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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Tenured! 🎉 So grateful.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

My book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing is now available for preorder at Oxford (discount code attached): and Amazon: 1/n

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 months

This summer, I'm excited to be starting a new position as Associate Professor of Sociology @Stanford ! I am so grateful for my time @UTAustinSoc and will miss my colleagues and students there tremendously.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Page proofs!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

When my students get frustrated or discouraged about revisions, I try and tell them that writing *is* revising. Although no little kid says they want to be a professional reviser when they grow up, the truth is that writing is basically 5% writing and 95% revising.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Our department at @UTAustinSoc is hiring for an assistant professor this year! Ad attached. Please share and circulate 🤗

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

11 months

Surveillance Deputies is out and open access! In this paper @law_soc , I partnered with my favorite surveillance scholars, @sarahlageson and @karen_ec_levy , to analyze when ordinary people surveil on behalf of the state:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

UT Austin Sociology is hiring! Open rank, open specialization, qual methods. If you have questions, I'm happy to direct you to members of the search committee. Here's the call: @UTAustinSoc

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Data and surveillance tech are largely missing from today's urgent conversations about how to defund, shrink, reform, or abolish the police. My Op-Ed in the LA Times @latimes @latimesopinion

Op-Ed: One way to shrink the LAPD's budget: Cut costly and invasive big-data policing

Police budget reformers should not ignore the costs of big-data policing. The LAPD has spent more than $20 million on one surveillance platform alone.

www.latimes.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

🚨New article out with @AngeleChristin in @socprobsjournal : "Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts"

Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts

Abstract. The number of predictive technologies used in the U.S. criminal justice system is on the rise. Yet there is little research to date on the recept

academic.oup.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Hi! We're having a virtual launch for my new book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing ( @OUPAcademic ), on 11/20 from 2-3pm CST. I'll be in conversation with @WesternBruce and @jgo34 . RSVP here for Zoom link and discount code:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Wonderful news: Pell grants will be reinstated for incarcerated students more than a quarter century after banning the aid for prison education programs

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Data are a form of capital. Who has access to data on the police shapes opportunities (or lack thereof) for accountability.

Cities Turn to Software to Predict When Police Will Go Rogue

A startup selling tech to identify ‘bad apples’ shows the promise and challenges of using data to improve policing.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

I’ll miss you forever, Devah. We had so much more to talk about. Having you as my advisor is one of the greatest gifts of my life. Thank you ❤️

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to expand the Texas Prison Education Initiative's offerings to Spanish-Speaking students!

UT PRC

@UTPopCenter

2 years

Please join us in congratulating PRC Faculty Scholar Dr. @Sarah_Brayne on her new award from The @MellonFdn ! Mellon awarded Sarah Brayne and Co-PI Adela Pineda Franco $500,000 to fund a partnership between @TexasPrisonEd and @llilasbenson . Full story:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

My new article on police use of big data, coming out in @asr_journal , is now available online!

Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing - Sarah Brayne, 2017

This article examines the intersection of two structural developments: the growth of surveillance and the rise of “big data.” Drawing on observations and interv...

journals.sagepub.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 months

Introducing…Dr. Faith Deckard! @Deckardfaith successfully defended her brilliant dissertation, Bonded: Bail Agents, Families, and the Management of Risk and is headed to @SociologyUcla in the fall!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

New @AnnualReviews piece on the implications of the use of big data for criminal law and law enforcement. How does it change how we think about surveillance, suspicion, and discretion?

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Excited to see Predict and Surveil reviewed in AJS! Thanks to @ordinarysquares for the thoughtful review. In great company of scholars including @sarahlageson . One day the Surveillance Sarahs will have our book party. At this rate, it might be for Book 2.

Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing. By Sarah Brayne. New York:...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

UT Austin sociology is hiring an advanced assistant or associate professor in the area of work and orgs! Job ad attached and application link here: @UTAustinSoc

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Please join us on Wed May 20 at 6pm EST for the virtual book launch of @ForrestDStuart ’s Ballad of the Bullet! The event is open, but RSVP is required here:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Congrats to my brilliant crew who also got promoted today, @DrYasmiyn and @amelia_acker !!!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

I am not leaving this spot until I either come up with a book title or decide that one of the hundreds of horrible titles I’ve come up so far isn’t that bad. Am I doing this right?

