#Job alert: two post-docs at OSU's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the College of Public Affairs: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

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You cannot effectively delete what is posted publicly on Bluesky. Data scientists (not affiliated with Bluesky) and commercial companies capture it all live, every comma and em dash. Anything said in the heat of the moment could follow you to a job interview ten years from now. Capisce?

This is a reminder that if you are faculty in Texas or anywhere else for that matter you need to join @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.org . Your administration will not protect you from right wing attacks

Remember, if you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪

🌟On the Market Spotlight🌟 🧑‍🏫Meet Olivia Hu @oliviayhu.bsky.social, postdoc with the Program on Race, Science, and Society at UPenn 🔬Research interests: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Sexualities, Family, Immigration, Intersectionality, Culture, Asian American Studies, Qualitative Methods

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Is this... the party of free speech?

"Although there has been between $30 and $40 billion in enterprise investment into generative AI, a recent MIT report shows that 95 percent of organizations are seeing zero return." ... whilst I open yet another email missive about incorporating AI into my teaching. thehill.com/policy/techn...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This tells us a lot. Being the victim of terrorism is horrible, but its likelihood is vanishingly small. Yet Republicans are more likely to say it's a "major threat to the U.S." than things that could *literally* effect us all: global climate change, infectious disease, misinfo, even global economy.

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206

Wesleyan University's sociology dept is searching for an assistant professor this fall - especially interested in scholars of space with an interest in questions of method. Non-sociology PhDs are encouraged to apply! Feel free to share and reach out with questions!

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Berkeley Sociology is also participating in a cross-campus search in Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - open rank. Assistant Professor candidates for this position should also apply for our open field junior search to be considered for both. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!

**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.** The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...

I'm at #ASA2025! I'll be on this panel on The Landscape of Access to Educational Opportunity on Sunday 8/10 from 12-1:30 pm (triple checking my calendar to make sure my time zones are correct).

Perhaps higher ed reporters could ask administrators at The Ohio State University what their plan is to protect vulnerable students since they are requiring everybody to use AI. AI can hallucinate information in dangerous ways, such as telling people to take drugs or stop taking prescribed meds.

What if told you… you could get four or even five ACTUAL PHD HOLDERS for the same price.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

"The New York Times has referred to a quarter of a billion dollars spent since 2016... That’s $27 million a year at a university with a $14.3 billion dollar budget" - i.e., 0.19%. I remember being enraged about that article for this very reason. You can't just use big "gotcha" numbers w/o context!!

In 2008 I took Intro to Econ and the prof made the sub-prime mortgage crisis a significant part of class. It is the only reason my 19-yo self actually understood what was happening. I've been thinking about that a lot as I figure out when/how to talk about current events in class.

Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.

If you think companies will give us a 2 day work week instead of forcing us to more than double our output over 5 days, or pay us a lot less, then you don’t understand capitalism.

"Supporting students of color does not require the illegal use of race. Saying 'Black Lives Matter' requires only the willingness to acknowledge Black people’s humanity." [email protected] on OSU flipflopping on systemic racism in less than five years www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

An important and courageous op-ed from @tiffjhuang.bsky.social on the critical need to uphold commitments in the fight against racial inequality in education: www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Extremely wrong thing to try to keep up with the Buckeyes on, y'all.

Great piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social, reminding us that we must name racism for what it is, even in the face of threat.

Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

"No longer will they publicly acknowledge racism or its effects. No longer will they stand up for their students of color, much less their faculty or staff of color" What we all know but want to pretend isn't true. #highereducation #blackademics

I get that we're messaging to whatever moveable conservatives are left out there and trying to outrun the targets on all of our backs. I really do. But I refuse to forget why this work matters. And I refuse to throw students of color under the bus. My op-ed in @dispatch.com:

"Some argue that this will only place a target on places that declare sanctuary. But staying quiet won’t deter the juggernaut of anti-immigrant federal action coming our way."

I'm also grappling with the fact that there are highly educated people who are not, in fact, technofascists who just do not want to hear or talk about the realities of technofascism at all. I don't know if it's cognitive dissonance, a lack of capacity or interest, an inability to take it seriously..

That smell, that smoke, those flames... are your civil liberties on fire.

Perhaps this is a lesson that compliance won’t save you.

Supported the boycott today? Wonderful. Can you take the time to think about shopping choices from tomorrow on? Let’s all buy less. Buy local. Avoid the giants. #resist

One of the main things keeping me going is feeling like these students deserve such a better world than the one we're giving them.

Not sure if this is about congressional Democrats or university administrators or business leaders or

This is the logic used for "good faith" situations, however we know we are dealing with "bad faith" actors. Business isn't usual organizations are not dealing with experts in the field being critical and using logic for solutions. We are dealing with podcasters energized by inflicting pain!

The thing about the justification, "We have to do it or they will go after xyz next" is.... after you do it, they're still gonna go after xyz next.

Apparently Penn is also in the process of approving $13 million for a new parking garage, though.

This piece is good and gets at my frustrations that few universities are making a case as to why universities are important. There isn't any value in being quiet. The cuts and attacks on the whole system will continue. So make a scene, get in front of the plans they've published. Defend our values.

So true! Furthermore, as a colleague noted, avoiding attention from the Trump administration is really not the win you think it is.

"Trying to make yourself a smaller target doesn’t mean the people intent on destroying you are going to stop attacking... "the more prestigious institutions cowering in the face of the intimidation perhaps do not see their mission in terms of providing access to all." - @biblioracle.bsky.social

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

Extremely cool-looking postdoc with @aapidata.bsky.social. Based at UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Asian American Research Center. Deadline 2/27!!https://aapidata.com/join-us/postdoctoral-scholar