This piece is great.

I think I know a lot of people who may be interested in this web event.

This was a great talk by Cedric de Leon about Black to about movement and you can watch the video on the Havens Wright Center website havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu

How relying on competing and incomplete narratives in news sources & failure to treat media coverage itself as an event distorts understanding of collective action processes in the Jena Six protests of 2007. Preprint of forthcoming book chapter. #commsky #contentiousky 1/3

#contentiousky David S. Meyer's posts about social movements are always instructive. This one is about the call for nuclear testing. David is a long time veteran of the peace movement including the nuclear freeze movement.

And now we are learning that at least 95% of all subcultural groups have the practice of calling older adults you are close to "aunt" or "uncle". In my experience, the only groups that don't are those that have eliminated the respect codes for age (where children call adults by first name)

#AcademicSky Phooey I can't remember enough details to find this again. It's a cool article (blog post?) about how an incorrect fact moves through citations to citations that includes identifying the original & having the original author wade in with apology. Anybody remember this? 1/

I'm listening to the audio version of Undivided by @hahrie.bsky.social for the second time today and being even more impressed than I was the first time about how good it is on multiple levels. I've recommended it to non-academic friends who also loved it. (Audio narrator is good too.) 1/2

Hoping to post a pre-print version of something I wrote and in reviewing the MS remembering why I was so frustrated with editors with their own theoretical agenda inserting things I did not say and did/do not agree with into a text with my name on it.

I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky

I think this is a gift link to a great article quoting top social movement scholars about the impact and meaning of large scale peaceful protests like "No Kings." The point is to demonstrate numbers and geographic scope of people who oppose Trump/Republican policies & build involvement.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Million Man March. A couple of years ago I wrote two blog posts about the organizing for the March. (This draws on our larger project.) This is the first that argues the march was about coalitional unity. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

New in the past couple weeks my gmail has been losing messages, especially replies to my outgoing messages when the message was sent to multiple people. E.g. in one case, someone else could see the reply my initial message but it was just not in my inbox. Ideas about where to look for solutions?

#AcademicSky #commsky #BlackSky Sincere Q'n. Where are reviewers coming from if they question the representativeness of a sample of 37 Black newspapers but not a sample of 3 mainstream newswires in the same paper? & complain about failure to analyze diversity of the former but not the latter? 1/2

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

How is this legal? Invading people's homes while they're sleeping & forcing them outdoors, naked? Kids, too? abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi... #IceGestapo #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

I've long found Sarah Taber to be one of the most interesting accounts on the Internet. I had actually not heard of Ballerina farms before this video, but a fascinating discussion of business models in farming as well as a clear discussion of what does and does not make beef worth more.

Does anybody know why the RSS feeds from some journals include abstracts and others do not even though the pubs have abstracts.(I'm pulling RSS feeds via Zotero). I asked one journal & they just said they couldn't do abstracts. But why? #Librarians Librarians ?

As a colleague recently remarked, if AI-written publications are going to be treated as "real" or "real publications," then the entire system of ranking and rewarding people on the basis of publications is simply done.

#AcademicSky I'm going to try to produce a "video abstract" for a piece about the 2007 Jena 6 protest. There are relevant video recordings on the Internet. Can people point me to copyright rules about whether & how extracts from such recordings can be used without fees?

Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org

My stalker is back. So, if you follow me or @louiseseamster.bsky.social and you get a creepy or suspicious follow, please block and report the account. It’s pretty exhausting to rehash this history. But here’s a primer on the nearly decade long stalking: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#AcademicSky I have not logged in to my Academia site in years. Do I need to hurry about deleting my account to avoid the new terms of service?

In the category of often unhelpful autoreplies for keeping track of which letters of reference are done and not done are those from Interfolio that give the name of the candidate but not the job and those from employers that do not name the candidate.

I'm not saying the reviews are all wrong, but in what social science world is a quantitative analysis with n>1000 articles drawn from 3 sources of type A and 37 sources of type B a "case study"??? Is it because all of the articles are about the same general topic? Is everything a case study?

