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"to conceive of robots as ‘human-like machines’ (& thus consider their rights)means to first perceive humans in machinic terms: complicated biological info processing machines. Once we see ourselves as machines, it becomes intuitive to see machines as ‘in some sense like us" arxiv.org/pdf/2404.10072

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Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Ok but are you really a sociology student if you don’t mistake Howard Becker for Herbert Blumer once in a while?

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"The role of academic publishing was once to distribute knowledge from research to the public at large. Now the customer is the academic, paying the publisher direct for required performance measures." #academia #edusky #philsky #mediaecology

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From Fashioning Wonder:

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@washingtonpost.com’s @andrewvandam.bsky.social is a national treasure, much like the more obscure sets of LGBTQ demographic data at risk of being wiped out under the Trump administration

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New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

this is an example of why i disagree with people who urge us to distance ourselves from the phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “DEI”, and in effect cede them to the fascists. Instead our professional communities should claim ownership of them and articulate clearly what they mean.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"We believe that for science to maximally benefit society and inform policy, its core principles—integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration—must be upheld." "At PLOS, we seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science." Universities should do the same!

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In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-toc/. Want a playlist for all this sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"The govt’s unique structure + position allow it to play a distinct role from the private sector... Focusing on near-term returns will not make public investments more efficient in the long run. It merely eliminates the govt's unique advantages to advance scientific research for the public benefit."

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Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

They are the new IG Farben.

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Hello @crnetwork.bsky.social, with @leesawheelahan.bsky.social we published an article in @bjse.bsky.social. We theorise the person envisaged in the global education policy discourse based on #skills and propose an alternative based on #CriticalRealism. It's open access. See, doi.org/10.1080/0142...

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As usual on point from @garymarcus.bsky.social . AI as a persuasion agent is a dangerous tool (Gary gives our work as an example, but there's a lot more, see thread) and our best guess should be that the recent Trump Executive Order on AI Bias does not intend to fix it (or fix AI Bias). Thread 1/

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⚕️ What are the 'overhead' costs that the NIH wants to cut? ✂️ Improved and simplified explainer. As usual, feel free to reuse and remix as needed (as long as it's for educational purposes). This is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license. #NIHcuts #overheadcosts #academicsky

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In "White Coats, White Hoods" Jacqueline Antonovich explores the medical politics of the Ku Klux Klan as eugenics gained a foothold in America at the turn of the 20th century Read free in Bulletin of the History of Medicine thru 28 February tinyurl.com/7myfbfx2

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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there is that theory that the rise of the novel was the spark that ignited the global rise of notions of human rights news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Data commons approaches adhere to the spirit of sharing while providing stronger forms of commons-based governance that ensure responsible and equitable use of data. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A group of scholcomm activists, alarmed by the Trump administration’s directives curtailing academic freedom of speech & inquiry, will soon share a declaration against US gov censorship in research, calling for people/orgs in scholarly/adjacent communities to actively condemn & resist such actions.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Johns Hopkins is set to be crippled by the cuts at NIH. These cuts start tomorrow. Thread below.

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 19 days ago • 144 comments

Yesterday UCM Philosophy hosted @etiennebrown.bsky.social (San José State) for his talk "Recommended Selves: Authenticity and Algorithmic Filtering" #philsky #philsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYz...

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Not trying to find a silver lining in the dreadful state of U.S. politics, but I can’t help thinking that scholars of authoritarian politics might have an easier time addressing the classic reviewer question: How does your case contribute to general theory (i.e., the U.S.)?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 20 days ago • 105 comments

This paper’s up on arxiv now so here’s an explainer thread from my perspective (I’m just one contributor and this is my own take, take it with a grain of salt) 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Simulation is more than a technological tool; it’s a fundamental way we preserve and make sense of our digital heritage. @ucirvine.bsky.social interviewed Peter Krapp about his media history of simulation, "Computing Legacies": https://www.humanities.uci.edu/news/racing-against-digital-decay

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

We need to fight this KY bill HB352 - severe consequences on immigrant college students, potential college students, those racialized/stereotyped as such, trust, higher ed support systems, scholarships, & much more! Join & support @acluofky.bsky.social & @kyforhighered linktr.ee/kyforhighered

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

What I remember most about Michael: - The massive portrait of Gramsci behind his desk, staring down at students during office hours - Helping edit his edited volume of global sociology, a volume I think about at least once a week - The way he lived theory He had so much life left in him RIP 💔

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 24 days ago • 1328 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 26 days ago • 83 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

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Free Download for a Month #philsci

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