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James Iveniuk

@iveniuk.bsky.social
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Happy dad. Torontonian. Sociologist. I study heath inequality across the life course, and social networks/relationships.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 28/08/2026
Canada’s economy posts fastest growth in the G7, double the pace of the U.S.
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Canada's economy posts fastest growth in the G7, double the pace of the U.S.
The Canadian economy is growing at 3.3% annualized, representing the fastest pace of growth in three years and double that of the U.S.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026
How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?
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Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I fantasise about being a "university professor". I am a university professor. Things I especially fantasise about: Stable income-streams; Generous library funding; Clear, reliable and supportive IT systems; Students with time & space to study intensively; Less bullshit...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is absolutely devastating and every politician should watch it and take notes. This is how you do it.
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
it is, in fact, completely contrary to the purpose and existence of higher education to say that every debate must continue eternally and no position can be dismissed and left behind
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/08/2026
It’s hard to tell if Jamil Jivani thinks he’s auditioning for Pierre Poilievre’s job or Pete Hoekstra’s job
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 22/08/2026
Just proper fucked.
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It also seems relevant that Ghent University's Code of Ethics expressly prohibits "spread[ing] ideas about racial superiority or hatred." www.ugent.be/en/ghentuniv...
Screengrab of the CODE OF ETHICS for Ghent University. 

1.5 Right and duty to speak and duty of confidentiality
Everyone at Ghent University has the fundamental right to speak and in some cases, a duty
to speak and a duty of confidentiality.
Ghent University cherishes and defends the right to freedom of expression. Everyone at Ghent
University has the freedom to express their personal opinions. You speak in your own name
and make this clear as such. You take personal responsibility for what you say.
Official statements and positions that are related to Ghent University's policy may only be
shared by employees who are explicitly designated to do so.
Freedom of expression is not unlimited:
- You do not incite discrimination, hatred, violence or segregation against others;
- You do not spread ideas about racial superiority or hatred;
- You do not join groups or associations that promote discrimination or segregation;
- You abstain from any form of negationism.
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Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Why negotiate at all?" Because if you glibly say no deal, every mayor, MP, employer, union in the many tariff affected cities will think you aren't taking this seriously. Going through the motion shows who the problem is.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Media specific: per any newspaper or magazine, like, 90 percent of the diehard subscribers can’t name any bylines/writers unless they’re branded columns with 1st person stories and probably a photo next to the byline
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Racial segregation wasn't an accidental or purely historical side effect of modern zoning—it was core to the story, and the resulting codes are still in effect in most US cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The racial origins of zoning: Southern cities from 1910–40
This article argues that the desire to regulate black residential patterns constituted a major objective of the early zoning and planning movement in the United States, particularly in the South be...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At the start of the week, I shared a blog post that boiled down to "whether or not you believe AI is plagiarism, you should be concerned about the career risk, especially given bad-faith right-wing attacks." Here's where we're ending the week:
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New publication from me and Laura Cervi. We met in Berlin in the summer of 2024 and argued about if and how politics was being done on TikTok, then Biden stepped down, Charlie XCX tweeted "kamala is brat," and we decided to study what happened next... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SKRTW...
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Kamala is Brat: TikTok and the Affective Politics of Memes
In this article, we examine TikTok memes about former Vice president Kamala Harris that circulated through the digital registers of the Charli XCX-inspired “Kamala is Brat” trend. By analyzing the ...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW: A very specific flavor of Facebook slop has emerged -- clipping-style AI videos of fake podcasters giving "relationship advice" about what makes a "good woman" or "real man." Some of the fake podcasters also sell AI-generated e-books and invite paid subscribers. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are
AI-generated clips of fake podcasts are racking up views on Facebook by doling out banal relationship advice about how men are failing women.
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'll go one step further: the BLM I think also generated some strong cohort dynamics, such that the future will be even more progressive (at least on this issue). young-old differentiation after the event: (also, a shameless plug: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf).
young-old differentiation (using a diff-in-diff estimator) on unfavorable attitudes toward the police.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
*whispers* BLM was popular
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Jeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
(Skipping #ASA2026 because I dropped my membership. Anybody who is interested in methodology who is there, can you help gauge and seed interest in a reviewer boycott until ASA Council allows its journals to have open science policies for quant soc? Thanks.)
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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
omg you're right!
Harry Hamlin holding Bubo in the 1981 Clash of the Titans movie
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
El-Sayed is very good at this.
