Jessica Nickel

THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026 The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.

NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce"
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Going off the idea of “double consciousness,” I would say Simmel’s “The Stranger” expands on the idea of the “outsider” and “wanderer.” Definitely interesting to consider in today’s online culture

An incredibly important book you should read. 👇👀

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This place is filled with all the positivity I’ve been missing and forgotten.

Thank you for that.

A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.

this is literally what it feels like to have astigmatism

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Simone de Beauvoir: One is not born, but rather becomes, a cup

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Sociologist: let me tell you how this cultural artifact has affected collective human behavior, which is hard to study because I also drink from this cup …

Horror movies are my personal type of at-home therapy, because it’s controllable anxiety, the catharsis makes me feel better. 🖤

ATTN Qual Researchers: Here are some resources I’ve compiled on trauma-informed research practices. I used them to train my incredible team of RAs, who conducted 120+ interviews with violence-involved men in Chicago.

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Our study on religiosity during the pandemic was just assigned an issue: academic.oup.com/socrel/artic...

We show how a switch to web surveys during COVID-19 skewed estimates, creating a misleading illusion of rapid religious decline driven by nonresponse bias among the most religious.

Bar chart showing that 50% of U.S. adults say the Republican Party represents the interests of "people like them" very or somewhat well. By comparison, 43% of adults say this about the Democratic Party.

New today: "For the first time since 2016, more Americans say the Republican Party represents the interests of 'people like them' very or somewhat well than say this about the Democratic Party (50% vs. 43%)." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Feminist Methodology Discover the transformative power of feminist methodology in social research. Learn about gender, intersectionality, and ethical research practices for meaningful insights!

For students and scholars interested in understanding social phenomena from a critical, gender-focused perspective, feminist methodology offers valuable insights into how research itself can be structured to address systemic inequalities.

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Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context. Its three parts explore classical sociology, developments in socio...

As I mourn the recent loss of my grandmother, I am reminded of a sociology book I came across after my father unexpectedly passed: The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement.

Looking at grief through a social theory perspective helped me feel less isolated with my grief

I wanna rock and roll 2 hours tops and party maybe every 14 days

an overlooked aspect of all these “bluesky is an echo chamber” pieces is that the writers bizarrely think that the only reason people use social media is to talk about politics, which is true only for a subset of users

The new issue of Contexts Magazine is here! Sociology for everyone. Thanks for helping me get up to speed pm all things sociological @contextsmag.bsky.social

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

There's a big difference between "niche" as in an issue that not that many people are fully engaged with/informed about and "niche" as in dismissive of "the fate of life on earth for the next 10,000+ years and a whole lot of death, displacement, and destruction right now."

“Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family’s Primary Economic Support?” Using SIPP data, @joannapepin.bsky.social et al. explore multiple pathways by which mothers become primary earners, finding that ↑ income—not r'ship instability—is the main driver.
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American public views of Trump's policies.

Partisan views of Trump's policies.

53% of Americans think Trump will make "good decisions about foreign policy", but that includes 88% of Republicans but only 19% of Democrats.

More info about Americans' attitudes towards Trump and his incoming administration here: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

At least 80% of those who get news from influencers say they get each of the following types of news from them: Basic facts, Funny posts, Opinions, and breaking news

People who get news from influencers aren't just getting commentary - they're also getting basic facts, memes, and info about breaking news.

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Candidly for all this talk of echo chambers and Bluesky 'not broadening horizons' I have learned SO MUCH from people with differing experiences and opinions that has deeply informed and enriched my politics and understanding of the world, because there's more space for generative disagreement!

An exciting new sociological study contextualizing how unemployment matters to suicide rates just came out in the American Sociological Review by my colleagues BK Lee (NYU) and Bernice Pescosolido.../1

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Just wanted to take a second to introduce myself! I’m Jess Nickel, a Master’s level Sociologist and team lead for a federal government survey.

Currently weighing the pros and cons of going back to school for my PhD! Research interests: social/feminist theory, social movements, and group dynamics