Kim Weeden
@weedenkim.bsky.social
Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
Investing up to $30M into research on how to incorporate AI into agriculture seems kinda ironic given AI infrastructure takes acres of farmland out of production and exacerbates the water shortages that constrain farm productivity.
Let them drink ChatGPT ...
Let them drink ChatGPT ...
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Investing up to $30M into research on how to incorporate AI into agriculture seems kinda ironic given AI infrastructure takes acres of farmland out of production and exacerbates the water shortages that constrain farm productivity.
Let them drink ChatGPT ...
Let them drink ChatGPT ...
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“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
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Because there have only been six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!) since Carter(!) when the GOP couldn't obstruct everything!
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Because there have only been six(!) non-consecutive(!) months(!) since Carter(!) when the GOP couldn't obstruct everything!
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
Six months of progress, 44.5 years of obstruction or worse.
And building is always harder than destroying.
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New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
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New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
wesleystubenbord.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New from me:
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.
Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Schumer's new campaign slogan: "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Schumer's new campaign slogan: "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."
I don't think Americans w/ employer-subsidized health insurance realize how much the ratfuckery with the ACA & the economy is affecting them, too.
My health insurance costs are rising by 35% in 2026, b/c of combination of rising premiums (16%) & employer shifting greater share of cost to employees.
My health insurance costs are rising by 35% in 2026, b/c of combination of rising premiums (16%) & employer shifting greater share of cost to employees.
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I don't think Americans w/ employer-subsidized health insurance realize how much the ratfuckery with the ACA & the economy is affecting them, too.
My health insurance costs are rising by 35% in 2026, b/c of combination of rising premiums (16%) & employer shifting greater share of cost to employees.
My health insurance costs are rising by 35% in 2026, b/c of combination of rising premiums (16%) & employer shifting greater share of cost to employees.
If you have the means, today is an excellent day to donate to your local food bank.
Even if the Trump administration was competent (it isn't), and even if Republicans cared about preventing hunger and the costly downstream consequences of food insecurity (they don't), the need is there NOW.
Even if the Trump administration was competent (it isn't), and even if Republicans cared about preventing hunger and the costly downstream consequences of food insecurity (they don't), the need is there NOW.
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you have the means, today is an excellent day to donate to your local food bank.
Even if the Trump administration was competent (it isn't), and even if Republicans cared about preventing hunger and the costly downstream consequences of food insecurity (they don't), the need is there NOW.
Even if the Trump administration was competent (it isn't), and even if Republicans cared about preventing hunger and the costly downstream consequences of food insecurity (they don't), the need is there NOW.
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Plus — my own pet peeve — the incomprehensible way we are allowing our libraries to be used for AI training by corporations while mostly preventing faculty from using them in the same way. That's just a shotgun aimed at our own feet.
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Plus — my own pet peeve — the incomprehensible way we are allowing our libraries to be used for AI training by corporations while mostly preventing faculty from using them in the same way. That's just a shotgun aimed at our own feet.
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper!
www.nber.org/conferences/...
www.nber.org/conferences/...
Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026
www.nber.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper!
www.nber.org/conferences/...
www.nber.org/conferences/...
These NYC billionaires are just begging to be featured in Cristobal Young's next book or article update to "The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight" (2017 Stanford Univ Press).
M/Billionaires' threats of moving are mostly just hot air. They are socially embedded in places, too.
M/Billionaires' threats of moving are mostly just hot air. They are socially embedded in places, too.
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
These NYC billionaires are just begging to be featured in Cristobal Young's next book or article update to "The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight" (2017 Stanford Univ Press).
M/Billionaires' threats of moving are mostly just hot air. They are socially embedded in places, too.
M/Billionaires' threats of moving are mostly just hot air. They are socially embedded in places, too.
Yes, because young women buying feminine hygiene products or condoms really want someone to smile and wave at them.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yes, because young women buying feminine hygiene products or condoms really want someone to smile and wave at them.
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Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some context from @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what KBJ is doing www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
Chatting with an undergrad about genAI. Hates it. Said she’s been in small seminars where students surreptitiously type questions a prof asks to guide discussion into ChatGPT so that they can sound smart.
Yes, we can ban devices in class. That’s just a bandaid over a festering, genAI-induced wound.
Yes, we can ban devices in class. That’s just a bandaid over a festering, genAI-induced wound.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Chatting with an undergrad about genAI. Hates it. Said she’s been in small seminars where students surreptitiously type questions a prof asks to guide discussion into ChatGPT so that they can sound smart.
Yes, we can ban devices in class. That’s just a bandaid over a festering, genAI-induced wound.
Yes, we can ban devices in class. That’s just a bandaid over a festering, genAI-induced wound.
In just two years, ChatGPT has been responsible for twice as many deaths as metal-tipped lawn darts.
And the lawn darts didn't make electricity more expensive, jobs more scarce, and people less able to think for themselves.
And the lawn darts didn't make electricity more expensive, jobs more scarce, and people less able to think for themselves.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
In just two years, ChatGPT has been responsible for twice as many deaths as metal-tipped lawn darts.
And the lawn darts didn't make electricity more expensive, jobs more scarce, and people less able to think for themselves.
And the lawn darts didn't make electricity more expensive, jobs more scarce, and people less able to think for themselves.
Pundits: Republican politicians are tougher on crime and better for the economy.
Reality: Republican politicians are tougher on the economy and better at crime.
Reality: Republican politicians are tougher on the economy and better at crime.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Pundits: Republican politicians are tougher on crime and better for the economy.
Reality: Republican politicians are tougher on the economy and better at crime.
Reality: Republican politicians are tougher on the economy and better at crime.
Gen AI is a technology in search of a purpose.
Frankly, many studies of Gen AI read like analyses in search of a question.
This problem will likely get worse now that Trump has identified AI as one of few priority areas -- and the most "social sciencey" priority area -- for federal grants.
Frankly, many studies of Gen AI read like analyses in search of a question.
This problem will likely get worse now that Trump has identified AI as one of few priority areas -- and the most "social sciencey" priority area -- for federal grants.
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Gen AI is a technology in search of a purpose.
Frankly, many studies of Gen AI read like analyses in search of a question.
This problem will likely get worse now that Trump has identified AI as one of few priority areas -- and the most "social sciencey" priority area -- for federal grants.
Frankly, many studies of Gen AI read like analyses in search of a question.
This problem will likely get worse now that Trump has identified AI as one of few priority areas -- and the most "social sciencey" priority area -- for federal grants.
Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillionaire is 1,000 policy failures.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillionaire is 1,000 policy failures.
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Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women.
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Not breaking news: women can be sexist too.
A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.
A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not breaking news: women can be sexist too.
A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.
A consistent finding of the last, oh, 40 years of experimental sociology is that female subjects -- inc employers and, one suspects, NYT op-ed writers -- are as likely to believe negative stereotypes about and discriminate against women as male subjects.
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There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.”
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.”
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.
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Very important that anytime Helen Andrews is mentioned, we repost this CSPAN debate where her former lover accuses her of being a sociopath www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
User Clip: Helen Andrews roasted by ex
Helen Andrews roasted by ex
www.c-span.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Very important that anytime Helen Andrews is mentioned, we repost this CSPAN debate where her former lover accuses her of being a sociopath www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
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Republican presidents were in charge during the years with the highest layoffs: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2025.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Republican presidents were in charge during the years with the highest layoffs: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2025.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...
Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says
Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September.
www.cnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...