Andrew Perrin

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

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@RogueWPA @CheeseForEvery1 But the law recognizes differences in the personhood as well. Most obviously, corporate “persons” cannot vote (yet!). So limiting corporate political donations does not necessarily threaten the general principle of corporate personhood.

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

Careful, important historical work on Johns Hopkins (the person) and the subtleties of history by @SydneyVanMorgan https://t.co/SccUqYvWLY

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@markmcneilly As I think you know, Mark, I generally agree. But the question was about how to measure it, not just whether it feels that way. And my point is that what actually matters is the breath of Ideas considered, not the identifications of the faculty.

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

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 @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.

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@ASAnews If you’d like to sign on to the statement, visit https://t.co/ukLa2D5jni .

The current full list of signatories can be found at https://t.co/CPBpgBBS12 .

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

A few more thoughts on my reasons for opposing having @ASAnews vote on the proposed boycott: https://t.co/mBUmi6G873

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

the @ASAnews should not hold a vote on the boycott proposal. Statement from a group of sociologists: https://t.co/iYALZ6wMxO

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

Come work with us - we are hiring for a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor cluster in Computational Social Science! https://t.co/zmt17gG4Um

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@JukkaSavo @ashleytrubin should not make its operational decisions based on the political beliefs of a fraction of the membership, bypassing the fiduciary role of the elected leadership. You don’t need to buy into a separate class of “scientific sociologists” to agree with that point. [2/2]

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@JukkaSavo @ashleytrubin Thanks for the shout out but for the record I would not endorse the distinction you’ve drawn. I think sociology and activism have long been connected and have no problem w sociologists connecting their work with social change. I think the professional society of sociologists [1/]

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@mlefaye33 @ashleytrubin All sociologists

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@anecdotal @WSJ Faculty are not the *only* problem

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

Tell me more about how politicians' recent attacks on sociology are to blame for the declining enrollments that go back [checks notes] more than a decade.

[david s. meyer @davidsmeyer1]

As a candidate for office in the American Sociological Association, I've been asked to provide a statement on a proposed academic boycott of Israel. Here it is:
Academic boycott of Israel and the American Sociological Association https://t.co/MRtZnDJAZd via @davidsmeyer1

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

Don't outsource civil discourse - my latest in the @ChronicleReview with @chrislundberg https://t.co/OuByR8nyiP

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Congratulations @allison_pugh of @JHUArtsSciences Sociology, recipient of a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship! https://t.co/kKf8uqgoDW

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

the @ASAnews should not hold a vote on the boycott proposal. Statement from a group of sociologists: https://t.co/iYALZ6wMxO

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@williamjurayj @jhuclsp Really interesting. Question: it seems odd to take a deterministic question (how much did I make, how much do I owe), introduce probabilistic/uncertain reasoning, and prefer deterministic results. Why does LLM outperform a well designed deterministic algorithm for this?

[Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin]

@coreyrpayne @Soc4Pal “ethical” often stands in for a claim to power in the association; there is legitimate heterogeneity among the membership on many political questions, so I think it’s right for the association to be reticent to adopt a political position advanced by only a portion of its members

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

While you wasted your time pursuing your cute little passion of learning to code, I received a real education in the liberal arts.