Paula England

paulaengland.bsky.social

30 May 2026 18:03

Felix Busch, Wenhao Jiang, and I just published a piece in Social Forces asking what explains the increased wage gap between those in professional and managerial (PM) jobs vs all other jobs in the US. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Elizabeth Bruch

ebruch.bsky.social

23 May 2026 12:35

A favorite graph that never made it into a paper. Circa 2014: "What's the worst personality trait someone can have?" by place of residence. Being boring is a sin in the Boston/NY corridor. Arrogance? Not so much. Immaturity reigns in the South-Central. Best of all, New Orleans: no sense of humor.

Kim Weeden

weedenkim.bsky.social

22 May 2026 23:52

Today is my 25th Shiny Happy People Laughing day at Cornell Sociology. It never gets old. Congratulations Hyo Joo, Haowen, and the rest of our new Sociology PhD, MA, and BA degree holders.

Jen Jennings

jenjennings.bsky.social

19 May 2026 13:43

After Eric Adams mismanaged 3K and UPK for 4 years, what a relief it is to see @mayor.nyc.gov getting it right.

Brandon Stewart

bstewart.bsky.social

14 May 2026 15:14

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.