I hope the UT students are fighting for their right to learn about gender and race. Their voices carry the most weight.

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels? Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

A lot of y’all are not arguing about whether or not violence, in and of itself, is right or wrong, you’re arguing about when YOU believe the violence is justified. Y’all love violence. You soak in it like bath water. And while water comes in different forms, some you may dislike, it’s still water.

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

A lot of people don’t really understand what this means but no matter where I live I will always be ride or die for the place and people that made me

🚨NEW PUB🚨 In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Unfortunately, I actually did have them calling for a White Supremacist International on my bingo card.

"We are willing to sacrifice these people's rights" is not a compelling campaign slogan (and it's already taken by the people we are supposed to oppose). You do not defeat fascists by becoming them.

Me, a former New Yorker, looking at this from my country home..

This is trivial but the way the Trump administration communicates basically everything is incredibly rudimentary. It’s written like none of them have any formal education and they want that for everyone. Sigh

For the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash.

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

If you want to understand what’s going on in the United States today, and why everything seems so vindictive, deliberately cruel, and inhumane, read Carol Anderson’s “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide”

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has been concerned for some time and condemned the acts of violence that have occurred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My first GRA (now a prof at Depaul) bought me this shirt in 2019 because I would always tell my students numbers are tools not truth. It was quite literally my stats mantra. I say it so often that my research team adopted it as our lab motto. #Numbers4Justice #QuantCrit #CiteBlackWomen

They keep saying the quiet part out loud and still there are “reasonable” colleagues, not to mention the whackos, who will do the whole “wellll” frown thing if you call it a genocide.

This slide and section of the book is based on an exchange Castillo and I had on Twitter. I am one of the "advocates" who called her in bc of how her Brookings article dismissed Afro-Latinos' concerns re antiblack erasure. I have also published extensively on the topic. Guess who was not cited?

Just found the slide where Castillo and Strunk use my motto to summarize someone else's QuantCrit Framework. Guess who is no where to be found in their presentation?

"Numbers are tools not truth" is the motto for my lab. I literally branded it. Yet I am not cited in the book being promoted with my tagline. On a subject I have been published on since 2011. #CitationalJustice is #QuantCrit #EduSky #StatsSky #AcademicSky #Blackademics #CiteBlackWomen

Being reskeeted by Piplup! #AcademicSkyGoals

Here are some of the articles I have coauthored: Lowe, Jr., R. H., & Irizarry, Y. (2025). Becoming (Non)-White by U.S. Standards: White Latino Recategorization in the 2020 Census Race Question. Population Research and Policy Review 44(10). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Good research design requires careful thought and not just checking boxes, but this list can cue such thinking. I noted the authors' recognition of the need to incorporate QuantCrit. Wish that had been done here. See @carltonfong.bsky.social & Irizarry for a good intro: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

"Numbers are tools not truth" is the motto for my lab. I literally branded it. Yet I am not cited in the book being promoted with my tagline. On a subject I have been published on since 2011. #CitationalJustice is #QuantCrit #EduSky #StatsSky #AcademicSky #Blackademics #CiteBlackWomen

I resigned because of a profound breakdown in governance, transparency, and accountability at the NSF—issues I felt obligated to bring to public attention.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

I am so tired.

I PhinisheD 14 years ago and still have nightmares like this.

And we’ve seen prohibitions (e.g., TikTok) on personal devices like phones that are used for state business, here at Texas public universities.

Trump is out here tariffing the best part of Netflix.

This kind of thinking mystifies me, because yes, we could have had Kamala Harris AND we would STILL have had the fascist broligarch hordes rushing the gates. We would have been teetering on the edge of civic and civil destruction during her entire presidency. I wish people understood this clearly.

Conservatives can’t hack based on intellect or skill so they need hand outs to compete.

I have stopped doing the voices of Gaza series so that we can get Sanaa and the others on the list funded. Please help her or if you have a little extra to spare one of the other folks in my pinned post!!

I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West. ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Wild— Mohsen Mahdawi asked Columbia to publicly admit what they did privately: that he & other students were not "threatening"—and that he in fact *confronted* an antisemitic disruptor. They ignored him. Weeks later, the Trump admin cited Columbia's own unretracted lie to justify arresting Mohsen.

It is not a “DEI” rollback it is the resegregation of American universities. Headline writers could at least be honest about this.

I was doing race work long before any granting agency deemed it as "worthy" of funding. The money helps but is not necessary to advance justice work and can sometimes hinder it. If you havent, it's time to consider your commitments beyond capital.

On Easter Sunday, we celebrate joy, hope, and our faith in renewal — even through the darkest of times. To all those celebrating today, our family wishes you a happy Easter.