Japan elected a record 42 women to the Upper House—a step forward for gender representation. But our article shows how visible progress in some areas can coexist with deeper patterns of inequality. @takadanobaba.bsky.social, @clsturtz.bsky.social, Charles Crabtree academic.oup.com/ssjj/article...

Wait he actually wrote in Uganda???

One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.

Hey everyone, The ACLU has released a FULL FAQ over the recent transgender passport decision (and the Trump admin dragging its feet on complying). Please read this if you want to know anything about updating your passport and of or when you should pull the trigger. www.aclu.org/trumps-assau...

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

So excited to share this OA book Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice edited by @zacharydubois.bsky.social and colleagues (includes chapters by @awutich.bsky.social and Alex Brewis and many others you won’t want to miss! : link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for the KCC-Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellowship through Monday, April 14, 2025. One $30,000 fellowship for doctoral research in Japan will be awarded. See the website for more details: www.kccjee.org/graduate-fel...

I've started to take apart the first EO on Sex and Gender. I'm doing it in easy-to-digest bites. Here's part 1. open.substack.com/pub/sterling... #transrights #feministsky #lgbtSTem #transSTEM #womeninscience

大阪城周りのイチョウが見頃で走ってて気持ちよかった

This is all the Russians have been able to take in almost a year, at the cost of about 1500 men A DAY. You heard that right, 1500 PER DAY

Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Hey, look what arrived in the mail! In this 🔥 book, @nkalamb.bsky.social & @derekcrim.bsky.social tap into the best traditions of ethnography & provide a powerful, accessible indictment of the wider system of NCAA football. A must read for the thinking sports fan. Via @uncpress.bsky.social

Here's some numbers just in case anyone needs them. I know it doesn't feel like it but there's so much to live for. Reach out if you need it. Trans lifeline 1-877-565-8860 Trevor project 1-866-488-7386 SAGE elder hotline 1-877-360-5428

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

If you're... 1) 18 or older, 2) native speaker of American English, & 3) a member of the LGBTQIA+ community (broadly construed), take a few minutes to do Emily Duggan's MA thesis survey on the social meanings of queer identity terms! (shared on her request) msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Nancy Mace has introduced a federal bathroom ban which would ban trans people from bathrooms in DCA and Dulles airports, national park bathrooms, museum bathrooms, and all federal building bathrooms.

"Our Arabic program is half a millennium old but couldn't withstand the corporatization of the contemporary university because it isn't nuclear engineering"

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This is excellent news: www.science.org/content/arti...

Worth reading. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Heads up folx: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Great article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"the Court has rarely provided an effective check on such democratic abuses. Rather than serving as a reliable democratic guardrail, the Court has ... declined to check attacks on democracy emerging from other centers of power."

Really honored to work with these students: Liam Gordon whose diss is on Kiki/ballroom in AZ and Richard Southee whose diss is on trauma and unhoused people. Both doing amazing work.

To all you #firstgen and or women in the so-called "hard sciences", we need your voices. MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

This is why I wanted to send my AFAB kids to an all girls school but cost was too high. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Really good paper I missed when it first came out.

Yay Greece. Come on Japan!!

Interesting.

Great opportunity. Application form in next comment.

Here’s to a Friday: video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video...

For those of you/us who don't fully understand how land grant (ahem, land grab) institutions work vis-a-vis the land. Great article by colleagues at ASU and UA.

The roses are dead The violets frozen I call people by names That they've specifically chosen.

And, another great one from DuBois, Puckett, and Robert-Paul Juster. "The study show that trans and nonbinary people who feel more connected to their communities have a more dynamic pattern of cortisol function, suggesting they can recover better from stress."

"Advocates say the conservative push to define “sex” is not only politically motivated but goes against basic biology." If you aren't familiar with DuBois & van Anders work, it is incredibly insightful, relying on lived experience with gender diverse people. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

If you have time and access to the other place (it's important): twitter.com/ErinInTheMor...

#JapaneseCluster #Langsky

Time for the first Japanese 流行語/Slang review of 2024! Read below to learn about the words: マンスプ カミ活 ざまあ系 婚約破棄系 現パロ 転生モノ スクロールバー仕事しろ ここに教会を建てよう 推しピク 人生何周目 wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/j...

Population density of Japan revisited. I did something like this before but made a few changes here. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

@gaijinmommy.bsky.social have you seen this pic of mt fuji?

Looking for a summer internship? Check out the NIH Office of Science Policy Summer Internship Program. Applications due February 12 #healthpolicy #policysky

Single mothers in Japan documentary being screened in Japan.

Tempe! Ugh. Thsnk you AZ hugs www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-hugs...

Paid maternity leave. It's a good idea.

"Korea SMEs & Startups Institute's research fellow Noh Min-sun emphasized the necessity of allowing permanent residency to foreign nationals who have contributed to the Korean economy." Incredibly important issues being discussed here. m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/articl...