Reposted by Lauren OlsenKelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My program is hiring! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...haverford.eduTenure-Track Assistant Professor of Health StudiesHaverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Health Studies, to begin Fall semester of 2027. 021
Reposted by Lauren OlsenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026After a lifetime of being prophylactically *pleasant*, I adore being mean instead. I love how being strong makes me embrace the conflict of the dialectic. Let’s. Go. 32019
Reposted by Lauren OlsenKelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We 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. 021
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Wait, stop, hold the fuck uppeople.comBlack Woman, 29, Found Hanging from Tree Behind Vacant Home in Mississippi and the Community Wants AnswersThe body of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant house in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Aug. 3 14354116
Reposted by Lauren OlsenProf. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My new piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social with @cyberlyra.bsky.social comes at an urgent moment in science policy. New OMB rules and EOs threaten to politicize science and strip it of the democratic norms, autonomy, and pluralism meant to protect science as and for democracy issues.org/merton-redux...issues.orgMerton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in DemocracyThe decimation of democratic processes that undergird state-sponsored research may be ultimately more consequential than funding cuts. 195
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSteven Glaros, M.A. @stevenglaros007.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I’m the managing editor of a scientific journal. Feeding a manuscript into a generative AI is breaking the confidentiality of peer review. 325320
Reposted by Lauren OlsenProf. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I wrote a piece with @cyberlyra.bsky.social for @issuesinst.bsky.social on why reading Merton’s writings from the 1930s and 40s helps us better understand our current moment. Look for it in June, or DM me for a copy! (2/2) 052
Reposted by Lauren OlsenKiese @kiese.bsky.social · 30/04/2026www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...vanityfair.comThe Casino, the Court, and MeThis is an American sports story about addiction and attention—one I have only told to casino friends after losing my paycheck and nearly the rest of my life. 05922
Reposted by Lauren OlsenOni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Recently, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools quietly published updated standards that no longer explicitly require med schools to teach about health equity. In my piece, I argue that this rollback harms us all & that medical schools have an obligation to keep teaching this content.thefulcrum.usWhy rolling back health equity training in medical schools is a dangerous failure that puts all patients at risk.Medical Schools Have an Obligation to Push Back Against Federal Pressure 6346209
Reposted by Lauren OlsenProf. Aviles @nataliebaviles.bsky.social · 09/03/2026In a new piece in Nature, @markhisted.org and I cut through the chaos at NIH and argue that what is really at issue is a shift in how we govern science—away from power sharing with scientists, Congress, and civil servants and toward presidential consolidation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comHow Congress can restore the independence of US scienceMembers must go beyond reinstating US government research spending and re-establish decentralized governance at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. 01513
Reposted by Lauren OlsenASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 14/01/2026New book: The Limits of Diversity (@nyupress.bsky.social) by @estherdchan.bsky.social Comparing secular and evangelical college campuses, the book shows how diversity and inclusion frameworks can reproduce inequality across multiple lines of social difference. nyupress.org/978147983474...nyupress.orgThe Limits of DiversityShows that universities' diversity efforts may inadvertently reproduce inequalityAcross universities and colleges, diversity is a purported value, often acco... 064
Reposted by Lauren OlsenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.compowwowgrounds.comPow Wow Grounds 1517671170
Reposted by Lauren OlsenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Isuroon is direct support to the Somali community www.givemn.org/donate/Isuro...givemn.orgGiveMN | Ignite generosity. Grow giving. 2285169
Reposted by Lauren OlsenChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12/01/2026You know what would be a great way to get even more people available to protect their communities from ICE? A general strike 421300210
Lauren Olsen @laurendolsen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🚨 Please comment if you can find the time and circulate widely. The LCME Standards — and their application in med schools — are not perfect but they are the ONLY national requirement incentivizing med school leadership to have *at least something* on social inequalities!!! 031
Reposted by Lauren OlsenLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 20/12/2025My student Hannah Zadeh just completed an excellent dissertation on the inclusion of race coefficients and predictive stats more generally in medicine. a main takeaway: AI tools lock in on these factors in part because **researchers have been doing the same thing** www.proquest.com/openview/f22...proquest.com 422861
Reposted by Lauren OlsenLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Adding immediately www.wired.com/story/chrome...wired.comThis Chrome Extension Turns LinkedIn Posts About AI Into Facts About Allen IversonThe developers of a browser tool that changes AI-centric LinkedIn posts to Allen Iverson facts want to help “take back control of your experience of the internet.” 622454
Reposted by Lauren OlsenDerek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 14/12/2025There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat... 11433194
Reposted by Lauren OlsenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive! 39918
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester. 1315220
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSarah Scott Scire @sarahscire.com · 10/11/2025the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...niemanlab.orgFunding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donorsAfter years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the P... 12316
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/11/2025this is when you need a database of everything this lot uniquely fucked up, how much money it wasted, how long to fix it, and the no. of people injured/killed as a result. Paired with photos of the responsible officials. You need good, effective, memorable accountability journalism. 3303
