Cindy L. Cain
@drclcain.bsky.social
Sociologist, organizational issues in health care delivery, end of life care, and dementia. Also sewing! Mostly quilts and apparel.
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
Love, love, love @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Doing the work of a public sociology with every post.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Love, love, love @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Doing the work of a public sociology with every post.
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I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
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"knowledge is humanity's spiritual birthright. Making it, playing with it, revising it, sifting through it, making sense of it -- it is baked into who we are as a species. [...] Every generation is responsible for protecting this legacy for the next generation."
Printing this to hand to my 13yo:
Printing this to hand to my 13yo:
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"knowledge is humanity's spiritual birthright. Making it, playing with it, revising it, sifting through it, making sense of it -- it is baked into who we are as a species. [...] Every generation is responsible for protecting this legacy for the next generation."
Printing this to hand to my 13yo:
Printing this to hand to my 13yo:
LinkedIn thinks I might want to be a part time bookseller. What do the AI overlords know that I don’t?
October 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
LinkedIn thinks I might want to be a part time bookseller. What do the AI overlords know that I don’t?
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In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...
Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences
In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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October 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...
Academics: can we please collectively agree to turn down the heat on ourselves and each other? Three easy things to do: 1. Say out loud “nothing is on fire” and repeat it until you believe that very little in our jobs is actually on fire. 2. Recognize the distinction between urgent and important.
October 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Academics: can we please collectively agree to turn down the heat on ourselves and each other? Three easy things to do: 1. Say out loud “nothing is on fire” and repeat it until you believe that very little in our jobs is actually on fire. 2. Recognize the distinction between urgent and important.
Today I broke my own cardinal WFH rule: never attempt to do IRB work at home. Leave all those bad feelings at the office.
September 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Today I broke my own cardinal WFH rule: never attempt to do IRB work at home. Leave all those bad feelings at the office.
Anyone know what Jon Meacham is up to these days? I/we could benefit from hearing his voice.
September 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anyone know what Jon Meacham is up to these days? I/we could benefit from hearing his voice.
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A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
www.bostonreview.net
September 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.
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Not only is it possible to believe that political violence is bad AND Nazis are bad (and not to be mourned as part of public life), it’s… a very consistent worldview
September 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Not only is it possible to believe that political violence is bad AND Nazis are bad (and not to be mourned as part of public life), it’s… a very consistent worldview
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Chilling.
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 10:30 AM
Chilling.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
My book, Called to Care? Health Care, Burnout, and the Search for Meaningful Work, has a publication date — June 9, 2026!
August 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My book, Called to Care? Health Care, Burnout, and the Search for Meaningful Work, has a publication date — June 9, 2026!
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It’s only 11:15am and I’ve already listened to this 80 times.
August 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s only 11:15am and I’ve already listened to this 80 times.
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I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵
August 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵
The part I think about all the time is how it was a compliment to be told “you’re not like other girls.” All the girls trying to not be like other girls, just because we all hated women so much.
Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it
August 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The part I think about all the time is how it was a compliment to be told “you’re not like other girls.” All the girls trying to not be like other girls, just because we all hated women so much.
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
May even the bats mourn with us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-T...
July 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
May even the bats mourn with us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-T...
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
Clever.
So, allies, here’s the best thing for you to do if you encounter bigot protesters at Pride.
Take them aside and ask them to teach you about Jesus.
Take them aside and ask them to teach you about Jesus.
June 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Clever.
I loved this episode when it cane out in 2022. The bits about fashion sizing and data were intriguing. But I listened again today and the fascism and eugenics angles really struck home. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Butt Stuff
Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 11/11/2022 · 35m
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June 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I loved this episode when it cane out in 2022. The bits about fashion sizing and data were intriguing. But I listened again today and the fascism and eugenics angles really struck home. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
It’s ok to be jealous.
May 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s ok to be jealous.