Robert Dingwall
rwjdingwall.bsky.social
Robert Dingwall
@rwjdingwall.bsky.social
Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
Fair do's. It can be hard to avoid for taller people of any sex or gender identity encountering Ryanair seat pitch...
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I would go for a postdoc - the challenge is keeping bright people in the system until things change again - speaking as one who spent 13 years on short contracts in the 1970s and 1980s before panic hirings in the 1990s....
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Unprofessional editor...
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Try digging into the mortality data - fact and cause certified by last attending physician/medical examiner/funeral director/acting for the state/city/county. Tell me how you adjust for that degree of input variability...
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The states vary so much in their data collection practices that it is not clear that much faith could ever have been placed in the data...
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Does anyone believe TRAC data? A Potemkin village in the days when I had to complete the forms...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Robert Dingwall
He was a key figure in setting up the Human Genome Project, which had a terrible organizational structure and failed to deliver on the hype.

I interviewed one of the main funders who said they felt it was a waste of money (but did generate useful research tools).
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November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Probably more to do with the long term trend we identified. Demand increasing and supply decreasing from a combination of demography, safety regulation and medical developments.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Some of us suggested in 1994 research that a 'help yourself' power for transplant medics was unlikely to make much difference to organ supply....
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Creeping iatrocracy...
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Reposted by Robert Dingwall
Despite its ideals, science cannot escape its social embedding,When science becomes entangled with state power or social movements that prioritize hierarchy, nationalism, or exclusion, it can be mobilized in support of authoritarian ideologies, including fascism.
November 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM