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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

China produced as much iron around 1000 CE than all of Europe did 700 years later in 1700 CE. #history #facts @svenbeckert.bsky.social

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Because UIC refuses to offer a fair contract to our grad students workers @uicgeo.org, it seems that many of our students will not receive grades on time. Stand with these students for fair wages so they can get back to their essential work! #union #unionstrong #solidarity #uic

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is really awesome. Let's keep writing dope sentences soc folks.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Really excited that this is out today, with the amazing Hannah Curtis at UW Queer Networked Comments on Reddit: Collaborative and Antagonistic Production of Sexual Meaning on r/SuddenlyGay: Journal of Homosexuality: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Queer Networked Comments on Reddit: Collaborative and Antagonistic Production of Sexual Meaning on r/SuddenlyGay

After more than a half century of political struggle, queer people in 2025 have unprecedented visibility, strong communities, and are part of powerful political movements. At the same time, we face...

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Happy May Day! The graduate student union here at UIC is on strike to earn a full living wage for their essential work. It was a pleasure working walk with them in Chicago's enormous and joyous march

Student activists speak to a crowd of demonstrators in front of a concrete building and next to an inflatable "scabby" the rat

Hundreds of marchers carrying labor signs and flags. A Mexican flag, a stop sign and a "UIC works because we do" signs are prominent

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Are there any conditions under which generative LLMs can produce reliably true statements? Would it matter if there were?

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Primaries are a place where a very few votes can really matter! Get out there Illinois!

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Maybe this is a hot take, but I think whales should be able to go as fast as they want.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Sometimes at night, I stwp outside to feel the cold night air and how no place on earth offers a firm place to stand.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Bombing people is always the wrong choice. Let's not do that.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

James Taylor wrote "ain't no doubt in no one's mind that love's the finest thing around," so well just have to assume that he never had ice cream 🍨.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

They should do this, but they need to do a whole lot more than this!

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 06/03/2026

OPINION: "Congress should issue legally binding guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in war — including restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

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The ‘secretary of war’ and a tech CEO shouldn’t be the only ones debating ethical use of AI | Editorial

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

At 1:30 Central/2:30 Eastern, my colleague @harperseldin.bsky.social will be in state court in Kansas asking a judge to block the new law that invalidated the driver's licenses of trans people across the state. You can tune into the hearing here

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District Court | Douglas County KS

The 7th Judicial District Court of Kansas includes court divisions, Clerk of the District Court, Court Trustee, Court Services, Citizen Review Board and the Self-Help office.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

They're saying on blue sky that my baby is the cutest.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

How is it that I'm so sure that my baby is the cutest? Like I think all babies are cute, but somehow mine is the best.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Remember the people who said "you can't just say democracy is at stake every election"?

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

In the immortal words of Porco Rosso, "it's better to be a pig than a fascist."

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Today, like all the days, you deserve love and care. May you be well~ ❤️‍🩹

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Dark things are happening. But also, my partner and I are going to have a child and this morning we're preparing for a baby shower. It's so lovely to come together with our friends and family. May you all be well today.

Two bouquets of flowers stand on a brown wooden table by a window in a corner formed by white walls. A clock, a painting, and a spice rack are on the wall to the right, while the window dominates the wall to the left. Green and brown outside, a small basket hangs from the window.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I had an international student in my office hours yesterday and I ended up explaining the government shutdown to someone who hadn't imagined that governments could shut down. He asked "why would this be a thing?", very reasonably

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I'll follow anyone who makes this call today! Comment that you've done it and why supporting higher Ed is important and I'll read all of your skeets forever ♾️

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you're serious about standing firm against attacks on academia, then now is the time to support one our most important allies: The TRIO McNair Program: helping underrepresented, first-gen, and low income enter research based gras programs. Call your reps #academicsky coenet.org/protect-the-...

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Protect the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program - Council for Opportunity in Education

We’re stronger together. Call your Member of Congress, send an email, post on social media, host a phone party, invite your Member to campus, and report your actions. Every voice protects students and...

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“It is a time to resist injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to bullying tactics of extortion at the expense of basic standards that govern shared governance" -Butler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'm downtown in beautiful downtown Chicago. All we need to be safe is to get ice and troops out of our city.

Cute little me holding a sign that says "fight fear stop deportations defend immigrants"

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Are you a sociology doctoral student interested in applying for an ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant? Register for the FREE virtual Q&A on 9/4 at 1 p.m. Eastern. You must register to attend. In the meantime, check out our FAQs: www.asanet.org/ddrig

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's great to be back in the classroom at UIC Sociology today! Excited to learn from a whole new group of students 🤓

Cute little me sitting in my office.

I'm wearing a black headband, silver earrings shaped like ginkgo leaves, and a black blouse. The white walls of my office, two paintings, and a white board are behind me~

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

All of us who live here in Chicago know that our city _does not need_ the national guard or _any_ federal interference. Just like DC residents knew before their police department was messed with. #chicago #pritzker #noice

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Really excited to be working on _another_ incredible paper with @msoma.bsky.social He's presenting it at this conference, check it out!

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Balthazar Bot @balthazarbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Balthazar is thinking about Structural sociology. It looks delighted.

Pixel art of a corgi on a virtual pet device screen. It looks delighted.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Threatening to criminalize one of Ireland's most successful writers for caring about Palestine pretty much guarantees that half of Ireland will find a way to shove this back in the face of the UK government. If they go through with it, they will face a level of piss-taking they've never seen before.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Wow, the Chicago river is sparkling today! So excited that our city gets to host #ASA2025

The Chicago river flanked by skyscrapers and crossed by bridges

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Wow, looks like a party! Maybe I'll have to stop by toda~

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Hello from #ASA25! So excited to have so many lovely sociologists in my city! Welcome 🤗

Yours truly looking cute on a skybridge with tall buildings and a large road in the background

The Chicago city skyline taken from lake Michigan, backed by low clouds and a blue sky.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I know I'm a few days late here, but is it possible that going up on the roof is the best thing 47 has done in his second term?

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is one of the key reasons that democrat centrists trying to pivot away from identity politics (as if that were somehow an option) is so dangerous.

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Who's the fifth sociologist?! It's not me! I'm happy for other people to have their genders, especially if it makes their buttfucking hotter!

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

So many studies use intelligence as an outcome, but where is the research about how to improve wisdom at the population level?!

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Any shoe store that doesn't carry women's shoes above size 10, you're being transphobic" - Jinkx Monsoon Preach, can I please get some size 11s of cute shoes!?

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is amazing! Yay for the river Test. I wonder what they'd like for their birthday 🎂?

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Ian Kennedy (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ikennedy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I was just in Spokane this weekend, and it is beautiful there. I also ate really excellent frybread (from Indigenous Eats). Oh, and there's a sociology job there at Gonzaga!

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