Pamela Neumann
@pamelaneumann.bsky.social
Sociologist. Mamá. Hablo español.
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The time in between the holidays has always haunted me, but I never knew why exactly.
As a child I loved it. Because my brother and I never counted Christmas as "over." it wasn't over till school started back.
As an adult, the magic began to fade. It was replaced with conflicting emotions
🧵
As a child I loved it. Because my brother and I never counted Christmas as "over." it wasn't over till school started back.
As an adult, the magic began to fade. It was replaced with conflicting emotions
🧵
January 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
The time in between the holidays has always haunted me, but I never knew why exactly.
As a child I loved it. Because my brother and I never counted Christmas as "over." it wasn't over till school started back.
As an adult, the magic began to fade. It was replaced with conflicting emotions
🧵
As a child I loved it. Because my brother and I never counted Christmas as "over." it wasn't over till school started back.
As an adult, the magic began to fade. It was replaced with conflicting emotions
🧵
I take back everything I was thinking about the Longhorn defense. They have come up big at the end of this game.
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I take back everything I was thinking about the Longhorn defense. They have come up big at the end of this game.
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This is about outcomes when water breaks too early: "After the law went into effect, termination was only an option in Texas if the mother's life was endangered. Risk of serious adverse outcomes overall increased from 24% to 38.5%, while rates of sepsis jumped from 9.4% to 29.2%."
A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.
What researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion laws
In the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change.
medicalxpress.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is about outcomes when water breaks too early: "After the law went into effect, termination was only an option in Texas if the mother's life was endangered. Risk of serious adverse outcomes overall increased from 24% to 38.5%, while rates of sepsis jumped from 9.4% to 29.2%."
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I will not use it at the beach
I will not use it when I teach
I do not want it in a church
I do not want it for research
I see no reason to concede
I will not use it when I read
Although its hype should have no end
Upon it I will not depend
I will not use it when I teach
I do not want it in a church
I do not want it for research
I see no reason to concede
I will not use it when I read
Although its hype should have no end
Upon it I will not depend
I do not like your AI slop
I do not like it, make it stop
I do not want an AI house
I do not want an AI mouse
No AI box. No AI fox—
That AI slop can go kick rocks
I would not AI here or there
I would not AI anywhere
No AI car, no AI czar
Your AI slop is killing trees
I do not like it, let me be!
I do not like it, make it stop
I do not want an AI house
I do not want an AI mouse
No AI box. No AI fox—
That AI slop can go kick rocks
I would not AI here or there
I would not AI anywhere
No AI car, no AI czar
Your AI slop is killing trees
I do not like it, let me be!
December 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I will not use it at the beach
I will not use it when I teach
I do not want it in a church
I do not want it for research
I see no reason to concede
I will not use it when I read
Although its hype should have no end
Upon it I will not depend
I will not use it when I teach
I do not want it in a church
I do not want it for research
I see no reason to concede
I will not use it when I read
Although its hype should have no end
Upon it I will not depend
Oh. No.
An attack in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and the Take Care Clause of the Constitution.
Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Seemingly conducted as covert action and then casually disclosed by POTUS while calling into a radio show.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Oh. No.
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In the New Year, I will need someone who is skilled at making an artful map for a project that I am working on. If this is you, please reach out in January - niapoetry@gmail.com
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In the New Year, I will need someone who is skilled at making an artful map for a project that I am working on. If this is you, please reach out in January - niapoetry@gmail.com
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
This week i celebrated my birthday. 48 and feelin’ great. 😎 And Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎄
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This week i celebrated my birthday. 48 and feelin’ great. 😎 And Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 🎄
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Bari Weiss and these academics claim that universities/TV networks are biased because they’re unbiased & don’t seek to indoctrinate people into conservatism & then use these false claims of bias to promote their own conservative biases.
See what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS News? This is what she and ideologically driven conservative activist academics have been trying to do to higher ed. And I’m going to keep on highlighting this.
December 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Bari Weiss and these academics claim that universities/TV networks are biased because they’re unbiased & don’t seek to indoctrinate people into conservatism & then use these false claims of bias to promote their own conservative biases.
Similar logic for research on topics now viewed unfavorably by the regime.
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Similar logic for research on topics now viewed unfavorably by the regime.
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You're not going to undertake a time-consuming investigative work if you know your editor will be afraid to run it or their publisher will put the kibosh on it.
The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You're not going to undertake a time-consuming investigative work if you know your editor will be afraid to run it or their publisher will put the kibosh on it.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.
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When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.
Once again Henry Cuellar had taken an utterly indefensible vote. Even though this bill will likely not pass the Senate, it’s still shameful any Democrat voted for this.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Once again Henry Cuellar had taken an utterly indefensible vote. Even though this bill will likely not pass the Senate, it’s still shameful any Democrat voted for this.
Basically yes.
Everyone wants to make “sense” of things, but we are all currently hostage to an irrationalist epistemic environment. You might as well just read the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine where events are headed.
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Basically yes.
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Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.
NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)
NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
www.science.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.
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AI radically lowers the cost of polluting our information ecosystem.
Our ecosystem was already stressed & under attack across many fronts.
This unleashes new floods of slop. Slop swamps high-quality info, forcing us each to pay more for costly discernment or accept losing our way in the flood.
Our ecosystem was already stressed & under attack across many fronts.
This unleashes new floods of slop. Slop swamps high-quality info, forcing us each to pay more for costly discernment or accept losing our way in the flood.
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
AI radically lowers the cost of polluting our information ecosystem.
Our ecosystem was already stressed & under attack across many fronts.
This unleashes new floods of slop. Slop swamps high-quality info, forcing us each to pay more for costly discernment or accept losing our way in the flood.
Our ecosystem was already stressed & under attack across many fronts.
This unleashes new floods of slop. Slop swamps high-quality info, forcing us each to pay more for costly discernment or accept losing our way in the flood.
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“This is a kind of de-professionalizing of what we do in classrooms, where we’re narrowing the horizon of what’s possible…And I think once we give that up, that’s like giving up the whole game. That’s the whole purpose of why universities exist.”
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“This is a kind of de-professionalizing of what we do in classrooms, where we’re narrowing the horizon of what’s possible…And I think once we give that up, that’s like giving up the whole game. That’s the whole purpose of why universities exist.”
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“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
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One thing Americans have to break themselves out of is assuming certain policies are impossible, because all this is a policy choice and a sizable chunk of the world isn’t worried about their schools be shot up.
December 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
One thing Americans have to break themselves out of is assuming certain policies are impossible, because all this is a policy choice and a sizable chunk of the world isn’t worried about their schools be shot up.
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America is where it is statistically inevitable that many people will endure multiple gun massacres
Parkland survivor describes sheltering in dorm at Brown to escape
A Brown University sophomore who survived the 2018 Parkland school shooting said she feared history was repeating itself as reports of gunfire spread across campus on Saturday.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
America is where it is statistically inevitable that many people will endure multiple gun massacres
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Every classroom I’ve ever taught in, the door is immediately to the right or left of the podium/computer in the front of the classroom. I am most visible and open to whomever enters the room. I think about this every semester. I think about this whenever there is a school shooting. Nowhere to hide.
December 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Every classroom I’ve ever taught in, the door is immediately to the right or left of the podium/computer in the front of the classroom. I am most visible and open to whomever enters the room. I think about this every semester. I think about this whenever there is a school shooting. Nowhere to hide.
My heart goes out to everyone in Providence or with loved ones there. 💔
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My heart goes out to everyone in Providence or with loved ones there. 💔
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This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
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If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
Locating Reproductive Justice Book Series | The University of Iowa
lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu