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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Friends, it’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public. My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help. Please share! 🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈 #SciComm
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Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I was reminded today of the heroic work done by @eikofried.bsky.social and @robinnkok.bsky.social to see what information Elsevier collects on academics and was re-horrified. 🧵 (1/5) eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-h... #academicsky
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Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like … not » Eiko Fried
A journey by Robin Kok and Eiko Fried trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do about it.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 15/07/2025
"Cities might speak different dialects, but they share the same grammar of exclusion," writes sociologist @avpapachristos.bsky.social on the everyday practices of urban segregation. Read "Don't Go"--and our entire spring issue--free through 8/11 at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... #sociology
A screenshot shows the first page of a journal article titled "Don't Go," by Andrew V. Papachristos. A pair of images from the Folded Map Project contrasts the homes at Chicago's 6330 N. Paulina and 6329 South Paulina.An undated historical photograph hows KaMar's Greek Diner in Chicago, IL. Its sign advertises: KaMara's Coffee Shop. Pancakes. Fountain. Bar-B-Que Restaurant.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
blue sky is supreme because every time you post you get 100 school principals in the replies asking to see you in their office
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
As climate shocks (like heatwaves and extreme/flash flooding) hit more frequently and with more severity, they should trigger more climate concern and action. There's a really important story to tell about why it isn't in some places/times! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A war of the truth’: Europe’s heatwaves are failing to spur support for climate action
Voters may feel hotter summers are ‘too much’ but they appear to tolerate roll-back of policies to stop global heating
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Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My first academic article is live!! Published with Fashion Studies, “What is a ‘Worth’ Worth? Developing a Methodology of Historical to Modern Day Price Conversions for Dress” asks how we can better explain clothing prices in the past to people in the present. The approach explored is wage data.
Historical price conversions are a core area of concern and interest in costume studies. For fashion historians, curators, or reenactors, the question is: how does one explain the equivalent price of something worn in the past to someone in the present? I suggest a more quantitative understanding of historical prices will help researchers, professors, writers, and others better interpret the garments they examine, both within the field of costume studies as well as other disciplines such as literature, art studies, and sociology. The ambition of this paper is to showcase an alternative tool for fashion researchers to translate and explain historical fashion prices to a contemporary audience beyond simple Consumer Price Index tracking. The instrument this paper proposes is called Measuring Worth, which offers the possibility of wage tracking over time as another way to interpret historical prices.Image 1: Purple silk velvet and satin court gown made by Charles Frederick Worth for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. 

Image 2: Black and white photographic portrait in front of painted backdrop of Frances (Bull) Fairchild (1845-1924), wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild, wearing a court gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris, France. Worn at the Spanish court of King Alfonso XII and Queen Teresa, Madrid, Spain, 1880.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you're interested in seeing what the conversation on X looked like on Saturday morning, as the information warriors there went to work framing the shootings of Democratic lawmakers for political gain, I made an interactive graph: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Spot...
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Just KD @justkd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Since it is Juneteenth, I will share a lil something... My ancestors were slaves in Texas & were freed on June 19, 1865. They came together to meet with other ex-slaves & formed the Limestone County 19th of June Organization. They bought 30 acres of land on Lake Mexia.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Look what I found strolling around my yard! Hummingbird eggs are about the size of a jelly belly. Amazing treasure of the day!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
You might also want to check out some of the scholars who’ve been tracking these developments for a decade! @melhogan.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.social, @zgtcooper.bsky.social, @lifewinning.com, Alix Johnson…
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ah the good old meme marinade
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Everytime I see a screengrab of this old tweet of mine, it is more blurry than before
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 17/06/2025
Old newspaper clipping:

"Americans Thick In The Head - Einstein Says We Are So Ignorant We Are Comic."
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Part 2 of table. Source: Fine 1992, Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends.
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
What do McDonald’s, P&G, and KISS have in common? They were part of an ‘80s urban legend about satanic cults
A list of mercantile legends circulating in the 80s and their targets. Mercantile legends are urban legends that tie a corporation to some scary or harmful situation.
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From Douglas et al 1980, “Introduction to the Sociologies of Everyday Life”
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We love a good✨conceptual diagram✨😌
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sociomental affiliate 🍉 @burnrbbr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Tag urself I’m 20% “falsely accused”
Types of deviant behavior: falsely accused (obedient but perceived as deviant), conforming (obedient behavior not perceived as deviant), pure deviant (rule breaking behavior perceived as deviant), secret deviant (rule breaking behavior not perceived as deviant)
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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 19/06/2025
#AI-based #LLM programmes suppress creativity and produce lower-quality essays. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results...underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning. #AcademicSky www.media.mit.edu/publications...
