matt rafalow

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Opinion | Three Columnists Wrestle With the Lionizing of Luigi Mangione What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?

great dialogue piece between great columnists www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

best feeling when non-academic colleagues just randomly bring up a colleague's work and how it is making them think in new ways – @jessicacalarco.bsky.social's Holding it Together audiobook!! congrats again www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

warning to anyone who uses the @blueark.app import from X to blueksy — takes way longer than stated and appears in feed as if uploads from years ago are happening at the moment of upload 🤦🏻‍♂️ maybe i should have just started fresh…

hey Dan! agree :)

Quick note that this is an archive from a few years ago (I did an upload thing that makes it look like it was from the other day, sorry)

Hi Emily! Thanks for the awesome and important work here. Sociologist by trade working in both academia and industry:

- gscholar – scholar.google.com/citations?us...
- Work – Google: research.google/people/10485...; USC: arnicusc.org/people/matt-...
- Personal page: mattrafalow.org

Thank you!

There’s an app for that! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

heads up, over the next few days @blueark.app is uploading my tweet history from x to here. apparently the ux isn’t making it look like it’s archived. sorry in advance! should be done in a day

WEIRD! oh dear..

lol Sarah all my tweets are being auto loaded to Bluesky, this one is from 2019. But thank you nonetheless 😂♥️

just deleted #facebook, #tiktok, and #x/#twittter and have never felt better. glad i have bluesky left to shout this from the rooftops.

I know this twitter import feature is fully giving flashbacks!

just used @blueark.app to copy over my tweets so I can delete that musky 🚮 app forever.

day 6 of posting maxine instead of weberian hullabaloo

#dogs #sociology

day 5 of posting maxine, and her preference to sleep under beds rather than in them, instead of sharing an Important Thread on My Research 🧵🪡👇🏻

day 4 of posting maxine instead of digital sociological gibberish

day 3 of posting maxine instead of bourdieuian nonsense

ok this is cool

and this is maxine in a usc hat, still judging.

k i’m gonna keep this a dog account until i decide i like this place. here’s maxine judging me in a white sweater.

ok starter packs? academics: where’s education technology and/or platformed creation plz? 🫶🏻❤️

so what kind of social space do we want here?

do we want old twitter again, with clout and profit to the loudest and most followed?

do we want to repeat glorifying inflammatory takes that divide?

what else could this be?

hi butterfly folks this is my dog max

<3

testing the sky follower bridge chrome plugin (ty @lilchen.bsky.social!) to port over my fam. though, honestly, starting small here sounds kinda nice, too.

fine. let’s trust another company with the task of enabling democratic forms of interaction online.

I got married to the love of my life last month! These are some of my favorites from the special day. 🌺🌺🌺

i just created internal emotes at work for :verydemure: and :notdemure: and feel so proud but fear no one will get it or understand

i've really been leaning into ai tools to analyze my own writing-in-progress and tell me how to reconsider my overall writing strategy. like, 'say back to me what i'm saying here as an outline' – really helpful and cool

someone, presumably a sociologist, just walked by my seat on the plane while boarding and said:

“matt right? Digital Divisions is SO GOOD!”

i swear that felt better than any panel presentation 😂😂🥰