Guillermina Altomonte
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Sociologist at NYU writing about aging, health care, culture, and markets.
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McSweeney's
about 2 months ago
"We had to eliminate merit increases, but our president’s life coach swears that extrinsic motivation doesn’t work anyway, and my masseur agrees. Also, our Morale Boosting Consultant has T-shirts."
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News, Bad and Good, from the Dean of Arts and Sciences
We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows. We have no money for raises, but we’v...
https://buff.ly/Rq7kGd1
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Our review paper on morals, markets, and medicine with
@elizaclairebrown.bsky.social
is out!
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3 months ago
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AAUP
3 months ago
Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊
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AAUP
3 months ago
"The New School is the only university in the country with a world-recognized art and design school and a Research 2 designation. By gutting the humanities, the administration is eliminating what makes the school unique." - Heather Davis, AAUP The New School
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
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Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School
Around 40% of full-time faculty were offered buyouts and programs are on the chopping block as the university faces a $48M deficit.
https://hyperallergic.com/hundreds-rally-against-sweeping-cuts-at-new-school/
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Preeti Chhibber
4 months ago
C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x:
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Jenn Lena
5 months ago
This piece is great.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen
6 months ago
Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
archive.is/7uhwf
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Pallavi Banerjee
7 months ago
JOB ALERT FOR
#SOCIOLOGIST
: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
https://careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/16721067-assistant-professors-sociology-faculty-of-arts
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Ji-won Lee 이지원
8 months ago
The inaugural issue of Theory and Social Inquiry is now available! I love that it includes an orientation toward
#ProblemSolvingSociology
. Check it out, problem-solvers!
www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...
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Theory and Social Inquiry | Issue: Issue: 1(1) (2025)
https://www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/info/
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The Guardian
8 months ago
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1754042990
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So excited to be part of this interdisciplinary symposium on the "micro." If you're in Chicago on 5/24 come check it out!
voices.uchicago.edu/mutualnecess...
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ElieNYC
about 1 year ago
I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp. But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal" My latest in
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest
The only relevant question is not “How can the government do this?” It is “How can we who oppose this fascist regime?”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-illegal-fascism/
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Sarah Quinn
about 1 year ago
A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible
@epopppp.bsky.social
and
@abenewman.bsky.social
. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
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ASA Theory Section
over 1 year ago
It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here:
bit.ly/jts2025
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Dissent Magazine
over 1 year ago
Nancy Fraser on progressive neoliberalism: "Ideals like diversity and empowerment, which could in principle serve different ends, now gloss policies that have devastated manufacturing and what were once middle-class lives."
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The End of Progressive Neoliberalism - Dissent Magazine
In a moment of political upheaval, it is up to the left to reject the false choices on offer and seize upon widespread discontent to redefine the terms of debate.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-neoliberalism-reactionary-populism-nancy-fraser/
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