Reposted by Lauren OlsenLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...tandfonline.comMechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism: Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol 0, No 0 24317
Reposted by Lauren OlsenKelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.comSocial Science & Medicine | The Social Uses of the Body | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierRead the latest articles of Social Science & Medicine at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature 122
Reposted by Lauren OlsenNancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/07/2025🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors: Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST 25571405
Reposted by Lauren OlsenMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’ 24064801795
Reposted by Lauren OlsenCatherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025An incredibly insightful and important piece by @jenniferreich.bsky.social “The real solution is better public investments and clearer information that can make parents feel confident in their choices. Instead, parents are left to figure out on their own…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me 042
Reposted by Lauren OlsenJenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I’ve been lucky enough to work alongside Alyssa (& hope to resume doing so post sabbatical) and she’s wonderful. Quick, clear, and a real lover of authors and books. I hope you’ll reach out and share your sociology book project ideas with her!! 0125
Reposted by Lauren OlsenJelani Ince @profince.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 3208
Reposted by Lauren OlsenTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here. 51317403
Reposted by Lauren OlsenPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 20/08/2025How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parents. Kindergarten Panic by Bailey A. Brown is out now. Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Education #Sociology 042
Reposted by Lauren OlsenChildless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025where’s the ADL when real shit is going on 1212
Reposted by Lauren OlsenOneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Book selfies are the best selfies #ASA2025 @ucpress.bsky.social 2726
Reposted by Lauren Olsenlauragarbes.bsky.social @lauragarbes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Copy of my book just arrived in the mail today! Feels unreal. You can preorder it here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... 88418
Reposted by Lauren OlsenJanet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Delighted to announce my newest project, a non-profit in community with really terrific people, to help more people disentangle ourselves from Big Tech. We'll work step by step, together, to #reclaimcontrol over our tech stack and help each other make better choices. www.reclaimcontrol.techreclaimcontrol.techReclaim Control | over your technology, your devices, your data, your digital life. 02210
Reposted by Lauren OlsenSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it. 239580
Reposted by Lauren OlsenLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu. 171540435
Reposted by Lauren OlsenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2025One dream I have is that one day physical scientists and biological scientists recognize that they don’t have the same systemic training in social analysis that their colleagues in the humanities and social sciences do and that this means we need help when it comes to doing politics 1646270
Reposted by Lauren OlsenCatherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Check out my new @newsweek.com op-ed on the nominee for surgeon general! "Their brand of health care is for people who can choose to be healthy, people with the time and money to pursue health optimization, and people comfortable enough to be fussy over food dyes." www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...newsweek.comCasey Means and MAHA Remove the 'Public' From Public Health | OpinionOn Wednesday, Donald Trump nominated Casey Means, a holistic doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next U.S. surgeon general. 24915
Reposted by Lauren OlsenAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...time.comWhy I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of CongressI cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. 471171205921
Reposted by Lauren OlsenASA SKAT @asaskat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025New Books Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 (Columbia University Press, 2024) Interview by @hjfulton.bsky.social asaskat.com/2025/05/03/q...asaskat.comQ&A with Lauren Olsen, author of Curricular InjusticeInterviewed by Hayden J. Fulton on February 28th, 2025 Lauren D. Olsen, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author of Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical … 073
Reposted by Lauren OlsenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“The initiative is a case study in how a local news outlet on the cutting edge of nonprofit news embraced a new application of its mission to serve and inform its community, taking on work at the nexus between journalism and housing advocacy in partnership with other local organizations.”niemanlab.orgHow Outlier is helping Detroiters get millions of dollars back from Wayne CountyThousands of Detroiters were eligible to reclaim profits after their homes were sold in tax foreclosure auctions. Outlier Media launched a massive community outreach effort to reach people eligible to... 03612
Reposted by Lauren OlsenElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.annualreviews.orgThree Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual ReviewsEveryone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg... 31556171
Reposted by Lauren OlsenEoin Brodie @elbrodie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSkygrad.ubc.caUS Applicant Week 141065660
Reposted by Lauren OlsenDaniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Good morning bluesky. If you care about defending higher education and diversity and science and Democracy, you might want to sign our letter at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd. We wrote it to capture what we think are consensus values in/about higher ed. Our new website to links to all the others.bit.lySpeaking Out for Democracy and US Higher EducationSpeaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign if you are having trouble signing at the above linked form you can ... 02715
Reposted by Lauren OlsenFella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025In case you missed it, the USDA has suspended food shipments to US food banks!!! We need to donate to our local food pantries! I encourage you to read this article from The New York Times about the food banks. Here's a gift link you can read it for free www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...nytimes.comFood Banks Left in the Lurch as U.S.D.A. Shipments Are Suspended (Gift Article)A representative of a nationwide food pantry network, said U.S.D.A. officials had informed him that some food aid distributed by the federal government was under review. 14407199
