Tina Fetner

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Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Periodic reminder from #Minneapolis that roving gangs of unidentified masked men are *still* kidnapping our neighbors at gunpoint and sending them to concentration camps.

No excuses

My hot take: don’t ban books.

Canada's Madeline Schizas gets university assignment extension at Olympics | CBC Sports Canadian figure skater and McMaster University student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on her sociology assignment one day after going viral with her request on Instagram.

McMaster Sociology understood the assignment.

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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com

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He would! Living wage!

The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”

That’s a great point, Noah. It may be naive to think so, but I do imagine that on the margins, some Trump supporters still have the capacity to be shamed, even if he himself does not.

Does this not have to be a turning point? Or do turning points not exist anymore?

(Double-quoting so that the explicitly racist image doesn’t appear in your timeline unless you click through)

I used it all the time! So helpful for quick facts while prepping for class!

WTF

There should be a D&D monster called the Chotiner that’s completely harmless unless you speak to it.

Roll a wisdom saving throw to avoid engaging the Chotiner.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

To: Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com] From: Christakis, Nicholas Sent: Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM Subject: Re: Thanks You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop N Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: great first date On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas < wrote: Dear Jeff I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that. Best regards, Nicholas Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net

From: Sent: Christakis, Nicholas Jeffrey Epstein Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM Subject: Re: meeting again no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: dear jeff: thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed! as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks. my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people. let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above): best, nicholas On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey

From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: "Christakis, Nicholas" = Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000 great I will be back in sept. lets try then On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote: Dear Jeff: The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it: I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes): http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece). I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

Must be pretty nice to have your own forks and plates, Professor.

Freedom With a Side of Guilt: How Food Delivery Is Reshaping Mealtime

Most of the people in this article seem to be that dril “someone who is good at the economy please budget this” meme come to life.

Remember, the one thing fascists cannot handle is us laughing at them. They have to be The Main Character, and when we mock their self importance, they implode.

This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment.

TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

According to the 2020 Census, 57% of cohabitating same-sex couples are married and 22% of them are raising their own children. 
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*Cringing in anticipation of the anarchists mansplaining what anarchy is really about.*

Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.

Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.

PM Mark Carney hasn't been able to reach a deal with Trump to reduce tariffs punishing key sectors of the Canadian economy.

Don’t even get me started about ledge rock walls.

Regular reminder that mother's day has radical roots and rich political history, from its start as an activist day to improve living conditions in 1858, to its antiwar extension in 1872, to the antiwar and anti-nuclear weapons movement led by moms in the 1960s. Moms have always been the most radical

Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s Man Up Tristan Bridges, Amy Farrell, Alex DiBranco, and Jasmine Mithani discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s new book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.

So gratifying to see this Signs Short Takes discussion on Man Up, w short essays on my book by @tristanbridges.bsky.social @amyfarrell617.bsky.social @jazzmyth.bsky.social & Alex DiBranco, along with a short response essay by me. Grateful.

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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

Homophobia, economic precarity and the well-being of sexual and gender diverse people in a 153-country survey - Nature Human Behaviour A cross-country survey among 82,324 sexual and gender diverse people finds that family rejection, homophobic reactions, and institutional stigma and discrimination are linked with individual well-bein...

LGBTQ+ well-being varies sharply worldwide in a global sample (N=82k). Structural and family homophobia strongly reduced well-being—especially for those facing economic precarity. Reducing homophobic stigma should be a public health priority. #SOGIData #LGBTQHealth

How Country Context Shapes Personal Opinions About Abortion - Amy Adamczyk, 2025 Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes.

I’m grateful to contribute a public-facing article to ASA's Contexts Magazine on how national contexts shape attitudes about abortion.

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@scholars.org @johnjaycjphd.bsky.social
#PublicSociology #ComparativeResearch #ReproductivePolitics #ASA

Comment and Reply: "The Person of the Category" Editorial Note: In 2023, Rogers Brubaker submitted a comment to Theory and Society on an article that Greta Krippner and Daniel Hirschman had published the year prior in the same journal. Richard Swed...

In which Rogers Brubaker, Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co comment and Greta Krippner and I reply. Read if you like getting into the theoretical and technical weeds of the relationship between categorization, quantification, and different imaginaries of the relationship between variables and persons.