This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

Having gone through my first round of faculty evals, I really appreciate the weight my dept puts on completing peer reviews re: service to the discipline. It's frequently uncompensated work, but w/o folks reviewing, how does one publish?

As others have said, this is bad reporting (more below) but lemme tell you what it’s like at an institution w/ a tuition freeze: • graduate students who teach a huge % of the classes on starvation wages are repeatedly told the only way they can be paid more is with an (impossible) tuition increase

Oh you're an indie critic of Larry Summers name his first three emails about needing to dump nuclear waste in Africa.

“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

OMG, as a father, allow me to emphasize it is not ok for adult men to be into teen age girls, and if you are an adult rationalizing “15 year olds” as somehow ok: You are gross You need help Stay the hell away from my children or my students

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

The beauty and wellness space is an alt-right pipeline for women. ‘Pastel QAnon’ as @maargentino.com coins it www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

There is, I believe, little that feels as good as mulling over how to address very layered/major (but supportive!) reviewer comments over the course of months, then finally--finally!--feeling like you've arrived at something you're happy with.

This is the spirit! 😉😂

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025

Now I'm about to get on a flight and I'm sitting here in my helplessness not sure what to do. It feels farcical to pretend that everything is normal. Hug each other please. Choose love.

you will note the lack of a budget for a $60 book in my already negative daily budget 🙃

The State terrorizing citizens / people, snatching them away semi-/illigally while the world watches. I can’t but see Argentina in the 70s or Germany in the 30s. This is the USA 2025.

Covering The Beauty Myth in theory tomorrow, & the following seems timely w/ the rise of Mar-A-Lago face: "Women insisted on politicizing health; new technologies of invasive, potentially deadly 'cosmetic' surgeries developed apace to re-exert old forms of medical control of women."

Loyalty programs screw their best consumers over, and they sell your private data to others. And this administration just shut down FTC efforts to monitor and regulate what companies do with your private data, including how they use it to engage in surveillance pricing.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

I like to teach through my mistakes! In a recent attendance poll, students selected which natural disasters they knew of. One student hadn't heard of any & asked what to select. I acknowledged my biases, added a "none" option, & encouraged them to note both what's there & what's missing in surveys.

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.) Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The reclaiming/reframing of frogs as Antifascist after enduring years of the execrable Pepe is glorious and I am here for every scrap of new heroic frog art

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport ✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

It’s the weirdest mix of relief and regret when the grading you’ve been putting off far too long only takes a couple minutes.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

it's funny to me that the people who talk about the criminal mindset, which is not a real thing, are the same people who talk about the success mindset, which is just crime

As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Happy Bi Visibility Day! Interesting fact for you... bisexuality was first discovered in 1995, thanks to the hard-hitting investigative journalism of Newsweek

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Hi all, my younger sister’s cat recently required emergency surgery totaling thousands of dollars. I wouldn’t typically share something like this on bsky, but Meredith is a kind, hardworking graduate student, and even the smallest bit would help her weather this. www.gofundme.com/f/ivy-recove...

Relevant that this photo's a staple of my class slides to illustrate how expanding media in early America allowed postcards with images like this to be circulated, taking slavery from an abstract phenomenon to a concrete horror show that inflamed public opinion and helped build abolitionism

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

@bluesky moderation is suspending people for posting Kirk's own words which tells you everything you need to know.

"AI work is just as good as human work" is a statement that *always* flows from the direction of power. Employers to workers, producers to consumers, but not the reverse. Because it's not a thing people actually believe, but an argument: slop is good enough for you; you are slop.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Pictured: window, glorious window. After so many years of windowless fluorescence, your view of the outside world is deeply cherished.

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

well this is exceptionally gross

Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Learned of two R&R decisions in as many days! Fall semester off to a truly blessed start 😁

When people talk about bringing back manufacturing, they don’t actually want factory work. They are longing for the days of strong labor unions where workers had good working conditions, clear steps in a job trajectory, decent wages, health care, & a pension. This takes us further from that.