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Marci Cottingham

@mdcottingham.bsky.social
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Sociologist at Kenyon College. I study emotions, inequality, healthcare, culture, work and orgs. Book: tinyurl.com/bdz739kp New emotions: tinyurl.com/yckj8k59

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/08/2026
Me reading psychology: sheesh people should really be more precise in their language. Me reading analytical philosophy:
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Not Like This
Alt: Matrix: Not Like This, not like this
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And if you're not a member? Well you should be. Dues scale with income and they fund the national lawsuits and the local organizing (like the lunch we ordered for new organizer training!). What are you waiting for?
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I want to give a shout out to Sara Rocks, our section newsletter co-editor and designer of buttons! Sara will be presenting her research on chronic illness narratives at a session on Monday! Buttons will be at the section open house on Saturday. #emosoc #sociology #sociologyofemotions
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nora Gross is this year's recipient of the Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the Soc of emotions section. I'm looking forward to congratulating her in person in NYC! Check out a link to her book here: www.brothersingrief.com #emosoc #sociology #sociologyofemotions
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BROTHERS IN GRIEF
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
kitty's newest summer reading
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As a lead up to the ASA meeting, I want to spotlight some of the fascinating work from my Sociology of Emotions colleagues. First up is Chelsea Rae Kelly! #sociology #sociologyofemotions #emosoc
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Sociological Social Psychology Academic Conference 2025 Group Processes
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Climate.us @climate.us · 26/06/2026
We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My new short book on emotional labor is available for free until 8 July! In it, I take stock of the development, interdisciplinary uses, public (mis)uses, and future possibilities of this important concept www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Emotional Labor
Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Emotional Labor
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Ellis Monk @ellismonk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A real honor to have this piece written about my work with the Monk Skin Tone Scale. My hope is that momentum keeps building and we can eventually live in a world where we can expect technology to work for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/live...
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Lives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone bias
A two-dollar badge is saving lives in hospitals around the world. The product, groundbreaking but simple, is a scale of colors that reflects a more complete range of human skin tones. Developed by Pro...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Nurses fighting against corporate greed…I’ve been digging into this for a new book. if academics or sociologists are feeling hopeless, check out some of the top nurse influencers and how pissed off and organized they are becoming…
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Sure, they’re trying to cancel sociology, but our skillset has never been more useful… Wordiply.com My best guess was 17 letters.
Screenshot of wordiply word game. Root word is norm.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...
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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is an extremely helpful thread.
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John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
ISR is accepting applications for the next cohort of Junior Professional Researchers! This is a great opportunity for recent college grads to get experience working in social science research at ISR. Please reach out with any questions! #statsky #episky #econsky #publichealth #academicsky #polisky
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Junior Professional Researcher Program | U-M Careers
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/01/2025
"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."
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I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...
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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"Let us be patient with one another. And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go." ✒ #EmilyGreenBalch, American sociologist, #feminist, pacifist, and Nobel Laureate (1946), was #BOTD 8 January 1867. #Sociology #Feminism
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Find these and other provocative questions regarding AI-in-education via the link! (So great that we can actually link to things on this site.) And thanks,Tom!
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 25/11/2024
Call for Proposals Work, Employment and Society Special Issue WES is seeking proposals for special issues bringing together and highlighting work on important topics for the sociology of work and employment. www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26691/...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
1/2 Can you help make sense of the global flux society is experiencing? We at The British Academy are commissioning up to 40 discussion papers of 4,000-5,000 words to cast light on the issues of the changing international environment www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...
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Call for Discussion Papers: Global (Dis)Order
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Found at my local thrift store. Who says we Americans can’t have nice things?
Three kittens playing with a football
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Wendy Y. Li @wendyyli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’ve taught a few conservatives in my classes and while they usually start off skeptical, by the end of the semester they tend to like the class. It’s because sociology teaches you how to make and evaluate arguments about the social world with evidence. And who doesn’t like to win arguments?
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Here’s my chat with Michael Lewis on sociology and sports fandom. Might be useful in intro, soc of sport, religion, or emotion courses. omny.fm/shows/agains...
