Selected Public Sociology
it’s the interface
scatterplot, April 27, 2025
Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls
Nature Careers, July 5, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02225-0
What sex-difference science misses about the messy reality of sex
Psyche Magazine, August 17, 2022 (31,000 readers in the first week.)
sex as a social construct
scatterplot, January 30, 2022 (This post has been read more than 24,000 times and translated into 5 languages. Before my twitter was deactivated, it had been retweeted over 5,200 times, with 117k engagements and 2M impressions.)
2008 & the sociology job market
scatterplot, March 27, 2020
thinking about quality in big data: reddit and missingness
scatterplot, March 17, 2018
Student Perspective (data on the mismatch between ASA student interests and job positings)
SWS Network News, Spring, 2020
Bias and the Application Process
Inside Higher Ed, April 29, 2016
Queer Eye for the… Affirmative Consent Debate?
Girl w/ Pen (The Society Pages), August 5, 2015
reprinted in Gender and Society Blog, August 10, 2015
Gay Rights Are About More Than Marriage
Huffington Post, June 4, 2015