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Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 23h

Are you upset by the DA in the Cornell rape case saying that fact that Jane Doe voluntarily drank alcohol means that no crime was committed? He could have investigated further, but the bad news is that this is how New York State law handles alcohol and consent. Voluntary first sip? No crime.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...

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Data Driven

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump's effort to rebrand AI as SI doesn't go far enough. It should be called Super Human Intelligence Technology. We'd get more accurate news headlines, like: "Under Trump, Government Turns to SHIT" or "SHIT Heads Visit White House"

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

None of the 3 Black sororities at Cornell have residential houses. They have the sisterhood but not the intergenerational wealth, rich alumni, or well-heeled national org to afford one. Chi Phi ought to hand over the Xi house, a maintenance endowment, & a generous remodeling budget to one of them.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case it's useful to anyone, I put together a collection of links about a horrific 2024 sexual assault at Cornell and recent uproar about Cornell's response to that event. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/s...

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sexual assault at cornell

As most readers here likely know, Cornell has been in the spotlight this week as new details came out about a sexual assault that took place at a fraternity in 2024. This post contains a collection…

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolute boss move. It's upthread, but Dr. Miller-Idriss is donating part of her honorarium from the University Lectureship to the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Headed to Ithaca today for my lecture tomorrow on how the invisibility of gender based violence creates pathways to mass violence, & what we can do to prevent it and keep us all safer. I donated the Lectureship award to three organizations. Please consider supporting their work. 1-The Advocacy 1/

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Advocacy Center – Provider of Domestic and Sexual Violence services in Tompkins County, NY

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is another attack on the so-called "feminization" of higher education, abetted by widespread ideology (also held by far too many uni leaders) that education has no value beyond a taxpayer-subsidized job training program for corporations. Also part of effort to resegregate higher education.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone writing about U.S. backlash politics, its daunting to think about the success of efforts to undo so many post-WWII achievements, including civil rights (including CRA/VRA), vaccines/public health, women’s rights (Roe), environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, massive expansion of higher ed, etc.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 28/09/2026

Example: the NSF documented all their political science dissertation grant winners going back to 1971, great! Wait a second: - all entries say “doctoral dissertation grant” in various spellings / extra words instead of the title through ~1993 - <5 grad students’ names are listed prior to 2009 1/x

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I was a DA defending my decision to drop a rape case that's received international attention, I'd proofread my statement before releasing it. You know, to remove ctrl-c/ctrl-p errors that might make people think I used Chat and question my competence. www.tompkinscountyny.gov/News-article...

In November of 2024, the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) informed the DA’s Office of their investigation in this case and asked us to review a statement provided by Jane Doe to determine if her allegations constituted a crime under New York law. Law enforcement agencies commonly consult with us on questions of evidence, matters of law, and potential charges, if any.

In November of 2024, the Cornell University Police Department (CUPD) asked the District Attorney’s Office to review a statement provided by Jane Doe. This is not unusual. It is common practice for law enforcement agencies to consult with the DA’s Office when investigations involve significant or legally technical matters such as those involving allegations of sexual conduct and questions about the legal definition of “lack of consent.”

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've reviewed 100s of inequality papers in sociology. Some fantastic, some abysmal, most in between. I can recall very few papers as weak as Rubin's report by criteria of logical coherence, objectivity, and evidentiary standards. The irony would be funny, if there wasn't so much at stake.

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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 28/09/2026

$24.49 a gallon for gas in Noatak. I don’t know how anyone can afford that. Alaska families are being crushed by the unaffordable cost of living, and Dan Sullivan keeps on voting for the war that’s making everything more expensive. Alaska needs change.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.

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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them

A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sociologists study evidence abt causes & consequences of inequality & are supposed to emerge with the opinions of someone who spent 30 years studying drywall people who study evidence have thoughts about what the evidence shows. that does not mean they stop being capable of producing evidence.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the monocrop: why all of this race, class, gender, stratification? why did sociologists surrender the whole moon to astronomy? there was a straight line from talcott parsons to rna sequencing and these leftist assholes are still over here studying social mobility

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel rage too, but before you repost names, bear in mind that no one deserves to be harassed or their career threatened for sharing a name w/ a suspected rapist. Cornell directory, which includes some alumni, lists 2 Scott Norris and 2 Winston Lee. Pics scraped from web may not be right either.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dig into this thread. No one is forced to go to "slutcons" or AI/EA parties, but if you want to advance in your AI career in Silicon Valley, you do. And these parties normalize sexual harassment and sexual assault, primarily of women by men. So: Chi Phi, but for AI nerds rather than finance bros.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Scene: Chicago. January. 8 years before cell phones. "The bus stops right outside the hotel", they said. "It comes every 10 minutes," they said. No bus. <Damn it's cold> Still no bus. <I'm never wearing a skirt again.> Still no bus <Shit, my first meeting is in 20 minutes!> No bus

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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shameless self-promotion and a request. My publisher is asking me to encourage Amazon reviews, so.... If you bought How Economics Discovered Women on Amazon and like it, it would help me out if you post a short review. news.ucsb.edu/2026/022818/...

