As we move into Hate Yourself Publicly Season, I also wish for us a year in which we have the courage to value ourselves for who we are & not hate ourselves for who we're not, a year in which we listen not to those who line their pockets with our insecurities, but to voices of tenderness & respect.

This is a sure step in the right governance direction.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Reminder that I made you a soundtrack for today. (Not a party-dance mix.)

"No other university has so far paid as much as Columbia." thehill.com/opinion/educ...

Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

Maybe the best thing about 2025 was tonight’s Indian food delivery.

Europe is rooms full of soft furniture that should be hard and hard furniture that should be soft.

"It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating." Doug Varone and Dancers are losing $40,000 for their stand. Here's how to donate to the troupe.

Not today, Chunnel outage.

You know together we're glowing: Now live in your @slate.com podcast feed @carlzoilus.bsky.social takes over #HitParadePod –The Bridge to host a year-end Slate Music Club w/guests @jawnita.bsky.social @lindsayzoladz.bsky.social & me. We talk ’25 from Bad Bunny & Rosalía to Gaga & KPop Demon Hunters.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

New York, this is your inauguration. RSVP: luma.com/inauguration

Feeling down, post holiday blues? These mixes from Habibi Funk are always good for a pick me up!

This is one of those simple but true things that makes life worth living

The "Academic Publishing in a New Era" feature in the latest issue of @contexts.org magazine includes my short piece "A Service, Not a Product." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Solidarity, as always, with those standing for a free Palestine.

Perhaps more importantly I have no idea what pushes blood through his brain because he’s missing a heart

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

Try wrapping your mind around this map released earlier this year by the United Nations Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, describing and delineating restrictions of roads and land access for Palestinians in the oPT, sans Gaza.

Europe is just one confusing stove after another.

ahem, 95 years for everything but sound recordings. check out this great list compiled by the mighty Jennifer Jenkins and Jamie Boyle for some highlights of what's becoming public in a few days (including landmark sound recordings from 1925): web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land. This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

In fact, I take one of my key responsibilities on a uni press board to be raising objections to junk science (even if it pays the bills).

The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

not to be mean, but it seems like people who were doomers about congestion pricing should get some kind of demerits

Hear ye! Hear ye! 🇨🇦 Canada’s universities have new money to recruit international scholars. Here is McMaster’s call for applications: research.mcmaster.ca/home/support...

College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Coming to a campus near you: goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

Pretty amazing. While leading “Columbians for Academic Freedom,” Bari Weiss sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia professors fired. While leading “The Free Press,” Weiss is spiking stories to cover for a president who’s sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia students deported.

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

I want you to have a blessed holiday season so I can only hope you start listening to this podcast (if you haven’t already). It’s chicken soup for the soul.

(1/6) As 2025 ends, we look back on a year of meaningful milestones: 🏆 We were honored to award the Kohli Prize for Sociology to Peter Bearman and the Infrastructure Prize for Sociology to SocArXiv, recognizing their exceptional contributions to the discipline.

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#17 on my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social holiday countdown is a book of the year @lauragarbes.bsky.social superb Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry newbooksnetwork.com/listeners-li...

AFAIK the French cold/flu decongestant has far less speed and is much more effective and also I’m equally as miserable as I am whilst sick at home. A curse on the infected who stole this last week in Paris from me.

1 Assistant Professor in Sociology position at TCD, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW155/a...

Solidarity with the Palestine Action hunger strikers in Britain. They need immediate bail. They all demand an end to the proscription of Palestine Action. End the censorship. Elbit must be shut down. Join the protest tomorrow at 2pm at the British Embassy in Dublin.

Couldn’t sleep as cold/flu symptoms grew overnight; starting at 8am there’s very loud construction noise in the apartment above. The whole world (including my very small bit of it) feels infinitely cursed.

Shatteringly, an answer in the Sunday Times puzzle this week

Waking up in Europe to news of a mass shooting just blocks from my childhood home, and at a university…just unbelievably grief stricken and heartbroken. I’ll have to sign off for today because the hot takes are already flooding in while young people are still in surgery.

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...