theconversation.com/making-progr... @westbassoff.bsky.social's take on urban governance in NY! Such a fantastic piece!! :D

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress

The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign promises mean to the city.

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@yingyaowang.bsky.social is teaching us Political Sociology this semester at UVA & it's a blast! This is her recent book on mid-level bureaucracy & policy paradigms in China. Her book won the ASA (2025) Sociology of Development Book Award! :D Link: cup.columbia.edu/book/markets...

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics | Columbia University Press

Winner, 2025 Sociology of Development Book Award, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological AssociationChina’s breathtaking economic developm... | CUP

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We published our first newsletter this morning for Science Politics! Science Politics is a new publication that pairs academic rigor with journalistic storytelling to explore intersections of science and politics. Sign up for the newsletter here: georgetown.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

@rituparna37.bsky.social & @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social's new book 'Food, Culture & Society in India: Social, Political, Economic & Cultural Perspectives' is out! Link: doi.org/10.3167/9781... Please find a chapter here by yours truly Thank you @rituparna37.bsky.social @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social :D

Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Very importantly, @emendenhall.bsky.social's new book, 'Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID' is going to be out in January (2026) with California Press!!! Link: www.ucpress.edu/books/invisi... Super excited! Yayayy! :D

Invisible Illness by Emily Mendenhall - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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@emendenhall.bsky.social & @ayowahlberg.bsky.social taught me about complex chronic conditions. I learnt to engage with different approaches to chronicities & widely, publication process itself. The result - doi.org/10.1016/j.so... titled, 'Interembodiment among Long Haulers and their Carers' :D

My first set of posts here are going to be about fantastic scholars who've taught me so much about reading, writing and research in the past couple of years. So grateful (and gleeful) to have learnt from them! @emendenhall.bsky.social @rituparna37.bsky.social

Before I taught tonite, I read Jina Kim's brilliant introduction and paused at this beautiful line: “I examine some of the ways that queer people have acted as infrastructure for one another through sickness and death, when nothing else in the world will hold us."

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last yr.

In "Care at the End of the World," Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- & queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of US welfare reform. Read the intro for free on our website now! #DisabilityStudies https://buff.ly/4b5wmmc

Save 30% on #NewBook "Artery" by @azeiderman.bsky.social , which relates the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River to global entanglements of race, nature, and capital. #LatinAmericanStudies #Anthropology https://buff.ly/4ihOpbe

Great to see the CDC providing an update on the #birdflu outbreak. Key points 1/ The CDC has sequenced the H5N1 viruses from recent human cases in Wyoming and Nevada. The data are now publicly available on GISAID: Wyoming: EPI_ISL_19749443 Nevada: EPI_ISL_19726293 www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...

CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update February 26, 2025

CDC provides an update on recent developments in the multistate outbreak of avian influenza A(H5N1)

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Next week on Thursday I'm speaking at UC Santa Barbara, at the new Pahl Center, for a book talk on Citizen Scholar. And they're giving away books!

This is what we get when we treat billions as a proxy for brilliance: men who know nothing but think they know everything because their money lets them do whatever they want.

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Elon Musk is hosting an X "Space" right now w/ Vivek Ramaswamy, and demonstrating a weaker grasp of our system of government than a freshman political science student.

A photon checks into a hotel. When asked if they need help with their bags, it responds, "No, I'm travelling light". 🧪

There's is enough wealth in the US for everyone to have a home, but it's concentrated in the 1% who plan to squeeze everyone else to poverty and death to get wealthier. An 18% increase in homelessness due to unaffordable housing is a feature of the system not a bug. www.npr.org/2024/12/27/n....

U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage

The annual federal count finds more than 770,000 people living in shelters or outside. It cites rising rents and the recent surge in migrants as key factors behind the increase.

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