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@jimiadams.bsky.social
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jimiadams.github.io • sociologist • social network researcher • still not quite sure which way is up • tsundoku enthusiast • cyclist/swimmer • quick block trigger • no, I will not subscribe to your substack

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 22h
So, apparently Mac Mail suddenly no longer works with Microsoft 365 via exchange?
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the part that a lot of people seem unable to conceive or understand.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still 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
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Unicorn Running with Rainbow Trail
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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meet Gabriel,  Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maryland is not Georgia. Iowa is not Atlanta.
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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We'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.social
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Job Vacancies
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump 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/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This dude managed to check damn near every single stereotypical problem with blue sky in one short post.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UNC 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...
Position Summary: The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an open rank (tenure-track) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We are seeking candidates with research and teaching interests in population health and aging. This is the first of an anticipated five related searches over the next four years in a new UNC-Chapel Hill initiative on biosocial health and aging. We seek applications from scholars who exhibit a record of strong and innovative research and excellence in teaching. Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or a related field by July 1, 2027.
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UNC 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 #AcademicJobs
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Assistant or Associate Professor
The 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...
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Or they do get it, and this is their strategy to check off parts of two of their aims at once.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In 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...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The 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...
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White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives
Some 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is embarrassing.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 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...
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I simply can't find a generous view of that Converse ad. It seems impossible not to see without willful ignorance.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Political ads aren't what they used to be.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scholars 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...
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Free to Think 2026 | Scholars at Risk
Free 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Are people really reading books on each publisher's individual proprietary ebook apps?
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The 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.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm "my first academic presentation used overhead projector transparencies" years old.
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Jesse 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...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The 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...
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Computational 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
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Dᴜsᴛɪɴ Sᴛᴏʟᴛᴢ @dustinstoltz.com · 08/09/2026
We're hiring a medical sociologists at Lehigh! DL: September 29th careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311683/...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania job with Lehigh University | 1311683
Seeking a medical sociologist for tenure track position at R1 university.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Typically his name comes off *after* things have become financially insolvent.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
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Mark 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...
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One 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.
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Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On 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...
A graphic with white text on a green background, advertising a forthcoming book. Image text reads: "In Referees We Trust? How Peer Review Became a Mark of Scientific Legitimacy, by Melinda Baldwin." The book cover appears at the right of the image.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When you have no ability to think, the seeming potential for AI to become "sentient" appears as a much lower bar.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I 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!
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IMF can't have people involved who understand what tariffs are or know how they work, can they?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
i 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
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Something 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I 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.
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Alanis Morissette: Isn't It Ironic
ALT: Alanis Morissette: Isn't It Ironic
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
(A short thread about my story:) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today I wrote an account of a sex scandal in a primetime soap opera into a footnote of a _very serious_(tm) academic paper.
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James 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 #highered
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Wesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt status
NPR'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.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have a minor from this department. Incredibly sad to see it go.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maybe fabricating data in research on dishonesty is just long game performance art.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Your 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.
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
31 US Code 5112, n-2-E, & aa-1 - for no particular reason www.govregs.com/uscode/expan...
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31 USC 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins
Searchable text of the 31 USC 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins (US Code), including Notes, Amendments, and Table of Authorities
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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Maybe fabricating data in research on dishonesty is just long game performance art.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It'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.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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