In light of today's NYTimes article about self-censorship in academia (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...), sharing my (now ancient) effort to measure the "chilling effect'" of a single effort to suppress science way back in the W administration. Stay safe out there. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Can’t wait to read this! Congrats!

Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)

Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)

A depressing article that will be helpful teaching undergrads about healthcare in the US: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/o...

Nothing to see here. Everything is fine.

Ya, I mean, from an oil/real estate perspective, there’s a lot to like about Cuba and Venezuela. Oligarchs gonna oligarch

And there ya have it… Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

Not today, buddy. just a few more episodes of the Pitt, and I’ll be able to intubate anyone, pretty much anywhere. 🥼👩‍⚕️🩺

You know what cheers me up when the news is this miserable? Snuggling up with a classic rom-com. Rob Reiner always seemed like such a joyful mensch. My heart goes out to his and his wife’s loved ones.

How is it possible to have *such* bad taste in men?

Shocked! 😵

I grew up in Bucks County and … I left as soon as I could. 😥 So much great news all around but DAMN! This is the best!!!!

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

I love Bari Weiss’s moral clarity in this comment.

What is “antifascist and transgender writing” that could fit on a bullet?

How I wish I hadn’t spent my career studying this.

I shared the shite news from HHS w my kid today. Its ok. Virology seemed cool but he’ll be great as a psychedelic retreat vibe enhancer.

I am excited to share that vol 51 of the Annual Review of Sociology is now open access. It includes my article on the politics of healthcare and so many great reviews. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Thank you, Rabbis. But please, the food must come is urgent.

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

You don’t say? www.rutgers.edu/news/america...

I became a professor bc I didn’t want to work for a corporation. Yea.

Reminding myself tonight to focus on what we can do rather than anger at what others won't. @standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.

LLMs are exceptional at finding patterns and replicating them. Cognitive work requires an ability to recognize patterns. Understand how to harness an LLM as a tool, rather than a crutch, and you might find it useful.

This warms my heart. Really.

I was 1 of em!

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Back away from the my m-dash, people.

The em dash supposedly being a “tell” for AI generated text does sort of give away the game on the enormous amount of work stolen from journalists and news organizations that these things were trained on

Why does this man always look constipated?

We @protectdemocracy.org have been saying for years “in the modern era, authoritarianism doesn’t come with tanks in the streets. It’s harder to see coming than that.” Well, we were wrong. Trump’s tanks are here. We are frogs in the water, and it’s already boiling.

I liked this article—seemed like it might be useful in the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

Authoritarian hell

I 💕 this story. I love seeing how Usher thought through what he wanted to say, how he wanted to say it, what this speech meant to him & its broader significance. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is released as supporters chant “Power to the People!” (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

ICE, and DHS are out of control. Mayor Baraka is a good, decent leader—must be hard for these fools to know what that looks like.

Hallelujah! Mashallah! Yay!

Please make this man senate minority leader ASAP.

A splendid shitocracy

Just don’t call it a genocide.

Genuinely not sure how to handle my upcoming flights (both out of Newark, so obv step 1 is try to move airports!) 😳

Comp sci majors need to read @victorerikray.bsky.social more than most.

i know i talk with my hands, but after my oura ring thought i was swimming when i was teaching my class yesterday.

Right wing loves these drugs so much—and psychedelic nonprofits and researchers sure do love their funding.

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.

Al Gore, you son of a bitch I'm in

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