The more British stuff I watch the more the slang creeps in, little by little over the years. I’m catching myself saying “ta” a lot now.

Another possible “dumb shit people say” for use in my sociology classes. Sexist and infantilizing, indeed. Def worth the read—cuz, woah the content was bad! It was only up for 3 days… before it got permanently 🪓

Congratulations to @ienesatac.bsky.social & Gary J. Adler Jr, winners of the SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey,’ published in @sfjournal.bsky.social sssreligion.org/awards-grant...

I tried watching the new season of the Witcher… I gave up soon into episode three. There is so much I do not like, except Laurence Fishburne—how could you not love him in this weird character? Sadly, I don’t love him enough to suffer through the rest of it. Sorry y’all, I just can’t do it.

I’m thinking of starting ALL of my units in my sociology class w/ dumb shit people say. Like, I used an X post to start our unit on racism to highlight how most racism is not overt & is intersectional. And this week I started our unit on gender w/ the Women Ruining the Workplace NTY headline.

A man I love in a time travel film where he saves the future from evil Al? Hell yes. youtu.be/CaSxNAZUKsM?...

I had Russian food for the first time a couple weeks ago and OMG it is all so amazing. I totally get why borscht is a thing. Pickled beets too!

This is the most awesome game I have ever heard of!

Why are so fucking many of you posting pics w/ no damn alt text?? As time goes by it’s getting worse. My sister is blind htf is she supposed to participate? AND not all of us are blind who need alt text. I have bad diplopia so I enlarge text on my screen—that does not enlarge text on your pic ffs.

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

I love assigning annotated bibs but it is not fun having to grade 40… I have only graded 11 :( I wished it was a faster process TBH

After nearly 4 years of being a FODMAPer I mighta reached my breaking point. I can handle using garlic oil, green onion/onion oil, even cutting out the fruits and veggies I absolutely love. But there is no *real* substitute for gluten. I just don’t think I can be gluten free anymore.

Galloway's liberal-centrist spiritual consolations: youtu.be/QkgfQDJw_6w

Doing some math with the White House.

#Xenophobia, #Islamophobia ➡️Drawing on theories of differentiated threat & religious dominance, new @jssreligion.bsky.social article examines how U.S.religious groups perceive #Muslims & #immigrants. Muslims evoke ideational threats; immigrants, material ones. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Thinking again about Melissa Hortman's assassination in the summer. This article from last week talks about how she fought to have Muslim women's voices taken seriously by her colleagues. She was so generous with her time and energy and compassion.

grrrrrr www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Book is out! 💃🏿💛💙 Guys, I wrote a WHOLE book! Oh my God! 🙈😊 You can order it via @rutgersupress.bsky.social here www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/media-cultur...

“A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32”

What auspicious timing! It happens that my SSSR conference presentation on nontheist representation in Father Brown is color coordinated for Halloween! Come see my spiffy slides and surprising (maybe?) results Saturday 2:20 in Grays Bay!

Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom. Please sign.

What auspicious timing! It happens that my SSSR conference presentation on nontheist representation in Father Brown is color coordinated for Halloween! Come see my spiffy slides and surprising (maybe?) results Saturday 2:20 in Grays Bay!

Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.

Ok, so I DID use this today in class. One of my students said “who is this fool because I have something to say.” A minute later, she was like, “found him!” 🤣

While working on equal comparatives sentences, my ESL students needed to know what robin was. That’s how TIL there is a pink robin. Like it straight up has the same hair color as me. What other pink variations of animals might I not realize come in beautiful pink?

This year's Presidential Address 'Religion and the Restructuring of American Politics' will be delivered by Ruth Braunstein during the #SSSR_RRA2025 Annual Meeting. The Plenary Session & SSSR Awards Ceremony will be held Nov. 1, from 5:45 PM to 7 PM. #Religion sssreligion.org/annual-meeti...

I’m seriously considering using this in my soc class. We just finished our unit on class stratification & poverty where we talked extensively about misconceptions of welfare & recipients and are starting our unit on race & racism this week.

Urgh - any yarn experts out there who can help me please? 🙏 I need to find a good sub for Katia Lagom (discontinued). It’s not in YarnSub and I’m having trouble finding a similar “chainette worsted weight wool-cotton blend” as suggested as an alternative in the pattern 🧶 😩

Some days I’m like, fuck it, I should go into neuroscience! And then I’m like, oh yeah, I won’t shut up about inequalities. Yup, I’m a sociologist through and through.

Reviewing final copy edits on my next book, THE OVERSEER CLASS, and curiously, nearly every federal government database and citation I used in 2024 to backup the racial make up of the armed forces and various government agencies has been scrubbed

When I joke about having beef with economists, it’s because of things like this. They “discover” phenomena that sociology has been studying for half a century. Part of it is discipline silos. Spread your wings people, read broadly.

I’m endlessly fascinated by my brain disease. Before, I was able to type not only quickly but accurately (like for 18 yrs or so). Now, I can barely type a sentence w/o having the letters of 1–2 words be in the wrong order. Even repeatedly doing it when trying to correct/retype the word.

www.frontiersin.org/research-top... Truly looking forward to being part of this dynamic team/project on Global Black Identity and Cultural Expression Through the Lens of Sport brings together 5 dynamic sports scholars as editors. If this is your wheel house, consider submitting an abstract!

I want my Discover feed (thereby more people) posting “feeling cute” posts. They always make me smile—like this one! Keep the dopamine coming. Dopamine extends life. Dopamine expands consciousness. But it is not vital to space travel AFAIK.

Lol every historian of fandom would wipe the floor with this asshole

Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

Wait, Jane Jetson had her kid at 18? I’m watching the very first episode and she states her age as 33 and Judy as 15. TBH I thought they were both older, Jane more so than Judy.

Scorpio season! Make someone who wronged you two decades ago into a nightmarish villain in a short story. Start writing an entire novel simply to spite an old English teacher. Kill some darlings that were just minding their own business. Your time is now. ♏️

Please consider participating in or sharing the recruitment advertisement for our new study, which is focused on understanding body image in bisexual women. The link is in the alt text.

So, I lost fine motor skills in my dominant hand over 15 years ago & I stopped creating art. Yet one of my favorite pieces of art I’ve made is a finger painting from nearly 30 years ago, I wonder if I should pick that back up? That piece if you’re curious

Join us tomorrow for a discussion on religion, race, and doing public facing scholarship in these fascist times.

I don’t use the home key method, so I’ve never actually done this. I’ve developed my own hunt & peck thing that looks akin to a 3-toed dinosaur who broke its beak trying to crack open a coconut that turned out to be a big ass rock & now has to use appendage combos. It’s taken me 30 years to perfect.

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Online conference hosted by the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind this weekend - my keynote is on Sunday. Registration is free!

In it is says “The law might have tolerated government conduct of this sort a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But in the here and now, the First Amendment bars government officials from shutting down peaceful protests” HAHAHA

Hey I know shit is bad rn but here is a small good thing: a BUNCH of historic & cool sites in Baltimore are open to the public for free on Saturday

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