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Although data will undoubtedly play a role, this book sheds light on how big data is not a silver bullet; it is not necessarily more objective or less biased than discretionary "human" decision-making. It is fundamentally social. 3/n

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

At eye doc and they said that she notices when there’s political unrest there’s an increase in people not wanting to use the modern retina scan machine and instead opt for manual dilation and human exam because they don’t want the government to have access to their eyeball data

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

When I moved to Austin, I founded @TexasPrisonEd with @linds_bing . We volunteer teach college classes to hundreds of incarcerated students. Our annual fundraising campaign is this month. If you’d like to learn more & support, click below. Thanks, friends!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

First day of class with the Texas Prison Education Initiative! Thanks to all of you who have helped get this off the ground 📚💫 @UT_UEX @UTAustin @UTAustinSoc

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Thank you!!! I'm excited to be in such great company.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

#LSA2021 folks interested in surveillance, tech, inequality--Join @sarahlageson and I tomorrow at 1pm for an AMR session on our new books 📚 "Predict and Surveil" and "Digital Punishment"! We will be in conversation with Mona Lynch, @mathuclair and Keith Guzik. @OUPAcademic

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

I think examining policing is *always* important but perhaps never more urgent than right now. Amidst demands for systemic change in policing, some are suggesting that data-driven policing and emergent tech should be part of the solution. 2/n

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

New Yorkers interested in the criminal justice system: Check out the amazing list of upcoming speakers @verainstitute , including @WesternBruce and @monicacbell ! I'll be giving a talk on March 2 on police use of big data. More info here:

Police Surveillance in the Age of Big Data

Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities.

www.vera.org

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Held @TexasPrisonEd teacher orientation today! Can’t wait to start this semester and am so grateful for our volunteers and students.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

So excited to be expanding our course offerings to another facility this semester! I am very grateful to everyone who has offered support and helped us grow. Onward! @UTAustinSoc @UTPopCenter @UTAustin @UT_UEX #prisoneducation

Texas Prison Education Initiative

@TexasPrisonEd

6 years

Another semester begins with the Texas Prison Education Initiative! Thank you to all who have offered support. We grew from three volunteers to fifty in just one semester, and from four to almost 200 students!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

In the digital age, the mark of criminal justice *contact* (even if you were never charged) is increasingly indelible and consequential. Thoughts by the brill @sarahlageson : . Check out her book here:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Join us in the Ethnographic Café on Friday to discuss @AngeleChristin 's fabulous book, Metrics at Work. More info and Zoom link here:

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@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Texas has the highest incarceration rate in the US. We started the Texas Prison Education Initiative to provide college classes in prisons throughout Texas. Please help us expand the program and build the prison-to-college pipeline! @TexasPrisonEd

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Thanks to @katecrawford and @mer__edith from @AINowInitiative for organizing a great experts workshop this morning at #AINow2017 @medialab

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

Ultimately, we argue that predictive technologies do not replace, but rather *displace* discretion to less visible—and therefore less accountable—areas within organizations, which has implications for inequality and the administration of justice in the digital age.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

So many people to thank: my undergrad profs @UBCSociology for suggesting I apply to grad school (profs--you can make a difference!); my advisors and colleagues @PUSociology , especially my mentor Devah; my colleagues @MSRNE @msrsmc ; my students & colleagues @UTAustinSoc ...

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

So excited this article on how youth use social media to engage with and challenge rivals is out! Great research by ⁦ @ForrestDStuart ⁩

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Exhibit #1378 why open-concept offices are terrible: colleagues look like Hannibal Lecter

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 months

This is so cool! Music as research impact!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

There is a pig on the loose in my neighborhood right now and I am living for the Next-door updates @bestofnextdoor

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Reminder that the virtual launch for @ForrestDStuart 's Ballad of the Bullet is this Wednesday (5/20)! More info in the flyer below. If you would like to join, but have not RSVPed yet, the link is here:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Whenever there's a continental breakfast at a workshop/conference etc. I think about this @KeyAndPeele skit and no one ever knows what I am talking about, so in the interest of education:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

It’s snowing in Austin & people are acting like it’s the apocalypse & I’m being all Canadian grateful for the opportunity to wear cashmere

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

8 years

Made an Arrested Development joke in class. No one laughed. Realized my students were 3 years old when Arrested Development aired.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

1 year

What an honor it is to host our colleagues from @escrituracarcel . They join us from Argentina as part of the @MellonFdn Pido la Palabra project introducing Spanish creative writing classes in Texas prisons through @TexasPrisonEd @llilasbenson @UTAustin @UTAustinCOLA .

