Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

I am not strategically doing life as well as I could be. This is what I learned from this. Wow.

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

Privileged to be part of a community that puts on events like this. Thanks @jessicacalarco.bsky.social and @tristanbridges.bsky.social!

This is mildly embarrassing for a field whose focus is (almost) entirely about inequality. (Important side note: I skipped ASA this year because poor)

something tells me a certain newspaper is going to treat this as a non-story. i mean, it’s not like we’re talking about a black lady at harvard or an old president.

Humanity is safe then. GPT-5 will be struggling with imposter syndrome, learn only to procrastinate, and will just burnout

"On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender Inequality" w/ @Soc_IanAnthony in dePICTions. Online here (message for the PDF - coming soon): parisinstitute.org/on-the-crisi...

No matter how many times I see the video of the beaver making a damn out of random things around the house, I watch it again like it’s the first time I’ve seen it

So far, my favorite part of blue sky (and maybe Twitter too) is seeing established academics post dgaf types of posts which often make little to no sense versus junior academics trying to create community. Something interesting in the grist, indeed.

Hear me out: Beeker of the House

After spending the afternoon writing, I am offended… and will spend tomorrow editing heavily.

I know I’m late to this party but as I get set to teach this, I just want to take a moment to say how excellent and useful I found this book. Are Jessica and/or Mario on Blue Sky yet or are they still trapped on the other site? #sociology

“In the mid 20thC, “hard sciences” were producing tangible highly-publicized results. Psychologists looked on enviously. Their results were squishy & difficult to quantify. The longing for mathematical approval burned hot. So psychology textbooks created statistical significance”

This is not encouraging 😭

I was lucky enough to see Raul at ASA. This looks great.

This looks exactly like Twitter and I’ve only been here for five minutes but I already like it miles better.