Diana Graizbord

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First Publics is hosting another FREE webinar on February 23 from 1-2 PM EST! Join us for a conversation with Drs. Arturo Baiocchi, Sarah Lageson, and Piper Sledge about methods for/as public engagement!

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The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.

We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.

Thank you @asaskat.bsky.social and especially @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Kellogg PhD Fellow Mayra Ortiz-Ocaña and Dissertation Year Fellow Laura López Pérez for their publication in Sociological Methods & Research titled "Using Focus Groups for Process Tracing: Leveraging Group Discussions for Causal Inference." Read it here: https://bit.ly/49VGzDh

two of my favorite sociologists and people on ZM's transition team! @alondra.bsky.social and Gianpaolo Baiocchi

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.

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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...

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This essay by sociologist Marco Garrido is so good. Essential reading for Latin Americanists. doi.org/10.1177/0735...

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...

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...

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...

Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.

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

death cult demands more death they want you to die they want you to die of cold they want you to die of measles they want you to die of hunger they want you to die of AIDS they want you to die of dioxin they want you to die of cancer they want you to die pregnant they want you to die giving birth they want you to die not giving birth they want you to die in a hurricane they want you to die in a flood they want you to die in a heatwave they want you to die for your crimes they want you to die for theirs they want you to die in their secret chats they want you to die for their photo ops they want you to die of despair they want you to die

death cult demands more death asociologist.com/2025/04/01/d...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

"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...

Not true of course, he wrote so many wonderful pieces about teaching as public sociology, teaching ethnographically, teaching in lively ways. But lovely way to think about teaching.

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.

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

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...

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!

Perfilan recortes en áreas clave de FGR: menos dinero para anticorrupción e investigación forense, más para policía ministerial

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...

¿Para qué evaluar la política pública? YouTube video by El Colegio de México A.C.

And the other Dr. Graizbord did this nice interview for those that want to know more en español: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjE...

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...