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kylie-m-smith.bsky.social
Sociology grad student at the University of Georgia studying gender and inequality in various aspects of social life. Lover of cats, video games, and iced coffee. She/her/hers.
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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

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submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

So it turns out government grant funding is actually very critical for public safety, protecting our environment, the health & well-being of Americans, our neighborhoods, making sure people have food, job programs, infrastructure and a whole lot more. You know, basic functioning of our society.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

When someone in power asks you to rat out your peers, they're not doing it to make you safer. They're doing it to make you 1) paranoid and 2) completely dependent on them. Never let power divide you against other people who are under the same power.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 41 days ago • 691 comments

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

submitted 54 days ago • 72 comments

I wrote a book about happened in a school after he was elected last time. Here's what to expect: an increase in calls for civility & kindness and a simultaneous crackdown on actions labeled as "political" which means any speech/action addressing systemic racial, class, gender or sexual inequality.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

This one-page piece by Ridgeway (2024) from Contexts Magazine is a great introduction to status and status processes for students! https://buff.ly/3BosgIw

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

submitted 348 days ago • 50 comments

Very excited to say that I won our department's Superlative Teaching Award for my work in and outside of the classroom! While I love the research I'm doing this year on teaching evaluations, I do miss actually being in the classroom and students -- but I'm very grateful for my work to be recognized!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

submitted 86 days ago • 71 comments

This came out a bit ago, but since I’m on a new platform I thought I’d share it here — my solo-authored paper on emotional labor and STEM graduate students! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

submitted 98 days ago • 150 comments

Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place. Call your reps please.

submitted 100 days ago • 38 comments

I love the work I’m doing with @firstpublics.bsky.social!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments