Désirée Waibel
@amateurgarde.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lucerne University. Researching libraries/librarians, valuation, amateurization, and resisting organizations (not necessarily connected, but 🤷♀️)
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The standard fifteen to twenty month production lag in publishing has been embarrassing a lot of people recently.
in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism
What Happens When an Empire Falls? This Novel Has Some Ideas.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The standard fifteen to twenty month production lag in publishing has been embarrassing a lot of people recently.
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Now available! INSIDE DATA SCIENCE shows how the interplay of personal reflection, technical rigor, and collective scrutiny gave the big-data era, for better or for worse, a human face. buff.ly/YZtcxic #DataScience #BigData #Tech #DataForGood #RSTATS #NYC #Sociology #Discovery #Innovation
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Now available! INSIDE DATA SCIENCE shows how the interplay of personal reflection, technical rigor, and collective scrutiny gave the big-data era, for better or for worse, a human face. buff.ly/YZtcxic #DataScience #BigData #Tech #DataForGood #RSTATS #NYC #Sociology #Discovery #Innovation
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Für die theoretisch Versierten unter euch: Die Ausschreibung für die Professur für allgemeine Soziologie an unserem Institut ist raus. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Für die theoretisch Versierten unter euch: Die Ausschreibung für die Professur für allgemeine Soziologie an unserem Institut ist raus. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...
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do we (sociologists and historians) know - its from the late 18th, early 19th century on that 'home' became the seemingly natural space for a seemingly natural disposition of women
fascinating new study
fascinating new study
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
do we (sociologists and historians) know - its from the late 18th, early 19th century on that 'home' became the seemingly natural space for a seemingly natural disposition of women
fascinating new study
fascinating new study
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NECHE is proposing eliminating libraries from accreditation standards, making them optional in higher ed. Public commentary is open until 10/15. Learn more from EveryLibrary: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., make public comment to standardsreview@neche.org, & share this widely.
At the Risk of Disappearing: How the Draft 2026 NECHE Standards Remove Libraries and Librarians from Accreditation - 6 Oct 2025
Executive Summary For decades, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) has shaped institutional priorities across governance, academic quality, student success, and resource allocation...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
NECHE is proposing eliminating libraries from accreditation standards, making them optional in higher ed. Public commentary is open until 10/15. Learn more from EveryLibrary: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., make public comment to standardsreview@neche.org, & share this widely.
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Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer setzt generative KI in das Konzept des verteilten Handelns und postuliert "Im Kern stellen Systeme generativer KI eine Art agentifiziertes menschliches Wissen und Können dar.
Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch."
#DGS2025
Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch."
#DGS2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚
July 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚
Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚
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Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation
www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...
www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation
www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...
www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...
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In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed
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Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!
June 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!
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I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.
May 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.
This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".
An experiment deploying AI-generated messages on a Reddit subforum has drawn criticism for, among other critiques, a lack of informed consent from unknowing participants in the community.
Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns
An experiment deploying AI-generated messages on a Reddit subforum has drawn criticism for, among other critiques, a lack of informed consent from unknowing participants in the community. The…
retractionwatch.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".
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What DOGE doesn’t understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social
Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why
More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.
buff.ly
April 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What DOGE doesn’t understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social
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"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time
April 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time
Wait, is Role Theory back?
April 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wait, is Role Theory back?
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Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution"
Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
April 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution"
Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
Link: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!
January 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!
