jimi adams
@jimiadams.bsky.social
sociologist | social network researcher | still not quite sure which way is up | cyclist/swimmer | https://jimiadams.github.io/ | no, I will not subscribe to your substack
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jimi adams
@jimiadams.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Our (@paulinae.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, & I) paper on social capital, is now posted at Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour.... The thread below provides a bit of background on how this one came about, and a *rough* overview.
What. (& I cannot emphasize this enough) The. Fuck?
apnews.com/article/snap...
apnews.com/article/snap...
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
What. (& I cannot emphasize this enough) The. Fuck?
apnews.com/article/snap...
apnews.com/article/snap...
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⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Foreseeable and infuriating.
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Foreseeable and infuriating.
If ever a paper's finding(s) *screamed* for titling with a play on the (usages of) the word ratchet, this was the one.
People generally exert the least amount of energy they can to receive a reward. However, a new study finds that when participants learn that other people are working hard at a task, they will increase their efforts.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If ever a paper's finding(s) *screamed* for titling with a play on the (usages of) the word ratchet, this was the one.
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Join Roy Levy on Dec. 10-12 for "Applied Bayesian Data Analysis: A Second Course" to take your #Bayesian skills to the next level! Master key skills in advanced modeling frameworks, including factor analysis, structural equation models, and multilevel models.
Advanced Bayesian Analysis | Online Seminar | Statistical Horizons
This online workshop taught by Roy Levy, Ph.D., describes Bayesian approaches in several advanced modeling frameworks.
statisticalhorizons.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join Roy Levy on Dec. 10-12 for "Applied Bayesian Data Analysis: A Second Course" to take your #Bayesian skills to the next level! Master key skills in advanced modeling frameworks, including factor analysis, structural equation models, and multilevel models.
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Further evidence that the our failure to prosecute him the first time around explains where we are today. Brazil and South Korea both offer examples of how proper checks and balances are meant to work.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Further evidence that the our failure to prosecute him the first time around explains where we are today. Brazil and South Korea both offer examples of how proper checks and balances are meant to work.
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Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
my.corehr.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
A photo finish. In a marathon?!?!
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A photo finish. In a marathon?!?!
So, the NYT is finally starting to be awake at the wheel?
Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
So, the NYT is finally starting to be awake at the wheel?
Trying to think of what commonalities there possibly could be between Nigeria and Venezuela in the Cheeto brain. Gee...I wonder what it could be.
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Trying to think of what commonalities there possibly could be between Nigeria and Venezuela in the Cheeto brain. Gee...I wonder what it could be.
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I'm sorry if I keep saying the same thing, but we're eight months into the Trump regime and his unreality strategy is really coming together. You're not crazy, but they want you to think that you are if you deny the regime's version of truth. bsky.app/profile/jenm...
Just got done talking with two classes of students, which confirmed my suspicion that this is really the first "unreality" election. No two people saw the same thing & many people gave up even trying to know what was happening. "Unreality" propaganda strategy: 🎁
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
How Vladimir Putin Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare
How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
www.theatlantic.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I'm sorry if I keep saying the same thing, but we're eight months into the Trump regime and his unreality strategy is really coming together. You're not crazy, but they want you to think that you are if you deny the regime's version of truth. bsky.app/profile/jenm...
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Sen. Slotkin: “I believe Trump is reshaping the country to hold on to power. Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian in history.”
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sen. Slotkin: “I believe Trump is reshaping the country to hold on to power. Trump is following the same playbook as almost every authoritarian in history.”
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Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join Our Team — School of Data Science
We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.
datascience.virginia.edu
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Work with us at UVA School of Data Science!
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
@uvadatascience.bsky.social will continue to hire multiple faculty members across many areas of data science! Let me know if you're curious about our school. :)
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
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Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...
“Part of why they could not actually hold or try the individual that survived one of the attacks was because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden,” (not enough evidence to detain, but enough to attempt to kill?!? WTF)
People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Part of why they could not actually hold or try the individual that survived one of the attacks was because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden,” (not enough evidence to detain, but enough to attempt to kill?!? WTF)
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Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.
SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.
The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.
SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.
The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.
SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.
The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.
SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.
The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.
Absolutely asinine.
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Absolutely asinine.
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
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📢 Call for Editors: Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB)
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
📍 Term: 3 years, with possible renewal
Apply solo or as a co-editor team!
Submit application to publications@asanet.org
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#ASA #MedicalSociology
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
📍 Term: 3 years, with possible renewal
Apply solo or as a co-editor team!
Submit application to publications@asanet.org
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#ASA #MedicalSociology
www.asanet.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📢 Call for Editors: Journal of Health and Social Behavior (JHSB)
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
📍 Term: 3 years, with possible renewal
Apply solo or as a co-editor team!
Submit application to publications@asanet.org
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
#ASA #MedicalSociology
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
📍 Term: 3 years, with possible renewal
Apply solo or as a co-editor team!
Submit application to publications@asanet.org
www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...
#ASA #MedicalSociology
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If you talk to local and state election officials right now about what they're afraid of heading into next year's midterms, most will tell you, "federal interference." They know it's coming, that it will take many forms, and that it's unconstitutional. But still, resisting it will be challenging.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you talk to local and state election officials right now about what they're afraid of heading into next year's midterms, most will tell you, "federal interference." They know it's coming, that it will take many forms, and that it's unconstitutional. But still, resisting it will be challenging.
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This is crazy
arxiv.org/html/2505.23...
arxiv.org/html/2505.23...
Large Language Models Often Know When They Are Being Evaluated
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is crazy
arxiv.org/html/2505.23...
arxiv.org/html/2505.23...
[angrily throwing things]
Whether this is driven by gullibility or corruption is immaterial—the courts can’t throw this case out fast enough.
Breaking News: Texas sued the makers of Tylenol, alleging the companies hid the drug’s links to autism following unproven claims by President Trump.
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
[angrily throwing things]
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My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!
We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.
See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.
See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
Universität Graz
jobs.uni-graz.at
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!
We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.
See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.
See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...
I may have finally found a justification for getting a GoPro.
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I may have finally found a justification for getting a GoPro.