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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h

Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.

A photograph of an art exhibit from the Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein library showing a shelf of redacted Epstein files

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW 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.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 23/09/2026

Funny how this came out immediately *after* California caved on the merger

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Natalie Ingraham @natalieingraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Magic Mike XXL is so superior to the first film in many ways, but this scene is also one of my favorites for the reasons Dr. Cottom lays out here.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I could talk about this scene for an hour. The entire film I’m subconsciously braced for the fat jokes. The ugly jokes. And I don’t even realize I’m braced until i have a good exhale when this entire exchange manages to unfold without once mocking the cashier.

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In this class we're in the middle of reading about ways that AI has already harmed real people in its actual applications. There are so many examples (and that list is growing everyday) that it's not possible to cover them all. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I spent the morning reading John Levi Martin's absolutely brutal takedown of the Vanderbilt report's assessment of politicization in sociology. I recommend it and hope it gets as much attention as the initial (crap) Vanderbilt report. A Reader’s Guide to the Rubin Report osf.io/preprints/so...

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Natalie Ingraham @natalieingraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just met with two of my ASA mentees (from @asamedsoc.bsky.social and CEST (Community-Engaged Scholars) and they're both so great! Looking forward to meeting w/ my other med soc mentee next week. I don't have grad students at my uni (4 year SUNY) so this is a fun way to learn & help them too.

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Natalie Ingraham @natalieingraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's a freshman/101 class, so I did reply and explain why the AI summary IS actually AI use & that search platforms have made this hard to avoid. But that the point of a brainstorm (the part of the assignment they used the summary on) is your own thoughts vs. before even consulting sources.

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Natalie Ingraham @natalieingraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know we're on here talking about AI & assignments on the daily, but I had a student reply they hadn't used AI for an in-class activity because they just used a Google search. But what they posted was literally the AI summary. They said they weren't taught this was "using AI" in high school.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe most important: we have to take this seriously. I know it's so tempting to laugh at people who claim Americans are all "drinking abortions." It's fucking absurd. But stupid is the new normal, and we'd do well to stop acting like we have the luxury of being above it

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🙅🏽No, AI is not helping worker productivity🙅🏽We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity. The first myth is that AI will improve productivity, which studies not only largely contradict, but sometimes suggest the opposite effect. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is almost nothing a president can do to make the economy much better quickly and a great number of things a president can do to make the economy much worse quickly, which is why it is generally recommended not to elect someone stupid enough to do the latter.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/09/2026

"$9,000 a year per child would go a long way to support [the many stay-at-home mothers who are struggling to make ends meet]. But we ought to be wary of politicians who rob Patricia to pay Pauline. Which is precisely what Vance’s plan would do." ––my latest for @ms.now www.ms.now/opinion/vanc...

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Opinion | JD Vance’s new childcare proposal: pit mothers against each other

The plan reportedly championed by the vice president reallocates federal subsidies to subsidize stay-at-home parenthood.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If your magic "tool" is going to be this wrong why on earth use it? I don't get it? If its going to get the materials this wrong, why am I FUCKING WASTING MY TIME WITH IT

I recently used AI to dig through thousands of pages of notes and source material I had gathered more than 15 years ago, for a book on the history of the historical professions. While thinking about a new project on the ways historians adopted new technologies into their work in the past, I used it to scan my sources and it surfaced material I had completely forgotten about and accurately pointed out patterns — such as similarities in attitudes and language in sources written decades apart — that I had missed. Conversely, in that same scan of my source materials, I found the AI drew false inferences from historical documents because it failed to grasp irony and thus inverted the actual point of the author. In other cases, it failed to extract the most interesting material from documents because it was unable to “read against the grain” and capture critical hidden meanings. In each instance, I could recognize these problems only because I’ve spent years working with this material. All of this raises important questions about how to help students develop similar knowledge, experience, and disciplinary judgment, even when this new tool seems, to an untrained eye, to make those things unnecessary.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I genuinely think that one of the biggest feminist challenges right now is that feminism was so successful that a lot of people can’t even imagine what the world was like before it.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Punished with a lighter workload. Savage.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“The overall economy lost 23,000 jobs this July. And women bore the brunt. They accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs. Meanwhile, men gained 9,000 jobs” And it’s disproportionately affecting Black women

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Women Absorbed All of July's Job Losses. Here's What the Number Doesn't Tell You

Women bore all of July's job losses, and 845,000 have left the labor force since January. The numbers are a signal about what's driving women out and where they're headed.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 27/08/2026

This is a really important point… if you are going to provide free licenses to not for profit orgs.. and then you are going to phase them out - you have to be CRYSTAL CLEAR on your messaging. Microsoft rightly deserves this bad PR.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Introducing myself to classes today by explaining that I used to be an associate professor of Sociology & African American Studies, but that the university shut down the latter department.

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Natalie Ingraham @natalieingraham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I saw that this was an AI meme too for restaurants!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

Almost two years ago I set up #blackademics as part of #blacksky so that faculty of African descent had a place to be in community with one another. As the academic years begins I want to renew my call for us to be in conversation here, to use the space @rude1.blacksky.team has provided. 1/

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ASA Section on Disability in Society @asadisability.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Are you currently enrolled at a US higher education institution and have a disability? Please consider participating in a brief survey about students' experiences w/the accessibility/disability services office. 1/3

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/08/2026

“Four years learning to code, and the only algorithm I deal with assigns my next order.” – Rajesh, a Mumbai delivery rider with an engineering degree. Millions of India’s educated young people can’t find stable employment, writes Istikhar Ali in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/MOOlrPA

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Several thousand people attended a vigil in Trafalgar Square following the death of Professor Jason Arday, hearing speeches about his life & protesting the intensity of media coverage. The content of the event has been posted on YouTube www.youtube.com/live/lPHGREJ...

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

if you are or know a pregnancy expert who could talk to me about Emily Oster's pregnancy work, hit me up here or by email (ifbookscouldkill on gmail). or ignore me, that's your prerogative also.

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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