Ziad Munson
@zmunson.bsky.social
sociology, social movements, public education, food, board games, nordic skiing
This resonates with me & my experience in the classroom. I stopped allowing electronics in classes just 2yrs ago & found it is transformative. And even reticent students recognize the transformation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
This resonates with me & my experience in the classroom. I stopped allowing electronics in classes just 2yrs ago & found it is transformative. And even reticent students recognize the transformation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
23 games played in December : Dorfromantik x4, Heat: Pedal to the Metal x4, Dominion x3, Fire Tower; Manhattan Project: Energy Empire; The Voyages of Marco Polo; Paperback; Carcassonne; Sagrada; poker; Dixit; Typewriter; Just One; Sky Team; Bananagrams
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
23 games played in December : Dorfromantik x4, Heat: Pedal to the Metal x4, Dominion x3, Fire Tower; Manhattan Project: Energy Empire; The Voyages of Marco Polo; Paperback; Carcassonne; Sagrada; poker; Dixit; Typewriter; Just One; Sky Team; Bananagrams
forty years old, and eerily more on the nose today and it was when originally written
March 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
forty years old, and eerily more on the nose today and it was when originally written
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
A short presentation to the local community. Come say hi!
February 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A short presentation to the local community. Come say hi!
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This week, Harvard declared criticism of Zionism automatically antisemitic and it did.. this. I can’t even. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Medical School abruptly canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston, citing student and faculty complaints.
www.thecrimson.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This week, Harvard declared criticism of Zionism automatically antisemitic and it did.. this. I can’t even. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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See my last few “skeets.” We (public health) MUST change the debunking scicomm attitude we take around this stuff. Something else is going on!!
We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging.
Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
The Lie That Won't Die
Why We're Still Talking About Autism and Vaccines
open.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM
See my last few “skeets.” We (public health) MUST change the debunking scicomm attitude we take around this stuff. Something else is going on!!
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guy with a “fuck your feelings” shirt at the elementary school band concert. like what do you even do with that
December 17, 2024 at 11:38 PM
guy with a “fuck your feelings” shirt at the elementary school band concert. like what do you even do with that
Serious commitment to holiday cheer
December 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Serious commitment to holiday cheer
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More on business school fraud. The possibility Daniel @engber.bsky.social doesn't seem to consider is that the paradigm of "one dumb little behavioral change will make a huge difference" *is* the rot at the core of the field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:36 AM
More on business school fraud. The possibility Daniel @engber.bsky.social doesn't seem to consider is that the paradigm of "one dumb little behavioral change will make a huge difference" *is* the rot at the core of the field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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I’m on the ASA CBSM Section’s @asa-cbsm.bsky.social Student Paper Award Committee this year. PhD students and 2024+ graduates can submit published or unpublished papers. We welcome exciting new works on collective action and social movements. Submissions are due by March 1, 2025.
December 16, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I’m on the ASA CBSM Section’s @asa-cbsm.bsky.social Student Paper Award Committee this year. PhD students and 2024+ graduates can submit published or unpublished papers. We welcome exciting new works on collective action and social movements. Submissions are due by March 1, 2025.
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Reality check: Chat GPT got all 61 questions on the final exam for my Social Problems class right. I wrote the questions myself, some referring to unspecified things like, "according to author last name..." or "according to the lecture....", and some easy facts like population percentages or history
December 13, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Reality check: Chat GPT got all 61 questions on the final exam for my Social Problems class right. I wrote the questions myself, some referring to unspecified things like, "according to author last name..." or "according to the lecture....", and some easy facts like population percentages or history