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This week's digest shares the work of @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social and @j-farrell.bsky.social, urging a closer look at conservative thought in relation to the natural environment and the theoretical underpinnings of its connection to nature.

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What is up with RFK and everyone talking about a "healthy" society? jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

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im just on here because twitter is down

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I was promised there would be dissertations about wtf "Old Town Road" was

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All sociologists face the choice "to situate [social phenomena] resolutely outside nature; that is, admit that they are not subject to the law of causality and thus constitute a world apart within the world, or to proceed with them as with other natural phenomena."

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jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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🔎 Think you know #populism? Think again—In rural America, #populist attitudes connect to economic grievances & conservatism but weaken the link to #PoliticalViolence. New #OA study by Drs. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @jtommueller.bsky.social & Paul Berne Burow: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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My new paper on Populism and Political Violence with @jtommueller.bsky.social and Paul Burow is out now in @sociusjournal.bsky.social! We find evidence that in rural areas populist attitudes are associated with reduced support for political violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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A quick little hit on MAHA, RFK, and today's purity politics. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/maha-is-ju...

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Great new piece from @benjij.bsky.social in @vox.com on the evolving landscape of the RFK right, MAHA movement, and purity politics of right-wing environmentalism! www.vox.com/climate/3935...

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bookchin

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everyone is like: this thing you think isn’t bad is actually bad

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Mythically, Nick Saban is Robert E. Lee.

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Me: "Computational power is an enormous barrier for many...under-resourced researchers in attempting to keep up with the cutting-edge methods demanded by top journals." Reviewer 1: "I found this statement frustrating." Reviewer 2: "This is a critical point, and you can support it with Baden (2022)!"

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A little reflection on Stengers, Latour, Cronon, Kimmerer, et al. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/seven-quot...

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college football

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on the eve of the Civil War, the "owning humans" industry accounted for 75% of the US economy. for context, today this is about equivalent to Finance, Insurance, all real estate; Business Services; Government; Manufacturing; Educational Services, Health Care, and Social Assistance; Oil and Gas

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Researchgate always like, “People are reading your work!Weekly stats: +1 Read. A scholar in Kiribati.”

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the fact that "abductive" is not a recognized word by most grammar software is a insult to American philosophy

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so, in American sociology being a theorist is just being a “smart” empiricist?

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if i just create enough “weak links” on BlueSky i will one day get a job in a sociology department

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A theory paper revealing that the major cleavages in sociological theory are just Aristotle's "four causes": essentialist theory (material cause), formal theory (formal cause), relational theory (efficient cause), critical theory (final cause).

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why do leftists suddenly care about joe rogan so much?

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crazy that the only way to get a raise in academia is to threaten to leave by wasting another school's time and resources. should probably change that?

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If one treats "Nature" and "History" as synonyms (as Collingwood argues) then "Essentialism" and "Ethnicity" also become synonyms.

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the shift from "biology" to "narrative" as the central metaphor in sociology for rendering society intelligible

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A new short piece reflecting on my first read-through our Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death! To quote Zadie Smith, “Neil Postman is a prophet and a genius.” jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/zadie-smit...

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the naturalization of evolutionary metaphysics into progressive senses of reality throughout the 20th century and then the subsequent denial of “Darwinian ideas” by 21st century progressives is so epic

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This year i’m primarily Giving Thanks for Kendrick dropping an unexpected album 🙏

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the rapid exodus of sociologists to this site is so fucking funny

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This paper feels incredibly important in understanding the darker and more intense edges of the contemporary (corporate) power brokers. #TESCREAL #eugenics

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are people on here generally aware of the MAHA dimension of the new right? thoughts? confusion?

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Looking for good examples of policy for #GenAI for your fall courses, check out this collection with over 130 examples. Spreadsheet: bit.ly/Syllabi-AI-P... GDoc: bit.ly/AI-Syllabi #HigherEd #EdTech #AIEd #ChatGPT #AIEdu #AIEducation

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