Katie Furl
@katherinefurl.bsky.social
Assistant professor of sociology, University of North Dakota | PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill | digital platforms & inequality | she/her | views my own
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New work from @alicetiara.bsky.social, Courtlyn Pippert, Elaine Schnabel, and me recently published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (1/6)
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This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
Having gone through my first round of faculty evals, I really appreciate the weight my dept puts on completing peer reviews re: service to the discipline. It's frequently uncompensated work, but w/o folks reviewing, how does one publish?
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Having gone through my first round of faculty evals, I really appreciate the weight my dept puts on completing peer reviews re: service to the discipline. It's frequently uncompensated work, but w/o folks reviewing, how does one publish?
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As others have said, this is bad reporting (more below) but lemme tell you what it’s like at an institution w/ a tuition freeze:
• graduate students who teach a huge % of the classes on starvation wages are repeatedly told the only way they can be paid more is with an (impossible) tuition increase
• graduate students who teach a huge % of the classes on starvation wages are repeatedly told the only way they can be paid more is with an (impossible) tuition increase
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As others have said, this is bad reporting (more below) but lemme tell you what it’s like at an institution w/ a tuition freeze:
• graduate students who teach a huge % of the classes on starvation wages are repeatedly told the only way they can be paid more is with an (impossible) tuition increase
• graduate students who teach a huge % of the classes on starvation wages are repeatedly told the only way they can be paid more is with an (impossible) tuition increase
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Oh you're an indie critic of Larry Summers name his first three emails about needing to dump nuclear waste in Africa.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Oh you're an indie critic of Larry Summers name his first three emails about needing to dump nuclear waste in Africa.
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“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
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14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
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Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here
There’s some kind of lesson here
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OMG, as a father, allow me to emphasize it is not ok for adult men to be into teen age girls, and if you are an adult rationalizing “15 year olds” as somehow ok:
You are gross
You need help
Stay the hell away from my children or my students
You are gross
You need help
Stay the hell away from my children or my students
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
OMG, as a father, allow me to emphasize it is not ok for adult men to be into teen age girls, and if you are an adult rationalizing “15 year olds” as somehow ok:
You are gross
You need help
Stay the hell away from my children or my students
You are gross
You need help
Stay the hell away from my children or my students
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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The beauty and wellness space is an alt-right pipeline for women. ‘Pastel QAnon’ as @maargentino.com coins it www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The beauty and wellness space is an alt-right pipeline for women. ‘Pastel QAnon’ as @maargentino.com coins it www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
There is, I believe, little that feels as good as mulling over how to address very layered/major (but supportive!) reviewer comments over the course of months, then finally--finally!--feeling like you've arrived at something you're happy with.
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
There is, I believe, little that feels as good as mulling over how to address very layered/major (but supportive!) reviewer comments over the course of months, then finally--finally!--feeling like you've arrived at something you're happy with.
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This is the spirit! 😉😂
My writing is shit, but it's *my* writing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is the spirit! 😉😂
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I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
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I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here are some data to drive this point home in sociology. Over the last 10 years we saw a decline from 333 to 200 asst prof jobs posted to the ASA job board - and that's until 2024, which was widely seen as a better market year than 2025
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Now I'm about to get on a flight and I'm sitting here in my helplessness not sure what to do. It feels farcical to pretend that everything is normal. Hug each other please. Choose love.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Now I'm about to get on a flight and I'm sitting here in my helplessness not sure what to do. It feels farcical to pretend that everything is normal. Hug each other please. Choose love.
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you will note the lack of a budget for a $60 book in my already negative daily budget 🙃
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
you will note the lack of a budget for a $60 book in my already negative daily budget 🙃
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The State terrorizing citizens / people, snatching them away semi-/illigally while the world watches. I can’t but see Argentina in the 70s or Germany in the 30s. This is the USA 2025.
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
trib.al
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The State terrorizing citizens / people, snatching them away semi-/illigally while the world watches. I can’t but see Argentina in the 70s or Germany in the 30s. This is the USA 2025.
Covering The Beauty Myth in theory tomorrow, & the following seems timely w/ the rise of Mar-A-Lago face: "Women insisted on politicizing health; new technologies of invasive, potentially deadly 'cosmetic' surgeries developed apace to re-exert old forms of medical control of women."
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Covering The Beauty Myth in theory tomorrow, & the following seems timely w/ the rise of Mar-A-Lago face: "Women insisted on politicizing health; new technologies of invasive, potentially deadly 'cosmetic' surgeries developed apace to re-exert old forms of medical control of women."
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Loyalty programs screw their best consumers over, and they sell your private data to others. And this administration just shut down FTC efforts to monitor and regulate what companies do with your private data, including how they use it to engage in surveillance pricing.
Column | The hidden way using a rewards card can cost you more
Starbucks tracked my every purchase — then gave me fewer deals. It’s called surveillance pricing.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Loyalty programs screw their best consumers over, and they sell your private data to others. And this administration just shut down FTC efforts to monitor and regulate what companies do with your private data, including how they use it to engage in surveillance pricing.
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
I like to teach through my mistakes! In a recent attendance poll, students selected which natural disasters they knew of. One student hadn't heard of any & asked what to select. I acknowledged my biases, added a "none" option, & encouraged them to note both what's there & what's missing in surveys.
October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I like to teach through my mistakes! In a recent attendance poll, students selected which natural disasters they knew of. One student hadn't heard of any & asked what to select. I acknowledged my biases, added a "none" option, & encouraged them to note both what's there & what's missing in surveys.
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New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...
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Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
October 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page