An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
I'm deeply disappointed in @asanews.bsky.social today. Here's the petition they refused: drive.google.com/file/d/1XW8T...
Extremely blatant example of how the right wing media (all of media) reflexively runs cover for republicans even when they don't want it.
Or, STFU. Miss me with this ageist, sexist nonsense.
No matter what age you are, society keeps trying to make women feel as if beauty is the most important thing. It’s tiresome.
Perhaps one way to think about AI is to look at the not-so-distant past when male academics used secretaries and spouses as ghostwriters
When I wrote this two years ago, it was still pretty controversial for conservative campus groups to go anywhere near groypers like Kai Schwemmer. Now they're in charge www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The US does not value caregiving, and many think women’s labor force participation is problematic.
You can identify a society’s priorities by what it spends money on. The US’s refusal to invest in childcare infrastructure speaks volumes.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Maybe I'm just a a weakhearted liberal or whatever, but I think being "without mercy" is one of the greatest possible condemnations of a society.
This administration's policies on data are so twisted that *People Magazine* is covering it now.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Yeah, this administration is all about affordability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...
I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵
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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
Meanwhile humanizing the machines helps sell products by exploiting the efficiencies and pleasures of social cognition, and worrying about “AI welfare” conveys virtue even as the industry continues to ignore harms to human welfare that scholars have raised for decades now
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The “humanness” of humans has long been an inconvenience for capitalists… human workers need food, rest, bathroom breaks, healthcare, spend time with our families, etc. Treating people as machine-like licenses bosses to ignore the human needs of employees
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Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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"Show me your budget & I'll show you your values"
Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/
Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Thrilled to share an open-access pub w/ former undergrad researchers! Analyzing beauty TikToks, we find higher-status men employ parasociality & paternalism, while women creators embody beauty advice. We reveal complex connections btw reliance on legacy & populist expertise.
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I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽
Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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I teach a lot of working class first generation students at Nicholls in South Louisiana. I will never give up my conviction that my students deserve Homer and Sappho and Sophocles and Ovid and Dante too. It's not too good for them.
Received an acceptance email on an article coauthored with 3 former undergraduate RAs today! So excited to have this piece out in the world soon. I'm a huge proponent of getting undergraduates involved in the production of soc scholarship, and seeing this piece through has been so fulfilling.
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds" - Joan Scott www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In the early months of a research project. Reading chaotically, joyfully. Scrawling ranty paragraphs, most of which will never get past my notebook. It’s the ecstatic scholastic.
Even if this phase could be compressed or automated, why would you want it to be?
This is a program of re-segregation and supposedly “objective” reporting should state that clearly.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
