Katie Beardall, PhD
@kbeardall.bsky.social
Sociologist. Higher education, mental health, culture, organizations. I work for the Census but this is a personal account 🌈 #adhd
This was the wrap up I didn’t know I needed. 11/10 good job keeping us safe despite our best efforts to explode ourselves
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2y agoIt was a year of large spiders, large moths, large eagles and a wall of ducks. A year of art, squirrels, monsters, and Knife Ghosts. It was a year of not establishing parasocial relationships on Bluesky. The best year yet. And now, for your consideration, our favorite safety graphics made in 2024...
My cat is basically my remaining coping skill. And he causes a lot of chaos so tbh not sure he counts as coping. #catsofBluesky #academiccats
Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 2y agoI do not have any coping mechanisms for the next four years. I am all tapped out.
One of the best pieces of advice a senior executive gave to we juniors was never use your sick days when you're sick. Save them for days that it's sunny & beautiful outside. Always passed that on & it makes such a difference in your people's perspective
The government is going to get shut down because this oligarch dipshit believes blatant lies from the dumbest person on Twitter.
One of the things I am most grateful for in my work life is how genuinely respectful everyone on my team is of boundaries. It’s expected that when you’re on lunch, you are on lunch and NOT responding to pings. When you’re off, you’re off, and my team models it. That should be the norm everywhere.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2y agoCovid remote work offered new flexibility around where to work and which tasks to do when, but also created an "expectation of omnipresence"--pressure to respond immediately to digital alerts, even during meetings and off hours, that carried back to the office. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Scout heard about the orcas using salmon as hats and was jealous that the trend started without him. He also doesn’t know what a salmon actually IS but he is committed to fashion. So he got creative with this artful hay fascinator that may inspire a wave of copycats within equine society.
Friends (and enemies? Not that I really have any. Other than my nemesis in Finance) HOW do you handle a cross country move? I am getting overwhelmed and will happily take any and all tips and suggestions
two men are carrying a large cardboard box that says ' dhl ' on it
Alt: three men are moving rapidly throwing boxes and moving supplies while one has a sledgehammer
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I know Bluesky is really here because my favorite cousin has finally joined 🤩 welcome @trochabeardall.bsky.social
Man I cannot endorse this abstract more
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2y agoJust now seeing this paper reanalyzing the "Many Teams" paper on racial bias in soccer (29 teams analyze the same RQ with the same data, find different results). This reanalysis finds that variation in findings results from theoretical / interpretive differences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I broke my leg *in my doctor’s office* two hours after defending my dissertation. (For the medical nerds, it was a medial malleolus avulsion fracture and a gnarly lateral ligament sprain)
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat's a thing that happened to you that sounds made up? For me it was when I was 20 and I had a job at the Louvre auditorium and former French president Valéry Giscard D'Estaing hit on me in front of his wife
Seeing a sea turtle GLOW after building her nest and laying her eggs remains one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. Nature is incredible
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2y agoWe simply dont talk about about how batshit insane bioluminescence is, like theres a shrimp down there 3 miles under the water literally farting rainbows right now
I really love how kind and engaging people are here. So many neat conversations happening. Shoutout to @drcompton.bsky.social for getting me back in this space and shoutout to the blocking features. I missed having a place to share research AND advocacy AND fun things #sociologysky #academiccats
I want the ability to bookmark posts but in the meantime I guess reposting (reskeeting?) will have to suffice
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2y agoOkay, here we go. Tumblr thread time. I'm going to copy and paste whatever my computer picks up for text; I hope it's not too hard to parse.
If you want people to stay and do good work, then creating a culture that does not tolerate harassment needs to be prioritized. It’s not hard to see the connection between feeling safe and performing well. The challenge(s) is changing ingrained cultural norms that tacitly allow ongoing harassment
Jack Iwashyna@iwashyna.bsky.social · 2y ago"The more often women are sexually harassed in a context, the more they think about leaving (and some do ultimately leave); the net result of sexual harassment is therefore a loss of talent, which can be costly to organizations and to science, engineering, and medicine" doi.org/10.17226/24994.
1a. I don’t know how much of my work work I can share, but I work on testing economic surveys 1b. for academic work, how higher ed honors programs essentially work as a tracking mechanism 2. the demographic cliff and how it’s (not?) impacting HE responses to Covid, Palestine, or election results
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen@shaonta.bsky.social · 2y agoBluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) Racialized Emotions of Black religious communities during BLM 2) Soc construction of knowledge & its political implications
My great-grandmother was one of the first women in her small town to work outside the home. Her husband decided to do medical school in his 40s, and to support the family she got a job at the small town post office. She supported her family on that salary while he went to school.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2y agoGive me one interesting fact about your family history that you learned.
I am Sports-adjacent at best but I will be thrilled when Gritty shows up here. I am not a Philly sports team person, and I can’t claim any particular connection to the city (beyond loving it the times I’ve visited) I just really unironically love Gritty
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2y agoguys I dunno how to tell you this but SportsSky is here. It's really happened. We are so back(we were never here before)
OKAY by special request, here comes the encore performance of How Hans Christian Andersen Was a Bisexual Disaster.
Tea Berry-Blue@teaberryblue.net · 2y agoTelling the full wild story of why Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid for a guy who kept desperately trying to ignore/rebuff his advances without making it weird and wrote about how HCA kept making it weird in his diary.
Reposting to amplify @jessicacalarco.bsky.social ’s Field Guide is an incredibly helpful resource for students and can confirm that a @bskybymidge.bsky.social giveaway will make your day (the motivational card she sent still lives on my fridge). Sometimes the internet is a good place.
Margaret Echelbarger@bskybymidge.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you a prospective/current PhD student in the US? Mentoring a prospective/current PhD student in the US? Enter the "Field Guide to Grad School" 📚 giveaway! I have dozens of copies to send! All you need to do is subscribe to letstalkgradschool.substack.com (fill out the giveaway survey in a post).
#proofofcat some assembly possibly required but Charlie is here to welcome all the new friends
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you’re new here from Twitter, the two most important things to know are: post a picture of your cat, and then pre-order a book from an author on blue sky. #proofofcat
I really love how many social scientists have started to join and make starter packs of cool people. Re-upping this sociology list for those who might be interested! @drcompton.bsky.social was ahead of the curve making it 🤩
Yourqueerprof@drcompton.bsky.social · 2y agoI made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau
I wrote this in July but it’s even more true now. We need all hands on deck and there’s a lot of deck. This post will help you find your role. Solidarity and community care are the how. Never forget that your capacity to fight for justice and your capacity to love must stay intertwined.
find your place on deck
another world is possible-- but we must start living into it today
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This morning I got an IUD from an excellent provider who practices trauma informed care, provides topical lidocaine, and generally made the process as easy as possible. I still had a vasovagal response (from pain) and hours later it still HURTS. We deserve better from healthcare.
Not sure if #felineFriday is a thing, but Charlie hopes everyone has a nice sunbeam nap in a cozy bed planned soon!
Dr. Tomlin-featured in a video here-provided compassionate care for me when I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago. Local police harassed her after she provided abortion to a 13 year-old rape victim. She (understandably) decided to leave the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Abortion Stories in Post-Roe America
In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
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