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Sophie Moullin

@sophiemoullin.bsky.social
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Sociologist (inequality, policy, economics, culture) Neurospicy mama Auto-exile in Aotearoa (New Zealand) sophiemoullin.github.io

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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“I feel Ms. is ideologically going the wrong way,” she said. “It's promoting a ‘mushy sisterhood’ and tells its readers to work within the system for individual liberation rather than for economic radicalism…”- 1975 NYT: www.nytimes.com/1975/08/29/a...
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Dissension Among Feminists: The Rift Widens (Published 1975)
Article on dissension in feminist movement in form of debates over ideological questions, with some saying movement has become too liberal and reformist, forgetting its radical origins; notes charges ...
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Mother-in-law’s most sanctimonious Snakes and Ladders. Alt-text highlights: Indolence —> Poverty Disobedience—> Disgrace Also, save a drowning girl because there’s money on it.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Apparently Acemoglu is not so accepted anymore… Posterior converging … www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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The world’s most influential economist is oddly unconvincing
Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why?
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Madeadeleine 💀 @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Not now, son. I'm busy fine tuning a way to make it so I'll never have to talk to you ever again. It will take me a year of my life."
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is it: we need to talk about the insane commodification, the pre-automation, of children (and parents) that AI was designed for.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Certainly, research finds that marae were vital in the successes of NZ’s response to Covid-19, for all New Zealanders. sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur... @miriamruthross.bsky.social
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026
Never let a writer help you move
A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
citation-checking, I see that Baron-Cohen's UK title, 'Zero Degrees of Empathy', was translated into US English as 'The Science of Evil' !
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Simon Baron-Cohen is definitely redeeming himself. But not sure we should forget that he did define autism as a lack of cognitive empathy - an “extreme male brain” - for a generation, based largely on a short lab test involving two dolls hiding marbles.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thanks to Will Self for writing this appropriately enraged and astoundingly wise piece. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...
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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Don’t outsource the analysis of data to AI! Simply outsource it to your large, privately financed lab. I’ve been able to attract people prepared to work all hours and learn any skill, purely on the promise of a career path that we’re further pushing toward extinction. #automations
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now imagine: “My graduate student did almost all the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece.” “My postdoc did almost all the writing… “ 🤯
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I realise this wasn’t clear. I’m not saying that people confuse their objectives. I’m saying: when you seriously work toward one vision, you can’t help support the other too.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There are 2 main visions of sociology’s purpose: 1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and 2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is. The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
They actually filmed the dinner with Toby Young spouting off. The man who didn’t get the grades for Oxford but Daddy (Michael Young, coiner and critic of meritocracy) got him in. www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7o...
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Perhaps the worst thing is knowing that, when Arday died, The Spectator and friends in right media in UK will have been popping the champagne celebrating their clicks being up so much during their unrelenting daily “coverage” of this story.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The story does not need more oxygen, but one bit of historical context: when I was an undergrad at Cambridge in the 2000s, there were many *more people with the surname White* than there were Black people.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Come for the oversharing, stay for the decolonial STS and public health. My article on the role of indigenous, Māori thought in NZ's response to COVID-19, including its epidemiological models of it, is out now in Counterfutures. sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur... #STS #biopolitics
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
False Belief Test of 4 year olds, in non-laboratory settings: Autistic: [not looking up] I'm not doing your stupid game. I know its a test. ADHD: grabs dolls, eats chocolate/ marbles, runs away. AuADHD: both of the above, and asks big questions about the whole Theory of Mind at bedtime.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My next epigraph.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026
A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“What a child brings to language that no algorithm does is a body, a history, and a brainstem full of ancient affect.” iai.tv/articles/the...
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The brain is not a computer
<p><em>Artificial intelligence is advancing on the assumption that the brain is essentially a computer and if that is true, replicating the mind in silicon is only a matter of time. Philosopher <stron...
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Overheard in the kids’ section of a Marin library: Grandma: “His company’s actually closed for the week, but everyone’s so stressed.” Dad: “Where does he work?” Grandma: “Anthropic.”
