Nick Wilson
@nickhwilson.bsky.social
Sociology (Historical, Political, Cultural, of Science, etc.) Modernity's Corruption: https://tinyurl.com/y596p54t After Positivism: https://tinyurl.com/3nrfakrj A CHS of Corruption: https://tinyurl.com/muyeezka nickwilsonsoc.org
New job market paper 🚨 Local newsrooms are cutting crime coverage—but not homicide, which nearly every journalist I interviewed considers too important to skip. So why did so many journalists recount open newsroom disagreements over homicide coverage? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
"... a skeletal, X-ray version of her" It's a THEY LIVE reference, you heathens!
They Live: Hidden Message Revealed
Alt: They Live: Hidden Message Revealed
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The recent fatal ICE shootings that claimed the lives of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, Alex Pretti, and Renée Good are heartbreaking and unacceptable These tragedies reflect serious failures in leadership, training, and accountability. #politics
Rare professional post: I am honored beyond words to say that @mayrl.bsky.social and me have received the @asanews.bsky.social Comparative and Historical Section Barrington Moore Award for best book in Comparative Historical Sociology for *After Positivism* (tinyurl.com/442uh3b9). 1/
After Positivism | Columbia University Press
What is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that hav... | CUP
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So if he has a tail and is a monkey how is Donkey Kong his dad is this a “I’m not a step dad I’m the dad that stepped up” sort of thing because if that’s the case that’s beautiful
Trump has done such a massive disservice to the US football team and American fans with his intervention. He's essentially politicised the team through tainting them with his corruption. The rest of the world is now rooting for Belgium tonight for political reasons. That's not how sport should be.
It’s also unnecessary because this is the political subtext of intro to microeconomics, a class that many majors require and students and parents generally think is a good idea to take. Indoctrination works better when cloaked in formalism and technical jargon, rather than 1990s Nickelodeon slang.
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody
OK, so the "headlines" for the sociology sub-report on the Boghossian report are out, and (as far as I can tell) there is no "objective," "rigorous" measure of scholarly quality to be found. ashleytrubin.substack.com/p/report-ref... 1/
Report Reflection, Part 2: Types of Evidence for Sociology and Their Limitations
I first drafted this post a little over three weeks ago.
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Breaking | The Trump Administration is negotiating a deal to repaint Reflecting Pool to prior color, allow algae to stay.
Some More News: The Supreme Court vs. Voting Rights #blogpost
Some More News: The Supreme Court vs. Voting Rights
Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we're looking at the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais ruling and how it fulfills John Roberts' lifelong dream to decimate the Voting Rights Act. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction/We’re Black and White Now 2:03 - Voting! Not For Everyone! 15:38 - John Roberts Has Always Wanted To End The VRA 23:57 - Gerrymandering For Trump! 38:12 - The Gerrymandering Monster 44:35 - Redistricting! It’s Gonna Get Worse! 48:51 - Alex Jones, the worst human? 1:00:12 - MAGA Doesn’t Believe In ...
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That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "Re-gilding of the massive Arts of War sculptures, located between The Lincoln Memorial and site of The Triumphal Arch, rapidly continues. The sculptures will be fully regilded by July 3. The photos were taken yesterday. The Gilders’ Studio has flown in Gilders from around the Country!"
Was confused by north-central Maine looking like it was ON FIRE for LaFlamme voting map until I moused over. NYT should hit a coffee shop there and find out what's going on.
Do I enjoy getting unsolicited political fundraising texts (I hope mistakenly) addressed to my dead father? No, I do not. Makes me feel like I'm peeking ahead to the en-shittified AI future.
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
Taking the L … And Trump’s Long Iran Walk Into the Twilight
Taking the L … And Trump’s Long Iran Walk Into the Twilight
With the latest “peace deal” now perhaps receding into what we might...
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Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪 The answer is a clear no. [The findings] raise a sharp warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781 #SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder
"when are you done?" I just need to get this csv export to work, so either 2 minutes or 2 hours.
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910
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Agree. Who gives a fuck? Everyone can say what they want or write a letter. I'm pretty sure that's what free speech is.
I would add here that the elite media subtext here is that college students are whiny little bitches and here they go again. And yeah, a lot of them are whiny little bitches. But that's kind of what being in college is about and it's fine. It's fine to write a letter.
PLEASE SHARE: Serious request for a future scientific collaboration. Do I know any historians/sociologists who works with, or love working with historic ego documents. Diaries, letters, notes, etc. Especially those that describe real, or wished for, romantic partners/interests? email me, DM me!
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~18,000 articles (~582K total references) over the last 50 years across the flagship journals of American Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, Geography, History, and the Social Science History Association, guess how many references are cited at least once in all fields. (It's 20.)
