no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
04.02.2025 02:34 β π 21066 π 6140 π¬ 599 π 209@carlasgonzalez.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Candidate @ UCLA
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
04.02.2025 02:34 β π 21066 π 6140 π¬ 599 π 209It's not unreasonable to want answers immediately from the President about why an Army helicopter was in front of a commercial jetliner, and to demand concrete steps to prevent it from happening again.
Buck stops with him. Or is he too busy with golf, EOs, and fake bribery settlements?
They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others
30.01.2025 00:19 β π 22246 π 5357 π¬ 337 π 199βEconomically, the entire country is going to be deeply affected negatively,β said Cecilia MenjΓvar, a UCLA professor of #sociology. βI think itβs super important to recognize that itβs not only undocumented #immigrants weβre talking about."
29.01.2025 23:14 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0How to build connections for social change according to Robert Putnam:
1) go young
2) go local
3) go moral
This means:
Get young people to get involved (in person) on local causes because they feel an obligation to do something.
For friends in the LA area or anywhere that there have been fires that burn homes, this article by discusses research after the Marshall fires in Boulder county and what to do to mitigate your risk of breathing in the toxic air during and after suburban wildfires
theconversation.com/wildfire-smo...
Fact-checking wasnβt βbiasedβ against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If thereβs a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, itβs not βbiasedβ for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
07.01.2025 15:27 β π 6154 π 2040 π¬ 105 π 79Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Israelβs relentless bombardment of Gaza continues, as the UNβs relief chief says efforts to save the lives of Palestinian survivors in the besieged enclave are βat breaking point.β
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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or eventβevery theater, every archive, every historic landmark and siteβhas been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
07.01.2025 03:04 β π 1214 π 728 π¬ 18 π 28Four years after the storming of the Capitol, one thing is clear: Donald Trump faced absolutely no accountability for inciting an insurrection.
07.01.2025 00:00 β π 1581 π 291 π¬ 82 π 12Can facts ever change minds on immigration? I was skepticalβuntil working w. @landgravephd.bsky.social changed my own mind.
Our new paper shows most Americans underestimate how difficult the US legal immigration process is. Sharing facts on policy makes people more positive:
doi.org/10.1017/XPS....
Fossil fuel companies
06.01.2025 12:14 β π 13325 π 2743 π¬ 268 π 102A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.
07.01.2025 00:14 β π 2101 π 607 π¬ 109 π 121βThe CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late Martin Luther King, Jr., β and against police brutality and the Vietnam War, newly released CIA documents show.β
06.01.2025 20:18 β π 320 π 130 π¬ 7 π 13White's election as a Meta director two weeks before Trump takes office comes as Silicon Valley is courting the incoming administration.
07.01.2025 00:42 β π 382 π 92 π¬ 82 π 79Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance
28.11.2024 15:15 β π 409 π 143 π¬ 5 π 9Lista para la cena de maΓ±ana.
27.11.2024 17:32 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Income inequality CANβT be used to justify racism, transphobia,and misogyny.
Moving towards equality feels like oppression for people who have benefited from privilege. We can seek to understand this feeling but CANβT justify a reality existing only in the imaginations of cult-prone people.
Last invited talk of 2024 at the Sanford School at ASU tomorrow. Really grateful to be able to talk #abolitionfeminism with a variety of communities.
#SocAF #SocSky
What will become more evident in the years to come is that ignorance is NOT bliss.
Knowledge is freedom and peace.
Educators, scholars, advocates, organizers: go on and do your thing β€οΈππ½βπ½