Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I always get wrecked by the immune response from COVID/flu shots and the symptoms tend to enter into a feedback loop with my particular flavor of anxiety. This is a very small price to pay for a miracle of a public health measure and for the personal protection against getting sick. Get vaccinated. 021
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The Case for Letting Malibu … Fall into a Sinkhole at Nic Cage’s House 020
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think it’s baffling that for years the most popular TV show was a prestige drama about ad execs and instead of inspiring a new golden age of heady advertising campaigns we somehow got the Liberty Mutual “LiMu emu” ads. 121
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026To be fair, he does all those things in public too. 010
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I parsed this incorrectly and was trying to figure out what the verb to “Gluck Cut” means. 240
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A university janitor attends court-mandated talk therapy sessions. 030
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If i recall, the @fivefourpod.bsky.social hosts had a similar take recently, arguing Democrats should message that, when they take back power, there will be consequences for ICE agents accused of wrongdoing (or even all agents). Beyond abolishing ICE. I’m glad this idea is becoming more mainstream. 010
Reposted by Andy McCumberHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hakeem Jeffries has GOT to GO. Enough is enough. www.politico.com/live-updates...politico.comHakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aidDemocrats have split on a contentious amendment to the fiscal 2027 State Department spending bill. 35615
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Oh look, conservatives decided to notice women’s sports again. 100
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My partner Laura, a medical and economic sociologist, studies the absurd pricing of pharmaceuticals in the US (and the insidious role that charity plays in the system). She’s working on a book project about cancer drugs as a case study.sciencedirect.comFrom affordable to accessible: How the pharmaceutical industry transformed patient consumers into charity recipientsRecent changes in healthcare pricing and financing have resulted in patients paying more out of pocket for their healthcare. As a result, more patient… 1259
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Perfectly fine for a drunk with several credible sexual assault allegations against him to coach a girls basketball team, but absolutely unacceptable for a trans kid to play on that team, apparently. 110
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Once my partner and I both had our cars towed outside our house because of (confusingly labeled) road work. They told me at the police station there was a hefty fee if I didn’t get to the impound lot before they closed at 5 (it was 4:30 or so). Basically a default charge if you happen to work 9-5. 191
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 18/06/2026My book BAD NATURE recently received some incredible honors: -Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Charles Horton Cooley Award -Outstanding Publication Award, ASA Section on Environmental Sociology (Honorable Mention) -Distinguished Book Award, ASA Section on Animals and Society 3130
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 14/06/2026@grantbrisbee.bsky.social as usual hitting the right note on this.nytimes.comGiants pitchers’ Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they’ve missed the point (Gift Article)To focus on the perceived sin, Landen Roupp and other Giants pitchers had to step over so much that they professed to believe. 052
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My partner and I got to make a Southern Californian pilgrimage to see the Hockney exhibition in Paris last summer. We just finished painting our new house colors inspired by “A Bigger Splash,” which we’ve had a print of in our living room for years. RIP David Hockney. 1152
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I would just once like to see how these people would lose their damn minds if one of their teammates lodged even the most milquetoast of protests against the military industrial complex when the league has them wear those ugly ass camo hats. 150
Reposted by Andy McCumberCaleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 29/05/2026In my capacity as Policy & Research Committee Chair for the Environmental Sociology Section of the ASA, I'm delighted to announce this year's awards. Congrats to all, and thanks to the members of the committees for their service to the section and field! 0111
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Ok but also has anyone ever seen Altman and that guy who killed a bunch of people in Idaho in the same room? 050
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I’m hoping Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (a grad school advisor of mine) will see fit to write a follow up to The Fascist Spectacle for the unhinged aesthetics of modern fascism.ucpress.eduFascist Spectacle by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 000
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 15/04/2026And yet somehow we’re one hot dog down the windpipe away from President Hall Monitor Vance. 020
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 09/04/2026At the library here at VT they put the covers of recent books by faculty up on the wall. They told me they put mine in the corner of the room because “thats where a rat would be.” 060
Reposted by Andy McCumberPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/03/2026A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.familyinequality.wordpress.comWhich jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world?Together maybe we can suss out the bullshit. Your vote counts. 165
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 03/03/2026New paper! I use text and image data from UNESCO’s official website to analyze global asymmetries in the ways animals contribute to the “universal value” of Natural Heritage Sites. 021
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 06/02/2026If you need a good example of “sampling on the dependent variable” for your stats class, look no further. 311111
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I have a new paper out in American Journal of Cultural Sociology. It reports on a mixed-methods content analysis of climate fiction stories and proposes Raymond Williams’s notion of “structures of feeling” for examining the social experience of climate change.link.springer.comStructures of feeling in climate fiction - American Journal of Cultural SociologyWith a steady onslaught of extreme weather events and quickly surpassed temperature records, the climate crisis is increasingly moving from the realm of hypotheticals to that of lived experience. In t... 051
Reposted by Andy McCumberCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Gonna retrain the head of ICE? Anything besides abolish is support for the Gestapo. It isn't a gray area. 317324
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I’m old enough to remember what the “injuries” to another state-sanctioned murderer looked like. 000
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 14/01/2026After a long day of international travel, I was greeted upon landing in Dulles with an article acceptance! Coming soon to American Journal of Sociology, an analysis of climate fiction literature using Raymond Williams's concept of "structures of feeling." 1121
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The “Trump is using Venezuela to distract from his scandals” takes are a real grim insight into what qualifies as a scandal. 020
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 04/01/2026So strange that the guy who came up with Bush’s “axis of evil” bit has a bad take on this. 000
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Not putting Bush and the goons in his admin in The Hague in 2009 was the first step towards letting this happen again. 040
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Ninja turtle jokes aside, this is an interesting rhetorical choice that suggests an alternative political use of nostalgia to MAGA’s reactionary, fascist one. 021
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Yeah, there definitely aren’t any incidents from American history that contradict this. 120
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If I thought Bari was a little brighter, I’d suspect this was an elaborate viral marketing campaign for this story. 000
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 20/12/2025A “toilet rat” features prominently in an anecdote from BAD NATURE’s introduction. This is good book promotion right? 010
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Impressive that it could reproduce the well known logo for NO WINNER (STRIKE). 000
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I see prominent democrats are expanding their Trump-era rehabilitation of the Bush admin. 000
Reposted by Andy McCumberVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism. 15836218
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Will this unhinged post be treated the same way all those ones that plainly noted the exact words Charlie Kirk made at various points in his life? Only time will tell! 020
Andy McCumber @ahmccumber.bsky.social · 09/12/2025It sure put the Universities of Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook on the map, though. 000
Reposted by Andy McCumberjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/12/2025every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail" 692130268