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Molly M. King

@mollymking.bsky.social
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Sociologist of knowledge, science, inequality. Researcher. Wheelchair basketball player. ♿️ Personal citizen account.

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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Article discussing @jwlockhart.bsky.social and my new study on #OpenAccess and important implications for the public's access to knowledge.
ls.berkeley.edu
Why some researchers choose not to share their work openly
Open-access publishing was supposed to make knowledge available to everyone. But a new UC Berkeley study suggests that some of the scholars whose research could most benefit public conversations about...
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Molly McQueen 🏳️‍⚧️☯️☭🍓 @subtlypunk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I don't know @mollyknight.bsky.social or @mollymking.bsky.social but if we can find a Molly Bishop and a Molly Rook we can play Molly chess. ♟️
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
If you're looking for an effective way for a small donation to make a big difference – not just for the residents of those states but for the entire nation – considering joining our giving circle
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I'm personally quite uncomfortable with asking people for money, but I think this is so important that I'm championing a States Project giving circle: Solidarity Across the States. Join us to try to win back our democracy: www.grapevine.org/giving-circl...
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Solidarity Across the States | Join and Donate | The States Project
Learn more about Solidarity Across the States on Grapevine.org
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The States Project aims to shift the balance of power in state legislatures by helping Democratic candidates run evidence-based, effective campaigns and win state legislative majorities. Read more about the states they are focusing on in 2026 here: statesproject.org/our-states/
statesproject.org
Our States - The States Project
Power our ability to select and invest in majority-making districts that can help build and defend governing power for state lawmakers committed to safeguarding our democracy, protecting personal free...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
State legislatures are essential right now: Reproductive rights, trans rights, gerrymandering, voter suppression, health care, education, climate policy, even immigration – all issues being fought over at the state level, where campaigns are often underfunded and candidates are in need of support.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The dark side of American individualism and constant ambition is they ignore the structural constraints that shape lives: "[Insisting] positive thinking and hard work meant I could achieve my goals — intrinsic qualities that should be under my control — it made me feel responsible for my failure."
disabilitydebrief.org
Get set for independence
Why I left the rehab hospital more disabled than when I arrived
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
First year I've felt like reporting information to my government science funding agency is potentially... risky. I'll probably still report, now that I have the protections of tenure, but it makes me sad for both science and the study of science.
Demographic information questionnaire, with boxes checked indicating "Do not wish to provide"
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/07/2025
These are the people ensuring your water is safe & air breathable. Hundreds of #EPA professionals spoke out - worried about public safety, ignored science, and shrinking support for vulnerable communities. We stand with them. Sign here to join us ➡️zurl.co/T2a5Z zurl.co/hCozc
nbcnews.com
EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under Trump
The letter is rare public criticism from agency employees who could face blowback for speaking out against a weakening of funding and federal support.
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Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Yes! We have to move the needle on public perception of science. Scientists can share their story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For those who truly embrace that they're on social media only for the likes? Programming ethics == building in a reminder that "you're real."
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/03/19/p... @lutzb.bsky.social, @mollymking.bsky.social
retractionwatch.com
Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?
While thousands of papers cite themselves, the percentage that do so is relatively low. Haunschild & Bornmann/arXiv.org While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research pa…
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Kate A. Ratliff @kateratliff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Some people’s research will be flagged and then will move on with clarification. Other people’s research will be flagged and… it’s done. The differences in who those people are will not be random.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22/01/2025
Science is closed for business
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Hiring an NSF-funded postdoc: looking for a network science scholar to study determinants and consequences of gender inequalities in scientific collaboration. Learn more here and please spread the word. sites.google.com/view/gender-...
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Gender Differences& Co-authorship - Work with us!
We are currently soliciting applications for a one-year full-time post-doctoral fellowship with expertise in computational and network social science on the topic related to gender and collaboration. ...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
Ahh... the old mythos of individual agency strikes again.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
"Luck is a fairy tale we use to make people feel better about the world being unfair as shit." - S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Happy Earth Day, all you humans who are trying to save it and humans who are trying to destroy it and humans who are unintentionally somewhere in-between thanks to capitalist social structures. 🌎
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
This doesn't seem outrageous at all to me. Does one vote matter? Not at all, provably. Would it be a problem if everyone stopped voting? Very yes.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
Once had this logic used to entice me to apply for a job at [big tech], arguing that if I didn't apply because of moral qualms, someone else with lower ethical standards would. But (hypothetical) conundrum would be, if I then did apply, wouldn't I be the type of person with different standards?
