Question for #ASASKAT folks: who's working on citation practices as part of knowledge production or on knowledge making in academic medicine? I have some really interesting historical data that I don't have the literature background to interpret.
1901 JAMA contributor: the presence of a rabbinical debate about what to do about babies born without foreskin demonstrates that this is a real problem that happens frequently "since theologians do not meet a ritual difficulty until it arises."
WELL.
This morning I'm working on recoding some data regarding historical JAMA authors' citation practices. The 1896 article I just looked at has zero formally indexed citations, and all four of its inline citations are coded as "nonspecific" indicating a formulation such as "every physician knows."
Christians who have never read the Bible: God doesn't make mistakes
Mystics: lemme hit that blunt before I tell you this.
Nun Pod With Left Grief episode 6 is now out! Claire and I talk monastic life, material culture on the Ninth, and the mechanics of sword training. Recommended readings include Victoria Law & China Martens Don't Leave Your Friends Behind and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.
My state recently passed a measure accepting the same definition, largely to "protect Jewish students." I was the only Jewish student who testified, and I testified against. It passed anyway.
Is the car allowed to kill people?
Cool, we're actively discouraging students from developing reflective skills regarding audience. That will really set them up well for the peer review process.
The near-universal insistence of scholars on restating that Francis Galton was a first cousin of Charles Darwin is itself evidence of the survival of eugenic logics. It is DRAMATICALLY more important that they were friends and correspondents who cited each other than that they shared a grandparent.
Hitler's American Model by James Whitman. Timely insights regarding racialized immigration/citizenship law in the US and how it can build a genocide.
My advisor mentioned a note-taking strategy involving putting article PDFs into NVivo and coding them as if they were data. I haven't done this and most of my key readings are books for which I do not own a PDF, so I'm trying a hybrid strategy of coding my compiled pull quotes and annotations. 🤷
The WHITE HOUSE The White House V* @WhiteHouse X.com OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL ARRESTED CARRYING A PISTOL WITHOUT A LICENSE The WHITE HOUSE 2:01 PM • 8/11/25 • 1M Views
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
A lot of my education has been publicly funded so in my view I owe it to the public to share what I'm learning. My notes from ASA are limited by my interests and interpretation, but they're available online for anyone who wants to read them. #ASA2025 #Sociology #PhDStudent
Hey, I have a podcast now. Nun Pod With Left Grief is a Locked Tomb deep dive grounded in leftist political analysis, multi-media arts perspectives, and deep love for the fandom. Episode 5 came out this week. Nunpod.com
A big reason for everything happening in the US right now is that they spent the last century crushing every semblance of an organized left that has ever existed and it was a very bipartisan effort.
At my school they broke bones until the protests stopped.
Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze.
We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.
seriously, why did we need kippah guy for this headline
"inconveniences"!
I'm too lazy to have a robot do my job, so I'm just doing my job myself. The lazy way.
Who in sociology is doing work around the anti-woke/anti-DEI element of Trumpism?
I'd worry about Ba’al Teshaktzu
And even then the movie sucks because the evidence for Roman salutes is piss poor.
I got into it with my dad today about whether it was. He says no, because The Atlantic says no.
oh for sure. Everyone I know who had a bunch of followers on TikTok is like "you can follow me other places but I'm not like this there"
It's kind of wild how migrations between social media platforms just kind of reroll influence periodically. I had 20k followers on TikTok and now I'm on Bluesky and I have like 20 followers.
I did too
This is trans woman erasure.
As people are navigating the pending TikTok ban, there's been a lot of conversation about how these digital places are really not interchangeable. Even if everybody on one all moved together to a different one, it wouldn't be the same.
I came across the term "vibes-based prosecution" in a paper on pregnancy criminalization a while back.