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Economist Shelly Lundberg wins prestigious Mincer Award, releases book on gender economics

Lundberg's Mincer Award for lifetime achievement in economics scholarship comes as her newest book, “How Economics Discovered Women” hits the shelves.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huh. All I get are invitations to edit the brand-new International Journal of Applied Music Theory, Nanotechnology, and Inferential Biostatistics.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's time to evaluate college majors less on the predicted earnings of graduates and more on the likelihood that graduates become decent human beings. This is only partly about the 7 alleged rapists in Chi Phi, whose majors and jobs (among those who are Google-able) are exactly what you'd predict.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are folks already worried about how existing tech--not needing to remember phone numbers, directions, spatial map layouts--may increase risk for faster cognitive decline as we age.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"But she didn't go to the police!" yell the chuds defending their favorite candidates/celebrities/CEOs against rape allegations.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unis also juice perceptions when they simplify the 100s of possible combinations of student-reported r/e identities into the 4-5 DoE-mandated categories. E.g., a student who reports "white, Asian, Black, and other" can be recorded as "Black" even if that's not the identity most salient to them.

Enrollment records show that Stanford had 17,314 students last fall and that 3,406 were American citizens or permanent residents who were classified in the university’s “underrepresented minority” category. Another 4,431 were international students.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An Italian word for "rude" is maleducat[o/a/e]. Literally "badly educated" or poorly raised. (There's no subtext or hidden commentary here. I just enjoy words.)

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Candy Crush Saga, however, will.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another win for the Cornell Chronicle’s email subject line policy of “jam the top two headlines together and hit send.”

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you had told 1994 me, as I sat with my roommates on Cornell’s Libe Slope picking out cloud shapes and wondering aloud what the future would hold for us, that I’d be coming back to give the University Lecture someday, I would’ve never believed it. Or if you said 1/ as.cornell.edu/news/leading...

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Leading scholar of extremism to give University Lecture

Cynthia Miller-Idriss ’94 will deliver a Cornell University Lecture examining links between misogyny and violent extremism. The leading scholar’s Sept. 30 talk, co-sponsored by departments in the Coll...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The plan is paid for by taking child care supports away from low income parents (mothers), just as they're requiring these same families (women) to *work* to access Medicaid and SNAP. The real goal is to punish poor single mothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

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White House Plan to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents Divides Conservatives

Some praise the idea championed by Vice President JD Vance to direct federal money to support traditional families, while others say it cuts against conservative principles.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not news that kids often enter same occupation as parents, or that kids who grew up w/ occ-specific knowledge, cultural capital & networks do better when in occ. Professors aren't at top of list wrt occ inheritance or insider advantage. Focusing on profs feeds [off] anti-high-educ sentiment.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sociologists you really should read this. I'm going to repost a few more skeets with quotes.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This erasure of sociological research is so infuriating. That said, I'm looking forward to 15 op eds in the WSJ, NYT, CoEd and in the Vanderbilt report (another op-ed but w/ lower standards of evidence) about how economics lost its way and became less rigorous because they study inequality.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/09/2026

"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources." osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All college students should take at least one course that covers (at a conceptual level) selection and attrition bias, causal inference, and basic survey and item design. If you're not teaching this in Intro to Soc, often the only sociology course non-majors will take, please start.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Time to post favorite Kennedy Center moments. The obvious: Aretha Franklin singing Natural Woman in honor of Carole King. A strong, beloved, Civil Rights-supporting Black woman paying tribute to work of a strong, trailblazing woman and environmental advocate? Of course he wants to tear it down.

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Aretha Franklin's awesome tribute to Carole King: Kennedy Center Honors 2015

YouTube video by Antlin Notes

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The General Social Survey, American National Election Study, & Panel Study of Income Dynamics are funded by NSF-SBE. It's not just individual grants at risk. It's irreplaceable data infrastructure that provides nonpartisan, gold-standard info on who we are, where we've been, & where we are headed.

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Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) @cossa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Have you taken a quick moment to submit an action alert letter? It is especially important that Congress hear from the research community NOW. 🚨 Call on your Members of Congress to contact NSF immediately and urge them to abandon plans to dismantle the SBE directorate ➡️ cossa.org/action-cente...

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Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate!

A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is…

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

<inside #socsky> I've never had so much difficulty finding PAA sessions to which to send a paper. Usually a couple of sessions are feasible matches. This year I struggled to find 1 good match, and my backup is a stretch. I don't know if that says something about the PAA program, about me, or both!

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/09/2026

Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Featuring an all-star consulting team of Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Jonathan Pruitt, and Andrew Wakefield, with interns Aidan Toner-Rogers and Michael LaCour.

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