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Oh I'm 💯% here to encourage your epistemological theory kink.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Not only is this applicable to LGBTQ+ rights, but also to disability rights -- "Undergirding it is the unspoken but clear judgment that this identity is regrettable but in a civilized country must be tolerated." A liberatory diversity does not only tolerate the existence of those who differ.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
"The notion that people who diverge from social norms under existing hierarchies deserve basic human dignity only if they have no choice about that divergence is fundamentally degrading." Such a well-put idea about the issue with using "born this way" rhetoric in the fight for civil rights.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Born This Way? Born Which Way?
The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they’ll regret transitioning. But freedom to make mistakes is core to being human.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Moving on from banning books to banning ideas... Sociology has been removed from the list of courses Florida public college students are ALLOWED to take to fulfill general education requirements, because it may cover "topics like race, gender and sexual orientation". www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/u...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Our findings of gender differences and similarities in network positioning provide insight into the international and interdisciplinary structure of scholarly collaboration. More descriptives, literature review, and cool graphs in the #openaccess paper!
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
We find substantial similarity in interdisciplinary reach and international reach between men and women. Men and women tend to have co-authors with similar average productivity levels across subjects and regions. These findings contradict arguments that men have higher-status collaborators.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
The most dramatic gap we find is that of gender homophily in the tendency to collaborate. Homophily operates across all regions and all subject areas, with implications for women’s downstream research productivity, especially where the representation of women is limited.
Above panel: Share of women collaborators (median by subgroup). Subjects and regions are ordered from top to bottom and left to right, respectively, according to descending author count. Average values corresponding to fewer than 10 observations have been excluded from the analysis. X-axis displays cohorts by region. Below panel: Significance of Wilcoxon Rank Sum test of difference between the two gender groups in each subject-region-cohort.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
We use network analysis of Scopus from 2009-2013 to look at first- and second-degree ties among 1 million+ co-authors. While second-order collaborations look similar, men have greater first-degree ties.
Above panel: Median (by subgroup) of focal authors’ first-order degree centrality. Subjects and regions are ordered from top to bottom and left to right, respectively, according to descending author count. Average values corresponding to fewer than 10 observations have been excluded from the analysis. Y-axis scales vary by subject. X-axis displays cohorts by region. Below panel: Significance of Wilcoxon Rank Sum test of difference between the two gender groups in each subject-region-cohort.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
New article on gender and international coauthorship networks with my fabulous coauthors Kjersten Bunker Whittington and Isabella Cingolani 🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s111...
doi.org
Structure, status, and span: gender differences in co-authorship networks across 16 region-subject p...
Global and team science approaches are on the rise, as is attention to the network underpinnings of gender disparities in scientific collaboration. Many network studies of men’s and women’s collab...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Finally. Maybe now I can start to bother planning for retirement.
nytimes.com
In a First, Nations at Climate Summit Agree to Move Away From Fossil Fuels
Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
It is society that makes us feel less-than when our behavior / ways of moving or thinking are different from the norm. As the grateful recipient of medical advances, however, I also recognize that it can be BOTH AND.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I’m sorry if it came across as looking down on others, that wasn’t my intention. What I was trying to get at here is the idea that society disables people by not recognizing the diversity of acceptable human behavior / modes of movement / etc.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
"Disability isn’t something people have. It is something that is done in the details of life – in the words, the acts, in the repeated, apparently inconsequential, behaviours that make up the unremarkable background to our lives." - Colin Cameron
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Sometimes I just wish it was all over
In this article I reflect upon having recently been invited to join a new departmental group being set up to talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; at the same time having been told to remem...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
For one brief but very glorious moment I am finally caught up on grading.
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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
@mollymking.bsky.social, Kjersten Whittington and I are hiring a postdoc to study gender inequalities in co-authorship networks. Job ad says apps due Nov. 20 but it will be extended to Dec. 11, so please put the word out and consider applying! More info at: sites.google.com/view/gender-...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Obvious but under-considered point of the day: How disability is measured has MAJOR consequences for the proportion of Americans counted as disabled.
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Come do a postdoc with me! We're hiring a network science scholar determinants and consequences of gender inequalities in scientific collaboration. Learn more here and please spread the word.
sites.google.com
Gender Differences& Co-authorship - Work with us!
We are currently soliciting applications for a one-year full-time post-doctoral fellowship with expertise in computational and network social science on the topic related to gender and collaboration. ...
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Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Hello world.
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