Tam from Sleepy Hollow

Ever since the tomatoes came in in the garden I have been living off this combo lol

Every time I see a headline or question like this I hear: Have you seen your kids using calculators? Do they even know how to do the math?

Today's mushroom 🍄

Such adorable little pests 😂

So many bunnies this year! Glad we fenced the garden. #wildlife #rabbits

I'm so excited! Our organization is getting an intern from the #sociology department, which means we can finally tackle the important work of quantitative and qualitative analysis of our records.

Missed work yesterday bc of health issues. Dr wanted me to increase my medication, but it makes me sleep. He prescribed a secondary that won't make me sleepy. Of course it knocks me out, too. Meanwhile work gets more stressful because I'm not there and stress is a trigger. 🤷‍♀️

I always love seeing the beautiful butterflies that make their home in our hollow 🦋

Today's adventure: overnight pickles.

Today's garden haul. Made fresh pasta sauce - so good 😊

The garden is doing well despite the heat. Thankful to my sister for the prescient installation of the shade cloth.

Garden update. It's I'm excited - the first of the black beauty eggplants will be ready to harvest soon.

I used to say I couldn't understand the way medical providers treat patients (or more accurately, don't), but then someone started explaining the sin of #empathy to me and it was like a light turning on in the dark. #chronicillness #healthcare

I had the same problem. Decided I must need the break and gave myself tomorrow off.

Stopped by Market at the Mill in Pickens, SC today. Really enjoyed it - so many cool finds!

Layover seems like the perfect time to celebrate #zoology with two of my favorite photos. I took these during a trip to the Nashville zoo.

Heading to California for a conference today. A few photos from the ATL ➡️ MDW portion of the trip.

Happy #flowersonfriday - here's a butterfly on my wildflowers. I'm starting my day listening to the birds grey the sun and sipping coffee on the porch. There's a rather vociferous Scarlet tanager competing with the local titmouse population for loudest call and honestly I think it's winning.

Love it!

10/10
Better working conditions, public health strategies, societal supports for mental and physical health, equity attainment. Sociology laid the foundation. Not useless; essential. I think it's pretty clear who wants you to believe that it's a wasted degree.
End thread.

9/10
During COVID, sociologists advised on how trust and social networks shape public health behavior. They influenced how officials rolled out masks, distancing, and vaccines.

Milkman, Ruth

8/10
Ruth Milkman’s studies of immigrant and service labor in the late 20th century exposed structural exploitation. Her work influenced wage reform and gender equity policy.
www.gc.cuny.edu/people/ruth-...

Asylums (book) - Wikipedia

7/10
In 1961, Erving Goffman’s Asylums exposed how institutions harm identity. His work helped move mental health care out of asylums and into communities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylums...

6/10
Sociologists reframed poverty during the Great Depression. They showed it wasn’t about morals—it was access: jobs, education, healthcare. That logic drove the New Deal.
academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

Wages and the Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting most full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal...

5/10
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act didn’t appear in a vacuum. Sociologists and reformers gathered the data that exposed wage abuse, child labor, and prison exploitation. Their work gave the FLSA moral force—and political cover.
www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...

Florence Kelley Florence Kelley dedicated her life to social reform. She worked to end many social problems, including labor and racial discrimination. She influenced many social movements in the United States.

4/10
Florence Kelley, informed by that early poverty research, led factory investigations and pushed for labor reform. Her work laid groundwork for wage laws and child labor bans.
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

3/10
Émile Durkheim’s Suicide (1897) proved self-harm wasn’t just personal—it reflected social isolation and instability. He made mental health a sociological issue.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/suic...

2/10
In the late 1800s, Charles Booth mapped poverty across London. Seebohm Rowntree followed in York. Their data showed working full-time didn’t prevent poverty. That shattered the “lazy poor” myth.
www.york.ac.uk/seebohm-rown...

Think sociology is useless? You’re living in a world built by it. Labor laws, mental health care, even how we define poverty—all shaped by sociologists. Let’s talk history. 🧵