Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota My blog: https://asocial.substack.com/https://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mi2ub5k6yk2hSo St. Paul (Ramsey County) needs to get a little more serious, I think. You'll notice it _ever so slightly_ sitting outside Minnesota's population trends.27 Mar 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2ub5k6yk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhilbyplds2n@startribune.com story - University of Minnesota spent 15 MILLION DOLLARS for a marketing firm to produce a terrible slogan: leave a future https://www.startribune.com/university-of-mn-slogan/601614661 The U's description is some of the lowest effort ChatGPT I've seen. Pretty embarrassing. https://umarcomm.umn.edu/blog/2026/03/09/brand-language-labs-beginning-integration-leave-future20 Mar 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhilbyplds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhe7iqkqyk2sGo to the University of Minnesota to leave your future, I guess. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe7iqkqyk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mhdb7qwuck2eSome quick hitters at the blog today: https://asocial.substack.com/p/inequality-quick-hitters Including one heck of a devastating graph showing the consequences of the Great Recession for the bottom half of the American labor market18 Mar 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdb7qwuck2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mh26jmgois2aFYI Karen Luftey, a really great medical sociologist, has a substack, "I'm Not Gaslighting You." spencerk.substack.com https://spencerk.substack.com/14 Mar 2026 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh26jmgois2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mgu5k5bwfc2dOver at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings. * (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws * NAFTA kills * (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship https://open.substack.com/pub/asocial/p/inequality-readers-the-minimum?r=1vy4qo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Hope you find this interesting!12 Mar 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgu5k5bwfc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mgu5k5bwfc2dOver at the blog I wrote about a few interesting findings. * (Lack of) compliance with minimum wage laws * NAFTA kills * (Poor) working conditions reduce partisanship https://open.substack.com/pub/asocial/p/inequality-readers-the-minimum?r=1vy4qo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Hope you find this interesting!12 Mar 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgu5k5bwfc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mfjnyq6ufc2sThis is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00031224251411563 I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.23 Feb 2026 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjnyq6ufc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3meh6vk23ok2zCorrect. This is valuable time that researchers could be investing into changing the formatting styles of their citations between resubmissions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3meh6vk23ok2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3me2gwwbmqk2o@ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social wrote, imo, the best practical sociology-journal-writing pieces of advice out there. https://assets.super.so/6b4b5d92-904a-4e7b-95bd-914dd1d1528f/files/a8bf52c7-9e35-4b18-8a1f-ce4f2bc4ddcb.pdf His second part came out in 2015. Has any sociologist done anything like this in the last decade?04 Feb 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2gwwbmqk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mdggvav4ak2n1. Each Soc Sci discipline thinks they're more scientific than others... 2. ... exception being Anth 3. Soc. think that only Psych is more scientific than them. 4. Poli Sci thinks both Psych and Econ are more scientific 5. Psych has v. high opinion of itself 6. Econ has v. low opinion of others27 Jan 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdggvav4ak2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/tvanheuvelen.bsky.social/post/3mcfzxzkmjk2gThis paper looks extremely interesting. Nice work! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jan 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:vycapv6bhr3dkcsajdwtldth/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcfzxzkmjk2g