Kim Weeden
@weedenkim.bsky.social
Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
Finally, a good Trump administration decision: phasing out the penny. New ones will no longer be minted, except for a few straight-to-collectors models.
My son's childhood piggy bank, the ashtray of our old car, the pen tray of my top desk drawer, and our couch just increased in value.
My son's childhood piggy bank, the ashtray of our old car, the pen tray of my top desk drawer, and our couch just increased in value.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Finally, a good Trump administration decision: phasing out the penny. New ones will no longer be minted, except for a few straight-to-collectors models.
My son's childhood piggy bank, the ashtray of our old car, the pen tray of my top desk drawer, and our couch just increased in value.
My son's childhood piggy bank, the ashtray of our old car, the pen tray of my top desk drawer, and our couch just increased in value.
I wish he used his NASA brains to solve a more important mystery of airline travel:
Why do passengers board in ANC looking mostly normal, but when they deplane in FAI an hour later they've grown bushy beards and their dress shoes & worsted wool have morphed into bunny boots & lumberjack flannel?
Why do passengers board in ANC looking mostly normal, but when they deplane in FAI an hour later they've grown bushy beards and their dress shoes & worsted wool have morphed into bunny boots & lumberjack flannel?
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I wish he used his NASA brains to solve a more important mystery of airline travel:
Why do passengers board in ANC looking mostly normal, but when they deplane in FAI an hour later they've grown bushy beards and their dress shoes & worsted wool have morphed into bunny boots & lumberjack flannel?
Why do passengers board in ANC looking mostly normal, but when they deplane in FAI an hour later they've grown bushy beards and their dress shoes & worsted wool have morphed into bunny boots & lumberjack flannel?
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
Here’s what I found 🧵
I remember when the Republicans threw a 6-month hissy fit about "government overreach" when Michelle Obama gently suggested we eat more fruits and vegetables.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I remember when the Republicans threw a 6-month hissy fit about "government overreach" when Michelle Obama gently suggested we eat more fruits and vegetables.
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Three lawsuits, including one by Wilderness Watch and our allies, take aim at a Trump administration-approved land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
Tribes and environmental groups sue to stop road planned for Alaska wildlife refuge | Alaska Beacon
Three lawsuits take aim at a land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Three lawsuits, including one by Wilderness Watch and our allies, take aim at a Trump administration-approved land trade that would allow for a road through designated wilderness in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/13/t...
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So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.
A farmer's walk from correlation to causation:
Academic paper: cross-sectional studies find that grip strength is correlated with bone density, depression, heart disease, cognitive functioning, and mortality.
Online rags: do these 2 exercises to increase your grip strength and you'll live longer!
Academic paper: cross-sectional studies find that grip strength is correlated with bone density, depression, heart disease, cognitive functioning, and mortality.
Online rags: do these 2 exercises to increase your grip strength and you'll live longer!
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A farmer's walk from correlation to causation:
Academic paper: cross-sectional studies find that grip strength is correlated with bone density, depression, heart disease, cognitive functioning, and mortality.
Online rags: do these 2 exercises to increase your grip strength and you'll live longer!
Academic paper: cross-sectional studies find that grip strength is correlated with bone density, depression, heart disease, cognitive functioning, and mortality.
Online rags: do these 2 exercises to increase your grip strength and you'll live longer!
A sign that Bluesky has permeated the mainstream: I'm getting follows from accounts devoted to cannabis. (This happened on X, too.) Probably bots searching for "weed" in user names.
They're harmless enough, tho if a border agent wanted to make a fuss over my SM I might have some 'splainin' to do.
They're harmless enough, tho if a border agent wanted to make a fuss over my SM I might have some 'splainin' to do.
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A sign that Bluesky has permeated the mainstream: I'm getting follows from accounts devoted to cannabis. (This happened on X, too.) Probably bots searching for "weed" in user names.
They're harmless enough, tho if a border agent wanted to make a fuss over my SM I might have some 'splainin' to do.
They're harmless enough, tho if a border agent wanted to make a fuss over my SM I might have some 'splainin' to do.
At Harvard, as at most private institutions, recording and posting a video of a class without the instructor's permission constitutes academic misconduct. For good reason: it undermines trust w/in classroom & stifles dialogue.
Please don't retweet these videos, even if you agree with their message.
Please don't retweet these videos, even if you agree with their message.
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
At Harvard, as at most private institutions, recording and posting a video of a class without the instructor's permission constitutes academic misconduct. For good reason: it undermines trust w/in classroom & stifles dialogue.
Please don't retweet these videos, even if you agree with their message.
Please don't retweet these videos, even if you agree with their message.
