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Small and mighty. 🪶

Well, @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

Opening up You Will Not Replace Us! by Renaud Camus -- me, sociologist, skimming along, following this commonplace logic, waiting for the point, and then... Is that not something of a leap? Did I miss some underlying racism in the 183 words?

"You lied to your own diary." Really getting to the bottom of things now.

Ross Douthat has been very successful at convincing fascists they have nothing to fear from a sit-down interview.

Is bell hooks on the best seller list because jd vance used the same title for his book and his readers are not ... careful shoppers? Does the best seller list account for returns?

Gripping stuff: "He is fifty-eight, turning fifty-nine in August. He still posts most weeks. He still ends class as the second hand reaches twelve, and says thank you."

It is true that people who overestimate the size of minority groups are more likely to feel hostile toward them, or threatened by them, but the direction of causality is unknown. Anyway, in 1991 the US was about 2% Jewish, and the median survey taker guessed it was 10-19%, close to this result.

Well now I have been slop biographied. It's on the website of someone named Luke Ford, along with 475 other biographies that "AI helped" him to "write." I'm probably the only person who has ever read it, including the "author." /1

Per @asanews.bsky.social email, after being cut off by NSF, ASA is ending the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

Time was, spam was pretty impressive if it included your name correctly at the top of the email. Now they spray flattering slop all over you

Pon una foto tuya de hace 16 años.

And now a word from, apparently, the most level-headed person on earth

Ethnic cleansing is what this is.

Millions of people being fed a constant stream of absolutely pernicious idiocy. (No non-ancient civilization collapsed because of low birth rates. The world today is ruled by low fertility societies because that is how you get rich.)

💡 If you're attending #ASA2026 in two weeks, and my book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...), has been in your book pile, now might be a good time to pick it up so you can make the most of this session, Monday morning at 8 am!