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Linda Quirke

@lindaquirke.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Canadian. I study parenting, family life and childhood. I teach about research methods, ethics and families at Wilfrid Laurier University @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social Waterloo Ontario 🇨🇦👋

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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
American-style “gentle” or “positive” #parenting has gained a toehold in France, unsettling decades of orthodoxy about the best way to raise a French child. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/p...
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Is ‘Gentle Parenting’ Ruining French Children?
The importing of American-style “positive parenting” has sparked a fierce debate about the best way to raise kids in France.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Spread the word! Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Sociology of Work and Professions, with the ability to teach sociological theory. 📍Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario 🇨🇦 Applications due March 19. Position begins July 1st. careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
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Full-Time Tenure-Track as Assistant Professor in Sociology
Full-Time Tenure-Track as Assistant Professor in Sociology
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CBC Bot posting select CBC RSS Feeds @scrubfire84.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas gets university assignment extension at Olympics Canadian figure skater and McMaster University student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on her sociology assignment one day after going viral with her ... #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
Madeline Schizas of Canada competes during the figure skating women's team event
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2025
This is worth your time haha youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled | The New Disney | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Look what’s arrived! I’m very excited to read your new book, @urchinette.bsky.social 🇮🇪📚🎶
Photo of the front cover of the book “Our Song” by author Anna Carey.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Interesting discussion about parenting and generative AI: “Stressed-out parents are turning to ChatGPT for help” #parenting #parents #mentalload www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the... @theglobeandmail.com
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Stressed-out parents are turning to ChatGPT for help
Why more parents are looking to generative AI for advice
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 06/07/2025
Where Are the Men in Boys’ Lives? Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especially in low-income areas, with few men as role models. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....
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Are LGBTQ+ Candidates Disadvantaged in Financing Their Campaigns? Evidence from Canadian Federal Elections, 2015–21 | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Are LGBTQ+ Candidates Disadvantaged in Financing Their Campaigns? Evidence from Canadian Federal Elections, 2015–21
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy day 3 of sabbatical, to all who celebrate!! 🎉 Unfortunately, not me, but I’m happy to celebrate vicariously!
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#MorningReads & #Thread How is relationship status associated with earnings among LGB people? Women's earnings depend relatively little on changes in relationship status. At the same time, gay men only receive premiums related to having a partner once they marry. #SOGIdata #LGBTDemography
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Leigh Turner @leighturner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“What science responds well to is stability and predictability and long-term planning.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America
The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sleepaway camp’s nostalgia economy: Univ of BC historian Leslie Paris discusses summer camp and changes to childhood over time. www.vox.com/podcasts
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Podcasts | Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
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Mike Morrice @morricemike.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Today is your last chance to vote! Polls are open until 9:30 PM. No voter card? No problem! Just bring government-issued ID. Find your polling location at mikemorrice.ca/vote
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 16/04/2025
Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...
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The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.
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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Highly recommend this interview with Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University, on why academic freedom at our higher ed institutions should concern all Americans. #AcademicSky #MomSky
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
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‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.
This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chilling: Trump administration threatening #research conducted in Canada. Researchers questioned about their projects, e.g. doesn’t ascribe to “gender ideology”, DEI elements, climate justice, etc. www.caut.ca/sites/defaul... More here: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/... @caut.bsky.social #sociology
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/03/2025
BREAKING: irony dead.
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Dr. Ashley Brooks 🏳️‍🌈🧠🎮😻 @dr-ashley-brooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Had a blast sharing the latest recommendations for mitigating scam participants in online research with Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Social Work! 🤖 This is a fast-moving space but with ongoing vigilance and information sharing, we can safeguard researchers and genuine participants!
A digital illustration of a massive crowd of people and humanoid robots standing in a futuristic, brightly lit corridor with tall white pillars. The humans and robots are evenly distributed, with the robots having a sleek metallic design. The image is used as the background for a presentation slide titled "Mitigating Scam Participants in Online Social Science Research" by Dr. Ashley S. Brooks, a research associate at INQYR, affiliated with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. The slide has a clean design with a white background, an orange and pink gradient accent line, and black text.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theatre:
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a close up of a person wearing red boxing gloves with the word dewear on them
Alt: From 1985 film “Rocky IV”: American boxer Rocky Balboa’s boxing gloves are knocked by his Russian opponent Ivan Drago in a boxing ring.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."
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'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Musk loses $100 million deal with Ontario. He didn't care. He said "oh, well." search.app/g8bRSXU9KZsW...
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Elon Musk responds to Ontario canceling $100M Starlink deal amid tariff drama
Elon Musk company SpaceX is set to lose a $100 million deal with the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 21/01/2025
ICYMI Sociology: @jessienyc.bsky.social on "The Algorithmic Rise of the 'Alt-Right'" (2028) is free to read, download, and share at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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Notre Dame Sociology @ndsociology.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Graduate student Maura Kraemer's recent article uncovers how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations. Until February 15th, you can use this link for free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kL6A,17Ro...
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“Seven in ten (70%) 🇨🇦 parents agree that it is important to keep children as busy as possible with organized activities, with fathers (80%) being significantly more likely than mothers (63%) to say so.” Data from 2018: www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-p...
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One in Three (32%) Families Going into Debt to Fund their Children’s Extra-Curricular Activities, Up 5 Points from Last Year
The average family anticipates spending $1,160 on activities for their children during the upcoming school year, up 3.5%
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Children’s activities and over-scheduling:
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 06/01/2025
I don't think people realize how fucked most Ontario universities are. Successive gov'ts haven't just tanked funding for 20 years, the current gov't has cut and frozen tuition. We're looking at a dozen or more Laurentian-style bankruptcies in the next five or so years if something doesn't give.
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Linda Quirke @lindaquirke.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy new year, and happy first day of sabbatical to all those who celebrate!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/12/2024
Simpler times.
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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It took me a minute to figure out why so many people are posting about Y2K and then I realized it's because it's been exactly 25 years and I had to sit down
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
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Joanna Pepin @joannapepin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Now free to read (for 3 months at least)! And @kimmoments.bsky.social (first author) is on BlueSky too! read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family's Primary Economic Support? | Demography | Duke University Press
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Headline of the Year contest starts tomorrow. Here are the winners from previous contests:
HEADLINE OF THE YEAR WINNERS, 2018-2023

2018 PLUMAGE A TROIS Thomas the blind bisexual goose who was stuck in a two-decade long love triangle with two swans dies aged 40
2019 Penguins ignore police, return to sushi shop
2020 Hospital angrily denies snake discovered in operating theatre, insisting there was only a monkey
2021 When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray
2022 The City of Ottawa wants to hear your garbage opinions
2023 British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
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DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We're hiring at @Hunter_College - Assistant/Associate in Human Biology - AND - Sociology. Great position for a #medicalsociologist - lmk if you have questions! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 In "Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school" Simon Skovgaard Nielsen, @droverbytrade.bsky.social and Felix Weiss, using a dataset on all pupils in public schools, find no evidence of parental unemployment affecting children's school well-being doi.org/10.1177/0001... #sociology
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Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school: The role of duration, reemployment, and socioeconomic status - Simon Skovgaard Jensen, Michael Kühhirt, Felix Weiss, 2024
We examine the effect of parental unemployment on the school well-being of children aged 6 to 9 while considering differential effects by unemployment duration,...
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