Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, @colbycollege. Secular Conversions, After Positivism. Religion, politics, history, culture, law, vermú. @mayrl@bsky
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10 Apr 2024
It's here! Thrilled to welcome After Positivism (co-edited with @nickhwilson) into the world. A 🧵 with some details on the contents 1/19
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Jun 6
The US Military just made a bunch of changes to their list of Faith Codes.
The gist is that the old list used to include every single type of Baptist in a separate entry. Now, they are all under a single umbrella, "Christian - Baptist"
Another interesting choice is that LDS are not listed as Christians.
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New article in @PNASNews:
We all know that ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022.
ALT The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles
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May 30
Americans interested in government should study Australia for an extreme example of how different the state vs local government relationship can be.
In Australia, the state governments control almost everything. Councils have meetings, adopt policies, and do micro-planning …1/
May 30
In fairness, American local government is kind of incoherent by design. The metropolises is a natural and intuitive unit of human organization, yet the typical US metropolis is a patchwork of dozens of distinct local jurisdictions with entirely arbitrary boundaries.
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May 14
Must have been a rough tenure track.
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Apr 17
We are pleased to announce the “Rename Sociology So We Can Hide It From The Legislature” contest!
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Mar 22
Well, I did a thing. I hope it's useful.
I mapped every four-year college in the U.S. higher education along two dimensions — institutional resilience & post-college market position — using eight indicators from federal data along with a new measure of institutional AI exposure.
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18 Nov 2025
Please spread the word: Colby's Education Department is looking for a sociologist of education for a 1-year Visiting Assistant Professor position. I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions. careercenter.asanet.org/job/…
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29 Jul 2025
We're hiring! Please share with your networks!
The Department of Sociology at @UWMadison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026.
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…
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15 Jul 2025
"AFTER POSITIVISM is one of the best contemporary arguments that all of us...should continually struggle with how we come to know about the realities we say we know something about."—Jordan Fox.. buff.ly/c1BL7Ot #Positivism #BookReview #ReadUP @nickhwilson @yrlsoc
ALT cover of After Positivism New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology Edited by Nicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl Columbia University Press
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1 Jul 2025
This new volume, edited by @nickhwilson and @yrlsoc is full of ideas – some provocative – relevant to thinking about how to engage in historically-oriented research.
I do not agree with all its arguments. But it discusses the right issues and provides much food for thought.
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12 Jan 2025
We are pleased to announce that Nicholas Hoover Wilson's MODERNITY'S CORRUPTION takes the Honorable Mention for the 2024 Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award from the Social Science History Association. buff.ly/3WaJtML @nickhwilson @socscihist
ALT Honorable Mention. Nicholas Hoover Wilson. Modernity's Corruption. 2024 Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award, Social Science History Association. 20% discount with CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu
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11 Jan 2025
I’m so happy to share that my book is now published and available open-access 🥳 Thank you, @CUP_PoliSci and @jrgingrich for this endorsement!
(🧵coming soon, too :)
"Beautifully written insight on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies that opens a new lens on one of the most central, largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."
The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera
Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/40rmtLI
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10 Jan 2025
We're hiring a visiting asst prof of sociology @LafCol for 25-26! Come work in a great dept with amazing students. And check out our state of the art digs! Spread the word, retweet wildly, and feel free to contact me if interested! apply.interfolio.com/161664
ALT Academic building Oechsle Center for Global Education at Lafayette College with blooming trees in front.
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9 Jan 2025
The Santa Fe Institute is hiring full-time resident faculty!
We’re looking for applicants with outstanding academic accomplishments in their own field who also engage other disciplines in deep ways. Our faculty are broad, creative, and catalytic thinkers who are willing to take risks. They excel at communication and collaboration and are looking to break new ground in addressing some of science and society’s most challenging problems.
Apply by Friday, March 28, 2025. santafe.edu/about/jobs/resid…
ALT A view of the Jemez Mountains from SFI's Noyce Portal. Image by Kate Joyce.
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8 Jan 2025
Final reminder: The deadline to submit to TSQ's special issue on student activism is coming up soon on January 15th!
For more details, go to think.taylorandfrancis.com/s…
9 Oct 2024
Call for papers!
Gabby Gomez (@Gabgo128), @Jericho_McElroy, @JessicaSchachle, and I are co-editing an upcoming issue of The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly) on student activism. Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2025.
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4 Jan 2025
The Call for Papers for the 50th edition of the SSHA conference in Chicago, November 20-23, 2025 is now live and open for submissions: ssha.org/conference/
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27 Nov 2024
New article! My colleagues and I synthesize recent research examining how characteristics of U.S. colleges and universities shape the presence, forms, and outcomes of campus activism.
Check it out (free for the first 50 readers) at tandfonline.com/eprint/2YMSK…
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🚨Announcement for scholars in the Politics of Law & the Judiciary.
➡️The @europsa 2025 call for papers includes a section on Judicial Politics.
🗓️June 26-28, 2025 @uc3m Madrid 🇪🇸
📩Submit by 18 Dec. '24 at coms.app/epsa2025
Looking forward to your panel & paper proposals
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