Elihu M. Gerson

Thanks!!

we have no reason to believe science is or has ever been linear, homogenous, rational, or inevitable. what scientists do also hardly ever mirrors our reductive, idealized statistical models. we need to know exactly what purpose those idealizations are meant to serve and use them in that capacity.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

The problem is organizations and institutions that create fear and hatred of autism, trans people, and immigrants, as well as ignorance of the ways that organizations can be destructive. Especially, e.g., reductionist individualism.

Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money.

Join your UC Faculty Association or union!

Please help us build a following for Stand Together for Higher Ed! We are helping build a national movement to defend against attempts to dismantle, defund, and disparage the greatest #highered system in the world! Please follow, re-post, share widely on other sites. www.standtogetherhighered.org

Moreover, pruning the list to include only "high quality" or "important" books won't help, because the process is fractal; the reduced list will have the same properties,
and you'll only feel worse.

This is true for all scholars, not just grad students. And the list is always growing no matter how fast you read. The only thing that changes is that after a while, you get to move some titles to the "history" section of the list.

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Community

My provokation of this matter is that the fascist right actually beat civil society and academia to the punch in truly internalizing the lesson that all systems, information, data are biased, that neutrality and objectivity aren't real; and then put this knowledge into practice for social control

“In qualitatively oriented research, where data are often personal, and deeply contextual, sharing data raises ethical dilemmas and tensions and may compromise the relational foundation of qualitative inquiry”

Lovely paper

Bridging qualitative methods and open research

Comment by Madeleine Pownall

go.nature.com/44U1qnj

Social means taking other(s) into account and modifying own behavior accordingly. They're social-- they're heavily embedded in a way of thinking very hard to get into and which makes shifting perspective very difficult, even punishable. That's what being social means for them.

No, that's for logicians

This. 100% We need to reward that invisible work more. What many male academics do is not the normative standard that we should be encouraging everyone to emulate

Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025 "This is the endgame of our isolation."

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research!

FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

BREAKING:

The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".

It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#MAGAKidnappers

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social

protest sign that says NO FAUX KING WAY

my mom just sent me her sign for tomorrow. no notes.

On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces. At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."