#AcademicSky early last week I uploaded the final version of something I've been obsessively working on for a long time. This weekend I'm confronting all the things I let slide while I was obsessing over that piece. Honestly it was more fun being absorbed with the project.

Phooey forgot to tag #contentiousky re geography effects on protest impacts

Is there a research lit comparing protest impacts in countries with high pop concentration in a relatively small area near capital vs countries with populations dispersed across a large area? I'm thinking about US with a lot of pop outside the coastal cities ("flyover").

Is there a research lit comparing protest impacts in countries with high pop concentration in a relatively small area near capital vs countries with populations dispersed across a large area? I'm thinking about US with a lot of pop outside the coastal cities ("flyover").

Is the new login.gov sign working for anybody trying to access their research.gov accounts? #AcademicSky (It seems never to have heard of me or my collaborator)

Wallowing in formatting an extensive supplement for an online publication which then requires editing & re-uploading main document to correct references to supplement. And getting acceptable formats for figures. Need to finish all of this today and it is just sooooo boring. #AcademicSky

Research about housing and health by Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social, Tessa Conroy @irpwisc.bsky.social, and Steven Deller @cdhauw.bsky.social made an appearance in The Badger Herald. badgerherald.com/news/wiscons...

Great question from Rob on Facebook! If we got rid of Medicare Advantage, how much would we be able to reduce Medicare co-pays with the savings? Here’s my answer.

We need to tax the rich! They’ve rigged the system for too long. Repost if you agree.

The linked piece is well worth a read. White Southerners reflecting on their position.

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

@asa-cbsm.bsky.social #contentiousky #CBSM2025 🧵 Some take-aways about protest and social movements. (1) Protest movements have opponents, who will fight back if they lose, things are never settled. (2) You protest when you are in a losing position, of course protest does not always win 1/

#AcademicSky #CBSM2025 Timing a talk that is supposed to be ~ 12 min. Timing ranges from 9 to 14 minutes depending on speed of delivery and details. I'm finding it hard to hit the 12 minute sweet spot.

Adding #CBSM2025 to this post

Opening plenary at the CBSM 2025 miniconference. Inspirational talks by Aldon Morris and Donnatella della Porta.

#AcademicSky pro tip: when sending a manuscript file to others, rename the file to add your name to the filename and, ideally, use a descriptive title and possibly the date (for a paper still being revised), e.g. lastname_topic-title_date.docx (or .pdf).

Now buried in the minutia of getting non-journal type sources to have reasonable formats in reference lists. Ugh!! #AcademicSky

I'm not a Wikipedia editor. Is there any way I can flag part of a sentence that is (a) not true and (b) footnoted to a source that does not say what the footnote implies it says? (This is about the Jena case, so I'm pretty familiar with the evidence and the sources.)

AND just realized that a clear spike in Google Trends searches for Jena on July 1 that I could not explain is the date that Tom Joyner's BlackAmericaWeb mentioned the case. Sometimes things click.

Somebody using a totally different name signed my gmail address up for several job sites that are sending me many job listings. Wondering whether it is someone harassing me or someone testing an attack on my G account. (I changed my PW the day after the data breach.) Unlikely to be simple error.

Blog post uses Google trends including sample variation to discuss evidence for how and when Jena 6 message spread. Thanks to @awmercer.bsky.social , @gstocking.bsky.social ing.bsky.social , @floriankeusch.bsky.social and @drmann.bsky.social for help about instability in GT.

Realizing I should tag this for #academicsky #sociology

Please forward to folks who might know. Query whether anyone has researched how incarcerated people feel about whether paid compensation for research participation has a coercive element. Longer info in thread, inquiry from researcher with a community group. 1/n

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine. A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2. Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2. √a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

viewing a training that is recorded and includes such valuable information as "click on the menu link to see the list of applications". (extended multi-minute explanation of how to use the search bar to find things) Why oh why oh why won't they offer a text only option?