Megan Tobias Neely
Assistant Professor of Sociology @Colorado.Edu. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyDo you teach theory? Help us build a community syllabus database by sharing yours. Find our email in the bio.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyMost of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyCEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias Neelythere’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyCongratulations to Vivian Shaw @vivianshaw.bsky.social (2018-19) and Kanoko Kamata (2017-18) on their co-authored article, "Compartmentalizing Intersectionality: Feminist Translations in Anti-Racist and Anti-Rape Activism in Japan," in Gender & Society. doi.org/10.1177/0891...
- Hedged Out featured in @wsj.com in a piece by Matt Wirz on how private-managers influence the U.S. economy and politics in alarming ways that should concern us all—and especially students, workers, and retirees. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyBreaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyMore than 350,000 noncitizen healthcare workers keep our system afloat—many serving in underserved areas. Yet they now face possible deportation. These workers aren’t just essential—they’re irreplaceable. Let’s protect and uplift those who protect our health. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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- Some good news that may have gotten lost amid the headlines: Costco is raising the average hourly wage to over $30 after negotiations with their workers’ union. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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- What does it mean to make AI pro worker? “Give workers a seat at the table in that transition.”
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- Musk’s billions are in heavily illiquid and indebted capital. He has long borrowed against his shares in SpaceX and Tesla, of which the declining stocks accounts for most of his wealth. Investors must be concerned. How long until this house of cards collapses? www.forbes.com/sites/johnhy...
- For those teaching, these types of practices by billionaires is a prime example of fictitious capital.
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyMassive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyI have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyChecking in with sources this morning... The total from NIH was apparently slightly more than 1500 people (out of 5200 HHS Department-wide) 1/n
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyEvery professor should join the AAUP right now if you haven't. www.aaup.org Also join your local campus workers union, or any other union relevant to your work (they do different things!). If the government won't protect us, and our administrations won't protect us, we need to protect each other.
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyA panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyI want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
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- @pallavib.bsky.social wrote an award winning book about this—the gendered and radicalized implications of the dependent visa programs. Check out The Opportunity Trap @nyupress.bsky.social
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- Braun et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
- “Is Contraception Under Attack?…Intentionally or not, the Dobbs decision and the state-level bans that are its progeny have exerted a chilling effect on birth control. “ @amandajean.bsky.social has been warning of this for years… www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyI co-directed this special issue of the Canadian Review of Sociology celebrating the work of Viviana A. Zelizer with Jeanne Lazarus. Zelizer is one of the most recognized economic sociologists; the issue highlights her significance for family and intimacy scholars. Links to all the articles below👇
- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyOne way to analyze the 'Harris Flop' from the perspective of the political sociology of emotions might be through the concept of 'emotional capital', the lack of which is having a negative effect on his political capital. See my paper on this if interested: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GE24
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- Reposted by Megan Tobias NeelyMy new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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- Musk took over Twitter while I was doing field work in San Franciso. I’ll never forgot the turmoil he caused for employees. I hate to think of what’s in store for government workers—and the impacts on the broader public. www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g...
- As @pallavib.bsky.social’s excellent research finds, workers with visas faced considerable exploitation, especially pressures to work long hours, at the new X.
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