Daniel Laurison
@daniellaurison.bsky.social
Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
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Extremely accurate thread on how book finances work for trade published authors #BookSky
tl;dr it’s not a lot of money per effort year and buying our books at indies makes a material, positive difference
tl;dr it’s not a lot of money per effort year and buying our books at indies makes a material, positive difference
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Extremely accurate thread on how book finances work for trade published authors #BookSky
tl;dr it’s not a lot of money per effort year and buying our books at indies makes a material, positive difference
tl;dr it’s not a lot of money per effort year and buying our books at indies makes a material, positive difference
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"ACT UP worked because America worked. I’m not sure we expected that, even as we hoped for it. It taught me that everything that is marginal and powerful in American life eventually becomes central...
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"ACT UP worked because America worked. I’m not sure we expected that, even as we hoped for it. It taught me that everything that is marginal and powerful in American life eventually becomes central...
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Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
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As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Ok if you know anyone working in campaigns, or wanting to, or who just wants to understand some things about who runs our politics, they might want to read
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
www.beacon.org/Producing-Po...
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
www.beacon.org/Producing-Po...
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Ok if you know anyone working in campaigns, or wanting to, or who just wants to understand some things about who runs our politics, they might want to read
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
www.beacon.org/Producing-Po...
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
www.beacon.org/Producing-Po...
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You know what makes a great gift for a #swimming enthusiast?
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
You know what makes a great gift for a #swimming enthusiast?
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
my book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion Books 2022)
available here:
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Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I actually kind of like going to the store the day before Thanksgiving or even the morning of. I feel like it's part of the communal experience. I did most of our shopping Sunday and yesterday but I'm not sad that I'll need to get a few more things.
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I actually kind of like going to the store the day before Thanksgiving or even the morning of. I feel like it's part of the communal experience. I did most of our shopping Sunday and yesterday but I'm not sad that I'll need to get a few more things.
One of the two best pies, now for its politics as well as for its yumminess.
Have we done "pumpkin pie is abolitionist" discourse yet this year
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
One of the two best pies, now for its politics as well as for its yumminess.
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I got an eel facts Advent calendar for my spouse and it was one of the best gifts I've ever given her.
This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I got an eel facts Advent calendar for my spouse and it was one of the best gifts I've ever given her.
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This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity.
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
Get a calendar at EelFacts.net
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Indeed, some of the earliest petitions and what we’d now call letters to the editors that circulated in print media in the early americas were manifestos, and other political writings from enslaved and free Black people arguing for abolition and/or return to Africa.
On my drive back to New York from giving a book talk at Bowdoin College, I stopped briefly at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,where I stumbled on this remarkable history. A sharp reminder that slavery permeated the American experience,even where least expected. www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Indeed, some of the earliest petitions and what we’d now call letters to the editors that circulated in print media in the early americas were manifestos, and other political writings from enslaved and free Black people arguing for abolition and/or return to Africa.
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Puberty blockers don't even benefit the majority of gender dysphoric kids in a way such they shouldn't just immediately go on HRT. Blockers are for questioning kids, not kids who are sure about their Identity.
I started HRT at age 14 fwiw. Puberty blockers never would have made sense for me.
I started HRT at age 14 fwiw. Puberty blockers never would have made sense for me.
The “Pathways” trial is, IMO on more than one level, a thoroughly unethical piece of “research” to be carrying out on children, especially children who are part of a marginalised minority.
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Puberty blockers don't even benefit the majority of gender dysphoric kids in a way such they shouldn't just immediately go on HRT. Blockers are for questioning kids, not kids who are sure about their Identity.
I started HRT at age 14 fwiw. Puberty blockers never would have made sense for me.
I started HRT at age 14 fwiw. Puberty blockers never would have made sense for me.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
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"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
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hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
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this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.
omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this is a stunning piece of data journalism/art/whatever.