Jealous of the “spring in full swing” pics I’ve seen #bloomscrolling. Up here in MA, all I’ve got so far = future daffodils. I’ll take it!

This pie chart 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

A jarring contrast between the "It's too expensive" re: extending health care subsidies vs. a costly, illegal, immoral war with no purpose and a blank check www.huffpost.com/entry/millio...

I am at the State House in spirit (only) in support of raising revenue, with @epi-ri.bsky.social on their lobbying day.

"This paper then explores the incentives for people to bullshit —to manage reputations, to signal their intelligence, and to participate in the marketplace for it." That tracks. philpapers.org/rec/LICCIB

Disturbing rise in "nightlife content" - the filming of women in public for male online entertainment and comment. Raises many issues around #HumanRights, #privacy and #surveillance in public spaces, and particularly #sexism / #misogyny. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Hey, I passed that book around the classroom yesterday. 👍🏼👍🏼

In light of Pete Hegseth's abysmal Christian nationalist rhetoric RE: Iran, I'm gonna re-share one of my all-time favorite paragraphs, by the Rhode Island historian Stanley Lemons. Full essay -- "Roger Williams, Champion of Religious Liberty" -- here: livelyexperiment.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/r...

A bracing and heartbreaking reminder that the erasure of women’s contributions threatens us all—our children, social progress, the institutions we build and reform, even the “great men” that benefit from this erasure. Gratitude to Dolores Huerta for sharing her story.

This is an incredible resource and reference. 45 (!!!) examples of successfully bargained language, with every type of institution represented.

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

Over on the Old Place we used to say "retweet if you know why."

Now that I've read it quickly - a very thoughtful consideration of the role of human interpretation in qualitative data analysis and the limits and failures of automation. I was stunned to read that there is an effort to have LLMs generate interview data, which runs fundamentally counter to soc sc.

Mary Romero, President of the ASA for its 110th session in 2019, when her theme was “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World” has announced she is boycotting this year's meeting in reaction to ASA leadership's decision. With her permission we share the full text of her letter here.

Oh geez. John Holden once gave all of us grandkids The Population Explosion for Xmas, and the below puts everything in a new worse light. Q: Who is (this) John Holden? A: medium.com/@HoldSher/go...

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

#PVDlocal - join me tomorrow at Track 15 to support Providence Student Union! Register or just show up. 🍻 www.eventbrite.com/e/401gives-k...

“No to war, and Free Palestine.” - Javier Bardem just now, at the start of presenting an Oscar.

Love and respect to these women! nypost.com/2026/03/13/u...

Applauding this thread. Responding (w no disrespect) to this: "public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses" *: YES. But civic-public goods need public funding! I see the biz mentality as coming from disinvestment, not bc administrators just love being businesspeople.

i’ll end this thread with something an admin friend pointed out last week: those businesses that colleges are so thirsty to partner with — how long’s it going to take for them to realize their new employees can’t actually think because their degree is 70% ChatGPT outputs?

Altman's "intelligence as a metered service" captures the AI moment well—it's an attempt at the formal subsumption of ever-finer microrealms of human labour embedded within capitalist production. You already have an underpaid email job but what if you also had to pay the machine to write your emails

and this pain will not be equally shared across the university... social research and progressive scholarship are being targeted... and every decision leadership makes worsens the financial crisis as if by design. it doesn't have to be this way, these are choices by The New School top leadership

Yup, I’ll be voting for this guy this Fall.

Today I joined my friend and reporter Norah Mulinda LIVE IN STUDIO with @bloomberg.com Businessweek, and this specific shot makes me emotional: two dark-skinned Black women in 'fros, talking economics, on national TV. A historic moment. 😭 Watch our interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIZ...

A fascinating compendium! I can't help but wonder about the potential disagreements if everyone watched everyone else's videos. (Said w admiration & respect for the Jewish/academic tradition of arguing.) www.academicsforpeace.org/videos

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Game theoretical models assume (bounded) rationality — so that’s irrelevant Realist models assume a coherent view of national interests — so that’s also out Instead, scholarship on the logic of gangsters & thugs is probably the most immediately pertinent literature for understanding what’s going on

I don't have the SF answer. But in Providence, the answer was that the mayor was going after his ex-wife's new man.

We've got some Neighborly Actions this week & next related to getting & keeping people housed--massively important as prices rise, social services starve, & weather becomes more extreme. Housing justice is a community solution to climate anxiety. neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Seattle? Please help findviolet.com

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Within academia alone, AI is deskilling our youth under the guise of 'free tools' (aka unpaid labour for AI training), forging dependence, stealing scholars' work, putting us out of jobs, and profiting from all of it. We are losing so much more than could ever be gained.

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

San Francisco (for Spring Break)

At SURJ, our task remains the same as ever: to stay in committed, strategic action, and to bring more and more white people with us into the multiracial, antiracist, anti-war movement we need.  Join us at surj.org

🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert! Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight! You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

Urgent community response needed. Blizzard of '26 relief - Sleeping bags, food, water, clothing needed now in local encampments. Contact: Dwayne Thibodeau [email protected]

Sen Jack Reed, the top Dem on Senate Armed Services: “Against the clear wishes of the American people, President Trump has thrust our nation into a major war with Iran — one he never made a case for, never sought congressional authority for, and for which he has no endgame.”

I can't stop watching this

it’s still fuck Claude and fuck Anthropic in this house, even when they win their case against Hegseth

This is a frame that people really like about a certain kind of conservative woman (always white) - she is nice - she is a problem solver - she has a conscience (but always follows The Rules) - she softens and sells cruelty as safety - she talks "tough" using household language

Literally was just thinking of this - if you’re part of the “why do I care about trans people getting their license taken away” crowd - you really think they’ll stop there? Are you a woman who likes wearing pants, having a job or a credit card or driving? All of those things had to be fought for…

Bezos’ layoffs at the Washington Post are a warning: the extremely wealthy buy essential institutions and reshape them to extract more from all of us. Taxing billionaires is about breaking that power. Read more from @igorvolsky.bsky.social in this week's #FiresideStacks🔥 : https://bit.ly/4rCLlLE

Lobbying & Think-Tanks deserve more time in social studies / civics curricula, here in the USA at least.

Yup! Professors can be swayed by $$$$ (cf. Epstein files.) I recently read Ultra_Processed_People & like the repeated notes about tainted industry-funded research.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out that academic fields LITERALLY DID THAT. Like this ain't even hyperbole; they did that. And in that scenario, the papers in question were--shocker--ultimately in bed with the Tobacco industry. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society