Awesome new paper from Seth Abrutyn journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🌍 What is culture & how does it shape our world? Join us at the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 – 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 🗓️ 15–16 May 2025 | 📍 Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Here's some good news! The file drawer problem may have diminished in recent years, at least in social science survey experiments "This suggests increased recognition of the importance of null results."

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in PNASNews We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage. 🔗pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New publication out today in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World! In " Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought," Katherine Jensen, Monika Krause, and I map how the American public think about what counts as a human right.

Hot off the presses! I would say go talk about it with your friends, but everything we find leads us to expect that you won't.

Conventional wisdom says interdisciplinary research is valuable but harder to get through peer review (need to please diverse reviewers, etc). In new PNASNews paper, Sidney Xiang Daniel Romero and I partnered with IOP Publishing to test this wisdom and add nuance (1/3)

Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans don't want bans. We tested ~2,000 people and found broad acceptance, not polarization. The public doesn't echo elite battles. 📄 Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning 🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1

How religious are young Americans today? After working on Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study,it’s an honor to be able to summarize the best data we have on the subject and paint an honest picture of how faith is evolving among younger generations. youtube.com/watch?v=Qq-IHO…

New study (w/Hui Zheng) finds that among US-born older adults, Asian Americans are no longer the healthiest racial group. This is because disability prevalence has declined for *every other racial group* since 2005, but not for AAs. #AAPIHeritageMonth tinyurl.com/ynfmtnex

Changes in Americans' inequality perceptions are driven by Republicans responding to political leaders. They are not responsive to actual trends in inequality. el.press.uchicago.edu/ls/click?upn=u…

New in Theory & Society: I argue that narratives aren’t just sequences—they have tempo. By adding timeliness to narrative theory in sociology, I show how “too late” or “just in time” stems not only from life events but from the narratives we live by. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New GTaC! Seth Abrutyn returns to discuss one of my favorite articles Daniel F. Chambliss's "The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers" (1988) - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/06… The Society Pages SUNY Brockport Hamilton College

Great new paper! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

My first press release in Chinese! bit.ly/3T0gd9v Cortisol and the Anxious Mondays effect from bit.ly/4kWlxXN I'm sure there's a song like this somewhere...

a new article forthcoming in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q! we argue that studies of belief change have an "identifiability problem," much like the APC problem: the composition of change---who changed or how much they changed---is observationally confounded.

🌐 How do cities talk about each other? Drs. Noga Keidar & Silver’s #Socius study shows #ArtPolicy ideas move not just from global hubs, but as peer cities cite, adapt, and remix each other. A fresh lens on #SociologyOfCulture & #PolicyMobility. Read: doi.org/10.1177/237802…

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐮𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐨 𝐗𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐞 Congratulations to Prof Duoduo Xu on her promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with Tenure. Website: sociology.hku.hk/news/60

People assume that every scientific paper, no matter how good/bad, is eventually published somewhere. We studied fate of 126K papers rejected from 63 journals and found that 1. Many papers never published 2. Especially papers by authors from non-Western countries

New one - the 2nd of 3 that mark out some very clear foundational issues in qualitative social science. These will be really useful for PhD scholars & early career researchers who are finding their feet. Please do share, comment & ask questions 🫡 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…