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evacide
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What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH@rmcarpiano.bsky.social |
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Professor, Univ. of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Public health scientist & sociologist studying population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news. Views expressed are mine and you might not always like them. 🇺🇲🇨🇦
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evacide
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What you need to understand about the World Wide Web in 1994, is that it was incredibly ugly: www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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(cont'd)...(non-cable news) policy debates, legislation, policies/programs/interventions, etc for specific issues they study. Fine if many want to just do basic sci like bio/chem depts, but if all the ASA bragging abt addressing social issues is a sig. focus, then more needed. Gets back to training.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Oh darn--one last pt: US sociology often brags how impt it is for creating a better world. Yet I'm repeatedly struck by how out of touch many in the field (in general) can be wrt... (Cont'd)
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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9/2 (fin) Just throwing out random thoughts on this. Ppl might disagree, think I'm too broad brush. It's bluesky but maybe so. Also my PhD is only half soc anyhow & our RWJ postdoc never encouraged us to think status quo. And I'm sure there were selection factors on our end as applicants for that.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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8/2 4. Reproduction of hires in existing areas of depts. vs. hiring in new areas. To many on soc, it seems a perfectly reasonable approach. Of course, placement of grads (in other depts doing usual stuff) creates a supply/demand loop too).
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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7/2 (cont'd) I've seen in my inbox like disasters, pandemic preparedness, water policy, sci/tech innovation, antibiotic resistance (ht Amelie Quesnel-Vallee the lone sociologist co-author on a great Canadian report on the societal impacts) that need soc's attn (& not just inequality lenses).
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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6/2 3. Personal bio inspiring one's work. That's cool--I get how its impt for many ppl's foci, but lots of impt issues not obviously tied/unrelated to one's bio--eg, climate change, or policy input calls off the top of my head like...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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5/2 (Cont'd) I call that doing soc for soc's sake vs. impact beyond soc. Calls to mind a friend in a good dept many yrs ago who was told by sr. faculty how their new for soc/cutting edge focus topic (that landed funding) wasn't sociological (tho it obviously was & soon became a big social problem).🤦
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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4/2 2. Disincentives for jr. ppl to do work too far out there--e g., even if climate change, parochial soc angles. Job ads usually rely on typical ASA section areas, req'ing applicants & new hires to frame their work as fitting w/ the status quo/regress to mean.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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3/2 @wrigleyfield.bsky.social: as usual, you got me thinking; pondered taste-making/unexplored areas more over past few days:
1. Top forums no help: hard to argue AJS/SF dept. journals "cutting edge" except for w/in parochial areas & ARS invite-only from ed board of ppl doing standard soc areas.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Chris Uggen
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In a survey of 11,273 federal workers, sociologist Erin Cech finds that white men who were targets of harassment become more skeptical that their organizations are meritocratic and hence more likely to recognize and report race and gender bias in their orgs. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Totally strong gatekeeping especially by people doing esoterica. Yet, FWIW, my experience with soc of the env is definitely not that--just very interdisciplinary and on the fringe of the discipline like health.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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2/2 Even ASA hinders focus on cutting edge/emerging topics via how sessions are scheduled a yr+ in advance & sessions allocated to sections. I'd love a conference theme like: "Existential Threats to Humanity" or "Very Serious Societal Shit Sociology Generally Ignores."
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Me neither. I think some of it has to do w/ opportunity hoarding & reproduction in top depts. & students mimicking advisors. I look at the focal areas in those depts. & see how narrow/parochial they are. Little training on policy process vs. emphasizing very acad. focus w/inward incentive structure.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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(cont'd) Being in a policy school often reminds me how many pressing issues exist in the world & soc sci insights on them are sought by other fields/policymakers, yet no/not enough sociologists are doing. Climate change among humanity's biggest threats, yet how does soc treat soc of env./disasters?
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Anyone surprised? Add climate change to an ever growing list...
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Don Moynihan
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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:
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The Onion
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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Please share: The UC, Riverside School of Public Policy is hiring this Fall up to 2 Asst. Professors who can conduct research & teaching on the politics of the policy process. Ad below. I'm the Search Chair and happy to answer questions (please email, no DMs). Policysky polisky sociology 🛟📈lawsky
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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How sad that this discussion on "Who, as a Biden replacement, could win?" basically skips over the question of "Who would be an effective leader for our country if they won?"
