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You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Good review. I particularly like the opening paragraphs.

Really do think @buddyyakov.bsky.social's work explains this: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/def...

"Bleak employment prospects have helped tank young Americans’ views on the economy, to levels hardly seen since a prominent monthly survey began in the 1970s."

This paper on the conditions enabling moral courage among civil servants in the U.S. and Brazil is super-timely. osf.io/preprints/so...

A lot of inflammatory posts link to news articles that don't say what the inflammatory post suggests, or that are from weird sources. I'm muting/blocking those. There's plenty to be worked up about without getting sucked into rumors and misinformation.

Really wish I could understand what combination of fear, both-sidesism, click addiction, and actual sympathy is shaping mainstream coverage of our current moment.

Key chart www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

Has anyone written the Simon Patten/abundance agenda take yet?

they were developed in a fentanyl lab located in Asbestos, Quebec, to be Woke, fireproof and deadly to the touch. their glands secrete generic prescription drugs and they all believe in climate change. these aren’t your granddad’s 30-50 feral hogs. they’re bilingual. they will win

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

Must be an interesting time to be at APSA.

We put this off as long as we could.

A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.

We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following. It still became a polarization machine. Then we tried six interventions to fix social media. The results were… not what we expected. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

I can't believe the BLS is the thing that got me back on here.

Just for the record, Wiatrowski is a longtime BLS employee, a dedicated public servant, someone who has been acting commissioner before, and someone I would have total confidence in during a normal transfer of power. The scary part is who they replace *him* with.

I ❤️ Wingspan

On the plus side, unexpected posts about Wendy Espeland showing up on the TL.

Hellooooo!!! I have been taking a little break from social media! But I am here to tell you that the president firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is probably Not Great.

Columbia was also a major innovator in interfering with academic freedom in the name of loyalty during the first modern crackdown of WWI

okay last thing before I actually log off today: if you use the internet, you should have to do a land acknowledgement to the Department of Defense so you don't accidentally think you're using consumer technology

Fantastic piece on where we are in global capitalism that answers some questions I've had about a local store. Gift link. defector.com/seven-days-a...

This is the best analysis I've read in quite a while.

this is not meant as a hot take or a unique insight but it's remarkable how a lot of scientific discourse is about methods, data, and findings, whereas what really does most of the heavy lifting happens to be the assumptions

great to see @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social featured on this @issuesinst.bsky.social podcast!

People encounter this with their IoT devices and DRMed media, but this is a general property of cloudification: power, and therefore decisions that affect you directly, are in someone else's hands. Government and military systems are impacted in the same way. Why tolerate this?

"If routine childhood vaccination declined by 25%, we...projected there would be 26 900 cases...of postmeasles neurological sequelae, 100 cases...of paralytic poliomyelitis, ...5.4 million hospitalizations...due to all infections, and 80 600 deaths...due to all infections."

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Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

The only three valid jobs for Real Men are Factory Guy, Coal Miner and Poster.

Sometimes the really boring stuff is really important (this is basically my motto)

Does nobody understand what learning is.

A big thanks to Louisa Kamps at @nytimes.com, and @adamgrant.bsky.social, for selecting my book "The Asshole Survival Guide," as one of "6 books to help you deal with difficult people." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

Everyone benefits from the partnership between government and universities, which creates irreplaceable public goods.

FWIW, we've been studying the nationalist pronatalism push for several years now. And it's powerfully driven by what you'd expect: patriarchal gender ideology, perceptions that Whites & Christians are under threat, & Christian nationalism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

One of my favorite signs from another city: "Pete Hegseth Cured My Impostor Syndrome."

Last night we watched The Rules of the Game -- highly recommend. It's a very enjoyable comedy of manners that gets a lot darker (and more relevant) if you put it in historical context. www.imdb.com/title/tt0031...

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky