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S. Michael Gaddis

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Looking for an academic job during the end times... Research: discrimination inequality race quant methods experiments I post about: Atlanta, academia, social science, research methods, transit, urban stuff, NBA, MLB, pinball www.stevenmichaelgaddis.com

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · May 6

Many correspondence audits collect data on multiple characteristics but don't examine all potential forms of discrimination. In our latest paper on @socarxiv.bsky.social, “Missing Results of Discrimination,” we show that scholars may unintentionally miss key findings.
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Missing Results of Discrimination: A Systematically Comparative Meta-Analysis and Re-Examinations of Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination using Correspondence Audits

Intersectionality theory argues that race and gender cannot be fully understood in isolation or through an additive approach. However, field experiments frequently examine aggregate racial or gender…

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Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social · Jun 26

A man in academia: He's amazing! He doesn't disrespect me, allows me to suggest my own ideas & even got me an unpaid internship.

A woman in ac: She advocated so I'd get pay for internship, supported my mental health & gave me a kidney. But her 'hello' was cold. She might be a bitch, I don't know.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Jun 18

There is absolutely no reason to deport a longtime journalist who is authorized to work in the United States.

The Dekalb County Sheriff's Office should not have released Mario Guevara to ICE.

Arrested in Ga. protest, immigrant journalist now in ICE custody

Georgia-based journalist arrested during a protest has been placed in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

www.wrdw.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jun 18

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm pretending scotus doesn't exist until I'm done with work so I can scream into a pillow

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · Jun 18

Block time.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 13

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..."

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 13

Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the lawsuits when cops do illegal stuff like this. It’s unconscionable.

Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · Jun 13

Las Vegas police immediately arrest two livestreamers when one of them insults an officer after an anti-ICE protest ("honor your oath, bitch"). "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me."

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Mayor of MARTA @mayorofmarta.bsky.social · Jun 13

Well now we know why Uber + Waymo is a sponsor. They paid $25K to be sponsors. This is why we need to get corporate money out of the non-profit industrial complex. At least our concerns are being heard by the local media.
@threadatl.bsky.social

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · Jun 13

Who the fuck at Streets Alive thought this was a good idea?

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · Jun 12

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

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Indivisible ATL @indivisibleatl.bsky.social · Jun 13

Take care of yourself includes bring water. Wear sunscreen. BRING MEDS!

Do you need an EpiPen? A rescue inhaler? Insulin?

Bring it to the protest! Bonus points if you can bring the box with the prescription on it.

Indivisible Cobb ❌👑 @indcobb.bsky.social · Jun 13

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · Jun 13

But who will stand up for the bacon, cheese, and egg?

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · Jun 13

Why spend $500k on humble improvements that benefit a broad community when you could instead blow $10M on a crazy ass segregated-access bridge?

vladimir.theatl.social @vladimir.theatl.social · Jun 13

"Pilgrim said the skybridge will improve accessibility to the Capitol and to committee hearings for young people, seniors and people in wheelchairs. "

Maybe fix the sidewalks, crosswalks, and building entrances first?

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Atlanta City Council members block controversial skybridge for new Georgia legislative building • Georgia Recorder

The state government and Atlanta City Council are at odds over a proposed skybridge connecting the state Capitol with a new legislative office building currently under construction across the street.

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · Jun 13

50 seems like 99th percentile success.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jun 10

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Jun 9

1 in 12 Americans live in California.

1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.

LA is America

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · Jun 8

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 5

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Apr 30

today in dubious career milestones

professor writes to ask whether an academic article by me cited in a student paper is

A). simply hard to track down

or

B). an AI hallucination

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · May 22

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
economist.com/science-and-...

website views of PhD programmes up in Netherlands. canada, sweden etc

website views from outside the US down massively in the US, up elsewhere

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · May 16

The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · May 16

He seems to be describing Congress...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 16

Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Medicaid: "The person we're taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work."

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · May 15

INBOX: In an op-ed, leaders of Atlanta Botanical Garden, Park Pride, and Trust for Public Land embraced Mayor Dickens' "group project" to kill the voter-approved Streetcar East Extension and move things Southside. They are now calling for building a second Eastside BeltLine along the streetcar ROW.

The Beltline is increasingly popular, and Atlanta must help it evolve

The Eastside Beltline is in desperate need of a second trail.

www.ajc.com

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · May 15

Bill Torpy wrote something similar a few weeks ago, and I'm not buying it. Their "solution" doesn't align well with the problem they suggest.

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S. Michael Gaddis @smgaddis.bsky.social · May 15

IF their concerns are truly about peds vs micromobility, consider first regulating the scooters plaguing the beltline. These are allowed to be dumped everywhere, often right in the middle of the path. People riding them often have limited experience & possibly inebriated at the most congested times.

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