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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Question for #ASASKAT folks: who's working on citation practices as part of knowledge production or on knowledge making in academic medicine? I have some really interesting historical data that I don't have the literature background to interpret.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

1901 JAMA contributor: the presence of a rabbinical debate about what to do about babies born without foreskin demonstrates that this is a real problem that happens frequently "since theologians do not meet a ritual difficulty until it arises." WELL.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This morning I'm working on recoding some data regarding historical JAMA authors' citation practices. The 1896 article I just looked at has zero formally indexed citations, and all four of its inline citations are coded as "nonspecific" indicating a formulation such as "every physician knows."

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Nun Pod With Left Grief episode 6 is now out! Claire and I talk monastic life, material culture on the Ninth, and the mechanics of sword training. Recommended readings include Victoria Law & China Martens Don't Leave Your Friends Behind and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

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A Bad Cavalier | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

We're re-reading Gideon the Ninth Act I Chapter 6. We get a Gideon Nav training montage! Gideon gets a compliment (kind of). Harrow and Gideon leave home.Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (any pr...

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The near-universal insistence of scholars on restating that Francis Galton was a first cousin of Charles Darwin is itself evidence of the survival of eugenic logics. It is DRAMATICALLY more important that they were friends and correspondents who cited each other than that they shared a grandparent.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My advisor mentioned a note-taking strategy involving putting article PDFs into NVivo and coding them as if they were data. I haven't done this and most of my key readings are books for which I do not own a PDF, so I'm trying a hybrid strategy of coding my compiled pull quotes and annotations. 🤷

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A lot of my education has been publicly funded so in my view I owe it to the public to share what I'm learning. My notes from ASA are limited by my interests and interpretation, but they're available online for anyone who wants to read them. #ASA2025 #Sociology #PhDStudent

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ASA 2025

Sociologists for Palestine I couldn’t find this on the program and I don’t know who was speaking! Speaker 1 (Woman who went to college with Chris Tilly) Anti-apartheid veterans connect apartheid to Is...

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Hey, I have a podcast now. Nun Pod With Left Grief is a Locked Tomb deep dive grounded in leftist political analysis, multi-media arts perspectives, and deep love for the fandom. Episode 5 came out this week. Nunpod.com

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Nun Pod With Left Grief

Claire Beans (she/they) & Han Koehle (any pronouns)

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 05/02/2025

A big reason for everything happening in the US right now is that they spent the last century crushing every semblance of an organized left that has ever existed and it was a very bipartisan effort.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Some federally funded community health centers — which serve rural areas with limited access to medical care — are still unable to access grant funding and are shutting down because of Trump's spending freeze. We are witnessing an attack on America's most vulnerable people.

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Community health centers are closing amid funding confusion

Community health centers are facing a potential federal freeze on their grants and funding following orders from Trump.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Who in sociology is doing work around the anti-woke/anti-DEI element of Trumpism?

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It's kind of wild how migrations between social media platforms just kind of reroll influence periodically. I had 20k followers on TikTok and now I'm on Bluesky and I have like 20 followers.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

There's an IAT for transphobia now! I apparently have a "moderate" preference for trans people over cis people.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"Virtue signaling" is an alt right term that implies that people do leftist things for clout rather than out of sincere belief. Its use tends to further imply that basically nobody ever does anything moral for genuine reasons. It's an ugly concept and its use here is telling.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word. www.currentaffairs.org/news/one-of-...

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The Most Powerful Man in America is a Nazi Sympathizer

Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I'm officially starting work on my qualifying exams this term, though in reality I started last term. I got about halfway done with my reading before hitting a multifaceted health roadblock that meant I took about six weeks off unscheduled from working on quals. Adjusted schedule looks okay though.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I don't know if anyone would care about microblogging my scholarship process but I'm working on an article right now and I think I solved a niche problem I've been stuck on for a few weeks. I'm running my solution by a mentor but I'm feeling optimistic.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 05/12/2024

Biden actively expanding immigration jails as Trump takes office. During his final year in office, Biden extends at least 14 contracts with private prison companies. CEO of GEO Group describes Trump's presidency as an "unprecedented opportunity." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office

In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

As a scholar of medical racism I cringe hard when people make the "but Arabs are Semites" argument. "Antisemitism" was coined to describe anti-Jewish hatred, while Arabs and Jews "are Semites" according to 19th century race science. It does not benefit us to validate 19th century race science.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

A stack of Haymarket Books on Palestine:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Light in Gaza
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow
Rifqa
Boycott, Divestment Sanctions
A Little Piece of Ground
Uncivil Rites
The Battle for Justice in Palestine
On Edward Said
Culture and Resistance
Apartheid Israel
Israelis and Palestinians
Against Apartheid

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

One thing that came up in my thesis research but didn't make it into my writeup is that medical articles have very few citations, much less than social sciences. A medical article in JAMA in the 1980s might have 10 or 20 citations, and an article in 1940 might have 5.

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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Winter is only beginning. This is not unintentional. Increasing the death and suffering of the people left in #Gaza is the goal. Conditions will kill people and they won't be added to "official" death tolls. Just another phase of genocide. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Gaza tents flooded with rain, waste, destroying the little Palestinian refugees have left

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Han Koehle @thinkomancer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Writing a thesis is one thing but needing to format a document with different kinds of page numbers in different sections is beyond me.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My colleague and I wrote about how harmful Danielle Smith’s new anti-trans policies would be for ALL youth. Don’t think this is only an attack on trans youth—it makes all children more vulnerable.

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Danielle Smith’s new policies make all Albertan youth unsafe

The harms posed to trans youth are more than enough reason to abandon three proposed Alberta bills. However, trans youth are not the only victims of these reckless policies.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

at least six people have self-immolated at Red Onion State Prison. i heard about this yesterday for the first time. Nothing at all from mainstream outlets that I've seen. Happy that @theappeal.org wrote about it today. from @elizabethweill.bsky.social

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Prisoners Intentionally Burned Themselves at Troubled Virginia Supermax

Six men at Red Onion State Prison in Western Virginia used “improvised devices” to give themselves electrical burns.

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