Lisa Wade
@lisawade.bsky.social
#firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats!
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Hey sociology lovers! After losing our program to Hurricane Katrina and a 20-year hiatus, Tulane University is re-launching its PhD in sociology! If you'd like to learn more, please reach out at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat to prospective students or faculty who might send some our way.
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Hey sociology lovers! After losing our program to Hurricane Katrina and a 20-year hiatus, Tulane University is re-launching its PhD in sociology! If you'd like to learn more, please reach out at [email protected]. I'd be happy to chat to prospective students or faculty who might send some our way.
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Stunning new research from Pew on racial disparities in the use of social media, the internet, and AI chatbots among American teens. For example, only 27% of White youth say they're online almost constantly, compared to 55% of Black youth. (Thread) www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.
www.pewresearch.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Stunning new research from Pew on racial disparities in the use of social media, the internet, and AI chatbots among American teens. For example, only 27% of White youth say they're online almost constantly, compared to 55% of Black youth. (Thread) www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
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The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
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As we revisit - for the umpteenth time 🙄- the benefits of breastfeeding, I recommend this great piece in @sfjournal.bsky.social by @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Fellow Jessica Su & colleagues who find the benefits are not universal, at least for child development. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As we revisit - for the umpteenth time 🙄- the benefits of breastfeeding, I recommend this great piece in @sfjournal.bsky.social by @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Fellow Jessica Su & colleagues who find the benefits are not universal, at least for child development. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Political polarization on confidence in the scientific community accelerated in the 2024 General Social Survey, with moderates now showing a significant downturn.
(Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already)
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(Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already)
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December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Political polarization on confidence in the scientific community accelerated in the 2024 General Social Survey, with moderates now showing a significant downturn.
(Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already)
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(Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already)
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If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.
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A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"
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Definitely going to assign this podcast to all our grad students -- lifting the hood on the process of peer review, with some EXCELLENT advice on how to respond to, read and write peer reviews. Peer reviews as a seatbelt and ends with a vision of how peer review could work
Aaron Hyman on Peer Review
open.spotify.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Definitely going to assign this podcast to all our grad students -- lifting the hood on the process of peer review, with some EXCELLENT advice on how to respond to, read and write peer reviews. Peer reviews as a seatbelt and ends with a vision of how peer review could work
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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You have the right to record ICE.
You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.
Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.
Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You have the right to record ICE.
You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.
Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.
Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
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As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
New Orleans launches portal to report human rights abuses by Trump paramilitary units
The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during
www.nola.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
As CBP forces began disappearing residents in the greater New Orleans area, the New Orleans City Council launched an online portal for residents to report civil & #humanrights abuses by ICE & CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
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"When the employer saw the 'economic motivation' narrative... they were more likely to want to choose the candidate with the [criminal] record." - #Sociology Professor David Harding on jobseeker disclosure of past criminal history ls.berkeley.edu/news... #socialscience
How job seekers discuss a criminal past can get them hired, sociology
In the United States, about two-thirds of people released from prison remain unemployed, a stark reflection of the stigma surrounding a criminal record, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. A
ls.berkeley.edu
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
"When the employer saw the 'economic motivation' narrative... they were more likely to want to choose the candidate with the [criminal] record." - #Sociology Professor David Harding on jobseeker disclosure of past criminal history ls.berkeley.edu/news... #socialscience
Working harder, not smarter.
If you were the Patron Saint of something, what would it be?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Working harder, not smarter.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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You should watch this for a spot-on critique of our current culture (or lack there of). A complete sociology lesson in 2 minutes and change.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You should watch this for a spot-on critique of our current culture (or lack there of). A complete sociology lesson in 2 minutes and change.
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You know those people who go on one trip to Berlin and suddenly everything is "Berlin Berlin Berlin"? Well, I took one sociology class and I just told my co-worker she doesn't have to perform hegemonic femininity.
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
You know those people who go on one trip to Berlin and suddenly everything is "Berlin Berlin Berlin"? Well, I took one sociology class and I just told my co-worker she doesn't have to perform hegemonic femininity.
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"The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers." @sorayachemaly.bsky.social time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers." @sorayachemaly.bsky.social time.com/7335723/auto...
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Of course climate denial is also deeply misogynistic.
>Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery…”<
>Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery…”<
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Of course climate denial is also deeply misogynistic.
>Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery…”<
>Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery…”<
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"I wasn’t drawn to #sociology by politics — I was drawn by things like feeling lonely, wanting to figure out what friendship is, wanting to understand what binds people together in groups and communities." Prof Mitchell Duneier on "Springsteen" paw.princeton.edu/article/paw-...
PAW Goes to the Movies: Sociologist Mitchell Duneier Watches ‘Springsteen’
Duneier, who has seen The Boss more than 100 times in concert, critiques the new film
paw.princeton.edu
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"I wasn’t drawn to #sociology by politics — I was drawn by things like feeling lonely, wanting to figure out what friendship is, wanting to understand what binds people together in groups and communities." Prof Mitchell Duneier on "Springsteen" paw.princeton.edu/article/paw-...
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Shout out to all the grad school applicants finalizing their materials this holiday weekend for programs that have... ugh... Dec. 1 deadlines. Thankfully, that (usually) does not apply to letters of rec. Looking at the lists students have sent me, it isn't a small grp of programs. Sheesh.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Shout out to all the grad school applicants finalizing their materials this holiday weekend for programs that have... ugh... Dec. 1 deadlines. Thankfully, that (usually) does not apply to letters of rec. Looking at the lists students have sent me, it isn't a small grp of programs. Sheesh.
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New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.