This is the part that a lot of people seem unable to conceive or understand.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 19h ago

OMB has not repeatedly proposed a 55%+ cut to NSF because of 'woke' research—even if you eliminated all of the grants flagged in the Cruz report, you wouldn't scratch 10% of the budget. It is because NSF heavily funds universities.

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

Meet Gabriel,  Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Maryland is not Georgia. Iowa is not Atlanta.

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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This dude managed to check damn near every single stereotypical problem with blue sky in one short post.

UNC Sociology is hiring an OPEN-RANK position for a Population Health and Aging scholar! We are especially interested in more advanced and senior scholars. Full position details, qualifications, and application instructions are available at: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325...

📣 UNC Chapel Hill Sociology is hiring! We're looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Sociology who can offer existing or new courses in our Management and Society major. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... #Sociology #AcademicJobs

Or they do get it, and this is their strategy to check off parts of two of their aims at once.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

In today's episode of "do it right the first time," I just spent as much time making "one little fix" to a script as it took to write the original version...

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...

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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This is embarrassing.

Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science@iaphs.bsky.social · 2w ago

👀 Don’t miss the #IAPHS2026 plenary sessions! 🎤 This year’s plenaries bring together researchers and practitioners to explore trust, influence, public-facing communication, research impact, and how population health science reaches the public. iaphs.org/conference/c...

The Rubin "report" on sociology was so sloppy on the face of it that I didn't think it warranted a response. But given its broad circulation, one was probably justified. This response is appropriate on both of those premises. osf.io/preprints/so...

I simply can't find a generous view of that Converse ad. It seems impossible not to see without willful ignorance.

Political ads aren't what they used to be.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

Scholars at Risk has released is annual academic freedom monitoring report and find concerning practices in 59 countries including Afghanistan, China, Colombia, India, Iran, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Türkiye, Ukraine, the US, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Free to Think 2026 | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2026 is the 12th installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 382 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

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Are people really reading books on each publisher's individual proprietary ebook apps?

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.

Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)@cossa.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

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I'm consistently baffled by the amount of effort and time people are willing to commit to debunking their own false characterizations of strawman versions of arguments they disapprove of.

I'm "my first academic presentation used overhead projector transparencies" years old.

“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

We're hiring a medical sociologists at Lehigh! DL: September 29th careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311683/...

Assistant Professor of Sociology - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania job with Lehigh University | 1311683

Seeking a medical sociologist for tenure track position at R1 university.

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Typically his name comes off *after* things have become financially insolvent.

Jim Lokay@jimlokay.com · 3w ago

WaPo reports Kennedy Center may close by Tuesday and faces bankruptcy if Trump's name is not added to the center. "Trump is unlikely to provide “fundamental oversight” of that project or lead a financial rescue without “appropriate recognition” of his role." GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4cLnDHP

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."