Jeremy Freese

It’s an embarrassment. Literally and genuinely, I feel embarrassed to have “sociologist” as my job title whenever it comes up.

There’s the rub.

I would like to see one of these items where an incentive is given for a correct answer.

Last night I had a dream that I broke the world record in the long jump. OR WAS IT A PREMONITION? #Goals

The fight with blowtorch guns in Ballerina is about as sui generis as it gets.

I get jolly e-mail updates from the coach about the goings-on of the wrestling team at American University in Washington, DC. Hand to God, I have no idea why.

Somehow I came to be elected to the PAA Board, which just met, and it is startling what extremely functional organization and group of people it is. The high goodwill PAA has among its members is well-deserved.

Wuthering Heights was disappointing. It had 5-6 bananas moments, where it needed 20 and I was expecting 30.

Beckie and I are at an Alamo Drafthouse waiting for Wuthering F. Heights to start and I am embarrassed at how psyched I am. If Margot Robbie gets to announce “Nellie, I *am* Heathcliff!” there is no way I will be able to stop a squee.

Maybe they just become more honest about how they’ve always felt.

He Researched Dishonesty. He Got Friendly With Jeffrey Epstein.

Sometimes academia makes me feel so jaded I could be a little elephant on sale in a Taiwanese street market. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

I feel like it would have something for everyone.

For numerous reasons, I could never be elected ASA President, but if I were my conference theme would be “Calling Out Bullshit.”

I like how you smuggled some low-level wine snobbery into this.

I guess for me there’s also the first name thing.

Yeah, same. I am teaching a freshman seminar centered on data analysis and prepping each class provokes existential confusion about what I should be trying to explain or have them do.

You could travel around in an RV as you go from campus to campus, perhaps having adventures and righting wrongs along the way.

They walked that back awhile ago. I think folks gave a clear enough behavioral signal with non-attendance at some other online things ASA has organized post-COVID.

I’m watching the game in a bar and was the only one who cheered for it. Football fans are such frequentists.

Cameo appearance by Bayes Theorem in a Super Bowl ad.

Has anyone who was rumored to maybe still be alive ever turned out to still be alive?

Los Altos has a pop-up Dark Romance bookstore.

Or contract grading (unless those are different names for the same thing).

I remember saying when I taught the same class at Northwestern as Wisconsin, it felt like the top 15% at Wisconsin and top 60% at Northwestern were comparable. But LONG ago and vibe-based.

I wonder if there are any folks at Harvard who do ungrading (a practice where students get to assign their own grades).

Eh, I was just being squirrelly. If I’m being honest, I suspect being in sociology vs economics has led to incommensurate experiences on both sides of your analogy, more than me having a different view than you. (Also, grade inflation at Stanford is out of control and I am part of the problem.)

Got tickets to see Australia play Paraguay in the World Cup. I’ve started the lobbying for us to attend in Raygun costumes.

I wonder how professors would grade if giving a student an A meant the student got a permanent seat in the professor’s classroom.

Log b 2! Log b 2! Everything gets to be about doubling.

Every so often these days I hear someone randomly squawking the phrase “stochastic parrot.”