Amanda Jean Stevenson
@amandajean.bsky.social
Sociologist and demographer. Never repping coauthors or institutions or anything like that.
Pinned
Look at this beautiful plot from Taylor (1961)
"Just gotta finish these three things and then I can rest"
((Can't do the things because so burned out))
((Never rest))
((Can't do the things because so burned out))
((Never rest))
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"Just gotta finish these three things and then I can rest"
((Can't do the things because so burned out))
((Never rest))
((Can't do the things because so burned out))
((Never rest))
When the dismantling at NIH started in earnest I proposed a project just documenting the extramural systems as they stood so that any future effort to rebuild would have something to start with. I took the idea to several different bodies and every one of them shut me down so quickly!
it's so bad. but it also seems to really illustrate that the people well-suited to climb to the tops of existing systems aren't the ones who are best-suited to recognize the need for and conceive of new ones.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
When the dismantling at NIH started in earnest I proposed a project just documenting the extramural systems as they stood so that any future effort to rebuild would have something to start with. I took the idea to several different bodies and every one of them shut me down so quickly!
Love this photo so much.
Shetland islanders accuse Tom Daley’s Game of Wool of cultural appropriation
Fair Isle practitioners say Channel 4’s knitting challenge is littered with errors about their historic craft and demand an apology
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Love this photo so much.
"New ideas about what to do with the senate" needs to be a thing.
Pretty sure if being in the Senate was like jury duty and you put any random person from the state in place you’d have a more functional group than the spineless sycophants currently serving.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"New ideas about what to do with the senate" needs to be a thing.
How long until we get handwringing over white men's gnawing insecurity about their unearned boosts during Trump?
As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
How long until we get handwringing over white men's gnawing insecurity about their unearned boosts during Trump?
So 8 senate democrats saw what happened tuesday and saw a break glass emergency: “Hell, no. Can’t have that. Better destroy the brand.“
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
So 8 senate democrats saw what happened tuesday and saw a break glass emergency: “Hell, no. Can’t have that. Better destroy the brand.“
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Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
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It’s absolutely terrific.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s absolutely terrific.
This is obviously bad faith, but there’s some blame here for the anti-structural parts of the third wave and I’m still pissed.
JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT:
“Being a conservative woman in a law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be.”
“Being a conservative woman in a law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism than just falling into some predetermined vision of what a woman should be.”
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is obviously bad faith, but there’s some blame here for the anti-structural parts of the third wave and I’m still pissed.
They think "withering criticism" is a "big cost"?
What is Kavanaugh talking about? Genuinely, what "cost" has Sam Alito incurred for his values or opinions or whatever? People who already didn't like him before now like him even less? These people are such babies, man. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
They think "withering criticism" is a "big cost"?
We all deserve to see more of Cheburashka if we have to live through this.
Theory: the appearance of a furry little guy with a strangely nude face is a herald of the waning of empire
November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We all deserve to see more of Cheburashka if we have to live through this.
It's time for widespread refusal to fill in sex or gender on government documents, birth certificates or otherwise.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It's time for widespread refusal to fill in sex or gender on government documents, birth certificates or otherwise.
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'YouGenix is excited to announce Frienologie, our new AI-driven hiring app that lets you make data-driven, plausibly-deniable hiring decisions. Get Frienologie today. Avoid time consuming guesswork and expensive litigation while keeping your workforce free of Those People!'
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
'YouGenix is excited to announce Frienologie, our new AI-driven hiring app that lets you make data-driven, plausibly-deniable hiring decisions. Get Frienologie today. Avoid time consuming guesswork and expensive litigation while keeping your workforce free of Those People!'
Women aren't the sex class. We're the ruination class.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Women aren't the sex class. We're the ruination class.
This essay by Ursula K Le Guin is the best thing I’ve read explaining why Heritage and trumpets and nazis are all obsessed with using the state to stuff us all back into radioactive heterosexual nuclear families.
Michigan quarterly review: Vol. 36, No. 1
quod.lib.umich.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This essay by Ursula K Le Guin is the best thing I’ve read explaining why Heritage and trumpets and nazis are all obsessed with using the state to stuff us all back into radioactive heterosexual nuclear families.
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I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.
Maybe decades of work in abortion has made me paranoid, but at this point I'd worry about giving them ideas
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Maybe decades of work in abortion has made me paranoid, but at this point I'd worry about giving them ideas
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6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
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When you constantly call a popular candidate a "communist," you don't hurt the candidate. You just make communism look even better
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
When you constantly call a popular candidate a "communist," you don't hurt the candidate. You just make communism look even better
My boomer mom: “They’re trying so hard but they’re too stupid.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My boomer mom: “They’re trying so hard but they’re too stupid.”
I can't help but wonder if supporters of this cruelty have never cared about a child or anybody at all.
Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
apnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I can't help but wonder if supporters of this cruelty have never cared about a child or anybody at all.
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Um is he joking? If not are we going to see the end of commerce clause?
They’ve all gone mad.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Um is he joking? If not are we going to see the end of commerce clause?
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Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
They’re delaying Casey Means’ confirmation hearing because she’s in labor. Second wave feminism cemented some basic accommodations for favored women. They can undermine the wins by narrowing who’s favored.
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
They’re delaying Casey Means’ confirmation hearing because she’s in labor. Second wave feminism cemented some basic accommodations for favored women. They can undermine the wins by narrowing who’s favored.