Ariel Ducey
@aducey.bsky.social
Sociology @Ucalgary, morals emotions affect technology — head of department, still love teaching. arielducey.com/pubs/
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this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
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Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social
Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social
Wired for Companionship: A Meta-Analysis on Social Robots Filling the Void of Loneliness in Later Life
AbstractBackground and objectives. Loneliness is a significant public health concern affecting over a quarter of older adults worldwide. Emerging research
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November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social
Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social
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i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake
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honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
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You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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Opinion piece from David King, former Alberta Minister of Education in a Progressive Conservative government, published in the Edmonton Journal (of all places), addressing the conduct of the UCP towards our public education system.
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy
Any government that undermines ... the project of improving public school education in the face of difficulty is undermining ... democracy.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Opinion piece from David King, former Alberta Minister of Education in a Progressive Conservative government, published in the Edmonton Journal (of all places), addressing the conduct of the UCP towards our public education system.
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
It is absolutely worth reading.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Thank you for sharing your research with us @raulpachecovega.bsky.social !
Thanks to @aducey.bsky.social Amie Kiddle, Laura Montes de Oca, the Sociology Department of @ucalgary.bsky.social and the LACS Group for hosting me today! Two talks (governance of homelessness and ethnography of climate migration) and I’m completely wiped. But grateful for feedback and questions!
October 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Thank you for sharing your research with us @raulpachecovega.bsky.social !
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"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Welcome to the era of what critics call 'the Kavanaugh Stop'" #KavanaughStop
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That same Friday, October 3rd, I will be presenting on ethnographic studies of climate mobility. Thanks to @ucalgary.bsky.social Department of Sociology, Dr. Laura Montes de Oca, and Dr. @aducey.bsky.social for the invitation to share some of my newest work.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
That same Friday, October 3rd, I will be presenting on ethnographic studies of climate mobility. Thanks to @ucalgary.bsky.social Department of Sociology, Dr. Laura Montes de Oca, and Dr. @aducey.bsky.social for the invitation to share some of my newest work.
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events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...
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Folks in Calgary: I will be presenting new work on climate mobility October 3rd. Feel free to circulate among your networks.
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Absence, Presence, and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Lessons from Research on Climate Mobility
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is Full Professor at the Methods Lab, FLACSO México. He specializes in comparative public policy, with a focus on North Amer...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Folks in Calgary: I will be presenting new work on climate mobility October 3rd. Feel free to circulate among your networks.
events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...
events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...
My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Episode 2 of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary features Professor Cora Voyageur - listen here: the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...
#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary
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#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary
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Episode 2: Cora Voyageur | The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary
Our second episode features Dr. Cora Voyageur, a full Professor who joined the Department of Sociology at The UofC in 1989, and is currently the longest serving faculty member in our department. Cora ...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Episode 2 of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary features Professor Cora Voyageur - listen here: the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...
#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary
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#sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary
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A veteran US Navy SEAL reflects on Gaza dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...
August 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A veteran US Navy SEAL reflects on Gaza dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta public health system losing staff, funding as province increases spending on private facilities
Analysis shows provincial spending on private surgical facilities increased nearly three-fold in 2023-24 from 2019-20, while spending in public facilities increased marginally
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March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
This piece so perfectly captures what I feel as a department head, about my colleagues & the work in public higher ed to provide the highest quality education to thousands upon thousands of students at an “astonishingly fucking low cost”, in these times. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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March 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This piece so perfectly captures what I feel as a department head, about my colleagues & the work in public higher ed to provide the highest quality education to thousands upon thousands of students at an “astonishingly fucking low cost”, in these times. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Budgets are about priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
March 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Budgets are about priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.'
Funding for private schools has increased above inflation.
In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools.
Priorities.
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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation
Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.
www.insidehighered.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...