

Pamela OliverMay 30, 2024
Dan HirschmanMay 29, 2024
A new guest post on scatterplot looks at debates over "rigorous research" in criminal justice reform featuring the ever-controversial Jennifer Doleac and a study about prison education, plus more general debates over what we can learn from a wider variety of methods than the quasi-experimental and how such debates play out in CJ reform. https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/malpractice-or-best-practice-the-fight-over-rigor-in-criminal-justice-reform/
malpractice or best practice? the fight over “rigor” in criminal justice reform

The following is a guest post by Jonathan Ben-Menachem. Two criminal justice reform heavyweights are trading blows over a seemingly arcane subject: research methods. In a tweet, Jennifer Doleac, Ex…

scatterplot
Show threadPamela OliverMay 21, 2024
Big findings: Newswires more interested in violence & White-focused issues including Confederate symbols & White identity groups. Black newspapers cover more worker struggles, local struggles over defunding of public services, schools, community violence issues. #BlackHistory #Sociology
Show threadPamela OliverMay 21, 2024
Here is the link to the working paper. Results are presented in numerical tables, not graphs. Besides issue mix, we look at event characteristics. Newswires are more interested in violent events. #BlackHistory #Sociology https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tceyu
OSF

Pamela OliverMay 21, 2024
My research team has posted a new working paper comparing Black newspapers and mainstream newswires in coverage of Black protest events 1994-2020. I posted a blog that gives a graphical summary of main findings and links to the paper. Your perception of Black movement varies depending on source. https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/2024/05/21/black-protests-of-1990s-and-2000s-in-black-newspapers-vs-mainstream-newswires/ #BlackHistory #Sociology
Black Protests of 1990s and 2000s in Black Newspapers vs Mainstream Newswires – Race, Politics, Justice