Lauren Olsen
@laurendolsen.bsky.social
sociologist of medicine, education, and inequalities
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the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the P...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
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this is when you need a database of everything this lot uniquely fucked up, how much money it wasted, how long to fix it, and the no. of people injured/killed as a result. Paired with photos of the responsible officials.
You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism.
You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
this is when you need a database of everything this lot uniquely fucked up, how much money it wasted, how long to fix it, and the no. of people injured/killed as a result. Paired with photos of the responsible officials.
You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism.
You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism.
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My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...
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The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Social Science & Medicine | The Social Uses of the Body | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
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October 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:
Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO
River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW
Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST
Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO
River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW
Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST
July 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:
Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO
River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW
Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST
Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO
River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW
Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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It's 9:43am.
Me in the office:
Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet.
Me in the office:
Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet.
October 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It's 9:43am.
Me in the office:
Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet.
Me in the office:
Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet. Don't eat your sandwich yet.
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An incredibly insightful and important piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social
“The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
“The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me
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October 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
An incredibly insightful and important piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social
“The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
“The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
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I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside Alyssa (& hope to resume doing so post sabbatical) and she’s wonderful. Quick, clear, and a real lover of authors and books. I hope you’ll reach out and share your sociology book project ideas with her!!
"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that."
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Meet an acquiring editor at Columbia University Press
An interview with editor Alyssa M. Napier of Columbia University Press by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works
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September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside Alyssa (& hope to resume doing so post sabbatical) and she’s wonderful. Quick, clear, and a real lover of authors and books. I hope you’ll reach out and share your sociology book project ideas with her!!
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I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
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How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents.
Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Education #Sociology
Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Education #Sociology
August 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents.
Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Education #Sociology
Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Education #Sociology
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where’s the ADL when real shit is going on
August 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
where’s the ADL when real shit is going on
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Book selfies are the best selfies #ASA2025 @ucpress.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Book selfies are the best selfies #ASA2025 @ucpress.bsky.social
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Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
July 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices.
www.reclaimcontrol.tech
www.reclaimcontrol.tech
Reclaim Control | over your technology, your devices, your data, your digital life.
www.reclaimcontrol.tech
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices.
www.reclaimcontrol.tech
www.reclaimcontrol.tech
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If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.
July 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.
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I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
June 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
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One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics
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Check out my new @newsweek.com op-ed on the nominee for surgeon general!
"Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes."
www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...
"Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes."
www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...
Casey Means and MAHA Remove the 'Public' From Public Health | Opinion
On Wednesday, Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, a holistic doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next U.S. surgeon general.
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May 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Check out my new @newsweek.com op-ed on the nominee for surgeon general!
"Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes."
www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...
"Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes."
www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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New Books Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social
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Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social
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Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of Curricular Injustice
Interviewed by Hayden J. Fulton on February 28th, 2025 Lauren D. Olsen, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author of Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical …
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May 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New Books Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social
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Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social
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“The initiative is a case study in how a local news outlet on the cutting edge of nonprofit news embraced a new application of its mission to serve and inform its community, taking on work at the nexus between journalism and housing advocacy in partnership with other local organizations.”
April 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“The initiative is a case study in how a local news outlet on the cutting edge of nonprofit news embraced a new application of its mission to serve and inform its community, taking on work at the nexus between journalism and housing advocacy in partnership with other local organizations.”
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The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?
This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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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April 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?
This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
US Applicant Week
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April 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky