Zosia Cooper
@zosiaxyz.bsky.social
Sociologist-in-training at UC San Diego researching careers, financial investment, and young adults. Former (I hope!) directionless millennial. Also, I like to read and look at art.
(banner: Erna Rosenstein, Ekrany, 1951)
(banner: Erna Rosenstein, Ekrany, 1951)
Reposted by Zosia Cooper
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
As a virtue-signaling elite, I am planning to opt out of Meta products. The toughest one to lose is WhatsApp - so many international friends on there. Can anyone please help complete the analogy: Twitter:Bluesky:: WhatsApp:[????]
January 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As a virtue-signaling elite, I am planning to opt out of Meta products. The toughest one to lose is WhatsApp - so many international friends on there. Can anyone please help complete the analogy: Twitter:Bluesky:: WhatsApp:[????]
A few days late, but here are all the books I read in 2024, with annotations! Featuring Kushner, Kingsolver, Kuang, and more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Zosia's 2024 book list
Books I read this year. Highly recommended titles in bold. Catton, Eleanor. Birnam Wood. It was okay. Compelling narrative but (personally) I didn't think it had much in the way of ideas. Chandrasek...
docs.google.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A few days late, but here are all the books I read in 2024, with annotations! Featuring Kushner, Kingsolver, Kuang, and more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Zosia Cooper
Consumer sentiment leapt up, so
Millions of Americans got big raises and a sharp drop in prices of things they buy except without that causing job loss or business closure
OR
Public opinion of the economy is not based primarily on lived experience, but on partisanship and what they hear via media
Millions of Americans got big raises and a sharp drop in prices of things they buy except without that causing job loss or business closure
OR
Public opinion of the economy is not based primarily on lived experience, but on partisanship and what they hear via media
December 10, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Consumer sentiment leapt up, so
Millions of Americans got big raises and a sharp drop in prices of things they buy except without that causing job loss or business closure
OR
Public opinion of the economy is not based primarily on lived experience, but on partisanship and what they hear via media
Millions of Americans got big raises and a sharp drop in prices of things they buy except without that causing job loss or business closure
OR
Public opinion of the economy is not based primarily on lived experience, but on partisanship and what they hear via media
Working theory: alleged CEO shooter is a very-online Raskolnikov for the TikTok age
"alleged ceo shooter reviewed the unabomber manifesto on goodreads" is quite a sentence to write:
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Working theory: alleged CEO shooter is a very-online Raskolnikov for the TikTok age
Excellent piece because it probes the connection between the artist's offense and the art itself.
December 8, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Excellent piece because it probes the connection between the artist's offense and the art itself.
This is so annoying. Compare this headline from the Times to the findings of the study it cites: "processed plant-based products...still offered substantial environmental, health, and nutritional benefits compared to animal products."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The vegan staples that are worse for planet than meat or dairy
Almond milk and veggie burgers are bad for the environment but Indonesian tempeh is a winner, Oxford scientists find
www.thetimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:01 PM
This is so annoying. Compare this headline from the Times to the findings of the study it cites: "processed plant-based products...still offered substantial environmental, health, and nutritional benefits compared to animal products."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The guy has one and only one policy idea that isn't "use force"
So let’s see: US cannot enforce/stop fentanyl abuse, so Trump will punish legal businesses in Mexico and US businesses that purchase Mexican origin legal goods as inputs, so that Mexican government stops fentanyl transport which US cannot apparently stop in its own country.
November 26, 2024 at 2:00 AM
The guy has one and only one policy idea that isn't "use force"
Is there a version of the narrative here where the Harris camp did pretty well by coming close in light of the anti-incumbent trend in electoral politics?
Is there a major anti-incumbent wave since the post-COVID inflation surge? Decided to go through this systematically. Incumbent government performance in wealthy democracies since March 2022, when Ukraine invasion really spiked things upwards: 🧵
November 6, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Is there a version of the narrative here where the Harris camp did pretty well by coming close in light of the anti-incumbent trend in electoral politics?
The 2008 recession happened just as I graduated undergrad and started my first career. Can't wait for the Trump recession to kick in exactly when I finish my PhD and start my second.
November 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
The 2008 recession happened just as I graduated undergrad and started my first career. Can't wait for the Trump recession to kick in exactly when I finish my PhD and start my second.
I don't understand this. Voting for Trump on the economy makes absolutely no sense. My only hope is that he's too old, tired, and incompetent to fulfill any of his campaign promises.
November 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
I don't understand this. Voting for Trump on the economy makes absolutely no sense. My only hope is that he's too old, tired, and incompetent to fulfill any of his campaign promises.
Watched The Substance last night (as you do on Halloween in 2024) and this review really captures my *complicated* feelings about it.
Startled to see what an outlier I was on The Substance, which won a best screenplay award (?) & got an 11-minute standing ovation at Cannes this year. Why did so many critics I admire not find it as fatuous & heavy-handed as I did? Am I watching it wrong? (<= rhetorical Q)
slate.com/culture/2024...
slate.com/culture/2024...
It’s Supposed to Be the Feminist Horror Movie of the Year. I Hated It.
This awards season already has its Promising Young Woman. I couldn’t wait for it to end.
slate.com
November 1, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Watched The Substance last night (as you do on Halloween in 2024) and this review really captures my *complicated* feelings about it.
I asked a Florida voter relative how they would vote. They are undecided. They think Harris is unqualified and pointed to DJT's 4 years in office as evidence of his qualifications.
Is this just a more civil version of the R's "Harris is dumb" argument or a crappy second thing?
Is this just a more civil version of the R's "Harris is dumb" argument or a crappy second thing?
October 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I asked a Florida voter relative how they would vote. They are undecided. They think Harris is unqualified and pointed to DJT's 4 years in office as evidence of his qualifications.
Is this just a more civil version of the R's "Harris is dumb" argument or a crappy second thing?
Is this just a more civil version of the R's "Harris is dumb" argument or a crappy second thing?
Our first article about the community of scholarly libertarians working in U.S. universities (and the outside organizations that love them) is online at Socius. Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Keeping Libertarianism Alive in the Academy: Organizations, Scholars, and the Idea Pipeline - Zosia Cooper, Amy J. Binder, Jeffrey L. Kidder, 2024
In this article, the authors draw on the literatures about academic career pipelines and the sociology of ideas to understand how an outside group of organizati...
journals.sagepub.com
October 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Our first article about the community of scholarly libertarians working in U.S. universities (and the outside organizations that love them) is online at Socius. Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Hi to all zero of my followers! I'm making things official and following some cool folks because lurking ain't working anymore (too many buxom cartoon animals in my feed)
October 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Hi to all zero of my followers! I'm making things official and following some cool folks because lurking ain't working anymore (too many buxom cartoon animals in my feed)