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Davon Norris
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Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
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ok so i bought some consumer data and decided i'd test this single layer neural network with a linear activation function from the image below. after testing it against other algorithms i found that this estimator thing had the lowest variance of any linear unbiased training algorithm??
OLS
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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This goes
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6d
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
Description Job Summary: The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college. Responsibilities: Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties. Qualifications Qualifications: Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Every Saturday a little after noon during the college football season, I whisper to myself, “Wow, Gus looks great.”
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:

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October 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology

Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar
jdcmedlock.bsky.social James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Sep 26
More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting. 

#ASA #sociology #ASA2025
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?

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I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality
Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha
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September 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!
ucbids.bsky.social Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) @ucbids.bsky.social · Sep 23
Thank you so much @davonnorris.bsky.social for the time you spent with the CRELS & CSS fellows and us yesterday, answering our questions and sharing your experiences. .. and then a full house at the Social Science Matrix for your talk.

A memorable experience, including the earthquake❗ 🫨
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September 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.
September 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:

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September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful.

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Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social‬ whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky

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An image of Noura Insolera is on the left with the headline on the right on a blue background. It reads Inequality Scholar Spotlight: Noura Insolera. Satisfying Interdisciplinary Instincts with Economics, Sociology, and Statistics. The Stone Center logo is on the bottom.
August 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A growing challenge for households and cities across the country
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 17
Filmore Brown worked 7 days a week for over two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house.

Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about. “It was stolen from me”
Brooklyn homeowner losing house over unpaid water bill
Filmore Brown worked seven days a week for more than two decades to pay off his Brooklyn house. Now, he's losing his home over an unpaid water bill that he says he knew nothing about.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...
August 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around

“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
August 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026
Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A profile of @danielagabor.bsky.social, including her time at the Institute for Advanced Study, captures a defining insight about our time: markets aren't free or deregulated, but shaped by the entangled power of private capital and state planning + intervention. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
Daniela Gabor: “Nobody is defending free markets any more”
The radical economist on why the West needs a complete overhaul.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I know we're all distracted by AI and tariffs, but Trump is also a private equity presidency.
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 7
This is a "devil's in the details" situation if there ever was one.
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday that aims to allow private equity, real estate, cryptocurrency and other alternative assets in 401(k)s, a major victory for industries looking to tap some of the roughly $12.5 trillion held in those retirement accounts. The order will direct the Labor Department to reevaluate guidance around alternative asset investments in retirement plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, according to a person familiar with the plans who requested anonymity before the order was formalized. The department will also be tasked with clarifying the government’s position on the fiduciary responsibilities associated with offering asset allocation funds that include alternative holdings. Trump will also direct Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to work with counterparts at the Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal regulators to determine whether rule changes should be made to assist in the effort. The SEC will be asked to facilitate access to alternative assets for participant-directed retirement plans. Top officials in Washington have been weighing a directive for months that would ease the legal concerns that have long kept alternative assets out of most worker defined-contribution plans. Retirement portfolios are mostly concentrated in stocks and bonds in part because corporate plan administrators are reluctant to venture into illiquid and complex products.
August 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.

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Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019
Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl
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July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM