Kim Weeden

Why would anyone ever want to allow Zoom to record their screen and audio even while they're using other apps?

And yes, you have have to OPT OUT of invasive surveillance, at least on my institution's configuration of Zoom.

Crossfit. Only kipping pullups allowed. Test served at the gym bar.

Nine UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...

Extremely happy that my project got funded with a Consolidator Grant from @erc.europa.eu. The project is called FIRMS, and with a team, I'll study how the workplace/firm affects inequality in careers. We'll use register data to trace the careers of millions of workers. 1/3
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As we revisit - for the umpteenth time 🙄- the benefits of breastfeeding, I recommend this great piece in @sfjournal.bsky.social by @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Fellow Jessica Su & colleagues who find the benefits are not universal, at least for child development. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong? The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.

New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.

Haines woman braves outhouse encounter with black bear A bear found its way inside an outhouse, where it ended up biting the bottom of a woman using the toilet.

Alaska woman regrets visiting a simple bear necessarium.

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Good question. Guess you'd want it to be an anti-participation trophy.

When I was 7-9ish, my family went on full day or multi-day cross-country ski trips.

My parents gave us "prizes" -- silly patches we could stick on our backpacks -- if we finished the trip without whining, bickering, or crying.

Thinking about my "first place for not eating yellow snow" prize today.

If Kaiser can get a Little Jiffy, you can too.

In WHITE FLIGHT, I detailed how segregationists moved from the overt racism of the KKK to subtler and stronger forms of discrimination rooted in a language of race-neutral rights … and then MAGA just picked up the tiki torch and lit a cross again.

Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists).

Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.

5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions

Nice list! I always enjoy these as a way to find new (to me) artists.

A quibble among friends: "1 per artist" is a bit of a stretch since Katie Crutchfield/Waxahatchee sneaks in 3 times. Does your model adjust for nonindependent observations?

Postdoctoral opportunity in the social sciences at Notre Dame! apply.interfolio.com/177620

I'm teaching about racial discrimination today, which always makes me miss my friend Devah Pager. I can't believe she's been gone 7 years. Such a loss for the field.

#socsky

It even comes in "muffin top mauve"

Corridor in a library's book stacks. Left side shelves are filled with books. Right side shelves are empty. Four large purple garbage cans are lined up down the corridor, each with plastic sheeting leading into them from the top shelves of the book stacks. The ceiling is missing tiles from leaks.

Pish posh. Only a loser signs a deal for a mere $33M for, well, losing. LSU's Kelly got $54M; his sucks-sessor stands to get $73M.

Who needs dry ceilings or books in a library when you can grossly overpay for a losing football team instead?

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The only way you could get me to be a provost under these conditions is if you guaranteed a $54M payout when I sucked at it.

That's not just a cliff. It's the west face of Mt. Thor.

Jimmy Johns' business model has always been "exploit workers." Remember the ridiculous non-compete clauses that prevented line workers from getting jobs at Subway or indie sandwich shops? Unenforceable, but high cost of fighting them was enough.

Odious company. Crappy sandwiches.

Happy "let's circle back in the New Year" season to all who celebrate.

Context is important. Instructor is a trans woman. Student is daughter of a lawyer who defended J6 rioters and is active in GOP politics. (That's how she could get governor and GOP pols involved w/in 4 hours.) Lawyer mom now on X calling for a ban on all trans profs.

If it quacks like a set-up ...

The student's essay and the rubric are in this news report: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The instructor's response: bsky.app/profile/kiss...

And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU

The rubric and the essay are easy to find on this site. The Oklahoman doesn't do a very good job of characterizing either.

In discussions of this incident across the web I saw some faculty raising issues with the assignment rubric, and I just want to be clear that a phonebook-thick syllabus of course policies and the world's greatest rubric will not save you when people like this are pulling the strings.

Agree that it's a debasement of academic standards, but a minor correction: the instructor who was put on administrative leave is a graduate student, not a professor.

In some ways this is worse. This one incident could derail their academic career before it even starts.

Remember when Vinay Prasad was demanding impossibly high standards of evidence for things like masks and vaccines? But now he accepts the absolute lowest standards of evidence (VAERS observations) to attack vaccines. Interesting, no? It's almost like it was never about evidence.

social science turd works, too.

Bald eagle in profile, standing on grey sand. As it watches the photographer, a small black crow is sneaking up behind it to pull the eagle's tailfeathers with its beak. Pic by me, Homer AK June 2025.

More reasons to love crows.