You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2. Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.

Keep the No Kings momentum going today by supporting your neighbors as government fails in real time. There won't be a SNAP distribution in November. People won't be able to buy groceries. So buy someone groceries. Stock your community fridge/shelf, or start one. And donate cash to a food bank.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No one wants to see that shit

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know. findmeatherapist.org

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

If you aren’t watching you’re missing out!

Holy Kahleah Copper, Batman. She just drained a contested 3. 1-point game. She’s on a 9-0 run BY HERSELF.

Still keeping eyes on Chicago, where @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is still in police custody. Free Eman!!

Maybe someday I’ll learn not to watch the slow-mo shots of players getting injured.

The racism of this video posted by the president of the United States of America is breath taking.

Don’t automatically assume that your elected officials will do the right thing because we know that half of them won’t and may try to capitulate under pressure. Call your elected officials and be a constant, unceasing pain in their ass. You elected them to work for you not the other way around.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

This is (also) political violence.

Hep B is transmitted vertically (from parent to child) & via fomites (it lives on surfaces for hours, & if you know anything about (drooly) children, you can see how they'd contract Hep B). Even if it was sexually-transmitted, a preventative vaccine is still a good idea. See also: the HPV vaccine!

A fun fact about me is that people riffing cleverly on the plums-in-the-icebox is my favorite thing on the entire internet.

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:

Not the Onion: "I helped deactivate the very program that trained me to critique systems such as the one I now help lead. This is why we need more sociologists in upper administration and leadership roles." www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...

To be very clear: ACIP is still recommending BOTH the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and Varicella (chickenpox) vaccines, just not the combined MMRV shot. This is due to a reported increased risk of febrile seizures from the MMRV compared to when the MMR and Varicella are administered as two shots.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

If you are saying that Kirk did not say "Black women" in the Attiah quote of Kirk, you are doing his work for him.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

My book and a bunch of my articles are in this data base. If you write, yours are likely here, too. Link to register for the settlement is in Kevin’s thread.

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.

Do any of my people on here have experience doing a school-based ethnographic/observational project and would be willing to answer a couple of questions for me (for a student I’m advising)?

I read this article before getting out of bed this morning and I’m still upset about it. This is a nightmare scenario on an individual level, and an even bigger one on a collective/society-wide level.

New York's COVID vaccine executive order will allow all New Yorkers, regardless of age or underlying conditions, to receive a COVID vaccine at any pharmacy, despite greater restrictions at federal level. It is active for 30 days, allowing time for more permanent legislation to be passed.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.

hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”

I mean that literally - no one is discussing the massive loss of rights trans people have experienced throughout the country. When Dems talk about trans women in sports, they're not just giving ground on sports. They're giving ground on everything, bc sports bans were the big issue 3 years ago.

“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”

Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!

When RFK jr et al talk about “inflammation” causing disease (that’s true) they conveniently forget to mention that STRESS and lack of sleep are two of the most common drivers of inflammation in the body.

"Covid vaccines are more dangerous than the entire scientific edifice claims and also this long list of sick and vulnerable people can still have one" is a hell of an argument

“If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Also keep in mind that obesity qualifies you. That’s a lot of people (me included)

Just got stung by a wasp on the palm of my hand so if you need me I’ll be over here whining for the foreseeable future

According to my FB memories I took the bus from my apartment in Austin to the UT campus for the very first time 15 years ago today. I can’t wrap my mind around it being that long since I started grad school!

Is snake oil the future? A snake oil salesman weighs in.

#Sociology folks: what readings do you use to teach Doing Gender for undergrads, besides West & Zimmerman and Lucal’s “What It Means To Be Gendered Me”? I need to replace a reading. Bonus points if it’s an application of the concept rather than something more theoretical!

Having ASA-related FOMO. 😩

*screams in feminist techno science*