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!

More, now than ever, it remains crucial to ask what purpose collecting identifying data serves. Asking that question here, there seems to be more danger than promise in potential uses of a registry tracking Americans with Autism.

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

Today I read for the umpteenth time a letter of recommendation for a potential graduate student who is a woman where she was described as "polite" and "gentle." May I humbly propose a "recommenders stop replicating gender norm stereotypes" challenge?!

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

The points fellow Kansans made about stopping the flood of anti-trans bills and anti-abortion bills as a path towards government efficiency make a lot of sense - especially since KS resoundingly voted NO on removing the right to abortion from the KS constitution in 2022!

It seems bad when you phrase it like that.

A stopped (analog) clock is right twice per day. Should we rely on it for telling the time?

Seriously ghoulish behavior

March 10 is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. With increasing attacks on abortion and the people who provide them, we talked to abortion providers across the U.S. about what they want their communities to know and what keeps them motivated to continue the work.

There is something distinctly horrifying about someone leading a committee that would deny people the right to be addressed by any name other than that on their birth certificate commanding people to maintain decorum and not get too emotional. 1/2

My article proposing the framework of "sameness across difference" is out in the March 2025 issue @jofhsb.bsky.social I make the case for using postcolonial feminist theory to study commonalities in health experiences of marginalized people transnationally. journals.sagepub.com/toc/hsb/66/1

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

I just rejoined ASA yesterday and couldn't agree more.

It's looking a lot more like the Department of Personal Vendettas than the DOGE #FireMusk

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

Another reason to be hesitant of surveillance technologies of biodata.