Guilty of 34 felonies. Found liable for sexual assault. Banned from doing business in New York. Tried to overturn an election to illegally seize power. Incited a violent attack on the US Capitol. And still supported completely—without reservation—by the Republican Party.

1. Trump is now a convicted felon. Since the verdict, various politicians and pundits have advanced arguments suggesting that Trump's convictions were illegitimate, unfair, or inconsequential. In this thread, I will dismantle these one by one. 🧵

New article with Lucas Drouhot Sociological Science

"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New article on colorism in Sociological Science. Glad to see this one out at last. An earlier version of this paper was part of my dissertation at Cornell Dept of Sociology sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-1…

Was able to catch the bore tide today completely on accident when I saw it coming from the highway. It wasn't a very strong event, but the conditions were otherwise perfect.

The job market is not a lottery. It's not random. Nor is it driven by who you know. Large stochastic component, maybe. But it's not random, and it's a disservice to future JMCs to claim that it is. (Also to search committees, which IME put much time & effort into reading files.)

Most people are doing better than before the pandemic. That might not be a very high bar, but that is not true in most other wealthy countries and for tens of millions of people, it likely is a big deal.

The cybertruck would be much improved if the back end was the front. You'd have to move the mirrors, of course, and install a bigger windshield for the now front of the car. Change the slope of the hood. Then sell it for scrap and buy something else. Big improvement.

Anchorage has 1 second less daylight today.

Biden’s administration has done fantastic work. That’s what I’m voting on and judging. I don’t really give a shit about “perceptions” of his “vigor.”

Life as a climatologist in 2024: Climatologist: data show this is the worst air quality in Fairbanks since August 2005. Random X blue-check / climate change denier / MAGA dude*: No, it's like this every summer. Checkmate, libtard. *Not mutually exclusive categories.

So *that's* who recommended the himmicanes/hurricanes study for publication.

📢📢 Don't forget to submit your papers by Aug 30th for the "Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Mismatch" conference in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 on Dec 9-10. Excited to have Kate Weisshaar & Koji Chavez joining as presenters, with Xi Song and Luca Flabbi as keynote speakers! (1/2)

Need advice from social scientists: Pondering a title for keynote gulp on "incomplete revolutions" in equality. Talk touches on APC. Is "the gender revolution will not be parameterized" too obscure? Ironically I'm worried about cohort gaps - or is it age gaps? - in who gets it.

Brooks Falls live bear cam is the perfect antidote to your timeline. youtube.com/live/d1YoGAxmZ…

Social scientists: there's still room for sponsored questions on 2024 GSS Follow-On Survey, a web-based survey of ≈1000 Rs from the 2024 baseline GSS. Can link to baseline items, have short panel. Follow-On fielded Jan-Feb 2025. More info: gss.norc.org/Documents/othe… Please RT.

A publication uses #GSS data about economic standing to analyze unemployment rates and the meaning of work. Read the article here ➙ go.norc.org/4cG0Meo