Diana Graizbord
@dgraizbord.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UGA
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Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and especially Sebastián Rojas Cabal for giving me the opportunity to talk about my book, Indicators of Democracy (and so much more!) newbooksnetwork.com/indicators-o...
two of my favorite sociologists and people on ZM's transition team! @alondra.bsky.social and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
two of my favorite sociologists and people on ZM's transition team! @alondra.bsky.social and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
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On November 6, 2025 from Noon-1:30 EST, First Publics will host a conversation exploring why and how teaching research methods matters, not only for scholarship, but also for critical thinking and public engagement in light of the contemporary polycrisis.
Register here: buff.ly/rWfrkxE
Register here: buff.ly/rWfrkxE
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On November 6, 2025 from Noon-1:30 EST, First Publics will host a conversation exploring why and how teaching research methods matters, not only for scholarship, but also for critical thinking and public engagement in light of the contemporary polycrisis.
Register here: buff.ly/rWfrkxE
Register here: buff.ly/rWfrkxE
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
This essay by sociologist Marco Garrido is so good. Essential reading for Latin Americanists. doi.org/10.1177/0735...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This essay by sociologist Marco Garrido is so good. Essential reading for Latin Americanists. doi.org/10.1177/0735...
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Thrilled that @benbraun.bsky.social will join the IAS School of Social Science as a visiting professor in 2026 and will convene this crucial discussion on "Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy." ✨
Apply to join this seminar or with another topic of your choosing: www.ias.edu/sss/sss-fell...
Apply to join this seminar or with another topic of your choosing: www.ias.edu/sss/sss-fell...
June 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Thrilled that @benbraun.bsky.social will join the IAS School of Social Science as a visiting professor in 2026 and will convene this crucial discussion on "Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy." ✨
Apply to join this seminar or with another topic of your choosing: www.ias.edu/sss/sss-fell...
Apply to join this seminar or with another topic of your choosing: www.ias.edu/sss/sss-fell...
NYC giving me much needed hope this morning. 🤩
June 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NYC giving me much needed hope this morning. 🤩
Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and especially Sebastián Rojas Cabal for giving me the opportunity to talk about my book, Indicators of Democracy (and so much more!) newbooksnetwork.com/indicators-o...
Diana Graizbord, "Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and especially Sebastián Rojas Cabal for giving me the opportunity to talk about my book, Indicators of Democracy (and so much more!) newbooksnetwork.com/indicators-o...
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Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
April 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
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Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.
Breaking News: The Trump administration intends to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants for Brown University.
Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University
The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.
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March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
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death cult demands more death asociologist.com/2025/04/01/d...
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
death cult demands more death asociologist.com/2025/04/01/d...
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México no es el único país que está llevando cada vez más atribuciones al ámbito federal
¿Por qué los sistemas federales están centralizando la capacidad de legislar?
Joel Mendoza Gómez escribe en el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/03/noso...
¿Por qué los sistemas federales están centralizando la capacidad de legislar?
Joel Mendoza Gómez escribe en el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/03/noso...
Nosotros lo haríamos mejor: centralización federal y nacionalización de los sistemas de partidos
¿Por qué las legislaturas locales tienen agendas cada vez más vacías y legislan sobre cada vez menos asuntos? ¿A qué se debe que cada vez más áreas de política pública sean potestad de las legislatura...
federalismo.nexos.com.mx
March 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
México no es el único país que está llevando cada vez más atribuciones al ámbito federal
¿Por qué los sistemas federales están centralizando la capacidad de legislar?
Joel Mendoza Gómez escribe en el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/03/noso...
¿Por qué los sistemas federales están centralizando la capacidad de legislar?
Joel Mendoza Gómez escribe en el blog de federalismo en Nexos
federalismo.nexos.com.mx/2025/03/noso...
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Yesterday, my dear friend, the extraordinary Colombian sociologist, Tatiana Andia passed away. She did so on her own terms, dying in the manner that she lived. Her courage, her laughter, her wit, her love in the face of cancer leaves us with many lessons, most of all about how to live.
