Can't say I am shocked...

Emily Oster now writes that RFK Jr’s new dietary advice—which included eating more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow & full fat dairy—is “fine and arguably positive advice well worth following” 👀 Half the advisers who shaped the advice have financial ties to the livestock or dairy industries 👀

New reading: @profmarycollier.bsky.social wrote about the closing of USAID on #AsiaNow. #ReadUP @asianstudies.org

The UNC Sociology department is hiring a Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor. The review of applications begins 2/26/26. To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312....

Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, APARC's 2021-22 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow on Contemporary Asia, on the publication of her new book 👏

My first thought: they have funding forever now!!

New #AsiaNow post: Sociologist Mary-Collier Wilks @profmarycollier.bsky.social discusses how changes in aid funding from the United States and Europe has altered the situation on the ground and changed the landscape for practitioners in Southeast Asia.

Science personnel and funding gutted at astonishing scale in the US: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Check out my @asianstudies.org blog on the consequences of the USAID closure for Southeast Asia. www.asianstudies.org/usaid-closur...

Out now! Reimagining Aid by Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD investigates the intricate interplay between aid donors from Japan and the United States, their competing priorities, and their impact on women's health initiatives in Cambodia. #ReadUP https://ow.ly/nbox50XZVr1#ReadUP

I can't believe this is the week that my book finally comes out into the world!! fsi.stanford.edu/publication/...

Everyone teaching IR and American right now.

Via @thehill.com: Approaching 1 year since the dismantling of USAID with devastating consequences: 700K+ deaths, loss of outbreak surveillance systems, and the end of ag. research that benefitted US farmers... all for <1% of the federal budget. @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social | @altusaid.altgov.info

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Excited to have been interviewed about my book for the Feminist Development Newsletter and looking forward to seeing everyone at the #SocDev Conference in February!

I have the final version of a thing to review for publication approval and wow it is hard to concentrate given [waves hands around wildly while thinking about recent events, bursts into tears, remembers I was writing a skeet, comes back to laptop] all of this

NEW BOOK | Congratulations to @profmarycollier.bsky.social, our former postdoctoral fellow, on the publication of her @stanfordpress.bsky.social monograph, 'Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia' 👏 Learn more and get your copy > buff.ly/F7EeHwO

So excited to get my copy of the new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Reimagining Aid by @profmarycollier.bsky.social of the @uncwilmington.bsky.social Sociology Department. Go out and get your copy now! #sociology #socaf @asanews.bsky.social @gdp-center.bsky.social @cgdev.org

It's an exciting day because I just found out my book's first author-meets-critic panel was accepted to the SocDev conference in February and I pre-ordered my Dong Phuong king cake before they sold out!!

Audre Lorde spitting an absolute gem: "Coalitions don't happen between parts of wholes. They happen with wholes coming together. They happen with different people coming together, recognizing each other's differences. We cannot become each other in order to work together. We must become ourselves."

World's best grading assistant reporting for duty! ✍️🐺 #husky #dogsofbluesky #academicdogs

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the best thing a parent can do for their son is to enroll him in co-ed activities and facilitate friendships with girls from the youngest age possible. Patriarchy hurts boys. And nothing runs counter to patriarchy like teaching boys to genuinely value girls.

I might be late to this party but if anyone is looking for a nice diversion over the holiday break, I just finished Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It touched on immigration, identity, colonization, time travel, climate disaster, and had a fun little romance. Would recommend!

The burden of “successfully” raising children is increasingly individualized as we break down collective social goods, like public health and public education.

If women’s orgasms were “too complicated,” they wouldn’t show up so reliably in some situations and tank in others. So what’s really getting in the way? The orgasm gap isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we fix it. 👇 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hidd...

Even child naming practices are starting to show signs of politically polarization in the U.S. today - these sorts of unexpected studies are why I love sociology!

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I'll be in D.C. for my book launch talk on Wednesday!

If you're a criminologist on the job market, consider coming to work with me! jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37753

If you're in the D.C.-area and interested in the uncertain future of foreign aid, I'll be giving a book launch lecture at American University on November 12th! www.eventbrite.com/e/sis-book-t...

Not me in the exact same boat...

"The Wish programme can empower women and give them a rare chance to make a decision about their body and life, he says. “That’s not something exotic. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity … if they make this cut, they are cutting a necessity.”" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

A new NBER working paper highlights the positive benefits of Chinese graduate students for American universities, students, and communities. www.nber.org/papers/w34391

I'll be virtually presenting some data from my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" this Friday, October 24th at 3pm EST as part of the Hopkins Center on Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series. You can find the zoom link on the website below! sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs

Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below! sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

91 years is a good long run for most but too short for someone like Jane Goodall. Damn.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!

I'll be at UNC Chapel Hill to give a talk on my forthcoming book next week. If you're based in the research triangle, please consider joining!

There is just no way to put everything into one article. #Whywehaveresearcharcs....#acadsky

Excited about my new office swag as we start the school year off! #ASA2025 #SocAF

Got to present with my first ever graduate student at ASA's New Directions in the Sociology of Development panel this year. I count that as a successful ASA! #asa2025

If you're going to be at ASA this weekend, come and check out the New Directions in the Sociology of Development panel on Saturday afternoon. I'm co-presenting with my first ever graduate student alongside some other great development scholars! #ASA #sociology

The sociology & criminology dept at gonzaga is hiring! We're searching for somebody with a focus on criminology, law, or social control (broadly conceived). We're a liberal arts teaching university. Very collegial department. Spread the word to interested folks. I'm happy to answer questions!

I got page proofs today and I can't believe it's finally happening! Apologies in advance for all the plugging of my forthcoming book I am going to be doing at ASA this year. Now available for pre-order: www.amazon.com/Reimagining-...

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?