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

and all of the friends and colleagues, visible and invisible, whose feedback, time, invitations, letters, and reviews have strengthened my work. Tonight, champagne 🍾 Tomorrow, pay it forward.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

What a list!!! I am so delighted for everyone, especially the brilliant @ForrestDStuart and @marylgray , whose incredible work has been inspirational to me. Congratulations 🎉

MacArthur Foundation

@macfound

4 years

In the midst of a difficult year, a moment to celebrate. Meet the 2020 MacArthur Fellows, 21 remarkably creative and inspiring individuals. #MacFellow 📈📱⚙️🧼🧬🧠🎭🚰🩺🖥️✍️🖼️🦠🧫⚖️🏠📜📖💭📚🗣️🎵🎶🔬🧲🧪⚗️🔍🎥📕

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Surveillance, Texas Style

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Hello, I will just be over here banging the same drum about data access and power:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

8 years

Tales from teaching: "In the Sociological Imagination, is C. Wright Mills basically telling us to get woke?" -Student in Intro to Sociology

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Congrats to @ForrestDStuart for winning the @law_soc article prize #LSMEX17 🎊

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

The UT Austin Urban Ethnography Lab is offering a week-long Ethnography Summer School with May 25-29. For more info and how to apply, see here: .

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

So grateful for all of our Texas Prison Education Initiative students and volunteers, and excited to be expanding our course offerings this summer and fall! @TexasPrisonEd

Texas Prison Education Initiative

@TexasPrisonEd

5 years

That’s a wrap on the Spring 2019 semester with the Texas Prison Education initiative! Our talented students surprised us with this amazing watercolor and zine showcasing some of their written work. Next up—five classes this summer! Onward!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

@jenniferdoleac Bob Loblaw Law Blog

Bob Loblaw Law Blog

The scene from Arrested Development S03E08 where Tobias Funke says it.No copyright infringement intended. I obviously do not own this video.

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

TIL of a concept called the "Brayne Extended Universe" in this new review of Predict and Surveil in @SurvSoc_Journal 😂

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

TFW you ask the cab driver to take you to his favorite bagel place in Montreal and he drives there, parks the car, and gets one too #ASA17

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 months

TPEI is near and dear to my heart 🩷 I co-founded it in 2017 to offer free, credit-bearing college classes to just five incarcerated students. We have now taught over 1,000 students. If you are interested in contributing to or sharing our annual fundraiser, see here:

Texas Prison Education Initiative

@TexasPrisonEd

3 months

Please consider donating to TPEI to help provide supplies and cover registration fees for our incarcerated students this upcoming academic year! $25 buys one student supplies! $175 covers their registration as well!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Constitutional Amendment 4 passes, restoring voting rights to about 1.5 million people with felony records🗳

Constitutional Amendment 4 passes, restoring voting rights to former felons

Oliver called Florida "the disenfranchisement capital of America" and said the process for felons to regain voting rights was "insane."

www.wtsp.com

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

The US is one of the only countries in the world with cash bail. This is an important first step to ending it.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

So, I just read the Elf on the Shelf book to my friend’s kid and, man, that is some COINTELPRO level holiday surveillance🕵🏼‍♀️🎅🏼👀

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

@SurvSoc_Journal Thank you! So grateful to the surveillance studies community and the work that informs the book.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Thank you to everyone who made this possible and provided feedback along the way. I am extremely grateful. 4/n

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Representing @UTAustinSoc @TexasPrisonEd fundraiser! Join us for live music 2pm-2am today at the Sahara Lounge 🎶 and support here #SXSW2023

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Excerpt from one my students’ Intro to Sociology final exam answers about Annette Lareau’s research. Thanks for letting me pick which letter of the World Book Encyclopedia I could read before bed, Mom and Dad 😂

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Back 2 school, doing a little printing, going v well

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

@GeeDee215 Similar strategy to Operation Talon, a sting operation where people with outstanding warrants were called into welfare offices under the guise of discussing a problem with their benefits or receiving a bonus. 10,000 people were arrested through this program between 1997-2006

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Congrats, Angèle! Can't wait to read it.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

⁦ @UTAustin ⁩ will cover tuition for students from families with incomes under $65,000 🤘🏼

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

TFW you absentmindedly propose a time for a meeting on July 4th and your Canadian shows 🇨🇦

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

8 years

Junior faculty meeting @UTAustinSoc

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

Many thanks to our donors who make this possible!

