Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable.
"Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”
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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A photo of an in-progress PowerPoint slide whose header reads, "If This Feels Overwhelming."
Making a presentation and...yeah
I suggest folks start putting "anti-AI statements" in their publications and talks. For example, state that you didn't use AI for any aspect of your work and that you didn't cite any studies that used AI.
This shows worker solidarity and makes visible the collective action against AI.
Medical toxicologist here to confirm: all available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines.
Mortality rates:
Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000
Penicillin 2/100K
Viagra 4/100K
Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)
I asked RFK Jr. a simple question:
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
This is super interesting and I'd love to discuss! I'll message you 😄
How have I not seen this before!! I'm very very excited for this rabbit hole...
A Butlerian turn in animal behavior? In all seriousness, it’s cool to see theoretical convergences in social + natural sciences.
Check out my latest OpEd!
Americans are going rogue when it comes to their health. "It is not necessarily a rebellious spirit but an unreliable health care system that compels staunch individualism."
www.newsweek.com/americans-ar...
If you work with any federal data--on demography, economics, health, education, climate, agriculture, whatever--and you notice any changes this year in data availability, quality, or completeness, please let me know.
I love reading outside my immediate area. Excited for Native Lands by Shari M. Huhndorf, which "examines the connections between Indigenous culture and politics, focusing on the ways that Native artists and writers represent histories and meanings of land that support Indigenous territorial claims."
A screenshot of a Spotify Wrapped slide that reads “October was your Pirate Bagpipes Traditional Irish moment.”
Proof, aside from the actual writing, that I wrote a lot in October.
BIDEN: EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT HAS BEEN RATIFIED www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
Love this. It's so important to teach our students *how* we want them to engage instead of expecting them to have this knowledge and these skills already! Great idea to spend a day workshopping class discussion skills like asking questions, making connections, sharing appreciation and awe, etc.
This thread has a link to donate and request children’s and YA books for schools, teachers, and families who’ve lost books in the L.A. fires. Super important work this is!!
A close-up on magazine text, with the following words at the beginning of a section underlined in green: “In England, in the days before the Industrial Revolution ruined everything.”
I can’t stop thinking about this clause. From Tad Friend’s engrossing article on the rare book dealer Glenn Horowitz. (“A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending,” The New Yorker, October 21, 2024.)
A collage of the covers of my favorite books this year. They are The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa, I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray.
2024 was a banger year for Native Americans in publishing. It feels like we are in a moment and I felt so lucky to be a small part of it. Here are some of my fav 2024 books by Native authors. What were your favs?
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
Newsprint with the headline “Organizing the South Theme of Local 150 Convention.”
It was also crazy to learn that a law from the Jim Crow era bans unions from negotiating government workers’ contracts in North Carolina. Yes, this is still in effect! It’s General Statute 95-98. (Also, I always love a public speaker doing their thing while carrying a baby. More of this, please.)
Newsprint with the headline “Rail Crew Drivers and Environmental Justice Organizations Win Clean Air Rule”
Catching up on mail and enjoying the autumn’s UE News. Really cool to read about unionized rail crew drivers in southern CA working with environmental justice groups to get new rules around train pollution, which hugely affects the health of working class people who live and work by the railroads.
Also … if this is your lede on the debates “in the history profession” you should just stop right there.
Created a new starter pack on SOGI things, queer demography, and folks interested in surveying sex and sex surveys--very loosely some quantitative sexualities. Let me know if you want to be added, its just a starter and I drew from my head of who was currently here:
Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
I agree. I think sociology is uniquely positioned to help undergrads understand the world around them, critically evaluate current events, etc. Sociology is education for informed and engaged citizenship. These are lifelong skills!
I agree. I think sociology is uniquely positioned to help undergrads understand the world around them, critically evaluate current events, etc. Sociology is education for informed and engaged citizenship. These are lifelong skills!
I have long stopped teaching “assimilation” debates which at this point are a relic. But I think we’re at a juncture when theoretical learning makes less and less sense at an undergrad level. We need to allow students to make sense of their world.
My classes are now designed to teach why people immigrate, starting with colonialism, where borders came from & what they do, how the legal pathways have shrunk over time. It’s incredible how students have no idea & how many report fighting family members on why people don’t just “get in line?”
On a sign for a hardware store, a graphic of a house under construction and the Catalan words "Reformes en General."
Feeling in need of
