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Sarah Quinn

@sarahquinn.bsky.social
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Sociologist who studies American politics, finance, and political economy. Broadly interested in cultural categories and power.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 04/10/2026
Okay you all: A little announcement: I am working, along with a group of amazing collaborators, at developing a podcast to talk about dream sharing and dream work as a collective, creative, contemplative, community-building process -
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About Us | The Collective Dreaming Team — Collective Dreaming
Learn about Collective Dreaming, its founder Martha Crawford, expert collaborators, and our mission to explore dreams and consciousness through art, research, and community.
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what America is doing to children. It’s horrific.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To be fair, his confusion and ignorance are why he's one of the most powerful voices in US politics rn
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The new book I co-edited with @juliango.bsky.social, IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLICING, is now shipping from @dukepress.bsky.social. Order your copy here: dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...
Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing (red with black netting and white letters)
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Lokke Heiss @lokkeheiss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Basically, anybody interviewed by someone from a newspaper or media chain, will have to expect the entire non-edited interview will be gobbled up by their AI for future use, unless strict conditions are first set.
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I modeled the language in my syllabi after @nbedera.bsky.social's language here. It's so deftly done.
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45/47 Dreams Project @45dreams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you've have a dream about this presidency you are invited to share them with the Collective Dreaming archive We dream about our political and shared realities just as we dream about personal and individual challenges and dilemmas: @45dreams.bsky.social Or to submit anonymously
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47 Dreams | Community Dreams about shared realities — Collective Dreaming
Explore collective dreaming and cultural insights through 47 Dreams, an archive capturing dreams reflecting current societal and political realities. Join us to discover more.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A perfect clip for those of us teaching double consciouness this fall.
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Honestly, iykyk🤷🏾‍♀️
YouTube video by Baby, This is Keke Palmer
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 10/09/2026
Co-facilitating with @grrlrighter.bsky.social
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Boulevard of Broken Memes @olizardo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not doomed YOU are doomed
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So *now* @wsj.com is on #teamsocialscience! And all it took was a few sci-fi hyperbolic threats of human extinction.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 25/08/2026
At this dream archive I hope to: - collect dreams about climate change, about Trumpism, about how AI is impacting our lives, and our dreams about our dead. -explore the relationship between art, creative works and dreaming -host events and conversations about dream work as community praxis
collectivedreaming.org
Collective Dreaming | An archive of collected dreams
An archive of collected dreams about shared realities and about dreaming as a community process
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I made something stupid
Meowslow's Hierarchy of Kneads. It's all cats kneading.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I keep going back to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s arguments about scams and, increasingly, see this as the most central articulating point of high modernity. All those tracking devices? Guess what, as good as flipping a coin. How’s that for artificial intelligence!
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A character who deserved better
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 29/08/2026
@sarahquinn.bsky.social and I have been working with academics, grad students and others (including my own kids) who are slamming into this vacuum and it is terrifying how many professions are collapsing
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
Thanks to Trump mass deporting immigrants, my mother has to wait until 2027 to see her new rheumatologist. A reminder that rheumatology is a medical specialties where HALF OF ALL RHEUMATOLOGISTS HERE are foreign born.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Incredible
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Plan a horror fest using only your first name. Mine is for people who, like me, are easily scared. Sinners Aliens Rosemary’s Baby American Psycho High Anxiety
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👀
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good piece from @himself.bsky.social on Acemoglu, developing the idea that I had been speculating about - that the weird Economist piece attacking him was all about his criticisms of AI. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-acemog...
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The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI
Regarding that Economist article ...
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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MaxFunHQ @maximumfun.org · 26/08/2026
This will help.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's like a hard candy Christmas
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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 26/08/2026
NOT OKAY
Tim Curry and Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo, and Rizzo the RatDolly Parton and Missy Piggy
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When I was 10 years old this performance rocked my world www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZY...
