jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 22hSo, apparently Mac Mail suddenly no longer works with Microsoft 365 via exchange? 000
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is the part that a lot of people seem unable to conceive or understand. 044
Reposted by jimi adamsEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke 621956390
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comUnicorn Running with Rainbow TrailALT: Unicorn Running with Rainbow Trail 040
Reposted by jimi adamsASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Meet Gabriel, Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology 076
Reposted by jimi adamsKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 531867617
Reposted by jimi adamsJ Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.socialsowi.uni-mannheim.deJob Vacancies 01731
Reposted by jimi adamsThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1trib.alTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 163972660
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This dude managed to check damn near every single stereotypical problem with blue sky in one short post. 020
Reposted by jimi adamsKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... 02017
Reposted by jimi adamsUNC Chapel Hill Dept of Sociology @uncchsociology.bsky.social · 23/09/2026📣 UNC Chapel Hill Sociology is hiring! We're looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology who can offer existing or new courses in our Management and Society major. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... #Sociology #AcademicJobsunc.peopleadmin.comAssistant or Associate ProfessorThe Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant or Associate (tenure-track or tenured) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We w... 034
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Or they do get it, and this is their strategy to check off parts of two of their aims at once. 030
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In today's episode of "do it right the first time," I just spent as much time making "one little fix" to a script as it took to write the original version... 150
Reposted by jimi adamsPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...nytimes.comWhite House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides ConservativesSome praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles. 5304127
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Rubin "report" on sociology was so sloppy on the face of it that I didn't think it warranted a response. But given its broad circulation, one was probably justified. This response is appropriate on both of those premises. osf.io/preprints/so...osf.ioOSF 250
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I simply can't find a generous view of that Converse ad. It seems impossible not to see without willful ignorance. 000
Reposted by jimi adamsAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Scholars at Risk has released is annual academic freedom monitoring report and find concerning practices in 59 countries including Afghanistan, China, Colombia, India, Iran, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Türkiye, Ukraine, the US, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...scholarsatrisk.orgFree to Think 2026 | Scholars at RiskFree to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world. 12211
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Are people really reading books on each publisher's individual proprietary ebook apps? 000
Reposted by jimi adamsKim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The General Social Survey, American National Election Study, & Panel Study of Income Dynamics are funded by NSF-SBE. It's not just individual grants at risk. It's irreplaceable data infrastructure that provides nonpartisan, gold-standard info on who we are, where we've been, & where we are headed. 02220
Reposted by jimi adamsJeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchersNew document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas 10158119
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm consistently baffled by the amount of effort and time people are willing to commit to debunking their own false characterizations of strawman versions of arguments they disapprove of. 000
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm "my first academic presentation used overhead projector transparencies" years old. 2240
Reposted by jimi adamsJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large... 23436141500
Reposted by jimi adamsComputational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at 12120
Reposted by jimi adamsDᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 08/09/2026We're hiring a medical sociologists at Lehigh! DL: September 29th careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311683/...careercenter.asanet.orgAssistant Professor of Sociology - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania job with Lehigh University | 1311683Seeking a medical sociologist for tenure track position at R1 university. 0911
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Typically his name comes off *after* things have become financially insolvent. 000
Reposted by jimi adamsJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!! 261025311
Reposted by jimi adamsMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026'Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.' www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 26423
Reposted by jimi adamsMelinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026On October 13, my book will officially be out into the world! Available open access from MIT Press, made possible in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205474... 13014
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026When you have no ability to think, the seeming potential for AI to become "sentient" appears as a much lower bar. 011
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know editors jobs are difficult, but "wasting" the yeses they get to requests to review on papers had no business being reviewed, can't help with getting the hard to wrangle coverage for reviews that need to be completed. tldr: Desk rejections are getting even more important! 040
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026IMF can't have people involved who understand what tariffs are or know how they work, can they? 000
Reposted by jimi adamsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions 1255077888
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Something that still makes me laugh every time I think about it: a student's face when he saw sticking out of my bag a paper with "this is simply terrible" scrawled at the top in red ink... I *quickly* showed him it was a paper of my own and reassured him I'd never do that to anyone else's work. 050
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I want to write a paper on the paradox* of most things that get labeled a "paradox" not actually being paradoxes. *Part of the task will be explaining whether this use qualifies or not.static.klipy.comAlanis Morissette: Isn't It IronicALT: Alanis Morissette: Isn't It Ironic 020
Reposted by jimi adamsMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 05/09/2026(A short thread about my story:) bsky.app/profile/did:... 216068
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Today I wrote an account of a sex scandal in a primetime soap opera into a footnote of a _very serious_(tm) academic paper. 010
Reposted by jimi adamsJames Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #higherednpr.orgWesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt statusNPR's Steve Inskeep asks Wesleyan University president Michael Roth about U.S. Treasury and IRS efforts to revoke tax-exempt status from private schools that help students based on race. 8344164
Reposted by jimi adamsPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm. 231669435
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I have a minor from this department. Incredibly sad to see it go. 000
Reposted by jimi adamsjimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Maybe fabricating data in research on dishonesty is just long game performance art. 021
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Your semi-periodic reminder that @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is absolutely awful! Rather than attempting to facilitate publication and review processes, they somehow manage to continually make them progressively worse, while extracting ever increasing profits. 021
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 03/09/202631 US Code 5112, n-2-E, & aa-1 - for no particular reason www.govregs.com/uscode/expan...govregs.com31 USC 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coinsSearchable text of the 31 USC 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins (US Code), including Notes, Amendments, and Table of Authorities 000
jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Maybe fabricating data in research on dishonesty is just long game performance art. 021
Reposted by jimi adamsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331331632
Reposted by jimi adamsdanah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, Department of Communication Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 16562