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Marcus Mann
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Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Duke University sociology PhD. Science, knowledge, and politics.
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drmann.bsky.social
Back in my day, you got your black coffee right at the register.
a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson holding a card
media.tenor.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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melinamuch.bsky.social
Is Joe Rogan really just a voice of the right? Our new @csmapnyu.org piece for @goodauth.bsky.social shows he’s just as much a space for the left and the center, too. A look inside today’s surprisingly complicated podcast information ecosystem. 🎙️

goodauthority.org/news/podcast...
December 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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sanderwagner.bsky.social
me: Nutrition research is often quite lacking in its methods but at the same time the world leader in meme virality, by regularly uncovering things we want to be true to feel better about the food identity we have developed.

also me: this study must be true.

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Study finds potential link between high-fat cheese and lower risk of dementia
A study out of Sweden has looked at the possible link between eating more high-fat cheese, like cheddar, gouda and brie, and a lower risk of developing dementia.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
drmann.bsky.social
20/20. I’m 41. Typewriter is the one that just nicked me.
btsaudge.bsky.social audge⁷ -- an armpit sommelier @btsaudge.bsky.social · 19d
Show your age

17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
SHOW YOUR AGE 1 POINT FOR EACH ONE YOU USED 1 FAX MACHINE 2 ROTARY PHONE 3 ENCYCLOPEDIA 4 FLOPPY DISK 5 AOL ADDRESS 6 RECORD PLAYER 7 DIAL UP INTERNET 8 FILM CAMERA 9 MIXED TAPE 10 PHONE BOOTH 11 CURSIVE 12 CHECK BOOK 13 TYPEWRITER 14 DICTIONARY 15 VCR 16 PAPER MAP 17 WATERBED 18 POSTCARD 19 WALKMAN 20 PHONE BOOK
December 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
drmann.bsky.social
Cool cool cool
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 18d
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
These Indiana Republicans are civic heroes. Shocking and inspiring to see after the collapse of resistance to illiberalism among so many of their counterparts over the last decade.
paulwaldman.bsky.social Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21d
The next turn in American politics could be a widespread reaction against Trumpism as a political style, with its vulgarity, hatefulness, and constant threat of violence. If that happens the Republicans who remade themselves in Trump's image will be in trouble.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Several Republican senators noted on Thursday that constituents opposed a mid-decade redrawing of US House maps and that they questioned the wisdom or the precedent of joining the national redistricting battle. But a number of Republicans, including people who voted for the president three elections in a row, also gave deeply personal reasons over the last several weeks. Sen. Mike Bohacek has a daughter with Down syndrome. He was offended by Trump’s use of a slur for people with disabilities, in a Truth Social post deriding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and said that Trump’s “choices of words have consequences.” Sen. Greg Walker, who represents former Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown of Columbus, said he was among the senators targeted by swatting attempts in the weeks leading up to Thursday’s vote. While law enforcement has not publicly linked the swatting or other threats to a political motive, Walker said he felt voting yes would reward wrongdoing and set a dangerous precedent. Sen. Greg Goode, whose town hall in Terre Haute this fall revealed massive public opposition to mid-decade redistricting, said the new maps would splinter communities with similar interests. He also criticized “over-the-top pressure from inside the Statehouse and outside,” as well as “threats of violence, acts of violence.” “Whether we realize it or not, whether we accept it or not, the forces that define this vitriolic political affairs in places outside of Indiana have been gradually and now very blatantly infiltrated the political affairs in Indiana,” he said in a speech before the vote.
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
drmann.bsky.social
Proud of my Republican state lawmakers tonight
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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stewartcoles.bsky.social
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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samulireijula.net
pitchfork.com/reviews/trac... "halfway through, an uplifting electric keyboard line kicks in; ... his voice shakes off the ice and forms a chorus with itself ... It’s the dawn at the end of a long night, a prayer that past traumas might be healed by a beautiful present."
Sufjan Stevens: “Should Have Known Better”
Read Jeremy Gordon’s review of the track.
pitchfork.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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philipncohen.com
This pattern is stark enough, and so confined to political views (same by political party ID), and the pandemic hitting so hard, that it makes me think people might be defining their political views based on their attitude toward science, rather than the reverse.

Anyways, this is really bad.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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stewartcoles.bsky.social
Glad to see others taking on the issues with “polarization” as a dominant yet over-simplistic lens through which to see politics. Will be essential reading alongside @dkreiss.bsky.social & @shannimcg.bsky.social (2023): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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journals.sagepub.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
🚨new article🚨

"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today

Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive

🧵Thread🧵

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Abstract for the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-025-00779-4
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
drmann.bsky.social
On pie. Yes please.
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
drmann.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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joshmccrain.bsky.social
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
drmann.bsky.social
Just out! Josh Doyle and I use novel data collection to find Dems trust knowledge institutions while Reps trust traditional institutions. Both perceive public to have lower trust than they do in their trusted institutions and lower trust in general than shown in GSS. books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
Advances in Group Processes
Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a broad conception of “group processes.” This includes wo...
books.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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joshuafoust.com
Marczyński, P., & Tebaldi, C. (2025). The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X. New Media & Society, 0(0). #CommSky
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...
journals.sagepub.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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piotrmarczynski.bsky.social
Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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thesocietypages.bsky.social
New Clippings: Political violence on the rise, the decline of Jewish humor, threats to census expertise, and outrage-based media fueling polarization.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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brianckeegan.com Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book:

To Injure a Mockingbird
alexflexnelson.bsky.social Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

Mid-level Manager of the Rings
September 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM