New in Big Data & Society 🗞️ Alejandra Regla-Vargas, AJ Alvero, and Hajar Yazdiha analyze anti-Asian hate and counter-hate on social media during COVID-19, showing how hate and resistance enact racial projects through shifting frames. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Can AI please fold my clothes, that’s what I really need

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Morning read. A good paper about how admissions “consultants” make sense of their work in a deeply, deliberately unequal competition for a limited good. Humans are good at making stories. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

New from me +friends! When my colleagues and I decided not to grade our course assignments, I was certain it would blow up in my face. But it didn't! We studied how our students responded—and discussed what we found on the Teaching Sociology podcast. sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...

Turn off location permissions for as many apps as you can. (3/4)

Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

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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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

"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.

Trying to put into words how personally devastating this one is. I was in PHAP, CDC's entry-level fellowship, which also appears to be (has been? will be?) cut. It was a formative professional & life experience, and we all looked up to EIS deeply. Cutting EIS is a tragedy for public health.

My campus was recently peppered with "choose kindness" lawn signs (hug emojis 🤗 included). I'm down for kindness, but it's been very jarring to see them pop up at exactly the same time as the state legislature introducing a bill to dismantle academic freedom at our institution.

I really wish socialist critiques of corporate DEI emphasized corporate more than DEI given how much harm is coming to workers (but not corporations!) in the guise of anti-DEI politics. Stop being like "well, at least they got rid of that bad training" instead show its all the same f*cking problem.