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 07/08/2026
I’m happy to be corrected, but my sense of things is that this means less “stop building luxury condos/purpose built rentals” and more “there is no solution to fixing the problem at the lower end of the market that doesn’t involve huge public expenditure.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/07/2026
There's an irony in the fact that, to make her argument that Sociology has sacrificed science for activism, Ms. Paul cherry-picks quotes that support her views. 1/
THE SATURDAY ESSAY
Is It Time to Liquidate'
the Study of Sociology?
Sociology has long been tasked with
investigating society's most pressing
challenges. But these days, sociologists
greatest obstacle may be themselves.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Chat we’re so back bsky.app/profile/bloo...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/07/2026
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When a major strategic victory in war is achieved by drone attacks on e-commerce hubs then you know the 20th century is well in the rear-view mirror
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Megabyte from REBOOT
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Nick Felker @felker.dev · 20/07/2026
Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/07/2026
We need to bring back the epithet "weird". Because this is just plain weird.
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Hegseth Plans to Screen All Troops, Including Women, for Low Testosterone (Gift Article)
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My theory on this is American capitalism is now so bad it forces people to move away for education, jobs, and better opportunities; disincentivizes doing hobbies for fun; and takes time and energy away from leisure sports, volunteering, mentoring, union organizing, and other community activities.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ding ding ding
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
LOL.
“idea of aesthetic or literary value. And many literary scholars have, in fact, been persuaded, perhaps by reading the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, that one social function of judgments of taste-understood as a tendency to value some works over others-is to maintain hierarchies of class. Bourdieu wrote that surveys establish that all cultural practices (museum visits, concert-going, reading etc.), and preferences in literature, painting or music, are closely linked to educational level (measured by qualifications or length of schooling) and secondarily to social origin. 12
This claim was based on extensive analysis of social surveys he conducted in France. I am aware of no reason to doubt it. But that the literary and other aesthetic tastes of the social elites corresponded with what was celebrated as high culture is perfectly consistent with those judgements of taste nevertheless being correct.”
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This...explains a lot actually
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Seeing Canadian politicians write glowing tributes to Lindsey Graham is embarrassing, frustrating, and pretty infuriating, to be honest.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/07/2026
graham choosing to put off medical care that likely would’ve saved his life because he was scheduled to be on meet the press in the morning is the most perfect encapsulation of his career one can imagine
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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is amazing because we have lived through tons of stuff recently where polling and policy completely diverged after implementation (congestion pricing, walkable streets. Immigration enforcement)
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If you think the practice of politics does not include the deliberate shifting of public opinion, you just don't understand the game that's being played. It's like saying basketball players should stop trying to get those stupid rebounds and focus on the only important part, scoring.
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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I am going to become the joker. A large part of *politics knowing* is understanding how political actors, media and social groups can shift public opinion. Re: Jan 6, 2021, we saw public opinion shift dramatically and it wasn’t because part of the public reconsidered it from first principles.
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John Doe 🍁 @fidelityalt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"why does Toronto never do popular things" discourse summed up. The people who have 100% of the govt's attention are... Not regular ppl The '000s of people's lives who are improved by ped streets aren't important, the 8 people of the RA and BIA are And this is a *left wing* mayor
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 11/07/2026
Lyman's response to this criticism would presumably be, "I'm a Christian and this is what all real Christians believe, and if you blame me for this that's religious discrimination." (Which is a good lesson on the limits of religious tolerance in a democracy.)
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“AI IS NOT A PEDAGOGICAL CRISIS, IT’S A LABOR CRISIS.” I want to tattoo this on my forehead.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/07/2026
Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/07/2026
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NEW IN TSQ Anneliese Schenk-Day and Jack Wippell show that the recent surge in anti-transgender legislation has been accompanied by a rise in moralized rhetoric--but bills with more moralized rhetoric are less likely to pass. Read more at bit.ly/4pdxUBJ
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 10/07/2026
Weird to live in a modern society where the government's official position is there is too much education.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others
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Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy
Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened." In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.
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Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
IT'S ALIVE! Brainstorming, discussing, writing, and re-writing this piece on the "unbundling" of American religion with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, and @bsteens.bsky.social was the most enjoyable part of the process, but it's gratifying to see it officially "out" in ASR.
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Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion - Ruth Braunstein, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester, 2026
Much recent sociological work on religion in the United States is written outside the field’s two established paradigms: secularization theory and the 1990s “re...
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