Colby
@ckdoeswork.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Sociology. Son of a steel mill worker from western PA. #firstgen
ORCID: 0000-0002-7582-0375
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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hey this is fun
And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...
Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA
The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.
www.historians.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
hey this is fun
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What would we have to see for us to not take the "soaring cost" of higher ed talking point at face value? How many data points do we need? How many years of tuition freezes at UW? We could have a sensible discussion about college costs around levels, but we can't even get the delta stuff right.
October 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What would we have to see for us to not take the "soaring cost" of higher ed talking point at face value? How many data points do we need? How many years of tuition freezes at UW? We could have a sensible discussion about college costs around levels, but we can't even get the delta stuff right.
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I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.
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Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.
October 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.
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Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
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Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.
We do not deserve this.
We do not deserve this.
October 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.
We do not deserve this.
We do not deserve this.
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South Carolina's criminal code sentences a rapist to 30 years for rape, but if SC's new S 323 becomes law, it'd sentence a woman to death for getting an abortion
Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐
Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
South Carolina's criminal code sentences a rapist to 30 years for rape, but if SC's new S 323 becomes law, it'd sentence a woman to death for getting an abortion
Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐
Meaning—if a man impregnates a woman via rape he may get 30 years, but if that impregnated victim gets an abortion she would be executed😐
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the best answer i got for this:
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
the best answer i got for this:
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Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
Here are some of his beautiful shots.
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More maps book makers! Our maps book series is demanding to expand even faster. Cities taken: CLE, DET, Cincy, Columbus, PGH, CHI, Madison, MPLS, DC, Boston. Still lots of cities open! Cartographers can tackle them themselves or team up with an editor.
September 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
More maps book makers! Our maps book series is demanding to expand even faster. Cities taken: CLE, DET, Cincy, Columbus, PGH, CHI, Madison, MPLS, DC, Boston. Still lots of cities open! Cartographers can tackle them themselves or team up with an editor.
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GLENDALE: 350 BROADWAY ST, GLENDALE SC 29346-9800
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
GLENDALE: 350 BROADWAY ST, GLENDALE SC 29346-9800
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At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration.
The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
It’s Official: Poverty Got Worse Under Joe Biden
A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
jacobin.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.
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CHOTINER: And you said you’ve had trouble sleeping.
ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything.
CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed…
ME: Hold on just a second.
ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything.
CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed…
ME: Hold on just a second.
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
CHOTINER: And you said you’ve had trouble sleeping.
ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything.
CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed…
ME: Hold on just a second.
ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything.
CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed…
ME: Hold on just a second.
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me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
September 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
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A colleague made an inspiring point earlier today: The work of social scientists may never be more important. Whatever the current administration destroys doesn't just provide a chance to rebuild, but a blank slate to build something better. There's a lot of important work to do.
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A colleague made an inspiring point earlier today: The work of social scientists may never be more important. Whatever the current administration destroys doesn't just provide a chance to rebuild, but a blank slate to build something better. There's a lot of important work to do.
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the muppets as iphones: thread
September 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
the muppets as iphones: thread
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Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
n.pr
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
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From victorerikray.bsky.social in ASR: ‘Threats to the organizational hierarchy…the hiring or promotion of non-Whites, affirmative action policies, or diversity programs are often seen as illegitimate intrusions into the normal, meritocratic, neutral functioning of organizations (Moore & Bell 2011)’
Education Dept. to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions, Affecting Hundreds of Colleges
The Trump administration argued that such grants are discriminatory “by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.”
www.chronicle.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
From victorerikray.bsky.social in ASR: ‘Threats to the organizational hierarchy…the hiring or promotion of non-Whites, affirmative action policies, or diversity programs are often seen as illegitimate intrusions into the normal, meritocratic, neutral functioning of organizations (Moore & Bell 2011)’
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Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.
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If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
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I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.
Administrators caving to this is terrifying.