Texas Prison Education Initiative

@TexasPrisonEd

5 years

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we surpassed our 2019 fundraising goal! ✨ We are looking forward to offering more courses to incarcerated students in 2020. 📚 If you are interested in making a contribution to our program, please click here:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Welcome to Canada, sociology friends. #asa17 🇨🇦

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Great lineup at the Sahara Lounge 2pm-2am for the @TexasPrisonEd concert 🎶 📚

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Today I had my grad students pretend to be Supreme Court Justices deciding Carpenter case. Kicking myself for forgetting prop RBG doily

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

And some people wonder why we are wary of coming forward...

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

If you can read German and want to learn about my research on police use of data and new surveillance technologies, I have just the interview for you: @mstnhgn @fr

"Es gibt eine Gier nach Daten"

www.fr.de

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

@ForrestDStuart @ashleytrubin @Punishment_CRN @MichelleSPhelps @sarahlageson @AmJSoc @MGibsonLight @jdawncarlson @_Dr_Sus @emkerrison @Liz_Chiarello @wakefield_sara @chrisuggen I’m in the same boat and unfortunately can’t make it this year, but my phenomenal co-author @AngeleChristin will be presenting in the mixed methods and big data session organized by @jlegewie with @msalganik @MarioLuisSmall and Elizabeth Bruch!

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@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Ron Levi

@ronleviutoronto

6 years

Great to read sociologist @Sarah_Brayne in the Canadian national news on policing and algorithms !

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

4 years

Dealing with the email inbox after the holidays.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

7 years

Plz read this essay in Harvard Ed Review about education inside and outside of prison written by my former student:

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Guy in full medieval LARPing chain mail outfit about to go through airport security in front of me. Looking forward to this.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

Back to the 🇨🇦 homeland for #LSACA18

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

Writing *that* chapter

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

Hive mind--Can someone recommend an illustrator? I need someone to draw/make some relatively simple reproductions of documents and photos for my book. Thank you!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Today! (Friday)

Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

#LSA2021 folks interested in surveillance, tech, inequality--Join @sarahlageson and I tomorrow at 1pm for an AMR session on our new books 📚 "Predict and Surveil" and "Digital Punishment"! We will be in conversation with Mona Lynch, @mathuclair and Keith Guzik. @OUPAcademic

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Embarking on my annual weeklong struggle to find a whole turkey in the US in early October for Canadian Thanksgiving. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🦃

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

8 years

Current PhD students doing policy-relevant work: consider applying for a grant from the Horowitz Foundation

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

6 years

⁦ @TarletonG ⁩ ⁦ @marylgray ⁩ ⁦ @nancybaym ⁩ ⁦ @lanalana ⁩ ⁦ @desconcentrado ⁩ Soundproof yurts are next

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

5 years

Message me if you don't have access and would like a copy!

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Looking forward to it!

Sarah Esther Lageson

@sarahlageson

3 years

Coming up at #LSA2021 , @Sarah_Brayne and I join forces for an AMR on our new @OUPAcademic books. We have an incredible panel chaired by Mona Lynch, with @mathuclair and Keith Guzik. I'm excited :) Friday 5/28 1pm Central.

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

2 years

Wow thank you!

Eileen Clancy

@clancynewyork

2 years

Best book I've ever read on policing and surveillance. "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" by sociologist Sarah Brayne. Access thru your institution or Amazon currently has @Sarah_Brayne 's book on sale for a song. Link: []

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Sarah Brayne

@Sarah_Brayne

3 years

Check out the reviews of some other books by some great scholars like @mathuclair @kenhoulin @cyberlyra @_elkelly and more in the latest issue here!