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Shelia Cotten

@sheliacotten.bsky.social

540 followers 760 following 14 posts

Sociologist/media and technology use and impacts across the life course; AI; health, workforce, education Associate Vice President for Research, Clemson University

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MM 🦋 @adgirlmm.bsky.social · Nov 23

This is one of the best starter packs of amazing women I've seen yet. 👇https://go.bsky.app/Crpns54

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · Nov 24

I love this.

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

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Rhonda in PNW 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · Nov 21

You could save a life with a simple repost!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 3

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Topics cdc, government, united states, dataset, archive
Language English
Item Size 98.5G
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · Feb 4

holy hell someone in an SUV did a hit and run on sociologist Michael Burawoy and killed him!!!!

www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection

The collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland.

www.mercurynews.com

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · May 28

People in local communities don't see how science impacts them. We must communicate how science impacts everyone. These cuts will be catastrophic. The US will lag behind other nations in scientific discoveries that save lives and positively impact people in the US. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here:

airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

And please spread the word.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 18

STAT story about freezing all payments to Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, and Cornell-Weill Medicine.

www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/n...

NIH said to have halted awarding of new grants to top universities

Universities whose NIH funding has been frozen may face further strain as the agency holds off awarding new grants to at least a half dozen of them, according to an internal email.

www.statnews.com

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Feb 5

It just keeps coming…

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Feb 5

Sorry to hear this news! Such a strong proponent for public sociology.

Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · Feb 4

holy hell someone in an SUV did a hit and run on sociologist Michael Burawoy and killed him!!!!

www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection

The collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland.

www.mercurynews.com

Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thankful for groups working to save 1000s of datasets!

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Feb 3

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Feb 3

Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Nov 29

If you’re one of the millions of users who are new to Bluesky, you may find this blog useful. 🦋

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

bsky.social

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 28

Useful information to share.

Rhonda in PNW 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · Nov 21

You could save a life with a simple repost!

Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 26

A picture I took years ago but it still brings me joy when I see it!

Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 24

Good advice…

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · Nov 24

I love this.

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 24

Click on the link in the original message and it will show you who is in it. Then you can select to follow all or pick the ones you want to follow.

Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 24

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Sociologist: It depends…I need more data

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 24

Welcome to bluesky! I’m still learning my way around it but enjoying it thus far.

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Laura Kurgan @laurakurgan.bsky.social · Nov 24

The recording of the AI Summit I organized is now online. Scroll down for the recordings of the 4 panels: #HumanAI, #LocalAI, #SpatialAI, #UrbanAI and #PlanetaryAI. @katecrawford.bsky.social and I are in conversation on the Planetary part. Many excellent talks.
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3601-...

ACTIONING SUMMIT 3: AI ACTIONING SUMMIT - Columbia GSAPP

David Benjamin (GSAPP, The Living) Lydia Chilton (Columbia Engineering) Seth Cluett (Columbia Computer Music Center) Nikhil Garg (Cornell Tech) Moderator: Mark Hansen (Brown Institute for Media In...

www.arch.columbia.edu

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves

John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · Nov 23

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Nov 23

Pinball wizards and wannabes, this photoessay is for you! New from Ryan Banfi (NYU Tisch School):
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 23

Really enjoying the great starter packs that people are sharing!

MM 🦋 @adgirlmm.bsky.social · Nov 23

This is one of the best starter packs of amazing women I've seen yet. 👇https://go.bsky.app/Crpns54

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Catfella 📯 🇺🇦 🫶 🇩🇪 @susannem0905.bsky.social · Nov 18

Good morning Bluesky! Good morning World! 💕
👇

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 18

Several co-authors and I wrote a couple of articles like this when we were all assistant professors. One was published by The American Sociological Association and another by American Sociologist. We focused on sociology. Glad to see someone doing a recent version!!

Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’m AVP for Research Development. My team and I work with faculty to help strengthen proposal development, find collaborators, and provide training programs for strengthening research and grant proposals. The next two years in particular are going to be ‘interesting’…

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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · Nov 17

Scientists- Do you sit most of the day? “Sedentary behavior is broadly associated with future adverse CV outcomes, with particularly prominent effects on HF and CV mortality, where risk inflected at approximately 10.6 h/d.” www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Accelerometer-Measured Sedentary Behavior and Risk of Future Cardiovascular Disease:

www.jacc.org

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Shelia Cotten @sheliacotten.bsky.social · Nov 17

What’s your best advice for finding all the people I’m connected with via other platforms? Thanks!

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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · Nov 14

We are seeking advanced PhD students for a well-paid and nurturing research internship on topics that we can meaningfully mentor. Apps due Dec 6 socialmediacollective.org/2024/11/01/2...

Apply now for the 2025 MSRNE summer internship in sociotechnical systems

Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students who are bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time, to apply for our summer internship. They w…

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