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Marci Cottingham on the Religious Passion of Steeler Nation - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Is there a difference between fandom and religion? In Pittsburgh, it can be hard to tell. Fans of the city’s football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, seem to have a cradle-to-grave devotion, complete w...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 11/11/2024
I'm not a frequent reader of activist tactics - but I found this piece very clarifying, especially his points about the power not of protests or reason but of mass noncooperation. dangerous, messy, and very effective. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
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10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Here’s my chat with Michael Lewis on sociology and sports fandom. Might be useful in intro, soc of sport, religion, or emotion courses. omny.fm/shows/agains...
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Marci Cottingham on the Religious Passion of Steeler Nation - Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Is there a difference between fandom and religion? In Pittsburgh, it can be hard to tell. Fans of the city’s football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, seem to have a cradle-to-grave devotion, complete w...
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Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
On Tuesday 10/22 at 12:30pm, please come to the Ohio State Institute for Population Research's Seminar Series, where I'll be presenting a paper on the racialized dynamics of gentrification-induced displacement. I'm happy to share the paper with anyone who is interested! ipr.osu.edu/events/ipr-s...
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IPR Seminar Series - Mahesh Somashekhar
Mahesh Somashekhar, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Illinois ChicagoTitle: Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Global neoliberalism is a bummer, but hey, 🎶🎶 “Whether you sing or pull a pint, you’ll always have a job, cuz wherever you go around the world, you’ll find an Irish pub”🎶 open.spotify.com/track/6zX3Hw...
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Irish Pub Song
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Rene Almeling @ralmeling.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
CFP for early-career scholars working on masculinities and reproduction. Interdisciplinary workshop at the Brocher Foundation in May 2025. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting others working on this important topic! www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/call...
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Interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Men, Masculinities and Reproduction’: Gender Campus
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 16/09/2024
Scientific American takes rare step of endorsing for president www.scientificamerican.com/article/vote...
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Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment
Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
On new tech: “What really frightened me was the future of mediocrity they suggested: the inescapable screens, the app-facilitated antisocial behavior, the assumptions advanced as knowledge, and above all the collective delusion…” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
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An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Inflation is bad
Inflation is bad, or you ordered a private taxi for your burrito?
Taxi for my burrito
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
One of the best gifts I ever gave my mother in law. Makes me smile every visit.
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
How’s your summer so far?
Sign overlooking cliff that says “stop hornets ahead”Sign overlooking cliff that says “noice may provoke hornet attacks”
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
"They have read the books we assigned them. And what they have learned leads them to conclude, with great clarity, that bad things are happening, and that these bad things must stop."
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Thanks, Lauren. And nice to see emotions in there!
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
With DEI and Black pilots in the news, it's an excellent time to (re)visit Evans' "Cabin Pressure" on the double shift of Black pilots and flight attendants. Emotion scholars/teachers- this is a wonderful book to showcase the field to students! #sociology #socemo www.amazon.com/Cabin-Pressu...
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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Damn, Brandon
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Our research topic on Sociologies of Health and Emotion is now complete and available open access! #sociology #emotion #healthcare #emotionallabor www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
New open-access article on Ebola emotions in news and social media: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
🎵I'm not partial to the martial Or the plutocrats in their beaver hats And the fascists have the outfits But I don't care for the outfits What I care about is music And the communists have the music🎵
women in "2nd amendment protects the first" dress
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
This week I learned about Ibn Khaldun for the first time and it turns out that he founded sociology. How did I just learn this?!
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Marci Cottingham @mdcottingham.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Adding this to my emotions and work syllabus.🤣😭
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Greg Kordsmeier @gkordsmeier.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
RIP Andre Braugher. One of my favorite actors since back in his Homicide days, but this line reading is a favorite for obvious reasons.
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He's a sociologist, for God's sake
''So what? I was voted least friendly in high school, and here I am, a police captain. Do you know what Mr. Popularity Vincent Mondale is doing these days? H...
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