What's the consensus about which hotel around the Philly convention center has the most luxurious breakfast buffet?

Newly-arrived sociologists want to know and then revel in their (my) gluttony

#ASA #ASA2023 #ASASociology

A major, annoying snafu with my #ASA2023 hotel reservation, which I've been trying to fix for more than a week, has been fixed by creating a new reservation outside of the ASA hotel block and paying $50

The excellent hotel reservation worker I worked with was very polite and tactful in explaining that the ASA housing service is rather difficult to work with and not fully up on the logistics at all times

I'm not *terribly* surprised

#ASASociology #asa

Reading #ASASociology’s Footnotes this morning and noting that the house style is to tag links to New York Times articles as “login required,” but put no such callouts on academic journal articles that aren’t open access. #irony

ASA, of course, opposes large-scale movement to open access because of its business model, in which revenues come primarily from two sources: publishing agreements with Sage and an annual in-person conference (also the primary reason many join the org)

@sociology

...OK, I ended up sending this to #ASASociology council just now. Interested to see what they say!

cc people who've responded to posts about this: @pamelaoliver @jonathanhorowi1 @WeedenKim @philipncohen @fetner

#sociology #sociolodon

Members of #ASASociology Council, I'd love to know more about what the discussion on this has been like. I'm coming at this with a strong opinion that it's a mistake, but I promise that a conversation about it won't be antagonistic and I'm open to changing my mind!

#sociodon #sociology

@jonathanhorowi1 I really think it's fairly outrageous that #ASASociology threw this in there without offering any kind of an explanation or history of discussion on this, beyond the brief statement that they want fiduciaries making decisions

The idea that only those with a fiduciary duty to the org should make organizational decisions seems quite wrong.

If members want to constrain how high the membership fees should be, the ability to work with for-profit publishers, or anything else, because we value other things more than the org's balance sheet

(or want to weigh in on more mundate matters like the forced move to #ASAConnect)

those seem like legitimate roles for members.

#ASASociology #ProfessionalAssociations

The American Sociological Association wants to limit members' ability to weigh in on organizational matters through ballot referenda; if the proposed bylaws amendment passes, members can weigh in only on public commentary.

Of course it would be silly and harmful for members to micromanage organizational questions, or to pass referenda that violate important standards and laws regarding, say, ASA's status as an employer.

BUT (cont'd)

https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bylaws-Amendment-Proposals-2023.pdf

#ASAsociology #ASA #sociology

@petercatron Turns out #ASAsociology is trying to make it impossible to write referenda like this; see proposed bylaw amendment 3:
https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bylaws-Amendment-Proposals-2023.pdf

My rough draft 150-word candidacy statement for #ASA #ASAsociology publications committee.

#WhyAmIDoingThis

#ReproducibleResearch #reproducibility #OpenData