Everyone in the virology, Infectious diseases, epidemiology, and public health fields has looked at the case for the lab origin vs. natural spillover as the origin of COVID.
The evidence is far more compelling for spillover. Good debunking by
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI
Daily life in 2025.
#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.
Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
A quote from the article stating "Discussing the hidden curriculum does not, of course, mitigate the effects of the social inequalities that make its discussion important in the first place. Students come into the classroom with different levels of cultural capital, and this exercise does not and could not make everything equal between all students. However, I think that it is an important first step in helping students who don’t already have this particular knowledge by giving them new tools to succeed in my class and throughout the rest of their time in college." and a picture of the author -- a white woman with dark blonde hair in a black shirt.
@kylie-m-smith.bsky.social discusses how and why she teaches the hidden curriculum in her courses in this class note from August!
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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
A cartoon graphic of a pencil and notebook with a light bulb slightly above it.
Are you interested in writing for us? We're always looking for new articles on teaching as public sociology! Check out how to submit at the link below!
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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So it turns out government grant funding is actually very critical for public safety, protecting our environment, the health & well-being of Americans, our neighborhoods, making sure people have food, job programs, infrastructure and a whole lot more.
You know, basic functioning of our society.
When someone in power asks you to rat out your peers, they're not doing it to make you safer. They're doing it to make you 1) paranoid and 2) completely dependent on them.
Never let power divide you against other people who are under the same power.
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users.
www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
I wrote a book about happened in a school after he was elected last time. Here's what to expect: an increase in calls for civility & kindness and a simultaneous crackdown on actions labeled as "political" which means any speech/action addressing systemic racial, class, gender or sexual inequality.
Cover of Fall 2024 issue of Contexts Magazine featuring a painting of determined yet happy looking woman.
This one-page piece by Ridgeway (2024) from Contexts Magazine is a great introduction to status and status processes for students!
https://buff.ly/3BosgIw
Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
Very excited to say that I won our department's Superlative Teaching Award for my work in and outside of the classroom! While I love the research I'm doing this year on teaching evaluations, I do miss actually being in the classroom and students -- but I'm very grateful for my work to be recognized!
One thing I didn’t expect in the wake of the CEO shooting is the sudden attention on health insurance policy. I have seen this video and the BCBS policy itself go viral on almost every platform. People are waking up. Real lasting change in healthcare is coming. youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...
This came out a bit ago, but since I’m on a new platform I thought I’d share it here — my solo-authored paper on emotional labor and STEM graduate students!
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A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
Jfc cis people, we really fucking need you on this one. Barring people from accessing bathroom facilities is barring people from public life, and if they succeed here they’re going to move on to barring them from every other possible place.
Call your reps please.
I’d like to be added if possible — I study gender inequality in various environments (including online!)
I love the work I’m doing with @firstpublics.bsky.social!
