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Kelly Underman

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Associate Professor of Health Studies at Haverford College

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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.
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Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships
Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only sad thing about how beautiful NZ currency is is that I didn't even take any cash out in 2024 when I was there for over three weeks because the digital payment infrastructure is so good.
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reminder! Please circulate widely.
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Jesse F Ballenger @jfballenger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As we remember the 9/11 attacks, this sobering report from the Brown University Cost of War Project is required reading.
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
OVERVIEW: The True Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars
The Costs of War Project has created this resource that compiles our past research to provide an overview of the costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars. The “post-9/11 wars” refers to United States-led mili...
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My program is hiring! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...
haverford.edu
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Health Studies
Haverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Health Studies, to begin Fall semester of 2027.
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surprise enshittification of academia: journal websites are now primarily all AI, making reaching a human almost impossible. Journals, I’m begging you, make sure there is an easy to find and accurate email address for your editorial office on your website.
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 09/09/2026
Charlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.
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Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact
This week marks one year since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the nonprofit he created, Turning Point USA, is still working to engage young conservative voters ahead of the m...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/09/2026
a gorgeously astute read on Gloria, by @reproutopia.bsky.social:
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Eight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie Lewis
I think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
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Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My fabulous dept, the Dept of Social & Critical Inquiry @uconn.bsky.social is hiring a Dept Head! Thrilled bc many of us worked across our interdisciplinary units for years to create this new dept that values critical & public scholarship. Come be my colleague!!! jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Talking to my students, it's kind of blowing my mind that we are rapidly approaching a generation of young people who don't remember life pre-COVID.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"A world where there is no N.S.F. funding for social science, but where the A.I. industry funds research... will skew public debate. To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public interest." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It
Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.
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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“ Disposable” workers… Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers theconversation.com/concierges-a...
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Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers
About 1 in 3 US workers are in this predicament.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I take back what I said about the US having a low rate of rabies in humans. The infrastructure actually is just *so* bad that we have severely underestimated the problem.
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AAUP's report on AI shreds her arguments. The site also offers great tools to address its imposition. www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
First week of teaching at my new job down! I’m so happy to be here.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero sociology awards from the NSF. It's effectively gone. (Including, but not limited, to the ASA Dissertation awards.)
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Tiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 Job alert 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Ohio State University is hiring: 1) Asst prof in tech and society 2) Assoc or full prof in social stratification osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers?q... should pull up both openings Happy to answer questions.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a huge victory for higher education & academic freedom. The Trump administration has weaponized legitimate concerns about antisemitism to advance his agenda on campus. I’m glad the judge saw this for what it was and dismissed the case. @aaup.org www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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Judge Dismisses Trump Administration’s Antisemitism Case Against Harvard (Gift Article)
The government argued the university had not done enough to combat antisemitism during campus protests. A judge called the incidents “isolated and episodic.”
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
4. The academic job market has been awful and mostly getting worse since I've been an academic, and especially the last few years, and I really feel for all the people who are trying to find jobs and I feel bad that mostly what I can offer as advice is "try not to take it personally."
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I am also thrilled to have become the custodian for M.Bodiment as incoming chair of @asabodyembodiment.bsky.social
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Drawing attention to the ways the Democratic Party is attacking its own is important, but these local progressive wins should be teaching us a lot more about how to leverage people power to win. Read all about it here: danarfisher.com/2026/08/08/t...
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There’s Something Happening Here…
With the outcome of Tuesday’s primary elections, progressive democratic candidates have accumulated a large number of wins against centrists in the Democratic Party. While much of the public …
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We celebrated ten years of the Sociology of Health Professions Education Collaborative hosting gatherings alongside ASA last night with a great turnout and a delicious cookie-cake.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
new course up (on the relation between family policing abolition and family abolition), it's quickly selling out though, so act fast if you want to participate: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Family Policing: Welfare, Surveillance, and Abolition - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Nowhere—as the women’s liberation movement used to relentlessly point out—is more dangerous for a child than the family. In the ’70s, a wave of feminist, child-liberationist consciousness-raising blew...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky
insidehighered.com
Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m noticing a new phenomenon of questions (such as requests for extension) to journal editorial offices going unanswered. Is it my email (ugh outlook) or is something broader happening? This has been multiple journals.
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.
govinfo.gov
GovInfo
Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2026
The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
University of Illinois is hiring an epidemiologist to work on climate, weather, and health problems in collaboration with IDPH! 🛟 #episky I am part of the broader group - we hope to develop applied tools for local climate adaptation and extreme weather preparedness
uisystemoffice.csod.com
Visiting Project Manager, Epidemiological and Analytical Support (Hybrid)
Lead epidemiological research and analysis to examine relationships between climate, weather, and health outcomes?using primary and secondary researc...
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Making plans to see friends is the most fun and most stressful part of conferences at my career stage, which is wild.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The discourse around yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling about girls’ athletics is a reminder that “transgender” is a label applied by fascists to anyone who does not fit the narrow roles prescribed by white patriarchal heterosexuality. It simultaneously discriminates on race, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I switched to oral exams instead of written exams for the final in my theory class and in my opinion it was a success. Easier to grade, easier to assess how much students had really learned, fully AI-proof. Students were really nervous about it, however, which made some parts more challenging.
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The amount of academic email spam I get is truly mind boggling.
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.
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Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is your reminder to have your intro to soc students submit videos in the mode of influencers selling sociology to their audience. Grading them is so fun.
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 26/05/2026
From our Report on Academic Freedom at Yale: nearly 70% of faculty say their academic freedom has declined since January 2025. The university must act to protect free expression and debate in the classroom and beyond it.
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