If you walk into a bar and discover the bartender is a neo-Nazi who is slipping poison pills into patrons' drinks, staying in the bar -- and inviting your friends to come too -- does not make you "neutral" or "unbiased." It makes you complicit.
Divest from X.
Divest from X.
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If you walk into a bar and discover the bartender is a neo-Nazi who is slipping poison pills into patrons' drinks, staying in the bar -- and inviting your friends to come too -- does not make you "neutral" or "unbiased." It makes you complicit.
Divest from X.
Divest from X.
@nbcnews.com : yeah, he's a neo-Nazi, but we're still going to push traffic to his web site.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
@nbcnews.com : yeah, he's a neo-Nazi, but we're still going to push traffic to his web site.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the season (71.29°N). It will rise again in 66 days (January 23rd). Good night. 🥱 @alaskawx.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the season (71.29°N). It will rise again in 66 days (January 23rd). Good night. 🥱 @alaskawx.bsky.social
Related: The next Gino will not be caught so easily.
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Related: The next Gino will not be caught so easily.
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4/ Today’s fertility rates don’t tell us how many babies a woman will eventually have. The TFR is a “snapshot” of current age-specific birth rates, which doesn't necessarily reflect eventual fertility when the timing of births is changing. ourworldindata.org/total-fertil... @ourworldindata.org
Why the total fertility rate doesn’t necessarily tell us the number of births women eventually have
The fertility rate is commonly confused with the eventual number of births per woman. This can result in misinterpreting the impact of policies and trends over time.
ourworldindata.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
4/ Today’s fertility rates don’t tell us how many babies a woman will eventually have. The TFR is a “snapshot” of current age-specific birth rates, which doesn't necessarily reflect eventual fertility when the timing of births is changing. ourworldindata.org/total-fertil... @ourworldindata.org
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The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
The Rise of Stratification Research in Sociology, Economics, and Political Science
How social stratification became increasingly studied in sister fields of sociology
hermwerf.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The rise of stratification research in sociology, economics, and political science. My new blog. With a conclusion that European universities should rather sponsor inequality centers than to dismantle them. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-sps.bsky.social hermwerf.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
If the GOP is successful at whitewashing curricula at all levels of schooling, the next generations of Americans are not going to understand why giving a Chinese woman the code name "Peril" is so vile.
Now imagine the same indoctrinated ignorance about every aspect of US history and society.
Now imagine the same indoctrinated ignorance about every aspect of US history and society.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If the GOP is successful at whitewashing curricula at all levels of schooling, the next generations of Americans are not going to understand why giving a Chinese woman the code name "Peril" is so vile.
Now imagine the same indoctrinated ignorance about every aspect of US history and society.
Now imagine the same indoctrinated ignorance about every aspect of US history and society.
Gen-AI breaks everything, survey research edition.
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Gen-AI breaks everything, survey research edition.
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This is a very interesting paper but the empirical evidence presented for an increase in connectivity (in their Fig. 1E) is rather problematic. A little thread 👇(1/7):
Is it possible that social media, which promised to connect the world, instead increased polarization? A model of human social dynamics predicts a sharp transition into a polarized state above a certain threshold of social connectivity. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Gym350XnNW8
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is a very interesting paper but the empirical evidence presented for an increase in connectivity (in their Fig. 1E) is rather problematic. A little thread 👇(1/7):
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People have no idea what we are about to lose.
alaskapublic.org/2025-western...
alaskapublic.org/2025-western...
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
alaskapublic.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
People have no idea what we are about to lose.
alaskapublic.org/2025-western...
alaskapublic.org/2025-western...
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Inside one of Alaska’s national parks, a fight looms over a possible gold mine, writes Max Graham for the Northern Journal.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/17/i...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/17/i...
Inside one of Alaska’s national parks, a fight looms over a possible gold mine | Alaska Beacon
An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc., which may develop a gold mine.
alaskabeacon.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Inside one of Alaska’s national parks, a fight looms over a possible gold mine, writes Max Graham for the Northern Journal.
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/17/i...
alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/17/i...
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Some fertility rates are apparent in social life. Crude birth rate is how many people are babies. Completed fertility is how many children women middle-aged women have. Total fertility rate is not. A given TFR can look like many different social patterns. It does not correspond to common perception.
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some fertility rates are apparent in social life. Crude birth rate is how many people are babies. Completed fertility is how many children women middle-aged women have. Total fertility rate is not. A given TFR can look like many different social patterns. It does not correspond to common perception.
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Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarch butterflies and are following their journeys on a cellphone app (and you can too). They are using a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200 (monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams).
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarch butterflies and are following their journeys on a cellphone app (and you can too). They are using a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200 (monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams).