@pamelaoliver
Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008
I retired from classroom teaching before this garbage but I'm having the same experience as a preprint moderator. The real research from real people can be checked for basic format & policy compliance in under a minute. The garbage takes time to investigate and review for boundary cases.
I realize I'm the wrong demographic but I prefer texts to videos because I can process them faster. I enjoy your stuff a lot & have learned a lot from but would honestly appreciate transcripts for when I don't have the patience for the video.
I'm old enough to remember when SPSS etc were new and contained bugs and protocol involved listing your computing tools in pubs. In fact, good protocol still involves replicable identifiable tools. stat software can still have bugs but vibe coded is even worse.
amen
reminds me: law review editors turned my lower case reference to California's decline in prison population due to a supreme court decision into an (incorrect) upper case reference to the United States Supreme Court. I missed it due to fixing all the other mistakes editors had introduced.
It is way more fun to run tables and make figures and identify patterns in data than to slog through tightening up a paper and making a coherent argument so a journal will take it. The disadvantage of not worrying about getting tenure is that lack of panic reduces deadline sense.
I suggest also creating some sort of blog post for the same information where you can provide one link to all of it. Different kinds of media consumers use different kinds of platforms. Let me know if you want to talk over options.
Still dealing with the fallout of a madly dysfunctional meeting that includes wading through eight emails from an angry person who was on Zoom in hybrid format and mad at me because I was in charge of the webcam and they could hear me sighing heavily and took it personally.
🚨 Protest in the US is accelerating during Trump 2.0 (read the whole thread by @chenoweth.bsky.social for details) 👇
we need to address this quotation from a colleague: "If we start saying that AI-written (& analyzed) papers count as scholarly production, the whole enterprise of evaluating academics by their publication records is just done."
I'm the moderator who flagged the submission Philip is talking about here. The goal is a conversation about balance of "AI" and human work in papers. I think I may write a post about my own opinions, but we social scientists need to have a broader conversation about this. In particular, 1/2
So you need to switch, but in case it helps, I've gotten a lot of glitchiness in EndNote with syncing since the Feb 12 mandate for changing passwords regularly.
Good luck. I THINK it is still working for me! Guess I'd better check . . . (FWIW I pay for both EndNote and storage in Zotero because I prefer EndNote but do a lot of collaborating with Zotero. And I have a LOT of articles saved.)
Are you a current EndNote user? I use both EndNote and Zotero and if you are currently using EndNote you'll probably find the insertion of citations into a document to be significantly more cumbersome & less flexible with Zotero. Collecting articles into the database is easier with Zotero.
LOL people used to make a living doing that work. The advent of computers meant a decline in academic clerical jobs and an increase in the expectation that academics could type/keyboard.
Once upon a time people and departments paid typists to translate handwritten drafts into typescript.
I don't really disagree with your semantic understanding of the apparent meaning of the words, but the ship has long since sailed in terms of how the word "preprint" is being used across academia, including in the high-prestige OSF world.
My dissertation has tracked this effort over the past year, examining the critical yet often overlooked role of manufactured homes in providing affordable housing, particularly in rural areas. This bill has the potential to strengthen protections for more than 138,000 residents across Wisconsin.
I realize this is off topic because of course they are not just talking about ID, but even at my age I've been carded recently in some places that card 100% of purchases of alcohol.
And then as now "born that way" versus having some agency in choosing leads to a complex set of arguments that tap different people's experiences differently, as groups of people have been quite able to oppress and kill others based on characteristics they were born with.
Hello I was a straight adult in the 1990s and I endorse this skeet. Almost exactly the same arguments about gay & lesbian people then as anti-trans arguments now. And I'd say then & now there are two variants: (1) claimed basis in religion & (2) discomfort with the unfamiliar.
This was the person who wrote the book on Antifa that got the attention of right-wing media in 2017
TBF the Dems never had the power to "squash" nativism, but they could have sought to resist it instead of caving in to it.
And abductions have been happening in other places all along with less community resistance. And less impact on the broader community.
MUST READ:
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
FWIW IMO emphasizing how bad/hard Obama et al were on immigration (even as true) isn't helping with the political education about immigration problem. And current admin is much worse about harassing and detaining legal immigrants than priors were
Agree. And also the political work that needs doing is both to rally people now horrified about ICE excesses AND to do the deeper work of changing underlying perceptions of & opinions about immigration (and also racism and policing practices).
Earth to Trump: You Can't Cancel Climate Change. My newest post discusses the likely effects of Trump's decision to repeal the endangerment finding. "Ignoring the science and the will of the people sets us all up for the perfect storm." danarfisher.com/2026/02/13/e...
A powerful new piece from Nikole Hannah- Jones www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
I write about this legacy a bit as well in my book www.sup.org/books/sociol...
All royalties go to: kyblack.org
Small wins I guess when the world is on fire. A sync problem got resolved with a password reset, even though the reset should theoretically not have been necessary.