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asociologist, 1 day ago to random

"Even if the floodgates open to aid tomorrow, malnutrition experts say many more people will die — from starvation, or from diseases as simple as diarrhea because their bodies are so weak and medical care is so scant.

“We have never ever seen anything like this anywhere in the planet,” said Janti Soeripto, the president and chief executive of Save the Children U.S." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/world/middleeast/rafah-gaza-aid-hunger.html

asociologist, 15 days ago to random

Jewish faculty on here - please consider signing & sharing this letter asking Biden & Congress not to enshrine into law a definition of antisemitism that equates all criticism of Israel with antisemitism! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lButpIiajBJ3vYIykA-mj5gV35btDhwfczfFUoXQRMQ/edit

asociologist, 18 days ago to random

A very valuable analysis of the problems of "presidential administration" in elite universities, focusing on Columbia, and with additional useful analysis of the legal pluralism of university disciplinary procedures and the weaponization of Title VI. https://balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/seeing-university-more-clearly.html?m=1

asociologist, 19 days ago to random

Each of these headlines feels like a form of genocide denial. Israel issues the warning and pushes the story to try to get credit for warning civilians, but those civilians have nowhere safe to go (and Israel hasn’t respected the last many purported safe zones). But the headlines keep coming.

Is that too cynical?

asociologist, 19 days ago to random

“In my view, citizenship (broadly defined, not the legal kind) implies responsibility to help improve society however we can. Scholars (including sociologist) may have skills and knowledge that help, but our obligation to get involved stems from our citizenship, not our scholarship.”
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/05/scholar-activism-and-active-citizenship/

glyph, 26 days ago to random

Watched the original Star Wars trilogy with the kid this weekend and it’s been a long time since I have seen it. One thing that really stuck out to me was… what, thematically, is the movie trying to say about droids? The message seems to be that they are regular people like everyone else, and also chattel slaves, and also that’s it’s fine and also kind of funny? Like both Han and Luke are repeatedly shown doing obvious villain shit to droids and I can’t tell why we are not supposed to care

asociologist, 29 days ago to random

"Growing right wing authoritarianism, not Palestinian solidarity, is the biggest threat to Jewish safety here at Cornell and across the United States."

https://cornellsun.com/2024/04/26/hirschman-the-real-threats-to-jewish-safety-come-from-the-right/

asociologist, 1 month ago to random

Roi Livne has written one of the most powerful statements on Gaza that I have read. Please read it, and then if you are a member of ASA, vote for the resolution. https://www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/blog/why-should-we

natematias, 1 month ago to random

@josh is dropping some awesome insight on the causes of technical accidents/disasters at this National Academies workshop.

Josh has summarized the issues in this really great video on costs and incentives for advertising, news, and disinformation.

https://vimeo.com/930828854

asociologist, 2 months ago to random

If one thing in life is constant, it's ASA's hostility towards its membership getting involved with anything related to its financing. In this case, that means rejecting a call from Sociologist 4 Palestine to disclose investments in military corporations (and rejecting even putting it to a vote) on the grounds that it's an "operational" rather than a "policy" position. If any organization should understand the political character of investment, you think it should be ASA! https://www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/news

kissane, 3 months ago to random

I know there's a lot going on but sincere congratulations to everyone who delivered the correct number of child(ren) and the 30 to 50 special hand-signed valentines to the correct school building and/or bus today

asociologist, 3 months ago to random

Q for academics broadly in the algorithms / platforms / social science work on digital stuff spaces: I have a sociology student finishing up their PhD whose dissertation ended up being in this space and is now looking for a post-doc. Is there anywhere centralized they should be looking beyond the general higher ed job banks and the ASA job bank?

asociologist, 3 months ago to random

"the U.S. has lost almost one-third of its newspapers and nearly two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005. The shocking decimation of the journalism industry has led to the proliferation of ever-expanding news deserts in which more than one half of American counties have little or no access to local news. And it will only get worse." https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/

jonathanhorowi1, 4 months ago to Sociology

Hey #sociologists #sociodon @sociology
I had a student ask me about Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste". Have any of you read it? Is it consistent with sociological research on race and racism? (I'm hoping it is good, #sociology could use some accessible writing)

ZachWeinersmith, 4 months ago to random

Why has the Internet never produced a recipe site that provides a flowchart instead of list of ingredients? It's such a more intuitive way to do recipes, and I have to mark up all of mine.

asociologist, 4 months ago to random

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra weighs in on the T&S debacle.

“In a world without for profit journals and infrastructures of publication controlled by but a small number of organizations, this would likely have not occurred. This is not about ideas or principled defenses of what the field ought to be. It is about profit.” https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/they-work-hard-for-the-money/?fbclid=IwAR28sO-ZhGjMqS83wsREU4Wytob-CUAU4_vDVPTVpSWcgDztAKqRk8saznY_aem_AZ0XCTfSrNJSmJZEaw63k7MB0sERSEPT2BrnmOWP91KsQMAj2lLrzc1OK1lk4SY-oNU

asociologist, 4 months ago to random

"The research on nudges could be completely unbiased in the sense that it provides true answers. But it is unquestionably biased in the sense that it causes scientists to effectively ignore the most powerful solutions to the problems they focus on. As with the biomedical researchers before them, today’s social scientists have become the unwitting victims of corporate capture." https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-social-scientists-ask-the-wrong-questions

asociologist, 4 months ago to random

Fewer Republicans agree that the effects global warming are visible now than did 20 years ago. Incredible. From: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/us-partisan-polarization-on-climate-change-can-stalemate-give-way-to-opportunity/2666C4C08C3A5456B3001240B882C48D

asociologist, 6 months ago to random

"Participants in the Rwandan genocide reclassified Tutsi as socially meaningless, pushing them beyond the boundary of moral consideration such that killing them became irrelevant. No longer did they think or emotionally react to their violent actions, nor did they think about who they were acting toward. Dehumanization was thus a consequence of violence, not a cause." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07352751231203716

cstross, 6 months ago to random

The whole point of democratic elections is to allow for a peaceful transfer of power—without violence—when a government embodying one type of policy has become widely unpopular.

The problem we've gotten into in the UK (and also the USA) is that extremists have seized control of one of the regular incumbent parties, and the other parties have responded perversely by moving towards them. Removing the ability for a course change after an election.

Labour or Tories, they're still neoliberals.

histoftech, 6 months ago to random

Name this pastry. Wrong answers only.

cyberlyra, 7 months ago to random

I’d love to see more research, investment, and lessons learned about the foundation model for software development, in contrast to this toxic growth-at-all-costs-for-investor-class model that we’ve naturalized. More from the Signal Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, and others about challenges, incentives, change-making, mission-driven organizing, and shaping technology under different conditions. Is such a resource out there for aspiring technologists or do we need to make one?

asociologist, 7 months ago to random

" the fact that 199 Republicans — including many of those more mainstream members — voted to give [Jordan] the job second in line to the presidency showed how far the G.O.P. has lurched to the right."

The language choice here is fascinating if depressing. The GOP "lurched" to the right implies it's something that happened awkwardly, unexpectedly, by accident. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/18/us/house-speaker-vote-jim-jordan

asociologist, 7 months ago to random

Quick q: does anyone have recommendations for a fundraising consultant / org that runs fundraising operations for small non-profits? Asking on behalf of a small NGO of peace activists who work in Israel / Palestine and who are trying to scale up but are overwhelmed right now.