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Ariel Ducey

@aducey.bsky.social

Sociology @Ucalgary, morals emotions affect technology — head of department, still love teaching. arielducey.com/pubs/

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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Thank you for sharing your research with us @raulpachecovega.bsky.social !

03.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop

03.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 360    🔁 108    💬 5    📌 1
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That same Friday, October 3rd, I will be presenting on ethnographic studies of climate mobility. Thanks to @ucalgary.bsky.social Department of Sociology, Dr. Laura Montes de Oca, and Dr. @aducey.bsky.social for the invitation to share some of my newest work.

events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...

27.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Absence, Presence, and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Lessons from Research on Climate Mobility Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is Full Professor at the Methods Lab, FLACSO México. He specializes in comparative public policy, with a focus on North Amer...

Folks in Calgary: I will be presenting new work on climate mobility October 3rd. Feel free to circulate among your networks.

events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...

17.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

We are looking forward to your talk and visit!

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@pallavib.bsky.social @tedmccoy.bsky.social @yyz2yyc.bsky.social @zensurfer.bsky.social

15.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

15.09.2025 15:06 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

15.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 45494    🔁 15888    💬 2521    📌 2182
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Episode 2: Cora Voyageur | The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary Our second episode features Dr. Cora Voyageur, a full Professor who joined the Department of Sociology at The UofC in 1989, and is currently the longest serving faculty member in our department. Cora ...

Episode 2 of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary features Professor Cora Voyageur - listen here: the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...
#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary

@aducey.bsky.social

26.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A veteran US Navy SEAL reflects on Gaza dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...

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Opinion | He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

21.08.2025 13:26 — 👍 342    🔁 112    💬 3    📌 4

Congratulations!

03.08.2025 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

24.07.2025 22:04 — 👍 9499    🔁 3414    💬 180    📌 175
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Alberta public health system losing staff, funding as province increases spending on private facilities Analysis shows provincial spending on private surgical facilities increased nearly three-fold in 2023-24 from 2019-20, while spending in public facilities increased marginally

Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

26.03.2025 16:44 — 👍 123    🔁 70    💬 9    📌 6

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

26.03.2025 17:54 — 👍 769    🔁 251    💬 16    📌 4

This article shook me. I knew but did not know. Fuck trump.

08.03.2025 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

This piece so perfectly captures what I feel as a department head, about my colleagues & the work in public higher ed to provide the highest quality education to thousands upon thousands of students at an “astonishingly fucking low cost”, in these times. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

08.03.2025 05:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Budgets are about priorities.

Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'

Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.

In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.

Priorities.

01.03.2025 20:32 — 👍 202    🔁 105    💬 7    📌 6
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Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

18.02.2025 13:49 — 👍 2815    🔁 994    💬 30    📌 107
Direct Economic Contributions NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.

But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

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An excellent and doable plan for using Trump's economic warfare to to get us somewhere safer and fairer than where we are right now. We used to call this kind of thinking The Leap. Still works!

It's about Canada but many other countries, in coordination, should respond to this shock in similar ways

03.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 513    🔁 120    💬 6    📌 2
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Assistant Professor, Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, ...

New job posting in #sociology & #lawandsociety in #calgary #yyc

Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, AB, Canada:

internal.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1550763...

29.01.2025 03:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Jay!

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Sent my kids last week and they loved it!

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Assistant Professor (Research) Transdisciplinary Environmental Ethics The Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track transdisciplinary position with a focus on Environmental Ethics at the rank of Assistant Professor (Research).

ICYMI:

Apply for this Assistant Professor (Research) Transdisciplinary Environmental Ethics position at @ucalgary.bsky.social by January 31st!

niche-canada.org/2024/12/23/a...

#envhist #envhum #envstudies #ethics

27.12.2024 17:49 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Episode 1: Tom Langford | The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary For our inaugural episode of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary, we interviewed Emeritus Professor of Sociology Dr. Tom Langford, who reflects on his years spent in our department, how it has chan...

Inaugural episode of the new podcast The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary feat Prof Tom Langford! @aducey.bsky.social
#sociology

the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

23.11.2024 23:29 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I’d love to be added!

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Hope he’s ok!

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