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New working paper: "Taking Other Religions Seriously: A Comparative Survey of Hindus in India." Abstract below. The most fun I've ever had researching or writing an article! Comments welcome, please retweet! #religion #politicalscience #Hinduism papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Ppl looking to give $$$--a few local/national orgs that are doing incredible work and focused on both black survival & systems change. All social movts need funding; so give if you can! x.com/bailfundnetwor…

We are live! Hold your Michigan politicians to account for the money they have accepted from policing and corrections interest groups! Link here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

THREAD: Where is police interest group money going in #michiganpolitics? We have the records. Here are the top recipients of police and corrections money in Michigan electoral politics (1/5)

Our website is live: nomorecopmoney.com Use our tool to contact Michigan politicians who've taken money from the cops and ask them to donate it to organizations that are committed to ending police brutality and affirm the value of black lives #BlackLivesMatter #NoCopMoney

nomorecopmoney.com is now live with *national data* on campaign contributions that local and state politicians accepted from law enforcement PACs since 2015! #blacklivesmatter No More Cop Money

The US welfare system is broken & so is the technology that administers it. The punitive nature of means-testing is compounded by software failures. For commentary on welfare access during COVID-19 & a summary of our #CSCW2020 paper, see my Medium article: link.medium.com/ooP8luAQD7

worth pointing out that they’re being held in a migrant detention center outside Moscow where detainees have complained of severe overcrowding for years

Thrilled to announce our new edited volume w Brian J. McCabe, The Sociology of Housing. The book examines the key role housing plays in everything from social networks, to health and racial inequality, and sets an agenda to elevate housing as a distinct subfield within sociology

well. University of Michigan has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to Grad Employees' Org UMich strike fund at givebutter.com/GEOStrikeFund. we need all the help we can get ✊

As part of their aggressive strategy in the ongoing graduate student Grad Employees' Org UMich strike at @umich, the administration has "encouraged" faculty to break the strike through the timely submission of grades. The sociology faculty wrote this letter in response: docs.google.com/document/d/1AK…

New paper alert! 🚨 Oxus Fellows Assem Kalkamanova & Akylai Otkulbek kyzy examine the role of aitys(h) (improvised oral poetry) in activism in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 & Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬. The paper draws on interviews with aqyns (performers) & participant observation oxussociety.org/aitysh-as-a-fo…

Important paper: refugee resettlements have *no effect* on crime. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Can laws be translated into software? In a new study, Nel Escher Jeffrey Bilik Nikola Banovic and I show that the translation process is rife with misunderstandings, leading to errors and policy distortions in legal software. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…