Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyStephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science. 09898
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceySASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🔬 Career opportunities: The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is inviting applications for postdoctoral researchers and visiting researchers in: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Field of wealth and social inequality (postdoc only).sase.orgOpportunities for Members | SASE 079
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyLauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026UNC Sociology is hiring! 🐏 We're looking for someone at assistant or associate level in ANY area, willing to teach in our dept's Management & Society program (i.e. courses on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, social psychology, non-profits, work and family, AI and work, etc).unc.peopleadmin.comAssistant or Associate ProfessorThe 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... 02822
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyEmily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social we have an excellent piece on gummies, chews, and powders by Michaela DeSoucey and Emma McDonell. sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/09/g...sciencepolitics.orgGummies, Chews, and Powders: The Contradiction of Super-processed Superfoods - Science PoliticsIn an ironic twist, highly processed products are increasingly used to satisfy consumers’ desire for real food. But açaí and moringa extracts are no substitute for access to fresh meals and the time t... 021
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026yes, this labeling issue/battle is FAR from new 000
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger. 19073521295
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026And now I will do a thread of anti-ICE art and displays at the MN State Fair. First: the textiles 9639126
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... 221978663
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 14760478
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyJoel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Let’s be colleagues! Penn Sociology has an open, junior search. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311613/...careercenter.asanet.orgTenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with University of Pennsylvania | 1311613University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences: School of Arts and Sciences - Sociology Location Philadelphia, PA Open Date Aug 07, 2026 D... 062
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Went to submit a peer review tonight (doing my part!) and the journal (w a Wiley interface) asks a bunch of questions w a 1-5 scale, per usual, but does NOT specify if 1 is high or low. 🙃🙃🙃 020
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026very cool. saving for teaching. ourworldindata.org/how-does-foo...ourworldindata.orgHow does food get traded around the world?Our interactive tool helps you see where food is exported from and where it goes. 020
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is a fun summary/romp through U.S. food history www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Pursuit of Hungriness: 250 Years of American Food InnovationSliced bread. Soul food. Cheetos. Here are 25 inventions, crazes and cravings that defined the national diet, decade by decade. 000
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I was there at SSSI when Joel Best announced it/held it up (and clapped very loudly)! 110
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/shawnsmu...open.substack.comPlease Use AIBe sure to use AI when making 000
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026The summer before starting grad school, I spent a month 40 min north of there volunteering in a tiny town. Didn’t want to leave. 110
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Because it’s all at my house 🤣 share.google/qWxCkkJjKDY9...share.googleVintage Pyrex Hard to Find Due to Increased Interest From Younger GenerationSocial media, nostalgia and a demand for color has helped the vintage Pyrex skyrocket in popularity. 130
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:fldoe.org 1161460493
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyArghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/04/2026At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c 191058538
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Truly not the most pressing thing in the news, but SMH WHAT A HOT MESS: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...newsobserver.comNo qualifying bids, so State Health Plan will restart search for new insurerThe initial request for bids came in less than a year and a half after the state switched to Aetna from Blue Cross NC. 000
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Leopards eating faces, foreign disinformation edition www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...nytimes.comTrump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed 45416
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyW. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A clarifying essay by Michael Schwalbe about the lessons sociology teaches to analyze the social world & why those foundational approaches & knowledge of how people navigate organizations, institutions, & everyday interactions can ‘puncture the fascist version of reality upon which control depends.’insidehighered.comWhy Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power. 192
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The Dogma of Meat www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...nytimes.comThe Dogma of Meat 010
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Go make some good trouble today. 💚 20679833086
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026A Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/r...nytimes.comA Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew 000
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyDerek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere 1243273552
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026i'm shocked, shocked I tell you.....😑 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...nytimes.comPunching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant 010
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyKaren Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children. This is a good thing.nytimes.comThe Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing. 29318
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyZachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions: 17928371614
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is calling out Hershey for "quietly replacing" the candy's chocolate and peanut butter ingredientscbsnews.comGrandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inventor accuses Hershey of "quietly replacing" ingredientsBrad Reese claims Hershey is cutting costs by relying on cheaper ingredients, risking the Reese's brand. 1401651491
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...reddit.comFrom the LiveFromNewYork community on Reddit: Reverend Jesse Jackson's dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham". One of my favorite WU segments. Jackson's powerful preacher delivery is fan...Explore this post and more from the LiveFromNewYork community 000
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceySarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources. 6474119913894
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A nice list of food books: foodtank.com/news/2026/02...foodtank.com20 Books on Food Justice and ChangeThese winter reads invite reflection on food, farming, justice, and imagine what it takes to build better food systems. 020
Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...nytimes.comProfessors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ 111
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceySimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...simonwillison.netSpotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond FarewellSomewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they … 17359892152
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/02/2026“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)nytimes.comOpinion | Democracy Dies by Database 8641321
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Happening right now. In America. 517461
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyChris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts. I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us... 218387
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyJessica Houston Su @jessicahoustonsu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026The Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant/Associate Professor (teaching track) to begin July 1, 2026. Review of applications will begin February 16, 2026. More details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312...unc.peopleadmin.comTeaching Assistant or Associate ProfessorThe Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor (depending on the selected candid... 134
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities. 11149093883
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first. 0101108
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyConrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center... 28085
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceydanniemcq @danniemcq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure 366184243299
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyJocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods 13768521842
Reposted by Michaela DeSouceyElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2026THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact 92513282