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Please. Please. Please. Let us not lose this resurging momentum in the Theatrical Experience. #gotothemovies thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2025/02/cine...

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Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:

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gonna keep reposting my paper on how AI writ large is foundationally corrosive to democracy until someone publishes it or it stops being relevant!!!! oddletters.com/files/2025/0...

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Guido Alfani's book As Gods Among Men is a sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by helping their societies in times of crisis, why they no longer do, and what that may mean for social stability. Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Why is there so much business as usual among #sociologists during a #genocide? @anilsghost.bsky.social reflects on #Gaza and how explosive weapons have left their marks on sociological ideas and the discipline’s “ambivalent solidarity with anticolonial struggles”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/161xGVT

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More than an inside look at pioneering air pollution research and the hidden health burden of air pollution, "Particles of Truth" is a story of determination and perseverance by those working to protect air quality and our health: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255167...

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Our with @artjoms.bsky.social 2024 paper "Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions" @migrationjrnl.bsky.social has been assigned vol & issue numbers and become a 2025 paper doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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THE CLOUD IS DEAD, DEADLY, AND HAUNTED Tamara Kneese datasociety.net/points/the-c...

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TOXIC RESIDUE AND COLD WARS: BUILDING THE CHIPS THAT POWER THE CLOUD Xiaowei R. Wang datasociety.net/points/toxic...

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My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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This dreamy #STS story in the NYT today has everything: swoonily retro-mech sociotechnical systems, irreplaceable human expertise, "hidden" technicians of color, high-stakes mission control center. SPICY. tinyurl.com/573ccbxs

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@umich.edu Senate Motions passed with overwhelming majorities -- unprecedented margins and an unprecedented 40.7% participation rate. An utter triumph.

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📣 New paper drop! Why do some employees take up training and others don’t, even when the programs are the same? Surprisingly, the answer isn’t HR policy—it’s middle managers. 🧵

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Here's a piece I wrote for @rns.org about my research on the changing religious landscape and how people are moving from religious institutions to spiritual individualization: religionnews.com/2025/04/14/a...

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"There are a lot of fake White Houses in the US. Most of them can be found in or around the area of McLean, Virginia, the ground zero of DC blob sickos whose job it is to mete out the ratio of lethality and economy for weapons manufacturers."

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“When I’m told 'Think of how much time you could be spending instead on making the actual game!', [they] don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration is making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”

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Data providers like EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage + Cengage are “implementing “local controls” on databases, particularly related to health + race. ‘Under even the smallest of threats, the co’s have provided the tools or have secretly put on the tools… that apply the content blocking on these systems”

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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

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Gen X; can confirm. Food today, even most so-called "struggle meals," are different (+ more nutritious!) than our 80s fare where I grew up. Highly rec the United States of Arugula to learn how things changed. I don't think most people will easily go back. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89545/...

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A very interesting review on the links between social class and mental health Currently, the strongest evidence links lower social positions to depression. #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky #ClinicalPsychology

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Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.

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What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine. I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story. Out April 22—preorder now!

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Oh hey it’s RELEASE DAY for “Bangkok After Dark,” my new book! It’s a heck of a thing to hold a physical copy. It’s hard to talk about it without getting overwhelmed. I hope you will really like it and enjoy learning about the history of Thai-US nightlife encounters during the Vietnam War.

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Really pleased to see my and @cnygren.bsky.social 's work quoted in this excellent piece in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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my brain, being helpful: it is interesting to observe the collapse of the dominant "common sense of economics" as incompatible socio-economic imaginaries are brought into overt conflict. construction/maintenance-of-ideologies-speaking, this is fascinating the rest of me: jesus fucking christ.

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Large Language Model-based social simulation has emerged as an exciting new research method. But do LLMs actually resolve the problems that have historically limited use of Agent-Based Models? What do they bring? We review the literature to find out! with Maik Laaroij arxiv.org/abs/2504.03274

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APA member @karinavold.bsky.social (University of Toronto) is asking the big questions about AI, consciousness, and what it means to be human.

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i was so thrilled when this one came across my desk. people talking about adolescence get attracted to “it’s the damn phones” when if you really look, young men are reacting to a much larger ecosystem of ideologies that can make them think of themselves and women in twisted ways

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“I would advise any beginning writer to write the first draft as if no one else will ever read them – without a thought about publication – and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.” —Anne Tyler #WritingSky #AcademicSky

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🧠CALL FOR PAPERS! 🧠 Critical approaches to like and dislike in medicine, law, and society | University of Bristol, 15th of October 2025 epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-events/...

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the doge teens destroying the general services administration's magnetic tape backups because they think it's like a vhs of aladdin 2: the return of jafar might be the niche thing that kills me

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Social movement scholarship is clear that elites, despite trying to appear all powerful, often screw up in ways that lead to their decline. These are three common political environment factors related to elite behavior that contribute to social movement success.

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"Graphs began to appear in ads aimed at business professionals[;] before long those ads were “dramatizing the curve” in ways that largely disregarded data itself... Hannah considers how we came to recognize certain kinds of lines as “graphs” even when they don’t represent a single data point."

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today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Tomorrow (April 7) at 6 pm EDT: The New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology Section welcomes Animals, Robots, Gods author Webb Keane for a talk, "From Tools to Metahumans: Talking to AI." This hybrid event is free & open to all. Register today: www.nyas.org/shaping-scie...

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Funny how this hypothetical talk of "optimizing" never considers traits like kindness, decency, generosity of spirit... It's always "what does my baby need to get ahead?"

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Read my new work-in-progress, supposedly about AI alignment but really about the inseparability of what we want and how we try to get it: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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The lead article, by the wonderful Ioana Sendroiu and coauthors, in the new issue of ASR is on climate change! The discipline is beginning to catch up to reality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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This from Chris is great (am a little biased as I’m in it). Seriously, read his stuff — he’s super smart on all of this.

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Reagan-era conservative crackdown + withdrawal of fed + state 💰; economic crisis; neoliberal restructuring; pursuit of wealthy donors; adoption of the corporate world's managerial practices; decline of faculty governance; ⬆️ tuition; adjuctification; 50-yr R-wing campaign against the university...

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ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Elizabeth Felix examines who is labeled a potential mass shooter & how stereotypes regarding potential mass shooters contribute to mental health stigma. Read more at bit.ly/3Yg4WVo

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A while back I mentioned I helped to build a government AI tool. DOGE "deleted" (fired) my whole org (@alt18f.bsky.social) and took the tool to become their "AI-first strategy." But what is the strategy? What are they actually planning to do? I’m trying to piece it together. Here’s what I think 🧵

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When the student is the customer, when job placement and graduation rates determine rankings, when the curriculum matters more than the person teaching it, the quality of teaching goes down. When that happens, polarization and radicalization go up.

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