OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

He ticks off a list of violence against right wing figures, and the rhetoric he says that fueled them, but ignores the murder or a leading Minnesota politician, the planned kidnapping of the Governor of Michigan, shooting of the CDC, or the assault of Nancy Pelosi's husband.

It’s publication day for Listeners Like Who? @princetonupress.bsky.social. I’m grateful to the journalists that shared their stories with me, the colleagues and friends that read copious drafts, and the early readers of the book. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding—and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves. Laura Garbes' Listeners Like Who? is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM) List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning! #ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social

📢 TODAY'S ASA PRESENTERS (AM) List of SOC faculty and PhD candidates who are presenting this morning! #ASA2025: @umnsociology.bsky.social

A little bit of an update! If you’ve accessed my previous website in the past, please use this new link :) it’s also in my description! sites.google.com/umn.edu/shan...

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

A complicating factor here is every state administering Medicaid under a unique name. "I'm not on Medicaid, I'm on Medi-Cal / BadgerCare Plus / STAR / etc!" Many people about to discover that they are, in fact, on Medicaid.

Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on: -free buses -rent freeze -halal cart for $8 instead of $10 -taxing the 1% -no cost childcare -city-owned grocery stores -a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response -building affordable housing -why Cuomo sucks

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory. We got video. www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...

I was hit by a wave of hunger again today. Suddenly, you feel as if the walls of your stomach are sticking to each other, and with it, you feel a bitterness in your throat as if its acids have reached your mouth, causing a severe headache and a sense of emptiness surrounding your brain.

A little late to post this, but I’m honored to have been awarded the outstanding graduate TA award by my department! Working with undergrads has been especially meaningful for me this semester, so this was definitely a lovely surprise :)

Check out our new piece in Annual Review of Sociology!

I think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test.

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

The American Journal of Unfinished Sociology (AJUS), the flagship journal of @TheSocietyPages, is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2025 Edition. Please submit and share with your networks today! 🔗 thesocietypages.org/ajus/ 🔗

In this op-ed (my first!) I argue that sanctuary matters, even amidst the anti-immigrant terror. I hope you'll read and share! progressive.org/op-eds/sanct...

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:

A story written up about what I was up to with @lauragarbes.bsky.social last summer and what I’m hoping to do going forward! Thank you to UMN CLA’s Sally Adams for writing this up. cla.umn.edu/sociology/ne...

My immigration firm sent a newsletter today in response to inquiries from clients over the last two months. They "strongly recommend against international travel", warned against even walking past political rallies, noted government reps may ask to see emails, texts + social media, and these points:

The Loyalty Trap will be out soon! If you are interested in teaching it in fall 2025, I'll send the first 10 people who contact me, a free copy. #ESS2025 @carolinewlee.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-loy...

New pub drop!! “Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra- and inter-ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups” Special thanks to my coauthors, Rin Ferraro, Abby Young, Briceria Bernal, and Dr. Cyrus Schleifer! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly

Excited about a new article with Reilly Kincaid in ASR @asanews.bsky.social on role-accumulation & mental health across the life course. We identify a disagreement across prominent theories for how role-accumulation should affect mental health, especially in older adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Excellent thread. We can’t get out of this by hiding. The only way out is actually fighting for universities, science, and public health in a way that involves convincing many other people to also fight for them.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

If people want to help and are able to donate to help those affected by these LA fires, here are places they can donate: friendsindeedpas.org/donate-to-fr... cpf.salsalabs.org/disasterreli... www.directrelief.org/emergency/ca... www.pledge.to/ccfwildfirer... www.globalgiving.org/projects/cal...

My sister, aunt, and grandparents are between Lidia and Hurst, and my brother is right at the border of Eaton. So many friends have lost their homes in Pasadena and Altadena. It’s a nightmare watching people lose everything from afar.

The docmentary NURSE UNSEEN chronicles how Filipino American nurses disproportionately died of COVID-19 in 2020. For Filipino audiences, the film has offered a rare chance to collectively grieve in ways our society has failed. It is currently on the long list for Best Doc at the Academy Awards.

Research finds that brokering is a gendered practice, with girls brokering more than boys. But are there gender differences among parents? I find that social roles within the family—which are heavily gendered—shape the kinds of brokering requests made by immigrant parents. Check out my latest 👇

Recently had the opportunity to listen to Luis Ortega with Storytellers for Change. A big take home message is the importance of the angle we choose when storytelling - we're so often problem- & deficit-based. Flipping this to focus on the opportunities shifts the narrative entirely. An example ...

First it is important to constantly repeat to anyone hand-wringing about the loss of a "public sphere" that the concept, as first articulated by Jurgen Habermas, was and always has been a normative ideal and not a reality. Conditions have *never* existed for a healthy public sphere as it is imagined

Moving on from Twitter for the most part but if you aren’t familiar, I write for The Society Pages’ blog :) You can see my latest discovery below!

Here's my attempt to start building up our social gerontology community. I *know* that I am missing folks, so please comment, and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/KnsmUGh

I made a starter pack of a motley crew of folks I enjoy. Let me know if you’d like to be added to this list (or taken off)! go.bsky.app/9yxgizB

I wrote here about the problems of having Jay Bhattacharya as head of the National Institute of Health. The emphasis on self-reliance/individualism appeals to the Ayn Rand folks but fundamentally it doesn’t work for public health. open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

Two critically important research articles related to this. One third (!!!!) of the home health and personal care aide workforce is foreign-born. amandakreider.github.io/in-progress/... (from @amandakreider.bsky.social) www.nber.org/papers/w30960

ATTN Qual Researchers: Here are some resources I’ve compiled on trauma-informed research practices. I used them to train my incredible team of RAs, who conducted 120+ interviews with violence-involved men in Chicago. Access here: shorturl.at/jCyWt

This is still a work-in-progress starter pack, but at least it’s now starting to feel ready to share. Use this if you’re looking to (re)connect with some AAPI voices. go.bsky.app/R6AoW5Q

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

I know I am missing tons of folks (since I've been adding new soc folks from other starter packs), but I hadn't seen a med soc/soc of health starter pack yet. Comment if you'd like to be added! HT to @jenjamesphd.bsky.social for teaching me about starter packs. #medsoc go.bsky.app/AynCrtw

I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR

Please help! I'm trying to make a #starterpack! Suggest some names, share, let me know if you'd like to be added! #sociology #academicsky #socsky #psychsky #polisky go.bsky.app/BqCatpb

Twitter was a huge source of info when I was applying to grad school. Sad to see what it has become but time to take my transition here more seriously! I’m a sociology PhD student interested in elder care, Asian Americans (and race broadly), culture, and health! Hope to connect with you all :)

I wrote a brief reflection about why we did this paper, and why at this time. It's a tribute to people who endure US racism and move forward, making it possible for us to fight for a better world. socialsciences.nature.com/posts/histor...