Lisa Wade

If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.

NEW YORK TIMES headline How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men

A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"

Aaron Hyman on Peer Review

Definitely going to assign this podcast to all our grad students -- lifting the hood on the process of peer review, with some EXCELLENT advice on how to respond to, read and write peer reviews. Peer reviews as a seatbelt and ends with a vision of how peer review could work

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

You have the right to record ICE.

You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.

Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during

As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.

How job seekers discuss a criminal past can get them hired, sociology In the United States, about two-thirds of people released from prison remain unemployed, a stark reflection of the stigma surrounding a criminal record, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. A

"When the employer saw the 'economic motivation' narrative... they were more likely to want to choose the candidate with the [criminal] record." - #Sociology Professor David Harding on jobseeker disclosure of past criminal history ls.berkeley.edu/news... #socialscience

Working harder, not smarter.

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour

YouTube video by Katherine Franke Northwestern's Agreement with the Trump Admin Explained

by @katherinefranke.bsky.social : youtu.be/jKupsYl-yy4?...

You should watch this for a spot-on critique of our current culture (or lack there of). A complete sociology lesson in 2 minutes and change.

You know those people who go on one trip to Berlin and suddenly everything is "Berlin Berlin Berlin"? Well, I took one sociology class and I just told my co-worker she doesn't have to perform hegemonic femininity.

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers." @sorayachemaly.bsky.social time.com/7335723/auto...

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

Of course climate denial is also deeply misogynistic.

>Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery…”<

PAW Goes to the Movies: Sociologist Mitchell Duneier Watches ‘Springsteen’ Duneier, who has seen The Boss more than 100 times in concert, critiques the new film

"I wasn’t drawn to #sociology by politics — I was drawn by things like feeling lonely, wanting to figure out what friendship is, wanting to understand what binds people together in groups and communities." Prof Mitchell Duneier on "Springsteen" paw.princeton.edu/article/paw-...

Shout out to all the grad school applicants finalizing their materials this holiday weekend for programs that have... ugh... Dec. 1 deadlines. Thankfully, that (usually) does not apply to letters of rec. Looking at the lists students have sent me, it isn't a small grp of programs. Sheesh.

Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...

New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.

This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Using the Sociological Imagination in Theatre – Vanya Singh - Doing Sociology To me, sociology is theatre, and theatre is sociology, and both of them form the basic constituent material of my life. I have been associated with the theatre, as an awestruck observer and accidental insider for as long as I have been alive. From a very young age, I knew that that was the work […]

"While researching for and making a play, I find myself unconsciously replicating the methods of participant observation." Sociology graduate and playwright Vanya Singh on using sociology in theatre doingsociology.org/2... #sociology #socialscience

One bit of sociology I loved hearing about over the past year was a fairly large-scale study of when pop music was best. It turns out the answer is when you were 14 years old.

If you were 14 in 2005, the best music is from the mid-2000s.

If you were 14 in 1975, the best music is from the mid-70s.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

Very sad to see professors (and journalists) falling for the argument that this policy is a real effort to remove "advocacy" or "ideology" from the classroom, and debating that point. That's like when they said they oppose affirmative action because it's racist. They. Are. Lying.

How a hostile America undermined its Black WWII veterans Servicemembers were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.

Most white colleges wouldn’t accept Black students, and Black colleges didn’t have the capacity to handle the post-war demand—by 1947, as many as 50,000 qualified Black veterans had been turned away.

Right-wing media escalate attacks on young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country In the wake of Democrats’ sweeping election victories across the country on November 4, right-wing media quickly focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates. F...

Right-wing media have focused their ire on young women, who voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates last week.

I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪

“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”

*culture*

[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]