Mark your calendars for January 30 for a special Mentor of the Month session on federal funding!
Mark your calendars for January 30 for a special Mentor of the Month session on federal funding!
Join us tomorrow!
Reminder to join us THIS FRIDAY (11/7) for Mentor of the Month! This month we'll be focusing on non-academic careers for sociologists of health and medicine (although plenty of useful information for non-medical sociologists as well).
Four days left! New submission deadline: October 31
IU Bloomington Sociology Location Bloomington Position Summary The Department of Sociology (https://sociology.indiana.edu/index.html) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2026 in the general area of sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. We encourage applicants whose research in medicine, health, and/or well-being would complement department strengths in the areas of education, social psychology, political sociology, sociology of the family, sociology of inequality, stratification, and population. The tenure home for this position will be in the Department of Sociology. Ph.D. in Sociology is required at time of appointment. Applicants should apply online at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984 including a cover letter; CV; statements on research and/or teaching; up to three writing samples; and contact information for three letters of reference. Applications must be complete by November 16, 2025, to receive full consideration. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Queries can be sent to Fabio Rojas (frojas@iu.edu), Department of Sociology Chair, or Jennifer Barber (jenbarb@iu.edu), Chair of the Search Committee. Indiana University is an equal opportunity employer and provider of ADA services and prohibits discrimination in hiring. See Indiana University Notice of Non-Discrimination here which includes contact information.
Oh hey, little update. Indiana University Department of Sociology is hiring this fall. Keeping you on your toes deadline is 11/16. Weβre looking for an assistant professor specializing in sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984
Are you a sociologist exploring non-academic careers? Join our session via Zoom on Nov 7 (2-3pm ESTβ°) to hear from Skye Miner (RAND), Sarah Diefendorf (Intermountain Healthcare), & Dan Simon (Colorado DPH)
πOpen to members of the ASA(@asanews.bsky.social) Sections: Medical Sociology & Mental Health.
Scroll through the would-have-been print edition here, complete with blocked & unfilled ad space: issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
As someone who worked on student newspapers for 8+ years, I'm appalled at how IU is treating workers at the IDS. Shoutout to these students for standing up for free speech. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content
The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
Deadline has been extended to October 31!
Just about a week out from the ESS submission deadline. Join us for the mini-conference on Health Professions Education!
It's that time of year again-- submit to the ESS mini-conference on Health Professions Education! This year's theme is "Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education." Deadline to submit is October 15: ess2026.exordo.com/login. See more info below π
Since it's the first day of the new semester, I thought it was time to announce that I'm starting as an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State! Very excited to take my career to my fourth Big 10 university.