Lisa Wade
@lisawade.bsky.social
#firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats! lisa-wade.com
In our information ecosystem accuracy is a liability that constrains your ability to garner attention much more than it rewards you for being trustworthy.
Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2d ago🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky
The only thing that the Fauci hearing reinforced is that if another pandemic happens under the current leadership, we’re cooked.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support changing the voting system so the candidate with the most votes wins. Majorities have supported this change since 2000. 📜What other constitutional changes do you think Americans support? #USConstitution #ElectoralCollege
The journal article is paywalled but I wrote a post summarizing it, about how society is shaped by the distributed work we all do when we find ourselves wrong-footed by events.
The Invisible Heel
How we shape the world when things get out of hand
memoriesofthefuture.substack.com
Ryan Hagen@alltheshapes.bsky.social · 5d agoWhy does it feel like we’re still experiencing the social aftershocks of COVID? In this paper (finally in print!) we offer an explanation: in crises people change how they think and act to try to make their lives predictable again. This work of repair isn’t always successful, or always constructive.
Saida Grundy believes in sociology as a weapon. Yet, weapons can famously be used by anyone, often in ways contrary to the intent of their owners: americanprogress.org/article/debu... Today, sociology *is* being weaponized... by the political right, against academia and social research writ large.
I keep forgetting to promote the entire book I wrote about this, published last year! cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!
Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · 2w agoAmerica will continue punching itself in the face until morale improves.
The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought
Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.
chronicle.com
The president who's been widely accused of sexual assault is calling military strikes on civilians "love taps" and "bitch slaps," but please remember that gender studies is a useless field these days.
Exclusive | Trump resolved to carry out Iran ‘bitch slap’ for as long as it takes: ‘New hard line’
How long the bombing campaign lasts is based heavily on Iran’s response, sources told The Post.
nypost.com
As many experience lethal, unlivable heat, it's a good time to remember that there is no such thing as a climate refugee under the law. Climate breakdown was not understood when the UN convention was written. In the US, there is one way for extreme weather to be the basis for legal status: TPS.
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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Kate Manne and I just released a podcast about strangulation during sex. Many women do not realize that there is no safe way to do this, and many believe they do not have the right to say no. This is potentially lethal violence masquerading as sexuality. zawn.substack.com/p/kate-manne...
Kate Manne: Sexual Strangulation and the Illusion of Choice in Patriarchy
Why is patriarchy so focused on getting women to 'consent' to things that harm them?
zawn.substack.com
Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.
Fantastic writing tips by Marcus Rediker. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...
Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated
pghrev.com
“If New Orleans is the canary in the coal mine for climate change, pull back the camera and show the larger coal mine.” thelensnola.org/2026/05/06/n...
Why The Guardian's new article about New Orleans feels like 'a modern day redlining of an entire city.' | The Lens
A New Orleans resident responds to recurring climate change narratives that call for relocating the city, arguing that outsiders misunderstand the culture, history, and realities of living in vulnerab...
thelensnola.org
The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoBrooke Rollins: "Until today, any retailer accepting the food stamp had to stock 12 or more 'nutritious' foods. Real food. Well, today, we're more than doubling that to 28, but we're also closing the loophole. You could stock jelly as a fruit and jerky as a real protein. All that changes today."
TIL that there is a species of ant so tiny that its entire colony lives inside a single acorn and I just wanted to let you know that there is still magic in this world.
I wrote this in January 2025 and…the thesis that the conservative movement is full of unreconstructed segregationists unfortunately holds up. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
theemancipator.org
Being a professor is just giving yourself homework for the rest of your life.
“Have you experienced, witnessed, or know of sexual misconduct committed by a professor, staff, or graduate student in a Sociology Department at an American college or university? If so, we invite you to participate in a research study." Participation is via an anonymous survey linked in the post
study on sexual misconduct in sociology
Below is recruitment info for a study being conducted by Theresa Morris of Texas A&M on sexual misconduct in sociology. Please share widely!
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At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4mo agoMake this make sense.
It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoColumn: There are the usual ways to save, like making coffee at home. But some penny pinchers have show resilient resourcefulness to keep their household budgets balanced. Here’s how some readers are stretching their money further:
Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."
Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
"The world as it exists is just one historically contingent possibility; we can, collectively, create new possibilities and new social worlds. That’s not a radical postmodernist idea. It’s Max Weber."
Lisa Wade@lisawade.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.
Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
insidehighered.com
Lot’s of good science of diversity in this piece which challenges academics and independent scholars to speak out and to resist the pushback sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/25/h...
Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics
Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.
sciencepolitics.org