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Struggling to diversify your panel? Use our humanoids.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Best demo of new humanoid: can it moderate a discussion about humanoids? #AGI-26
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
but which KIND of circuit breaker, Andy? Half-open, surely? #labour
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I hope you all are remembering your please and thank yous when chatting to the bot.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Increasingly, I think childism is the foundational oppression. Because it’s the one almost no one names. So good to see this @thelancet.com: “All children interact with health systems, educational institutions, and legal frameworks infused with childism” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Children in all policies: lessons from a global collaboration to promote the health and wellbeing of children and future generations
Currently children's needs, perspectives, and rights are not adequately included in public policies, with negative consequences for the health and wellbeing of children and future generations. The 202...
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I get why folks are on edge. It’s a question of a 38% or 28% increase in violence against women. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Can the FIFA World Cup Football (Soccer) Tournament Be Associated with an Increase in Domestic Abuse? - Stuart Kirby, Brian Francis, Rosalie O’Flaherty, 2014
Objectives: This study aims to establish whether empirical evidence exists to support the anecdotal view that the Fédération Internationale de Football Associat...
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Crikey, #decolonization comes to the ex- coal country.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
English mothers, over years: here’s how we let go of our tantrums and grudges so we can live in the world. English grandfathers: do you know, 40 years ago in the quarter finals…
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What about “Duolingo for people who want a UX and business model that is nothing like Duolingo.” ? #innovation
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This was also Serco’s strategy. The more threatening to the public they seemed, the more the UK government handed them public money.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Reminder that the very word person derives from persona (and not the other way around). The face has long been understood as #performative.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A mini subfield of political science is dedicated to whether being a Girl Dad makes you conservative. But, surprisingly, there’s nothing on whether being a Boy Mom makes you a psychoanalytic Marxist.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
American and Australasian Liberals: ah, Europe, such sophisticated rail travel! Brits: I just spent £300 to take 1 adult 2 kids 170 miles; no seats, food, or accessibility; and in the end no trains as it’s too hot for the… tracks.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Dan Rosen on Taste Labs. Distinction all the way down.
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Michel Estefan @mestefan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
On the list. My first question will be: is it really Oxbridge or just Oxford? P.s. I love that “the awkward reception of Lévi-Strauss” is one of two teasers in the blurb.
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Learning from experience I wrote an essay in @thelancet.com on two seemingly different but deeply connected books by S Chigudu & S Subramani What elite status & elite-making does to how one reckons with, makes sense of, & learns from experience—lived or vicarious: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SIMCity was the only video game I ever played. The (late 90s) model always told me I didn’t build enough roads. Maybe this is my chance?
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Log utility? What a wuss! Go linear or go home: 99% extinction risk for a 100x $ gain! ft.trib.al/9fSvPdP #economics #e/acc
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s almost as if LLMs were developed by people who think human behavior is exclusively cognitively (linguistically), and competitively, driven.
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Where I’m from it’s “duck” /dʊk/ ( “alrite duk?”, “ay up dukkie?”)
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Today I learnt: "“R.U.R.,” which gave birth to the robot, was a critique of mechanization and the ways it can dehumanize people. The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs." : @mitpress.bsky.social thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/origin-word-...
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The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’
Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921. Its influence cannot be overstated.
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My spicy ghost pepper hot, but 100% genuine take: scholars in my specific subfield (sociology of culture) have been using generative AI responsibly in research since at least 2013. I'll even put a date on it: Mohr and Bogdanov, 2013. + www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of an article published in Poetics in December 2013: Introduction—Topic models: What they are and why they matter John W. Mohr, Petko Bogdanov
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Sophie Moullin @sophiemoullin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is a timely reflection, US politics aside. Steve Hilton recast Cameron’s Tories as benign. But that gov led not only to Brexit, but to a big rise in poverty, and huge strain on local public services. It was the gift to Farage that keeps on giving.
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