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Anything Can Happen on Halloween - The Worst Witch featuring Tim Curry (HD Remaster)
YouTube video by Rad Retro
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The cult of high IQ young white men who fit socially constructed genius stereotypes takes people to some strange places and leads to terrible mistakes
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
With the rise of LLMs I decided that my theory class should use multiple choice tests and not just papers. Students could bring a page of notes. Anyway, that's how I learned that most my undergrads didn't know how to properly fill out a scantron and many had never put together a cheat sheet.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
I’ve lost track of the number of times an immigrant has told me they had to sit on a prison bus in the back of an airport for six, 10, 20 hours with no food or water and being told to urinate in a corner or onto themselves.
A screenshot of a White House tweet styled after The Magic School Bus cartoon but this one says “The Magic Deportation Bus” and shows shackled brown men in the back. The White House account says “Please let this be a normal field trip…” One put gray text over the whole thing that says “FASCIST PROPAGANDA.”
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How did Sociology become the hate piñata of Concerned Pundits on the education beat? The past month saw calls in the press for the discipline to be "liquidated" bc it's a "scam." My theory: it's bc we expose the harms of inequality. Me in today's @economist.com:🎁 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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Why is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?
Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington
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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
(sickos.jpg) YES!
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
“The contrast is outrageous! There’s this sex bomb in front, and this, this creature—I don’t know what else to call him—this fuzzy, violent, nasty creature in back who only got pleasure out of making people and other Muppets unhappy. A creature of impulse, let’s put it that way. And when I watch myself—’cause I’m usually so critical—but when I watch myself, I just laugh at me. What I love about it is that my character’s trying so hard to be sexy and sultry. And this horrible creature in back of me is acting up. [Laughter] See? I can’t stop laughing. It tickles me to death.
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
MUST READ
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero sociology awards from the NSF. It's effectively gone. (Including, but not limited, to the ASA Dissertation awards.)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer is being widely praised for his savvy defense. I suspect some of the love headed his way has to do with how he shows up as a kind of benevolent father figure. He's a lucid 75 year old white man being openly protective of a vulnerable woman. He's a foil to Trump.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Everything is explicit here. ICE has been openly designated as Trump's paramilitary army in his war on blue America. The centrality of violence to all this is not disguised in the least. ICE recruitment glorifies military-style operations in urban strongholds. 5/ (h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026
So there was a racist mass media smear campaign that got repeated louder and louder and louder until people assumed there had to be at least *some* truth to it just based on the sheer volume of allegations? This is flooding the zone with shit. This is Bannonism.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dual-authentication rage is going to be my villain origin story
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Data harvesting
Commander Data chilling out in a heap of hay
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are four overlapping scandals here: 1. Fundraising spam tactics are hallmarks of elder financial exploitation 2. The Dem establishment is in on it 3. Most of what is raised goes to fundraising consultants 4. Capitulation to legal threats by NYT and The Bulwark on a fully vetted story 🧵👇
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If living through multiple crises has upended your professional indentity, priorities, or goals, this workshop is a space where you can grapple with what to do next -- whether that means finding something new, or finding a new way of inhabiting your current position. With @whatashrinkthinks.com
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/08/2026
"Imagine you think—as Elon Musk clearly does—that all of human civilization is dependent on maintaining pure-blooded white people as a significant portion of the world’s population, and keeping them in charge of…its most powerful states. What political agenda would follow from that?"
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 14/08/2026
What does it mean to be reorganizing professional and academic careers in a time of multiple unfolding crises? This is a workshop for anyone who is interested in grappling with this question from psychological and sociological perspectives in community pay-what-you-can w/ @sarahquinn.bsky.social
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A New Path - 3 seats open:
This is a facilitated peer support space for people whose career and work trajectories have been derailed by political agendas and economic realities.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’ve gone on at length about this, and am working with the many, many others behind the scenes, but if you are alumnae (yes I fempluralized) or simply an admirer of the program, and you care about the future of the program, you might send your notes to the provost’s office. The general idea is that
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Francois Ewald suggested insurance is composed of 3 c's. He stressed its collective and calculative dynamics, informing recent debates about big data, risk pricing, personalization, etc. He had less to say about the third c: capital. Fortunately, @allartmarkets.bsky.social is on the case
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As Gen Z turns to risky industries like crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets to get ahead, Trump is pushing to deregulate them. Remember: his family has lucrative financial stakes in each. When it comes crashing down, Gen Z will be left holding the bag while the Trump family rakes it in.
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