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Pamela Oliver

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Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. I mostly read & respond to others about random academic or other topics.

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Dealing with a grant budget crisis due to overspending on salaries due to failure to budget for inflation/wage increases. Have to terminate appointments early, including mine. Today's mail from HR: Please see your wage increase letter. Eye roll. The budget doesn't go up when there's a raise.

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fwiw my own symptoms were limited to a runny nose. I have some nasal congestion almost constantly, but the extra drip that one night was enough that I thought I should test to be safe, even though I was not very sick. And turned out positive. Again to your point

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my spouse's main symptoms were GI. But he tested negative when he first tested. Only tested positive when he retested three days later after I tested positive.

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Today's accomplishment. Worked carefully through the examples in a Stata blog and figured out how to make a nice display of multinomial logit results. Woo-hoo!

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Such an important lesson for organizing, and also for life in general. Thank you for writing.

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Nice touch. I tip somebody off about an empirical pattern nobody else has noticed. They produce a (good) different take on the main factor underlying the same basic empirical pattern and write about it. No thank you or hat tip or citation for the suggestion. That's one way to do it.

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See also a lot of tenured profs. But I retired at 70 even though I'm still doing research. Thought it was time to let other people get jobs.

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He ran in 2020 saying he'd only serve one term. I do think he should have stuck to that and let the Dem primaries do their job

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And low-info voters.

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The Dem panic is not about whether a Biden admin would do good policy, it would. It is entirely about whether they can get infrequent Dem voters to the polls if Biden heads the ticket.

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Pretty much. What bugs me is "Trump lies and is incoherent" seems uninteresting to the media. Presumably because Republicans already know that and have decided that having their party in power is worth putting up with Trump. Even if Biden is addled, his people are Dems doing good policy.

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OK I'm not a political scientist and I don't study voting, so possibly wrong, but I believe most self-defined "independents" pretty reliably vote one party or the other if they vote regularly. (IMO rational informed voters should vote party over person)

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If we are talking presidential election, wouldn't you say that most informed voters know what party they support and why? Choice of candidate within party would be much more likely to shift, if people have a choice, but not party preference. Seems to me that the real game is turnout.

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I like audiobooks. Is it true that Marquis who Mustn't isn't on audio?

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Especially for spouses (also others) if you have non-joint bank accounts that should go to someone if you die, list them as a survivor beneficiary on the account and save them a LOT of hassle and delay if you pass unexpectedly. Especially if the survivor has custody of your children.

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Trying to get word count for an article down. The references alone are 3100 words! I've seriously reviewed & cited relevant empirical work, especially by scholars of color, not just gratuitous citations to "big names." IMO references should not count for word limits. #Academicsky #Sociology

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looking forward to the audio version, which I assume will be forthcoming.

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Ojibwa, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Brotherton, Potawatomi, Oneida, Mohican, . . .

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hahahah. I also remembered pins in the carpet. Although we always joked that my dad, the only one who regularly wore shoes indoors, also seemed to be the one who most often stepped on a pin.

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And the Spanish American war. Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines (later independent but . . .). Also American Samoa, Saipan, US Virgin Islands.

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But now that my life is generally calmer, I sometimes get bored with mellow books and want something more challenging that I can dig into. But when bad things happen, I'm back to wanting easier books.

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I have had different tastes in books at different times of my life and even now tastes that vary on shorter-term bases. What kind of book I want to read depends on what else is going on in my life. When I had small children and a job, I just re-read the same dozen "comfort" books over and over.

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The lack of coverage of Trump's dementia seems particularly glaring.

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But, as your original post calls out, it took some kind of "movement" to create that oppression in the first place. Backlash and counter-movement concepts tend to ignore the movements/actions that created the oppression in the first place. Anyway, thanks. /end

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But if movts start winning, there is a push-back that can take a movt form. So tendency to call conservative movts counter-movts. Like counter-revolution. (I used to call post-Reconstruction US the White counter-revolution). 2/n

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If you don't mind, some longer thoughts from academic social movement studies. Backlash ideas seem related to counter-movement concepts & to generic idea that what powerful/rich people do isn't a movement, movements oppose that. 1/n

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I grew up in SoCal & went barefoot outdoors much of the year. We didn't wear shoes indoors, but that didn't help keep the floors clean, & I didn't learn "take shoes off at the door" as a home custom.

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In my experience, the two cultural groups who always remove shoes are East Asian and US upper Midwest (i.e. snow country). I gather from comments that upper Midwest extends to Canada. (Shoes not removed in my home culture, but I am not a clod and try to behave myself around other cultures.)

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Here's another good reason not to use those stupid MSFT/OpenAI/Meta/Anthropic AI tools: "A ChatGPT-powered search, according to the International Energy Agency, consumes almost 10 times the amount of electricity as a search on Google." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Not saying the data are perfect. But they are instructive and mesh with other data. I did a bunch of other unpublished analysis that I felt needed to be re-done and some work with new data. A lot of this is what was going on in poorer White places. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

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First, not disagreeing with the thread about impacts of different policies. Second, years ago I analyzed state prison trends by race. 1995 shows up as an inflection point: overall, Black prison admissions started going down while White admissions went up. www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...

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The reason people try to build some fluff into a grant budget is that when your university changes the pay rate for graduate students, the amount budgeted for their pay does not change. #academicsky

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#skyhistorians Sociologist here. In a journal article, we need to cite lots of no-author news articles as sources for quotes in addition to usual academic sources. We are thinking about having a separate list of these. Wondering if historians have standard practices about this. Formats?

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the underlying sources are a couple hundred, but we were planning to cite only the ones that are the basis of quotations. Still probably a few dozen.

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#academicsky We need to cite a lot of no-author newspaper articles that are sources for a qualitative content analysis in addition to academic references. Thinking of having a second list for these. Are the standard practices for this? Formats?

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@rauchway.bsky.social hoping to be allowed to post to What's History for this question. We need to cite a lot of no-author news articles that are sources for a qualitative content analysis in addition to usual academic sources. Are there practices for having a separate list for this? Formats?

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The thing that bugs me about reporter norms, honestly, is that a "source" must be a human being who tells them something, not a published article or book. So they ask you things they could just look up.

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You might think that grants administration is supposed to help you make sure you don't accidentally overspend your budget. #academicsky

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