Sagar Kumar
@diesagar.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student, Network Science Institute
DJ & Co-Founder, FDEC Records
sagarkumar.net
Studying the mathematical foundations of language and communication.
Looking for Postdocs & Fac Positions starting 2026 😇
DJ & Co-Founder, FDEC Records
sagarkumar.net
Studying the mathematical foundations of language and communication.
Looking for Postdocs & Fac Positions starting 2026 😇
Thrilled to see this out! Congrats to collaborators and please give it a read. Since we wrote this, it’s only become more pressing and timely.
hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for
public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly
vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the US, understandin...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thrilled to see this out! Congrats to collaborators and please give it a read. Since we wrote this, it’s only become more pressing and timely.
Reposted by Sagar Kumar
hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Mainstream news outlets set the agenda and terms of discussion for
public discourse. As transgender people experience increasingly
vitriolic attacks on their fundamental rights in the US, understandin...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
hot off the (virtual) press in @transstudies.bsky.social: a collaboration with @pranavgoel.bsky.social, @crazybrokeasian.bsky.social, and @diesagar.bsky.social on information flows in US local & national news about transgender people (spoiler alert: it’s complicated)
doi.org/10.57814/557...
doi.org/10.57814/557...
the state of media right now has me feeling like frankie muniz in big fat liar
September 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
the state of media right now has me feeling like frankie muniz in big fat liar
calling him a "conservative activist" is... a fascinating framing
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
calling him a "conservative activist" is... a fascinating framing
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.
Here, he tells us his story.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
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“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction
Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.
www.masslive.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”
Boston’s Logan Airport clearly has a preference when it comes to fundamental particles because I haven’t seen a Fermion sign anywhere
August 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Boston’s Logan Airport clearly has a preference when it comes to fundamental particles because I haven’t seen a Fermion sign anywhere
Just published my first little bit of science journalism on this great article by @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Jennifer Culbertson about whether communicative efficiencies in language (in this case, differential case marking) are learned or acquired through use. Please give it a look!!
August 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just published my first little bit of science journalism on this great article by @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Jennifer Culbertson about whether communicative efficiencies in language (in this case, differential case marking) are learned or acquired through use. Please give it a look!!
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Second, with a large team of authors, led by @anniewald.bsky.social, we study which (personal, temporal, spatial, affordance-based) properties of incidences of extrajudicial police killings facilitate public attention on social media.
August 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Second, with a large team of authors, led by @anniewald.bsky.social, we study which (personal, temporal, spatial, affordance-based) properties of incidences of extrajudicial police killings facilitate public attention on social media.
Could be more proud to see this publication out!!! So grateful for the wonderful team. Please give it a look!!
*New publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social!*
The deaths of Black victims of police violence have become focusing events for #BlackLivesMatter. We wanted to know why some victims receive a high amount of social media attention wile others do not.
Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/0894...
The deaths of Black victims of police violence have become focusing events for #BlackLivesMatter. We wanted to know why some victims receive a high amount of social media attention wile others do not.
Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/0894...
August 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Could be more proud to see this publication out!!! So grateful for the wonderful team. Please give it a look!!
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Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
William (Bill) Labov (1927–2024) - Volume 54 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
LLM research for the last few years has been constantly saying "I can't put this in the paper--nobody would use a model that just predicts the next token to make decisions about [insert life-altering scenario here]" then seeing an article titled "Can AI help make decisions about nuclear warfare?"
July 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
LLM research for the last few years has been constantly saying "I can't put this in the paper--nobody would use a model that just predicts the next token to make decisions about [insert life-altering scenario here]" then seeing an article titled "Can AI help make decisions about nuclear warfare?"
This is the closest thing i’ve come to a noumenal experience.
i have literally no reference for it. it is only itself-in-itself.
every part of it contradicts itself in so many ways that the only thing left is The Lacanian Real. The Truth.
i have literally no reference for it. it is only itself-in-itself.
every part of it contradicts itself in so many ways that the only thing left is The Lacanian Real. The Truth.
July 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is the closest thing i’ve come to a noumenal experience.
i have literally no reference for it. it is only itself-in-itself.
every part of it contradicts itself in so many ways that the only thing left is The Lacanian Real. The Truth.
i have literally no reference for it. it is only itself-in-itself.
every part of it contradicts itself in so many ways that the only thing left is The Lacanian Real. The Truth.
spending my weekend hate-reading Frege because I’ve realized it’s actually important for me to know if I’m ever to dispute it
July 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
spending my weekend hate-reading Frege because I’ve realized it’s actually important for me to know if I’m ever to dispute it
“jordan’s furniture is like the narnia of massachusetts”
July 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“jordan’s furniture is like the narnia of massachusetts”
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pragmatics is such a funny topic in linguistics because it’s like “what if everything you worried people were thinking about you was true”
July 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
pragmatics is such a funny topic in linguistics because it’s like “what if everything you worried people were thinking about you was true”
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I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
July 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
funny how donnie is aligning himself with bolsanaro who quite literally calls himself a socialist
July 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
funny how donnie is aligning himself with bolsanaro who quite literally calls himself a socialist
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I really cooked with this one
July 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I really cooked with this one
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There's amazing work on group effects in higher-order networks, but not a lot of connections to social ontology, collective action, and group selection.
Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758
Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758
Defining and classifying models of groups: The social ontology of higher-order networks
In complex systems research, the study of higher-order interactions has exploded in recent years. Researchers have formalized various types of group interactions, such as public goods games, biologica...
arxiv.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
There's amazing work on group effects in higher-order networks, but not a lot of connections to social ontology, collective action, and group selection.
Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758
Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758
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This is really important to understand. Some of the people “bending the knee to Trump” are in fact doing what they feel they must to protect people and institutions they love from the vast (and increasingly unreviewable) power of the President of the United States.
Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation
All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs
All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs
June 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is really important to understand. Some of the people “bending the knee to Trump” are in fact doing what they feel they must to protect people and institutions they love from the vast (and increasingly unreviewable) power of the President of the United States.
kinda want to write an essay about how the phrase “touch grass” feels rooted in the postmodern desire for the noumenal
but i know if i write that, someone is gonna say that i need to touch grass lol
but i know if i write that, someone is gonna say that i need to touch grass lol
June 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
kinda want to write an essay about how the phrase “touch grass” feels rooted in the postmodern desire for the noumenal
but i know if i write that, someone is gonna say that i need to touch grass lol
but i know if i write that, someone is gonna say that i need to touch grass lol
“Powerpoints are like the cocomelon version of a paper”
- my girlfriend
- my girlfriend
June 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Powerpoints are like the cocomelon version of a paper”
- my girlfriend
- my girlfriend
TIL that Andre from Victorious voiced Tyrone on the Backyardigans
“MUTT” by Leon Thomas reaches a new peak of #12 (+2) on the Hot 100.
June 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
TIL that Andre from Victorious voiced Tyrone on the Backyardigans
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"US embassy in Dublin wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications. The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public." www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...
US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public.
www.thejournal.ie
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"US embassy in Dublin wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications. The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public." www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...