Shania Kuo

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

He ticks off a list of violence against right wing figures, and the rhetoric he says that fueled them, but ignores the murder or a leading Minnesota politician, the planned kidnapping of the Governor of Michigan, shooting of the CDC, or the assault of Nancy Pelosi's husband.

A dedication that reads “To the squeaky wheels of public radio”

A book cover of a book entitled “Listeners like Who?” On a wooden table

It’s publication day for Listeners Like Who? @princetonupress.bsky.social.

I’m grateful to the journalists that shared their stories with me, the colleagues and friends that read copious drafts, and the early readers of the book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry by Laura Garbes

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves.

Laura Garbes' Listeners Like Who? is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM)
List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning!
#ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social

📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM)
List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning!
#ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social

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A little bit of an update! If you’ve accessed my previous website in the past, please use this new link :) it’s also in my description!

sites.google.com/umn.edu/shan...

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

A complicating factor here is every state administering Medicaid under a unique name. "I'm not on Medicaid, I'm on Medi-Cal / BadgerCare Plus / STAR / etc!" Many people about to discover that they are, in fact, on Medicaid.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

“I Believe It”: NIH Director Pushes Lab Leak Conspiracy At Contentious NIH Town Hall As Staffers Walk Out Dozens of NIH staffers walked out when Jay Bhattacharya promoted the unproven COVID origins story; others protested research cuts.

NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory.

We got video.

www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...

I was hit by a wave of hunger again today.

Suddenly, you feel as if the walls of your stomach are sticking to each other, and with it, you feel a bitterness in your throat as if its acids have reached your mouth, causing a severe headache and a sense of emptiness surrounding your brain.

A little late to post this, but I’m honored to have been awarded the outstanding graduate TA award by my department! Working with undergrads has been especially meaningful for me this semester, so this was definitely a lovely surprise :)

Check out our new piece in Annual Review of Sociology!

I think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test.

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

The American Journal of Unfinished Sociology (AJUS), the flagship journal of @TheSocietyPages, is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2025 Edition. Please submit and share with your networks today!

🔗 thesocietypages.org/ajus/ 🔗

Sanctuary is Good Public Policy Sanctuary policies aren't just good for public safety and economics—they also promote justice and human rights.

In this op-ed (my first!) I argue that sanctuary matters, even amidst the anti-immigrant terror.

I hope you'll read and share!

progressive.org/op-eds/sanct...

Ohio State cutting DEI programs shows a breathtaking fear of the truth | Opinion Pretending racism does not exist will not stop Donald Trump's attack on higher education.

I get that we're messaging to whatever moveable conservatives are left out there and trying to outrun the targets on all of our backs. I really do. But I refuse to forget why this work matters. And I refuse to throw students of color under the bus. My op-ed in @dispatch.com:

Shania Kuo Explores Asian American Family Dynamics Grad student Shania Kuo found sociology helped her understand societal issues. It’s also encouraged her to explore topics close to her own Asian American identity.

A story written up about what I was up to with @lauragarbes.bsky.social last summer and what I’m hoping to do going forward! Thank you to UMN CLA’s Sally Adams for writing this up.

cla.umn.edu/sociology/ne...

Make arrangements with friends and family to be in touch on a daily basis, so that if something happens, people on the outside can take actions to protect you. It is crucial someone knows where you are, and that action is taken if you are taken into custody.

Be careful about any acts which may be considered a crime. It’s a good idea to avoid activities like smoking a cigarette in the wrong place—the ramifications of these kinds of activities are now unpredictable. They may result in revocation of your visa. Actions which are criminal in nature, including acts of civil disobedience, will result in significant consequences.

My immigration firm sent a newsletter today in response to inquiries from clients over the last two months. They "strongly recommend against international travel", warned against even walking past political rallies, noted government reps may ask to see emails, texts + social media, and these points:

Congratulations, Jaime! So happy to see this launch and excited to read!

The Loyalty Trap will be out soon! If you are interested in teaching it in fall 2025, I'll send the first 10 people who contact me, a free copy. #ESS2025 @carolinewlee.bsky.social
@asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-loy...

Congrats!!

Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra‐ and inter‐ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups Most studies on racial income inequality focus on Black–White differences, ignoring the fact that Hispanic individuals are the lowest-earning ethnoracial group in the United States. Research focusing...

New pub drop!! “Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra- and inter-ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups”

Special thanks to my coauthors, Rin Ferraro, Abby Young, Briceria Bernal, and Dr. Cyrus Schleifer!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly

Excited about a new article with Reilly Kincaid in ASR @asanews.bsky.social on role-accumulation & mental health across the life course. We identify a disagreement across prominent theories for how role-accumulation should affect mental health, especially in older adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Congratulations!!!!!

Excellent thread.

We can’t get out of this by hiding. The only way out is actually fighting for universities, science, and public health in a way that involves convincing many other people to also fight for them.