Spread the word! Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Sociology of Work and Professions, with the ability to teach sociological theory.
📍Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario 🇨🇦
Applications due March 19. Position begins July 1st.
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
Madeline Schizas of Canada competes during the figure skating women's team event
Canadian figure skater Madeline Schizas gets university assignment extension at Olympics
Canadian figure skater and McMaster University student Madeline Schizas was granted an extension on her sociology assignment one day after going viral with her ...
#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
Photo of the front cover of the book “Our Song” by author Anna Carey.
Look what’s arrived! I’m very excited to read your new book, @urchinette.bsky.social 🇮🇪📚🎶
Interesting discussion about parenting and generative AI:
“Stressed-out parents are turning to ChatGPT for help”
#parenting #parents #mentalload
www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...
@theglobeandmail.com
Where Are the Men in Boys’ Lives?
Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especially in low-income areas, with few men as role models.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....
Happy day 3 of sabbatical, to all who celebrate!! 🎉
Unfortunately, not me, but I’m happy to celebrate vicariously!
#MorningReads & #Thread
How is relationship status associated with earnings among LGB people?
Women's earnings depend relatively little on changes in relationship status. At the same time, gay men only receive premiums related to having a partner once they marry. #SOGIdata #LGBTDemography
“What science responds well to is stability and predictability and long-term planning.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
👏 Nice work!
Sleepaway camp’s nostalgia economy: Univ of BC historian Leslie Paris discusses summer camp and changes to childhood over time.
www.vox.com/podcasts
Today is your last chance to vote! Polls are open until 9:30 PM.
No voter card? No problem! Just bring government-issued ID.
Find your polling location at mikemorrice.ca/vote
Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.
“The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...
Highly recommend this interview with Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University, on why academic freedom at our higher ed institutions should concern all Americans.
#AcademicSky
#MomSky
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
This award no longer effectuates agency priorities. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs.
My federal grants with @wendymanning.bsky.social and Ann Meier were terminated last week. The language from the termination is below. It has been sad as we are being forced to say goodbye to members of our team. We are figuring out next steps. We remain deeply committed to studying all families.
Researchers in Canada who work on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda.
Chilling: Trump administration threatening #research conducted in Canada. Researchers questioned about their projects, e.g. doesn’t ascribe to “gender ideology”, DEI elements, climate justice, etc.
www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
More here: www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
@caut.bsky.social #sociology
It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
BREAKING: irony dead.
A digital illustration of a massive crowd of people and humanoid robots standing in a futuristic, brightly lit corridor with tall white pillars. The humans and robots are evenly distributed, with the robots having a sleek metallic design. The image is used as the background for a presentation slide titled "Mitigating Scam Participants in Online Social Science Research" by Dr. Ashley S. Brooks, a research associate at INQYR, affiliated with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. The slide has a clean design with a white background, an orange and pink gradient accent line, and black text.
Had a blast sharing the latest recommendations for mitigating scam participants in online research with Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Social Work! 🤖
This is a fast-moving space but with ongoing vigilance and information sharing, we can safeguard researchers and genuine participants!
This was a really helpful presentation!
