Twitchy Squirrel
@twitchysquirrel.bsky.social
Beleagured Sociology department head.
I did a thing.
NSF Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion@nsfappexcenter.bsky.social · 5mo agoOver the next few months, we will be introducing some of our APPEX researchers! Meet Stephanie Bohon. Her latest project with APPEX has a fascinating historical twist... Learn more here! youtube.com/shorts/GyX-K... #APPEXresearch #WomenInSTEM #birding #sociology #interdisciplinary
I think I experienced every emotion possible during the last 9 km of this race despite barely knowing who either of these riders are.
Del@stroppadel.bsky.social · 5mo agoHAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC STAGES OF THE YEAR Igor Arriata was in the breakaway, crashed, then Eulálio crashed, they were back together, then Arriata went the wrong way, STILL CAUGHT EULÁLIO, and sprinted for the win #GirodItalia
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Vance may have gone to Yale, but @georgetakei went to Berkeley.
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last yr.The law specifies a census every ten years, not whenever you feel like it could help your party.
Our first publication for our @nsfappexcenter.bsky.social project on the Nantucket Wapanoag (forthcoming in @contexts.org) centers on this map, here with my co-author Shaylee Hodges at the Nantucket Whaling Museum.
Starting Week 3 in the Nantucket Archives on a great project to solve a 263-year-old medical mystery with @sjryan3.bsky.social and others for @nsfappexcenter.bsky.social
I requested an external review for a P&T candidate, and the scholar replied with a demand for payment. And you thought @timgill924.bsky.social was over the top in his parody of a**hole professors. He's barely scratched the surface.
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Ann Monster Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2y ago"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately" Something something in advance www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2y agoFederal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121 Urge your Senator to Fight Trump's destruction of the US government: 1. Oppose All Nominees. 2. Reject Unanimous Consent Requests. 3. Vote NO on All Cloture and Procedural Votes. 4. Request Quorum Calls at Every Opportunity
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
Things I did not have on today's shock doctrine bingo card: everyone on Bluesky losing their sh** over onesies. #feelthebern
Your challenge is to work the phrase “are you supportive of these onesies” into one conversation this weekend
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Just a reminder that I can't fire @timgill924.bsky.social even if I wanted to (I don't), so don't ask.
Winter storm brain freeze. Accidentally texted my Dean instead of my Admin to get dinner reservations for a job candidate changed. (He did it.)
Oh, joy! Unbenounced to me, my computer changed every instance of "deductive" to "seductive." Thought I was writing statistical theory. Turns out, I was writing porn.
As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
Perhaps the best thing about attending @sda-demography.bsky.social's annual meeting is seeing so many young Black and Latinx scholars choosing the field and making great contributions. #SDA2023
So I asked my Ojibwe husband how he wanted to celebrate Indigenous People's Day and he said, "Well, I think I'll drink this beer," and that seems like as good an idea as any.
