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They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science. Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting sloan.org/programs/dig...

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The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

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#AMDG

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love our strong, senile president

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A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

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I was just informed that the Department of Education has taken down all its Civil Rights data. If you need it, alternative sites are now hosting it for the public. See links in this thread. ocrdata.ed.gov/notfound

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If you work in higher ed and haven't had a pay raise in many years, I'd love to talk to you for a story. Please reach out here or [email protected] Thank you! 🙏

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No no no no.

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Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

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"republicans are obsessed with your kids genitals and these patriots who fight in our military and just lead ordinary lives like yours just want to shit in peace" - easiest dem messaging on trans rights

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The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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A quick bonus thread on this---I think a lot of the reason so many universities etc. are folding to bullshit like anti-DEI orders is because university counsel are thinking "how can we minimize risk to the university over the next six months" --- but this is actually penny-wise and pound foolish 🧵

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"downsizes" is a weak way of saying "forced to cancel dozens of programs, which jeopardizes future STEM careers of talented undergrads" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 202 comments

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

I really beg datavis researchers to start engaging with this. The role of the chart here is to provide a cover of objectivity. It’s reifying the entire fucking opinion section into a 2d space to lens it some Cartesian legitimacy or something equally dark. So, so gross.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

submitted 7 days ago • 434 comments

PSA: If you have a student loan in forbearance, CHECK IT NOW. Especially if you have them automatically pull the money from your bank account. I have documents from Mohela saying that my next payment wasn't due until 4/28/2025. It was pulled today. I'm ok but this is a bad kind of surprise.

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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

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The president of OSU has just announced that, effective tomorrow, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Belonging and Social Change will close.

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Approaching majority opposition to basic 20th century second wave feminism among Republican men

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The agency has already been cut to the bone. Customer service staff has been cut by 19% even as beneficiaries have increased by 25%. Disability claims processing has increased from 100 days in 2012 to 240 days in 2024. Thousands of people die waiting to get disability benefits they’ve earned

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While NIH funded researchers have found a potential cure for one of the most deadly cancers around, Trump and Musk are continuing an illegal NIH grant freeze, threatening so many potential life saving scientific advances. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

submitted 10 days ago • 145 comments

Commit Sociology!

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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people who a) are connected to a college campus and know what actually happens there and who b) aren’t paid embarrassing sums of money to lie about it will all tell you this is a crock of shit BUT i frequently get outsiders acting like it’s really true. the propaganda is at least a little effective

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A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct. He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...

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I am inundated with messages from federal workers who are feeling frantic, furious and fed up after receiving Musk’s email and reading his threatening X post. The psychological warfare is the point.

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On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

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NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Trump, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester. Trump previously cut short Tarrio's sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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This man is obsessed with young people’s genitals.

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"Two in five scientists ... reported harassment and intimidation ... Intimidation efforts included online abuse, physical threats, and threats to budgets or employment." theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

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Probationaries who have been illegally fired: this article contains information about which law firm to contact in order to join the class action suit. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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Colleges are under pressure from White House over diversity (DEI) but no big school has bent the shameful knee of obeying in advance harder or faster than Trump and Musk's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania My new column on the strangling of academic freedom www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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MUTUAL AID ALERT: Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread! - choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)

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I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

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