Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦. Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North. https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
This is a real shame.
Philip N CohenWell, @asanews.bsky.social has canceled contexts.org, the website of @contexts.org magazine (which still exists and is good!). Back when, editors @skyed.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social & I posted blog essays there that ASA does not seem to have preserved (though @archive.org has, of course) /1
Kelsy Burke has a thoughtful response to the “liquidate sociology” piece that offers some additional context. drkelsyburke.substack.com/p/beef-pamel...
BEEF: Pamela Paul EditionA sociologist on Paul's anti-sociology turndrkelsyburke.substack.com“…marriage was important for gay people to get full rights as Canadian citizens and Quebecers…’If you lost your partner, you also lost your apartment because your relationship wasn't recognized and you were considered to be just rooming there. The family would come and take all the furniture…’”
André Picard @picardonhealthTrailblazing Canadian gay rights activist Michael Hendricks dies. Hendricks and partner René Leboeuf spent 6 years in court fighting for their right to get married before tying the knot in 2004, when they had already been together for 30 years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
The sex doll company thinks that kids should learn math from these creepy robots.
MashableAI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.
I know, I know. It’s hard for me to remember who is in charge of the Catholic Church, too.
churchtimesThe Society of St Pius X has rejected a Vatican excommunication order after its unauthorised consecration of bishops last week, insisting that Pope Leo, or his successors, will one day adopt its programme of “restoring all things in Christ”.
New and improved odium! Now more vicious AND sneering!
The TelegraphThe progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out 🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/03/is-there-anything-more-pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_li_pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/
I love these stories so much. Long live the weirdos doodling on envelopes!
TK (Takashi DY) Kozai🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5
And this is with the program only partially funded and under a shortage of child care providers. Great start, though! Imagine if it actually were accessible $10/day child care for everyone.
Joanna Pepinwww.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6f283af...
Curved lines really improve the legibility of networks diagrams. (And they are prettier.)
Asjad Naqvi🚀 "ntwrk": A Stata package for network analysis 🚀 ⭐ Yesterday at the @statacorp.bsky.social Germany 2026 conference in Munich, I showcased the #ntwrk package: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... The package is a designed for both network analysis and graph layouts. Check it out! Up soon SSC.
Women my age, before the vaccine, had slices of their cervices (cervixes?) removed, or cone-shaped chunks taken out, or cauterized. That was the treatment, if you were lucky enough to catch it early.
Peter GleickBecause science, mf'ers bbc.com/news/article...
Drum lines are so superior to drum circles. Lines should be the only legal drum shape.
Łorϊ J. Williams🧋I do enjoy drum lines. 💜 This appears to be www.fogoazulnyc.com
These stats are so sad. Building community and fighting stigma is still important, valuable work. Kudos to everyone who is fighting the good fight! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Williams InstituteOur Generations Study found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual Republicans were less likely than their Democratic counterparts to feel connected to the LGBT community or view that connection positively. Read the full report at bit.ly/SODemsReps