@AndrewJPerrin

Sociology chair @JHUArtsSciences; Study democracy @SNFAgoraJHU. Before: @UNCSociology @IAH_UNC. @SwatAlum and @UCBerkeley alum. Opinions my own. #GoHeels

 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/perrin/
Joined May 2012
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One of the studies often used to claim increasing left-wing bias in sociology doesn't really show that at all. My latest on Scatterplot: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/1…

llms of abstracts: on one of the studies cited on sociology’s leftward turn

In a Twitter exchange on Ashley Rubin’s report on political distortions in sociology, Jesse Smith praises the report for (among other things) “LLM analysis of the political valence of a…

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Robb Willer
@RobbWillerSep 30
🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoctoral fellow for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @StanfordHAI Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, and related fields. Please share widely! Position + how to apply: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospe…
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Ho-fung Hung@hofunghungSep 26
please help spread the news. apply.interfolio.com/193532
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Sociology @JHUArtsSciences is continuing our growth with two open positions this year! These positions are at the Associate Professor level. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/193532
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Alex Mechanick@apmechanSep 15
The Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy (located in DC) is hiring multiple tenure track faculty across poli sci, law, sociology, history, philosophy, comp sci, econ, and more. Join us! Apps are due Oct. 25. apply.interfolio.com/193492 apply.interfolio.com/193579
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Tim Gill@timgill924Aug 12
“Sociology journals don’t publish articles involving genetics!”
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Daniel Dale
@ddale8Aug 11
Vaccines do not cause autism Vaccine doses are nowhere close to “the size of a bottle of soda,” they’re a fraction of a teaspoon The combo MMR vaccine is not “quite lethal,” it’s been very safe for more than five decades There are no separate M/M/R shots available in the US and won’t be anytime soon  Autism prevalence wasn’t “1 in 10,000” in 2006, it was 1 in 110 No state has been requiring little kids to get “72 jabs,” nor even by age 18 Fact check on the rapid-fire vaccine misinformation President Trump delivered yesterday while pushing to change US vaccine policy: cnn.com/2026/08/11/politics/…

Fact check: Trump makes numerous false and misleading claims about vaccines and autism | CNN...

Trump has long pushed vaccine misinformation.

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BDP @SLMsociology has a new paper in the American Journal of Criminal Justice titled "Police Radio Communications as a Measure." The article proposes a new way of measuring policing effectiveness. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10…

Police Radio Communications as a Measure

American Journal of Criminal Justice - Criminal justice research on policing effectiveness is limited by available measures of police activity. This article proposes a new measure – the...

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This is far worse news for empirical sociology than all the “war in sociology” media accounts
Stephen L. Morgan@SLMsociologyJul 28
Replying to @familyunequal @ASAnews
And, based on what we are told, there will be no 2028 GSS … (but we are in the field and will complete the 2026 GSS, nonetheless).
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Jonathan Wynn@wynnsociologyJul 26
Counterpoint: all other fields should be absorbed by the "Queen of the Social Sciences," Sociology.
Steve McGuire
@sfmcguire79Jul 25
“Sociology’s relentless focus on race, gender and class, its emphasis on the need for social change over the benefits of social stability and its obsession with inequality amount to an abdication of scholarly duty.”
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This objection is why viewpoint diversity is the wrong way to think about the problem: a visual metaphor that undermines the core intellectual virtue of revisability. The problem (roughly) is the space of ideas considered not the viewpoint of the profs. bostonglobe.com/2023/03/29/o…

People deserve safety on college campuses. Ideas don’t. - The Boston Globe

The best way to break the campus echo chamber is to open up campuses to better argumentative practices.

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chad wellmon@cwellmonJul 22
So where do you find these ‘viewpoints,’ so clear, unchanging, and fixed? Like, if I wanted one, how would I get it? And once I got it, could I loose it? Could it change? Could I change? Who manages & polices them all, testing & certifying their legibility?
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A few of my thoughts and memories of Robin Wagner-Pacifici after her death earlier this month. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…

robin wagner-pacifici

I became a sociology major – and, in large part, a sociologist – because of Robin Wagner-Pacifici. In the days since her death, I’ve heard several other of my fellow Swarthmore-al…

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Too bad @UNC never implemented the contextual transcript policy faculty council endorsed back in 2011! My letter in @WSJ about that and a similar recent proposal: wsj.com/opinion/inflated-gpa…

Opinion | Inflated GPA Nirvana Comes at a High Price

Hopefully proposals to bring artificially boosted grades back down to earth like Ms. Arnold’s gain traction.

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This is materially the same as the policy I developed and was passed at @UNC before sadly not being implemented nytimes.com/2010/12/26/educa…

A Quest to Explain What Grades Really Mean (Published 2010)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is planning to add extra information — probably median grades, and perhaps more — to transcripts, among other measures.

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Reihan Salam
@reihanJun 17
This is a brilliant idea: "A student’s transcript would show two overall grade-point averages. Next to the traditional GPA will appear a second number that adjusts course grades based on the median grade in each class. A student who earns an A in a course where the median grade is also an A would receive less of a boost than one who earns an A in a tougher course. If a student filled his schedule with easy-A classes, his transcript might show a traditional GPA of 4.0 and an adjusted GPA of 2.7. This large difference communicates that the student’s traditional GPA overstates his academic performance."
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With last week's announcement that Zophia Edwards' "Fueling Development" won the @ASAnews Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, I believe @JHUArtsSciences Sociology is also the first department to have back to back winners of the award (Edwards, @allison_pugh ).
ASA Sociology@ASAnewsJun 11
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ASA Awards, the highest honors the association confers. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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With last week's announcement that Zophia Edwards' "Fueling Development" won the @ASAnews Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, I believe @JHUArtsSciences Sociology is the first department to have 4 winners of the award on faculty at the same time (Edwards, Pugh, Prasad, Silver).
ASA Sociology@ASAnewsJun 11
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ASA Awards, the highest honors the association confers. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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Congrats to Zophia Edwards of @JHUArtsSciences sociology for winning the Distinguished Scholarly Book award for _Fueling Development_ (dukeupress.edu/fueling-devel… )

Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago

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ASA Sociology@ASAnewsJun 11
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ASA Awards, the highest honors the association confers. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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I haven’t read the Vanderbilt report yet, but look forward to doing so. Right now I’m amused that it’s either groundbreaking and brilliant or utter trash, depending mostly on what the reader already thought before they read it.
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Careful, important historical work on Johns Hopkins (the person) and the subtleties of history by @SydneyVanMorgan open.substack.com/pub/houseo…
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Important points! Root cause is that there is no clear bounds on “faculty” and no theoretically defensible measure of individual ideology. Best it can be is a proxy for the universe of ideas considered and debated on campus which is the right concept to care about.
John B. Holbein
@JohnHolbein1May 29
Replying to @JohnHolbein1
There is no such thing as a perfect measure of faculty ideology. Surveys: low response rates, social desirability Twitter follows (i.e. Barberá 2015): many academics have left the platform Donations: many faculty don't donate So any measure needs to come with, at minimum, very serious caveats.
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