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
 This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine…
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
go to grad school
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
okay now that's how you write a dang abstract and some keywords
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sociology is mostly about choosing whether something is “structured”, “contingent”, or “performed”
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Declining birth rates are likely driven by "pregnancy avoidance" decisions - people repeatedly deciding that it's not a good time to get pregnant *right now* rather than deciding not to have any (more) children at all, as my colleagues and I show in a new paper. 1/ doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Despite low U.S. fertility rates since the Great Recession, two-child norms remain pervasive, suggesting individuals are unable to achieve their goals. To understand what may be driving the apparent mismatch between goals and behavior, we focus on pregnancy avoidance, as individuals may be deciding against births in the short term rather than deciding not to have any, or any more, children. Further, we incorporate subjective evaluations of the future related to economic and relational factors as well as objective socioeconomic indicators, drawing from the Narratives of the Future framework and Easterlin’s theory about expected standard of living. We use data from the 2018–2020 wave of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (N = 880), a population-based dataset, to examine short-term pregnancy avoidance among adults aged 29–36. We find that higher levels of personal economic pessimism and concerns about having a good relationship in the future are associated with greater importance of avoiding a pregnancy in the short term, even when controlling for objective characteristics such as economic hardship, relationship status, and other sociodemographic covariates. The results highlight the need to incorporate both subjective and objective statuses in research on fertility decision-making, and the implications of these findings point to short-term pregnancy avoidance and fertility postponement as a potential mechanism underlying contemporary low birth rates in the U.S.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/06/2025
If I have time I'll put together a more detailed thread tomorrow, but for now, I think this new paper about limitations of Chain-of-Thought models could be quite important. Worth a look if you're interested in these sorts of things. ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
The Illusion of Thinking:
Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models
via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Parshin Shojaee∗† Iman Mirzadeh∗ Keivan Alizadeh
Maxwell Horton Samy Bengio Mehrdad Farajtabar
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Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models
(LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models
demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal-
ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo-
cus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy. How-
ever, this evaluation paradigm often suffers from data contamination and does not provide insights
into the reasoning traces’ structure and quality. In this work, we systematically investigate these
gaps with the help of controllable puzzle environments that allow precise manipulation of composi-
tional complexity while maintaining consistent logical structures. This setup enables the analysis
of not only final answers but also the internal reasoning traces, offering insights into how LRMs
“think”. Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs
face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-
intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then
declines despite having an adequate token budget. By comparing LRMs with their standard LLM
counterparts under equivalent inference compute, we identify three performance regimes: (1) low-
complexity tasks where standard models surprisingly outperform LRMs, (2) medium-complexity
tasks where additional thinking in LRMs demonstrates advantage, and (3) high-complexity tasks
where both models experience complete collapse. We found that LRMs have limitations in exact
computation: they fail to use explicit …
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Kathryn E Kanzler, PsyD, ABPP @drkatiek.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Word of wisdom from @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social are applicable to U.S. scientists of all disciplines! ➡️ “Too often, young scientists focus only on their next step (or next NIH grant) and do not take a long view.” ✅ He advises: think long-term, be strategic & flexible #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
when the copyeditor finds gaps in my reference list
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"The kind of scientific perfectibility aimed at in response to the 'reproducibility crisis,' especially as it has spread from social psychology to include much of the quantitative social sciences, becomes too easily authoritarian."
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Who wants free books? These are some of the titles that we at @urbanhistory.bsky.social are looking to review. Let me know if you or a friend want one, or if you have other suggestions. First, @rebwright.bsky.social's fabulous looking history of mid century US energy regimes:
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johan @johanm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A new generation about to get cooked by dopaminergic loops we don't fully understand. A live, uncontrolled experiment already underway and we hardly have the language for why its concerning. More here: thelastwave.substack.com/p/llm-exposure
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters). #stats #metasci
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The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/05/2025
“As a customer tells me with a weary laugh, ‘it's quite an ongoing process because the hairs grow back’.” Louise Rondel @sociology-gold.bsky.social on the role of oil in producing and entrenching the norm of hairless female bodies. #OpenAccess buff.ly/WZEftHH
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
(drafting a research proposal) no questions per se but here’s my research vibe
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Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvarado.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This week, our advanced data ethics/ #AIethics seminar heard from @smusab.bsky.social and some of his research on AI as social agents. Check out his great paper with @johnfsymons.bsky.social. #philtech
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Social Agency for Artifacts: Chatbots and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Digital Society
Ethically significant consequences of artificially intelligent artifacts will stem from their effects on existing social relations. Artifacts will serve in a variety of socially important roles—as per...
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Maybe today is a good day to say my book is up on the UAP website: www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...
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Enduring Digital Damage
Examines digitality’s connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
cannot get enough videos of stadium crowds roaring for Blue Ivy stepping out after Beyoncé says “know my baby gon do what she want to” a girl growing up in the public eye getting this unconditional support and love is so healing for 00s babies who watched every it girl get the opposite
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The Sociologist's Dojo @thesociologists.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Please. Please. Please. Let us not lose this resurging momentum in the Theatrical Experience. #gotothemovies thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com/2025/02/cine...
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Cinematic Cultural Collateral Damage: The Monoculture of IP Blockbusters, and Streaming Content's impact on the Theatrical Experience
INTRODUCTION In 2019, Martin Scorsese lamented the proliferation of comic book films as “not cinema” and was subsequently lambasted for ...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Paul Lukas shared a nice write-up about the show:
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Finally, a Museum Exhibit of Trade Catalogs!
I’ve collected vintage trade catalogs for years. Now they’ve gotten the museum treatment at one of America’s most famous institutions.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
gonna keep reposting my paper on how AI writ large is foundationally corrosive to democracy until someone publishes it or it stops being relevant!!!! oddletters.com/files/2025/0...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Guido Alfani's book As Gods Among Men is a sweeping narrative that shows how the rich historically justified themselves by helping their societies in times of crisis, why they no longer do, and what that may mean for social stability. Out now in paperback: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Cover of Guido Alfani's book As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/04/2025
Why is there so much business as usual among #sociologists during a #genocide? @anilsghost.bsky.social reflects on #Gaza and how explosive weapons have left their marks on sociological ideas and the discipline’s “ambivalent solidarity with anticolonial struggles”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/161xGVT
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
More than an inside look at pioneering air pollution research and the hidden health burden of air pollution, "Particles of Truth" is a story of determination and perseverance by those working to protect air quality and our health: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255167...
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