Anna Gabur, PhD

I can never make self watch any of the videos I record. Students get what they get

The more I know about mushrooms, the less I want to know about mushrooms.

I knew your work on social pain before this, but you have no idea how timely this particular reminder is for me! Just what I needed during this revision.

Woot woot! Subscribed!

I will be checking it out for my Sociology of Mental Health course!

Behind on your dissertation / paper, but don't know how to tell your advisor / collaborator? Take a page from Dorothy Parker's book.

I am at my stealthiest when I manage to open a can of tuna without as much as waking up the cat.

The income breakdown may hint that it’s the kind of job that matters, too. Kids in low-income families have parents who work night shift and unstable jobs that add stress to the family. They imagine not having that and having less tired moms. Rich kids don’t mind the kind of jobs their parents have.

What a cruel and ignorant thing to say! Have you read the article before passing this judgement?

All I have left can fit in
a clenched fist,
a single word
solid and sharp in my throat,
a breath held still until it burns,
demanding
for the chest to give
the mouth to open
the word to fly
and the fist to follow.

What are your favorite books (fiction or non-fiction) that help you make sense of the world we live in these days? Please no dystopias. I get plenty of that as it is.

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

Straight onto my to-read list!

Or, hear me out: “Right now, world-conquering mutant crustacean and make it quick!”

Your profile doesn’t accept DMs so maybe you can message me instead?

I love the podcast but please stop supporting Better Help. There’s so much wrong with them that they can be the subject of one of your episodes

1. Teaching students who applaud the demise of research and education funding is exhausting.
2. Teaching students who have an epiphany about the relevance of “useless” research is rewarding.
3. The students in 1 and 2 are the same students.
4. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

My favorite riddle to solve is this: have I just come across a genius idea that connects all the articles written in the past 3 decades, or am I lost in the forest of hubris?
To be determined.

Emotion trumps fact every time. In my public affairs role I witnessed diplomats stumped at fact checking campaigns’ inability to shake blatant propaganda. Their “more facts” approach was costly and never worked. Just a reminder that social science is powerful. It’s under attack for that very reason

Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization | PNAS There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization by creating “echo chambers” that insulate people from opposi...

Sociology to the rescue! If you feel that eco-chambers are bad and you need to stay on Facebook or Twitter to keep yourself grounded in reality or to open people’s eyes, let science set you free. Screaming into the mouth of a dragon is not a productive way to fight back

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The point is to get you mad. And then they can be all “oh look at you so worked up over a term of endearment. So irrational!” This is to say that when they call you sweetheart they KNOW you’ll cuss them out and it’s exactly why they do it.

Whenever I think that times like these it’s hard to concentrate on teaching and research I remind myself that’s it’s also times like these when advancing knowledge and passing it on matters most.

Have you heard about Russia’s latest scientific breakthrough? Neither have I. The Soviet era ended with brain drain as undervalued scientists fled. Earlier, Bolsheviks eradicated artists, musicians, writers. There are no modern Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky. Now history is repeating across the Atlantic.