Always fascinating when journalists address a topic medical sociologists and anthropologists have been writing about for decades. She draws from social science framing and insights but adds a compelling narrative. Bugs are more visceral than fibromyalgia. Also talking to entomologists is innovative.
Overheard conversation on campus: “the kid that got into Harvard didn’t even know the difference between there, their, and they’re.” Ouch.
Someone from the east coast hoped “I wasn’t too buried in snow.” It’s 69 degrees in LA and I am planting succulents.
Stormy sea in LA
Book cover for There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. A quote at the top left says, "An exceptional feat of reporting." — The New York Times Book Review. A medallion at the top right reads, "The New York Times Book Review — 10 Best Books of 2025." Text below the cover reads, "In paperback 3.3.26,” with the publisher name Crown.
In America today, millions of people are just one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from becoming homeless.
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US will be out in paperback on March 3.
Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...
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I know who you’re referring to and this one pisses me off as well.
New! In "Medicalizing Maternity," grad student Colter Uscola covers Charlotte Abel and @stefantimmermans.bsky.social's #Sociology research on medical provision and surveillance in pregnancy care for those with psychiatric symptoms: contexts.org/articles/med...
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Singing bowl performance
Tibetan Singing Bowls at the No King protest in Santa Monica
I am honored and thrilled to have The Last Human Job win this award. Thanks to ASA & the many who read/gave feedback along the way. This award is dedicated to all who do connective labor when it is under threat by data analytics & AI. Connecting is what makes us human! Let's preserve and protect it
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Vice HR director is worse
In my research I’ve been thinking obsessively about how we define “quality” in health care and education, so I was excited to talk to Rachel about how quality metrics are being deployed in child care policy debates
Co-authors at the Lukas book award
In holding pattern for 2 hours before landing
Nice to read before takeoff to Newark
It’s a good number to tell your insurance company
We are the Finalist 💃🏽🕺🏻 #bookaward #nonfiction journalism.columbia.edu/news/lukas-p...
I think I may have cracked the code for large lecture exams that set students up for success: two pages of notes so they have to study and then a handwritten exam consisting of 6 short essays in 75 minutes. I used to do take home essays but that no longer works.
The covers of two books are shown under the title "Geographies of Trauma" and the byline "by Stefano Bloch." The books are listed as: Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles, by Neil Gong. University of Chicago Press, 2024. And The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles, by Randol Contreras. University of California Press, 2024.
New book review! @stefanobloch.bsky.social's "Geographies of Trauma" explores the deep, unflinching humanity of 2 ethnographies: Neil Gong's "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) & Randol Contreras's "The Marvelous Ones" (@ucpress.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/BKSTrauma
Dolphins 🐬
Our book is a finalist for the Lukas Book Award for a narrative on a topic of American political and social concern apnews.com/article/luka...
the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970
A LOS ANGELES MORBID LOCATION THREAD:
1. first we have the Highland Gardens Hotel, which used to be the Landmark Motor Hotel; this was where Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Room 105 while she recorded her final album Pearl in 1970
Author just requested their name to be removed from published paper on trans health
Burawoy’s final lesson to us all is how he is being remembered. Yes he was a brilliant scholar, yes he shaped the discipline, but the outpouring is about who he was as a person, a gracious mentor, a kid human being, an advocate for justice.
May we all be as lucky.
Man with microphone
I had an influencer-provocateur-prankster interrupt my 300 students class with a song. He didn’t stay to hear about Durkheim’s book on Suicide
