It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.
Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."
"The world as it exists is just one historically contingent possibility; we can, collectively, create new possibilities and new social worlds. That’s not a radical postmodernist idea. It’s Max Weber."
Me, too!
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
The Conversation! Academics write there and the outlet allows any other publication to borrow and run your essay elsewhere for broad visibility.
Lot’s of good science of diversity in this piece which challenges academics and independent scholars to speak out and to resist the pushback
sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/25/h...
Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy.
As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.
Florida has banned sociology. That's what we're dealing with. Welcome to state dictatorships. It's the exact opposite of freedom.
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You know who else banned sociology? Stalin.
Sociology is fucking dangerous! That's why Florida lawmakers don't want students to learn about. It scares the shit out of them. And it should!
This is how disciplines die.
Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
I love teaching introductory sociology. Students learn to see the forest amid the the trees, which means seeing beyond individuals to the nature of the societies we've built. It is a perfect example of why knowledge is power, and that is exactly why FL is trying to kill it.
The number one rule for No Kings 3 tomorrow is DO NOT INTERACT WITH COUNTER PROTESTERS! Do not talk, do not argue, do not react to their words, their single-finger salute, or their rolling coal. DO NOT ENGAGE!!!!
You safety team is ready to deal with any negative people.
This study doesn't explain why high-SES White men have weaker friendships than everyone else (on average). But I'd be curious to see how much of this gap is explained by what we might call "status maxing"--putting the pursuit of profit and professional promotion above all other things.
"Progress?", US poster warning against environmental pollution and degradation, published in preparation for the first Earth Day, 1969. On orange-red background, it shows a composite of a car traffic jam, a jet airliner ascending, trailing huge black stream of soot, and in the background, a factory spewing black smoke from its smokestacks, obscuring the sun. There is also a tilted dome of the Capitol or similar building in the background.
Found this 1969 #Earth Day poster.
The message remains very relevant. Our #environmental problems are serious and our societies remain unsustainable.
But it also inadvertently shows that we've made A LOT of progress too.
Consider the smoke trails. They are not an exaggeration.
Joined!
"This isn’t just about Florida, and it isn’t just about #sociology. There’s a much broader attack happening nationally on academic freedom and freedom of speech in universities and elsewhere." American sociologist Prof Ruth Milkman on academic textbook censorship www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.
“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.”
(via @barchart.com)
"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
I'm re-upping my @liberalcurrents.com article on Yglesias since he's once again claiming that abandoning marginalized folks is the path to Democratic victory.
He wants a big tent for bigots.
A total collapse.
The National Institutes of Health went from 756 funding announcements published to 14 in two years.
One example of the effects: emerging threats will become harder to address quickly. Response to future health emergencies (like Covid) will be slower and less coordinated.
“The goal of this project is nothing less than the erasure of the scholarly and institutional gains made by Black studies over the last 60 years.”
Fantastic piece by @amandamarcotte.bsky.social and further evidence that these guys freaked out out gender studies because it hit too close to home
So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w
Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?
www.techdirt.com/202...
This proposes a way of using AI agents to produce research. Ok. But this bit is a pipe dream: "And human scientists should retain authority over — and responsibility for — framing the question, validating the path and signing off on conclusions." Here's why...
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This is ambitious, beautiful, and essential.
This is a series of infographics with illustrations. This shows people carrying a laptop, wrench, and lightbulb. Text reads: how to set up an applied sociology consultancy
A woman writes on a clipboard, while a man looks through a magnifying glass. They stand beside a stack of boxes. Text reads: plan your business
People walking and sitting while using tablets, phones and laptops. Text reads: Decide on your suite of services
People gardening while sitting on a globe ('government'), people in work uniforms ('community groups'), two people holding hands while on a see-saw ('corporate'), and a woman helping another woman up a stack of books ('individual clients'). Text reads: be clear about your client base
Here are some broad tips showing how you can get started setting up a #sociology consultancy. In particular, demonstrating how, where, and with whom your sociological expertise is best placed to service. sociologyatwork.org/2026/03/05/h... #socialscience