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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What are the limits of academic freedom? Grist for debate here applied to Scott Atlas' COVID hustle, but pts on expertise made me ponder "sci opinion" hot take ppl who target the public to gain cred & even impassioned profs who pen position statements on issues outside their training/study area...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Story shows how, even for Patagonia, known for its very friendly work-personal life policies, no matter what you do, some employees will always claim you're not doing enough for them. Buried lede: employees wanted connection, only 1/3, & customer service/bottom line req'd it.
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@darkwebmallcop.bsky.social
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I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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(cont'd) I wrote a bit about this troubling science opinion/hot take phenomenon back in 2021. Glad to see @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and Moore address this further.
🛟🧪Medsky sociology policysky 🧭 health policy
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Lest I commit the same error twice, I will not say that this could potentially eliminate that market (akin to my thinking in 2020 that COVID could suck the wind out of the antivax movement because Americans would see the harm of an infectious disease big time and say, "Forget that BS."
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Wow. From what I saw, many deserved criticisms. Her responses offer logic fallacy teachable moments--e.g., 1. Princeton Prof ergo qualified expert (LOL!)=appeal to authority 2. authors' criticisms bc of my gender=ad hominem (see their other work) plus 3. "I teach stats" ergo epi design "expert."🤦♂️
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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I wrote a bit about this phenomena (and one of those science opinion writers) back in 2021. Glad to see Gonsalves and Moore address this further. flux.community/richard-m-ca...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Horton raises a great point. The science community response has been pathetic. I say that as someone who was invited to be part of two potential initiatives in the US--both of which started with such urgency to respond to these problems and then went silent.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Great critique: "These articles fall into a genre we’ll call 'science opinion,' where non-experts pontificate...abt the pandemic virus & our response to it. This is distinct from science journalism...where experts in translating sci to the general public report on technical developments."🛟🧪sociology
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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In related trivia: he is the son of a former EPA Head.
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Another sign of the slow death of expertise... “...the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue--no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden--involving the meaning of regulatory law... the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar.” -Kagan policysky 🧪
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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That's basically all he can do in that role: get the conversation going.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Study of community notes on social media: Across both sides of the political spectrum, community notes viewed as sig. more trustworthy vs. simple misinfo flags. Also improved identification of misleading posts. 🧪🛟sociology cognitive psychology polisky
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CNN
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JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting
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Dorit Reiss
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More Evidence That Flu Is Linked to Heart Attacks www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Sean
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news you can use:
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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👇👇And might I add that, while "guys" in some parts of the world, is a non-gendered descriptor, in this context, it is definitely synonymous with men...
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Peter Jeffe
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“The decisions that were made in response to these protests continue to show, as I’ve said before, the severe lack of leadership we expect from our leaders, as they continue to prioritize extreme government overreach over actual public safety,” [Travis County Attorney Delia] Garza said.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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"Preventive health stigma penetrated the Braidwood decision thru the case's focus on PrEP users' signaled prurient behavior instead of the drug's proven health benefits... Understanding how stigma attaches to prev. med...an impt step in understanding how law & prejudice can undermine hlth reform."🛟🧭
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The Grim Reaper
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A warning to you Your culture has reached an era where humans demand apologies for everything, but accept apologies for nothing
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Sure can't hurt... If you followed me in the hellsite, you know I've criticized the Surgeon General on other matters, but I am glad he did this... 🛟 medsky sociology policysky health policy episky
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Students may laugh, but I just pray they heed my warnings.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Sheesh--if you're going to take protective measures that out of the ordinary, focus it on Maroon 5.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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"Some progressives" huh? Positions aside, I presume that just means "people who don't grasp how politics works." If social media has shown us anything, it's how many ppl across the political spectrum just don't seem to grasp that real-life governing is complex, requiring compromise and trade-offs.
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Philip Bump
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Those drugs that Trumpworld is insisting that Biden will take before the debate to suddenly reverse the cognitive decline they insist afflicts him? Such drugs don't exist. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Indeed... Another example: youtu.be/pB4G9WBYMFo?...
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