He was one of my true heroes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

New! In "Medicalizing Maternity," grad student Colter Uscola covers Charlotte Abel and @stefantimmermans.bsky.social's #Sociology research on medical provision and surveillance in pregnancy care for those with psychiatric symptoms: contexts.org/articles/med... @socprobsjournal.bsky.social

This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)

Tibetan Singing Bowls at the No King protest in Santa Monica

I am honored and thrilled to have The Last Human Job win this award. Thanks to ASA & the many who read/gave feedback along the way. This award is dedicated to all who do connective labor when it is under threat by data analytics & AI. Connecting is what makes us human! Let's preserve and protect it

In my research I’ve been thinking obsessively about how we define “quality” in health care and education, so I was excited to talk to Rachel about how quality metrics are being deployed in child care policy debates

Co-authors at the Lukas book award

In holding pattern for 2 hours before landing

Nice to read before takeoff to Newark

We are the Finalist 💃🏽🕺🏻 #bookaward #nonfiction journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...

I think I may have cracked the code for large lecture exams that set students up for success: two pages of notes so they have to study and then a handwritten exam consisting of 6 short essays in 75 minutes. I used to do take home essays but that no longer works.

New book review! @stefanobloch.bsky.social's "Geographies of Trauma" explores the deep, unflinching humanity of 2 ethnographies: Neil Gong's "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) & Randol Contreras's "The Marvelous Ones" (@ucpress.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/BKSTrauma

Dolphins 🐬

Our book is a finalist for the Lukas Book Award for a narrative on a topic of American political and social concern apnews.com/article/luka...

A LOS ANGELES MORBID LOCATION THREAD: 1. first we have the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970

Author just requested their name to be removed from published paper on trans health

Burawoy’s final lesson to us all is how he is being remembered. Yes he was a brilliant scholar, yes he shaped the discipline, but the outpouring is about who he was as a person, a gracious mentor, a kid human being, an advocate for justice. May we all be as lucky.

I had an influencer-provocateur-prankster interrupt my 300 students class with a song. He didn’t stay to hear about Durkheim’s book on Suicide

Check out my latest OpEd! Americans are going rogue when it comes to their health. "It is not necessarily a rebellious spirit but an unreliable health care system that compels staunch individualism." www.newsweek.com/americans-ar...

New article with Charlotte Abel on psychiatric gaslighting academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Just got stuck for an hour in an elevator. It’s what nightmares are made of.

My biggest fear is that I will die alone, so if it is alright with you, I'd like you to come over to watch me eat this chicken I left out on the counter overnight.

Dear Professor, I'm emailing you to let you know that my home was burned down this weekend. I am helping evacuations right now. I, like yourself, have been greatly affected by these fires. I'm emailing to inform you of possible irregularities in my academics during this difficult start to the year.

Our book as new & noteworthy in Barnes & Noble

Our book in airport bookstore 🕺🏻

That’s our beat 😊 www.dailynews.com/2024/12/12/t...

There’s one scholar (whose work I admire) who has edited three different journals and rejected my work in each journal

Malibu wildfire

Woohoo

The Unclaimed is one of the top 10 2024 books of The Atlantic 💃🏽🕺🏻 www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Good morning

This morning

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We made another best books of the year list: laist.com/news/los-ang...

“The Unclaimed” made the list 🥳🎉🥳🎉

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

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

Back to the #horror memes!

Sunset at Manhattan Beach

Bruno Latour: science is politics by other means.

Full moon over the ocean

Hello new followers 🫶🏽

Fireworks in LA !

Curious to see who will play the halftime show of the World Series

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #545,975!