The point of putting ice in airports isn’t just to put ice in airports. It’s to normalize putting them anywhere as “extra security.” This will include polling places w/ long lines in minority communities, polling places in blue/purple districts, & anywhere else it “helps” the people deploying them.

Thrilled to be part of this symposium! It's virtual and free to attend. Check it out if you're interested in Authority & Health-Science-Knowledge.

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Viewpoint: Restricting gender-affirming care access will not only harm individual health outcomes, but also strain the health care system. ja.ma/3JXGrrV

College money well spent and needed. Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding. Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders. Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

I do this every semester, too. This semester I taught in a classroom with only one door and windows that didn't open.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Posted this elsewhere: Patriarchy ruins the workplace every day. No universal healthcare nor reproductive care, no affordable childcare, no paid time off for pregnancy, maternity leave nor family support, because the template for ‘employee’ is a male, unattached worker paid as little as possible.

Hard agree 💯

Recruiting for a new study on men’s sexual health experiences! Please share :)

I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.

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...

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“We’re on the precipice of now being able to deliver the greatest prevention option we’ve had in 44 years of this epidemic... And it’s as if that opportunity is being snatched out of our hands by the policies of the last five months."

Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

Man it really sucks when someone just takes your government funding away out of nowhere on a whim

June is #PrideMonth -> Read about health experiences of transgender and gender diverse people in their gender-affirming health care in Thailand and the US. @dr-alj.bsky.social explores how these experiences are shaped by imperial legacies: bit.ly/3HgqP1o @SociologyWSU @asamedsoc.bsky.social

Ah yes, small government and free speech so evident in this and many other actions

One of my students in a 300-level sociology class cited some non-existent papers, so congrats to MAHA on doing some sophomore level hijinx to get around doing actual science 🙄

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

Actually the hardest hit group would be Americans who want to live in a democracy instead of a dictatorship. The next group will be those who value our system of education; this is going to undermine everybody at Harvard & every other university in the US as well.

I am not watching the hearings today (and did not see the full context of her remarks on TRIO) but I firmly believe I would not be where I am today without the influence of TRIO programs early in my life.

AI is going to revolutionize the way in which things suck

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Having been at AAPOR, I can tell you that this is the single least popular Trump policy out of more than 250 polled. YouGov has it at -74 net. There are STDs that are better liked.

nice to finally agree with RFK Jr on something

BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

Why data backing up an argument is oh so important. We lock up SO MANY people in the U.S.

So much new content for my medical sociology class next fall... if the white man's burden doesn't take us all out before then

Study “debunks the myth that economic inequality is an inevitable & automatic result of technological & demographic changes. On the contrary, …human decisions—how wealth is shared, how govt is set up, & how people decide to organize themselves—play a fundamental part in shaping social outcomes.” 🧪

RAND's Postdoctoral Program in the Study of Aging is recruiting fellows! This program provides an opportunity for junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their research skills at @rand.org. Application deadline is May 23. Learn more: www.rand.org/well-being/s...

I'm a proud AmeriCorps VISTA alum from 2012-2013 and agree with this perspective.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

Individual solutions do not solve structural problems!