Se acabó la fiesta, la última columna de Tatiana Andia
Este 26 de febrero falleció la profesora Tatiana Andia, rodeada de su familia. Una de sus últimas voluntades fue publicar esta columna
www.elespectador.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yesterday, my dear friend, the extraordinary Colombian sociologist, Tatiana Andia passed away. She did so on her own terms, dying in the manner that she lived. Her courage, her laughter, her wit, her love in the face of cancer leaves us with many lessons, most of all about how to live.
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Powerful statement from the Data Foundation. “"These abrupt changes to data and evaluation systems across government take away the very tools we need to understand program effectiveness and ensure public dollars are well spent,"
datafoundation.org/news/press-r...
datafoundation.org/news/press-r...
Data Foundation Statement on Changes to Federal Evaluation Activities
Data Foundation documents rapid changes to federal evaluation capacity, including elimination of research offices across agencies, threatening government's ability to measure program effectiveness.
datafoundation.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Powerful statement from the Data Foundation. “"These abrupt changes to data and evaluation systems across government take away the very tools we need to understand program effectiveness and ensure public dollars are well spent,"
datafoundation.org/news/press-r...
datafoundation.org/news/press-r...
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"Silicon Valley may have built the computational part of the modern world, but the rest of that world...still exists. Knowing something, even a lot, about computers guarantees no knowledge about the world beyond them.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"Silicon Valley may have built the computational part of the modern world, but the rest of that world...still exists. Knowing something, even a lot, about computers guarantees no knowledge about the world beyond them.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I corresponded with Michael Burawoy recently. He wrote: Teaching has always been important to me and, perhaps for that reason, I have always found it extremely difficult to write about...my efforts tend to distort rather than capture what is lively, dynamic, uncertain, experimental, inherently open.
February 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I corresponded with Michael Burawoy recently. He wrote: Teaching has always been important to me and, perhaps for that reason, I have always found it extremely difficult to write about...my efforts tend to distort rather than capture what is lively, dynamic, uncertain, experimental, inherently open.
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Universities don’t have to pretend that DOGE is a normal government commission or a standard deregulatory effort. Putting it in those terms normalizes anti-democratic actions
the mental gymnastics going on right now @harvardkennedy.bsky.social is truly astonishing
February 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Universities don’t have to pretend that DOGE is a normal government commission or a standard deregulatory effort. Putting it in those terms normalizes anti-democratic actions
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New! "Lead with Your Heart" finds @aminghaziani.bsky.social in conversation with @alondra.bsky.social about doing public sociology, on the page and in the White House: contexts.org/blog/qa-nels...
December 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
New! "Lead with Your Heart" finds @aminghaziani.bsky.social in conversation with @alondra.bsky.social about doing public sociology, on the page and in the White House: contexts.org/blog/qa-nels...
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Next semester I will do some FREE (online) events with members of progressive organizations and universities from more “peripheral” places again. Interested? Send me an email!
December 6, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Next semester I will do some FREE (online) events with members of progressive organizations and universities from more “peripheral” places again. Interested? Send me an email!
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Just look: the gvt. of Mex. president @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social will abolish @INAImexico, used by journalists to reveal graft, and @coneval, which evaluates social policy, and allocate less money to @FGRMexico's capacity to investigate corruption. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/rec...
Perfilan recortes en áreas clave de FGR: menos dinero para anticorrupción e investigación forense, más para policía ministerial
www.animalpolitico.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Just look: the gvt. of Mex. president @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social will abolish @INAImexico, used by journalists to reveal graft, and @coneval, which evaluates social policy, and allocate less money to @FGRMexico's capacity to investigate corruption. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/rec...
The disappearance of CONEVAL is bad for the poor and bad for democracy. I spent a decade studying their work and wrote a book about it. There is room for improvement, yes. But CONEVAL is essential accountability and keeping the state focused on protecting social rights. www.sup.org/books/sociol...
November 15, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The disappearance of CONEVAL is bad for the poor and bad for democracy. I spent a decade studying their work and wrote a book about it. There is room for improvement, yes. But CONEVAL is essential accountability and keeping the state focused on protecting social rights. www.sup.org/books/sociol...
THE BEST.
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM
THE BEST.
What was the thing about being a dual citizen: Oh yeah, having to worry about the same thing twice.
Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
November 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
What was the thing about being a dual citizen: Oh yeah, having to worry about the same thing twice.