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Sociologist. Ugly bag of mostly water. He/him. Interested in things.

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glyph, to random
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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,
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@grimalkina @cyberlyra @glyph one of the central themes of the various non main movie Star Wars things is how the rebels treat their droids much better and the empire often loses as a result. Several episodes of Clone Wars feature droids as the main characters. But none of it quite comes together into a coherent take.

natematias, to random
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@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,
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@cyberlyra @josh @natematias @commscholar this reminds me of how Perrow himself criticized the use of the Normal Accidents frame for understand the 2008 financial crisis on the grounds that the banks knew about some of the lurking risks and used their political power to prevent having to more carefully address them:

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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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,
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@ZachWeinersmith like this? First recipe I ever made as an adult trying to learn to cook. From https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bread

asociologist, to random
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Today, Claudia Goldin released a new NBER working paper with a very apt title.

NYT headline announcing Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

philipncohen, to random
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Look at the list of amazing, brilliant sociologists who have served in the leadership of this organization. Now name one important thing that has changed in the last 10 years.
https://mastodon.social/@philipncohen/112505348903135949

asociologist,
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@Alon @philipncohen no big movement tho smaller actions - but notably no coordination from our professional association which historically blocked such actions.

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"The updated results imply a 1.62% GDP-equivalent loss at 3C warming over pre-industrial temperatures, up from 1.22% in the previous version. It is important to note that the studies which form the basis of this estimate generally omit potentially significant change change impact channels, such as biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, extreme events, social unrest, etc."

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https://www.nber.org/papers/w31112

kissane, to random
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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,
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@kissane deepest appreciation for the recognition of my biggest February accomplishment!

asociologist, to random
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“One of the panelists was not able to attend because they recently tested positive for COVID” should be the free space on the bingo card … and a reminder to put your mask on.

cyberlyra, to Starwars
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Finally watching #starwars #clonewars. Fave do-not-miss episodes, fediverse?

asociologist,
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@cyberlyra Ahsoka’s main arc and the Mandalore plots were my favorite I think. Don’t know episode titles!

jonathanhorowi1, to Sociology

Hey @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, could use some accessible writing)

asociologist,
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@jonathanhorowi1 @sociology there’s been at least some pushback from sociologists of race: https://cohna.org/isabel-wilkersons-caste-book-is-it-beyond-examination/

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" 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, to random
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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?

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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,
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@inquiline thanks, yeah, I think they have a really strong project for all of those markets, but I just don't know where to look for them! Esp for post-docs. Any sites jump to mind?

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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

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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/

asociologist, to random
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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, to random
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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

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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

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"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/

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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

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“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/

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