Neal Caren

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CPC is hiring! We're looking for a Training Manager for our T32 programs. This would be a great position for someone w/ advanced doc studies or a PhD in a pop-science related field who wants to be academia-adjacent. To learn more/apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/283...

Training Managerunc.peopleadmin.com This position is the Program/Project Manager for the Population Research Training and the BioSocial Research Training Programs at the Carolina Population Center (cpc.unc.edu). The Carolina Population ...

128 years ago this month, Du Bois was offered a research opportunity that he turned into The Philadelphia Negro. "Are ready to appoint you for one year at nine hundred dollars. Maximum payable monthly from date of services. If you wish appointment will write definitely."

So excited to read this one!

Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Medicine is out today! Psychedelic Outlaws tells an epic story of people with cluster headaches—an excruciating disease—and their extraordinary journey to find a treatment. bit.ly/psychedelico... www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

Excited to share my new article with @EdwinAmenta & Weijun Yuan in @sociologicalforum on news coverage of social movement organizations (SMOs). It challenges the "protest paradigm" that has dominated research on how activists are portrayed in the media. 🧵 1/6

I wrote a note on getting the most recent ChatGPT model to extract structured data from images. nealcaren.github.io/notes/posts/...

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New working paper compares Black newspapers to mainstream newswires in protest event coverage 1994 - 2010. Link to a blog that has graphs that give an overview of some findings & links to the paper itself. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

Black Protests of 1990s and 2000s in Black Newspapers vs Mainstream Newswires – Race, Politics, Justicewww.ssc.wisc.edu

Chaotic neutral month pulldown menu.

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Finally caught my breath for a sec and wrote a short thing about the encampments and the current state of pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide movement.

Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Notcountingcrowds.org Protest encampments have sprung up over the past few weeks on more than 100 college and university campuses across the country, and they have rightly drawn national attention to the pro-Palestinian mo...

Somewhat obsessed with Axios-style ChatGPT-generated journal article summaries.

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New paper just accepted at @readdemography.bsky.social with @rsbaker.bsky.social & Ryan Finnigan: “The Role of Single Motherhood in America’s High Child Poverty.” The role is small. US would have HIGH child poverty even if there was ZERO single motherhood. bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Finally, someone in the New York Times Cooking comments section is willing to defend pre-made pasta sauce.

Julianne Moore in conversation with architect and interior designer Rafael de Cárdenas about the 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture in today's Times.

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Kudos to Barbara Entwisle!

Barbara Entwisle has been named incoming Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC) for the US Census Bureau www.cpc.unc.edu/news/barbara...

Barbara Entwisle has been named incoming Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC) for the US Census Bureau | Carolina Population Centerwww.cpc.unc.edu Barbara Entwisle, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center (CPC), has been named the incoming Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC) for...

Apparently, the only people who Google about Golden Age radio drink sweat tea.

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Thrilled to announce my new open access article in Perspectives on Politics with Jessie Barton Hronesova theorizing and analyzing "hijacked victimhood" - the inversion of moral relations between dominant/oppressed groups as a political communication strategy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Our Spring issue is out! New research on unity in protests, media influence on activism, online identity, creative resistance, and the heart of climate advocacy! meridian.allenpress....

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Join our CBSM small group on computational methods for a discussion of new data, methodologies, and the future of social movements research 🪧 💻📱#️⃣🤖 With @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @haphazardsoc.bsky.social, Josh Zhang, Eunkyung Song, and Danny Karell. PM me for Zoom details.

Do not steal money from robots! Replicated a conjoint experiment using ChatGPT, and here's the proportion of times it recommended prison over probation for various crimes.

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The Duke Polarization Lab is searching for a Postdoc! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27242 Help us continue developing the Social Media Accelerator described in this new working paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

Should you start the abstract of your sociology article with a rhetorical question? Maybe for Sociology of Education. Probably not for Demography.

Thrilled that "Dare You Fight" now has more than 600 articles by W.E.B. Du Bois, most online for the first time. I'm less excited that a sphynx/jupyterbook update broke the custom CSS, and the new dark mode is like a Myspace page. www.dareyoufight.org

Runner's World link delivers the goods. "Her husband, Alistair, is the group's head coach." -> "Why Aren't More Female Coaches in Charge of Pro Teams?"

Based on recent articles in Social Forces, 62% of references are mentioned in only one paragraph, and 95% are mentioned in four or fewer paragraphs. Note: References also include primary sources, so the 8+ category is theory and archival work.

Looks like sociology majors (at 4-year institutions) are down 20% since 2018 (from 84K to 67K), while the rest of the social sciences are down 11%. nscresearchcenter.org/current-term...

The kicker to "Recruited to Play Sports, and Win a Culture War Many New College athletes had no idea they were part of Ron DeSantis’s attack on 'woke ideology.' Then the semester began." www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/m...

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So honoured to be included in this @cbsmnews online panel: In The Crossfire: Transgender Rights Between Ascendance and Backlash Feb 6, 2024 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) If you are interested but not a member of the CBSM section, please email me for the zoom link.

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Dunno if anyone is interested, but I've been (slowly) posting blogs about key Black protest episodes from the 1990s and 2000s. Yesterday I posted a summary of the top criminal-legal episodes, including the Jena Six, the Diallo killing, the Mumia protests and more. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

This 1920s figure by a sociologist blending Freud(?) and sociology is something.

A Du Bois cite for us journal editors when we are slow reviewing manuscripts. www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/19/0...

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Proud to announce that my book, Psychedelic Outlaws, is now available for pre-order! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joann...

Psychedelic Outlawswww.hachettebookgroup.com An award-winning sociologist unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilo...