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Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her
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I stopped for groceries on the way home from an excursion with my summer program that kept me away from the news all day. On a whim, I grabbed a bottle of wine, just to have some on hand. Boy was that a good decision today, as it turns out. Rosé incoming.

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America needs more muckraking local journalism.

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Very legitimate text received this morning, better pay this fine via the perfectly above-board link provided.

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UnSpun rewind for me this week*: Cherrypicking and how it affects what you think about things like protests. Plus, you can't change someone's mind, but you can help create conditions where they do it themselves. Check out UnSpun here or where you pod. bit.ly/UnSpunPod *Weirdly busy for summer!

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A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

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The un-United States of America

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Your favorite stylish cat's favorite stylish cat.

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Cookie has now taken to posing for the robot vacuum, to make sure it gets her best side. (Spoiler: all sides are her best side.)

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I think the final indicator that I am, in fact, officially old is that I find the whole Labubu thing utterly baffling.

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“The question isn’t whether people like my daughter have something to offer. It’s whether society is finally ready to stop measuring value with the wrong scale.” - Anaïs Godard

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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.

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GRADES ARE IN! Whew. It's been years since I last taught a big undergraduate class; I'd forgotten what an extreme sport it can be.

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In Pope Leo’s first address to the media, he called for the release of imprisoned journalists worldwide. CPJ’s prison census documented its second-highest number of journalists behind bars with a global total of at least 361 journalists incarcerated on Dec. 1, 2024. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Cookie was just going about her business when the SurveillanceVac snapped this photo.

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All my grants have been cut but at least I have more than 3 friends

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The US government doesn't subsidize university research. Rather, universities subsidize government research. I've seen recent threads deceiving the first half of this, but nothing recent describing the extent to which universities are doing the subsidizing.

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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Dealership called me last week to ask about upgrading my 2021 Camry Hybrid. I had a routine maintenance appt booked on Saturday, so I said I was open to chatting even though I love my car & am not looking. The pitch: trim level two steps down, ugly colors, $2000 down and a higher monthly payment.

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The robot vacuum captured Dash looking demure. (Reader, she is not demure. This photo is propaganda.)

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Robot vacuum photo of Cookie guarding the laundry basket.

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This morning during the "deep relaxation" cooldown at barre class, the music was an instrumental version of Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace. I'm sorry, but no Buffy fan can fully relax during this song. At least I didn't start reflexively sobbing, though, so that was a win!

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Where do we file this petition? I mean, this is also what I wanted from The Good Place. We couldn't get it then, but maybe we've advanced enough as a television-making society that The Pitt can make our dreams come true.

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I have been teaching about social media, or in social media-adjacent areas, for nearly two decades (and active on it for nearly three, since before the term existed). Students still seem to think this is all brand-new, though. It's fascinating, this permanent sense of discovery.

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Wesleyan's Michael Roth: "money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath. And that has served the country so well because Americans and various governments we’ve had recognized that it’s better for the country if people can practice freedom." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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This was how I wrote most of my master's thesis, since even though I was enrolled in an accredited program, online libraries weren't yet a thing. So I had to scavenge for academic literature. (I also spent a fortune ordering books in English to be shipped from the UK.)

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Another robot vacuum portrait of Dash.

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Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.

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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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I remember that Gregorian Revival very clearly!

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Split Enz at a very dive-y bar full of drunken sailors port side in Hobart, Tasmania (I shouldn't have even been allowed in at 16, but...). They were on the rise and it was a great show.

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Watching the first episode of Top Chef S22, and I'm distracted by the fact I own the same jumpsuit one of the chefs (Lana) is wearing.

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It's dissertation season! With a bumper crop, I'm faced once again with the surprising-to-me realization that many people have no idea how to create a table of contents in a Word document. Luckily, the content is great so I can get past it, but I really need to hold a workshop or something.

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