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Tyler Horan

@tylerhoran.bsky.social
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Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org

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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Trump administration is scrapping a $368 million ocean monitoring system that tracks currents and marine heatwaves. Scientists are freaking out about losing real-time climate data. www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/ocea…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ten years of data and schools still can't figure out how to say "don't mock other people's identities at parties" theconversation.com/ive-been-studyi…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance" - tenured position at Copenhagen Business School. Someone posted they're happy to talk to anyone interested. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs/job-and-car…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Six LLMs tested with persuasive political content show they generally resist endorsing manipulation tactics — until you give them partisan personas, then polarization kicks in hard. Wild that we're using these as human behavioral proxies. arxiv.org/abs/2606.05961
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sociology hasn't lost its public voice — it's finally dropped the pretense of speaking from some neutral, objective nowhere. That's actually progress. The discipline is more honest about its position now, not weaker. socialeurope.eu/why-reports-of-sociologys-publi...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
ESRI Dublin is hiring a senior sociology researcher - 5-year contract, €93k, possibility of permanent position. They want someone with quant skills for their established sociology program. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"On diversity of thought and the American political landscape" Someone's taking on the thought diversity debate with actual methodological rigor. About time. thegrumpysociologist.substack.com/p…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The problem with training AI on language patterns is that humans use ambiguity strategically — we rely on context, shared understanding, and social cues that can't be captured in datasets. A 1970s ethnomethodologist apparently saw this coming. makingsciencepublic.com/2026/06/05/polysemy-pra...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mike Michael's "carsons" concept nails something I've been thinking about for years. In LA, the person-vehicle unit becomes the basic social actor, not the individual human. Changes everything about how we think about urban mobility and social interaction. mastodon.social/@bradweed/11670284408...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Philosophers have been arguing trust vs. mere reliance for ages, but this study actually tested it experimentally. Turns out people do see trust as having moral weight that simple reliance doesn't. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tracking displacement with Facebook data and satellite imagery — wild how much we can see now that was invisible before. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/new-…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Economists and political scientists are doing more stratification research now, which used to be sociology's main thing. Makes me wonder if we're losing our theoretical edge or if inequality just got too big for one discipline to handle alone. open.substack.com/pub/hermwerf/p/the-rise-of-st...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Students don't know how to behave. What are we doing here?" — pretty much sums up where we are with AI in higher ed right now mastodon.social/@christianschwaeger…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
University of Groningen looking for an assistant prof in sociology of work, organizations and institutions. The Netherlands has been investing heavily in this area lately. Good timing for someone with platform labor expertise. www.academictransfer.com/361433 #AcademicJobs
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
43 women's soccer fans reveal how "inspirational labor" works: athletes do emotional work that creates value for fans and organizations, but the costs fall on players while institutions capture the benefits. doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2025-0146
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Group chats really are the backbone of how we maintain relationships now. The "quietly iced out" part hits - so much social exclusion happens through who gets added to which thread and who doesn’t www.glamour.com/story/the-group-chat
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Session proposals are open for migration sociology folks www.isa-sociology.org/en/research-n…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Juliet Schor talking four-day weeks — her trials data is some of the cleanest evidence we have that this actually works at scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CepXgNusQx8
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Mora and Paschel interviewed middle-class Californians about living with extreme inequality while maintaining progressive identities. The "mental gymnastics" people use to normalize wealth gaps sounds like exactly the cognitive dissonance you'd expect. news.berkeley.edu/2026/05/28/how-do-c...
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We lost one of the greats. Morin's work on complexity and transdisciplinary thinking shaped how I approach research. www.france24.com/en/france-mourns-i…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Recent surveys hint at Gen Z rediscovering religion, but sociologists are pumping the brakes on that narrative. The evidence is messy and incomplete. broadview.org/gen-z-return-to-church
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Essex looking for two sociology lecturers - one data science, one criminology focused vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecr…
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Florida universities dropped sociology from their general education core. Students lose another option for fulfilling degree requirements, and we lose another pathway for people to encounter sociological thinking. teachpro.online/stop-losing-general-education-f...
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
UK students in France now pay 16 times higher university fees than EU students post-Brexit. Strasbourg University is threatening to de-register about 40 UK students who can't afford the non-EU rates. ranked.news/888448?u=b
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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Scuola Normale Superiore has 6 PhD spots in Political Science and Sociology opening up. August 3 deadline if you're looking at European programs. www.sns.it/en/phd-admission-competi…
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
raffi: regime change in America
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
"Use cuts outside the academic core to buy three years, and do the full university community reinvention." utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
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Liner Note 45. What Did They Do to the New School?
Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022    I mean the question literally.   The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Coming to a campus near you: goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
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SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🔥🔥🔥 @llassabe.bsky.social
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 28/02/2025
If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
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Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office (Gift Article)
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/02/2025
How ironic would it be if Americans finally turned on Trump when he keeps them from getting the good TP?
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 30/01/2025
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/01/2025
The goal here isn't to make public schools more conservative-friendly. The goal is to dismantle public schooling by driving families and teachers away.
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
EXECUTIVE ORDER
January 29, 2025
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025
This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
Washington Post news items:

National Science Foundation halts reviews of research proposals

NIH stops new research as part of health communications pause

Researchers funded by Education Department told they need agency permission to publish results.
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Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#sociology #academicbsky rodgraham.substack.com/p/the-triple...
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The Triplett Paradox
Or, why you don't want sociologists getting too good at their jobs
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/01/2025
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Jan 21 2025: 27 job openings listed at NIH.Jan 22 2025: There are no postings at this time.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
No study section...no grant reviews No grant reviews...no grants awarded No grants awarded...no research No research...no functional NIH
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22/01/2025
The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/06/2024
Other countries have safety nets. The US has women. Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net. Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 11/01/2025
This is cool. Not a way to effectively solve the problems of significant vaccine hesitancy (often, people's concern is about what's in vaccines vs. how they are administered), but it sure wouldn't hurt (no pun intended, I swear I just typed that)... 🛟 medsky idsky 🧪
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Major immune system breakthrough could mean needle-less vaccines
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I guess this is the freedom that libertarians imagine. "Freedom" to have mandatory 12 hour workdays and not be paid in money.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It’s fun watching MAGAs and tech bros getting their knickers in a twist over H1B engineering jobs, but most of those jobs will be automated in a few years’ time. Coding was missold to a generation. Study disciplines that teach you how to think about the world and the people in it.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"Rather than chasing newsworthy 'surprising' effects that turn out to be difficult to replicate, we should strive to uncover the general principles that underlie social phenomena, whether surprising or not." New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social Few quotes follow 🧵
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Social psychology in the age of uncertainty: A tale of three quandaries
We examine the current state of social psychology in terms of three major quandaries that challenge our field: Value, Trust, and Purpose. The Value quandary involves balancing commitments to truth ...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Has anyone written an article yet with the Orwellian title of “How AI can save the Humanities?” Because if some tech bro paid me $10 million I’d write it for them, because their AI surely couldn’t do a passable job of it.
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