Alex Barnard
@avbsoc.bsky.social
Prof @NYUSociology. Author: #Freegans and #Conservatorship. Studying mental health care in US/France and protest-policing @DemoWatch_. My messages, not NYU's.
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Actually that's just JD Vance's life because people yell at him everywhere he goes
JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."
August 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Actually that's just JD Vance's life because people yell at him everywhere he goes
Today I fulfilled my millennial dream and appeared on @vox's Today, Explained podcast, talking about Trump's executive order around homelessness and civil commitments. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Trump evicts homeless people
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 08/21/2025 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today I fulfilled my millennial dream and appeared on @vox's Today, Explained podcast, talking about Trump's executive order around homelessness and civil commitments. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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We are pleased to announce that Alex Barnard's CONSERVATORSHIP was named Honorable Mention for the 2025 Best Book Award from the Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological Association. buff.ly/LqsQROV @avbsoc.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social #MentalHealth #PublicPolicy
July 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We are pleased to announce that Alex Barnard's CONSERVATORSHIP was named Honorable Mention for the 2025 Best Book Award from the Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological Association. buff.ly/LqsQROV @avbsoc.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social #MentalHealth #PublicPolicy
Going to revisit my notes from reading "Citizen and Subject" from qualifying exams to try to make sense of NYC Mayoral Election.
June 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Going to revisit my notes from reading "Citizen and Subject" from qualifying exams to try to make sense of NYC Mayoral Election.
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the books – even for seminars in recent trends in the area, then the books aren’t selling. The Press might as well price them like Cambridge or Routledge, at a level that assumes no one will buy them. In my view, we need a Bandcamp moment – people realizing their friends won’t have bands ... 9/
June 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
the books – even for seminars in recent trends in the area, then the books aren’t selling. The Press might as well price them like Cambridge or Routledge, at a level that assumes no one will buy them. In my view, we need a Bandcamp moment – people realizing their friends won’t have bands ... 9/
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Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
bit.ly/impossibleti...
June 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/
Glad my alma mater is mobilizing alums for higher ed.
Admin should be doing the same with faculty: giving stipends to write op eds, go back to our hometowns to talk about the value of what we do, blasting us with e-mails to call Congress.
NYU admin, meanwhile, doing zilch.
standup.princeton.edu
Admin should be doing the same with faculty: giving stipends to write op eds, go back to our hometowns to talk about the value of what we do, blasting us with e-mails to call Congress.
NYU admin, meanwhile, doing zilch.
standup.princeton.edu
Stand Up for Princeton and Higher Education.
Join a community of Princeton alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends who are committed
to making the case for America’s great colleges and universities.
standup.princeton.edu
May 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Glad my alma mater is mobilizing alums for higher ed.
Admin should be doing the same with faculty: giving stipends to write op eds, go back to our hometowns to talk about the value of what we do, blasting us with e-mails to call Congress.
NYU admin, meanwhile, doing zilch.
standup.princeton.edu
Admin should be doing the same with faculty: giving stipends to write op eds, go back to our hometowns to talk about the value of what we do, blasting us with e-mails to call Congress.
NYU admin, meanwhile, doing zilch.
standup.princeton.edu
Someone once said Gavin Newsom looks like the Marvel President announcing that all the mutants are going to be quarantined, and now he's ordering municipalities to expel one of society's most marginalized and stigmatized groups, so I guess that was spot on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Someone once said Gavin Newsom looks like the Marvel President announcing that all the mutants are going to be quarantined, and now he's ordering municipalities to expel one of society's most marginalized and stigmatized groups, so I guess that was spot on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
No signature from my employer. But no worries: as the univ attended by the President's son, in the top-10 targets of Trump's anti-semitism investigation, and extremely dependent on international students, NYU will certainly stay under the radar. Thus has no need to mobilize to defend higher ed.
Morning update:
@aacu.org letter from univ prez on "unprecedented gov overreach" now has 304 signers
Very wide range—comm colleges to Ivies, small lib-arts to huge state schools.
Interesting patterns (eg UCs Berkeley, Davis, Riverside, UCLA, etc but not UCSD, UCSB) www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
@aacu.org letter from univ prez on "unprecedented gov overreach" now has 304 signers
Very wide range—comm colleges to Ivies, small lib-arts to huge state schools.
Interesting patterns (eg UCs Berkeley, Davis, Riverside, UCLA, etc but not UCSD, UCSB) www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
No signature from my employer. But no worries: as the univ attended by the President's son, in the top-10 targets of Trump's anti-semitism investigation, and extremely dependent on international students, NYU will certainly stay under the radar. Thus has no need to mobilize to defend higher ed.
Between this and Princeton Eisengruber's interview, NYU's president doesn't even have to come up with her own talking points to stand up the Trump administration. She just needs a spine.
"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Between this and Princeton Eisengruber's interview, NYU's president doesn't even have to come up with her own talking points to stand up the Trump administration. She just needs a spine.
Shit, I might actually have to give to Annual Giving this year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Shit, I might actually have to give to Annual Giving this year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
Walking outside Père Lachaise cemetery where they list the names of the ~96,000 Parisians killed in WWI.
A sobering reminder that rekindling colonial ambitions, trashing multilateral institutions, and pushing European rearmament is playing with fire in a very scary way.
A sobering reminder that rekindling colonial ambitions, trashing multilateral institutions, and pushing European rearmament is playing with fire in a very scary way.
April 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Walking outside Père Lachaise cemetery where they list the names of the ~96,000 Parisians killed in WWI.
A sobering reminder that rekindling colonial ambitions, trashing multilateral institutions, and pushing European rearmament is playing with fire in a very scary way.
A sobering reminder that rekindling colonial ambitions, trashing multilateral institutions, and pushing European rearmament is playing with fire in a very scary way.
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🎵 Here we go, Tigers, here we go * clap clap *
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎵 Here we go, Tigers, here we go * clap clap *
The plus side of Trump going after the country club of the Ivy League is we don't even have to pretend this is about anything other than destroying universities as such - regardless of their orientation towards DEI, student protest, antisemitism, etc.
April 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The plus side of Trump going after the country club of the Ivy League is we don't even have to pretend this is about anything other than destroying universities as such - regardless of their orientation towards DEI, student protest, antisemitism, etc.
NYU, this is your chance to get out of the Ivy League's shadow.
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NYU, this is your chance to get out of the Ivy League's shadow.
Essential reading: rich universities with huge endowments should be acting as arsenals of academic freedom - financing the research the administration is cutting, funding the programs Trump is targeting, and going on the attack in the legal sphere. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Opinion | $15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President (Gift Article)
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Essential reading: rich universities with huge endowments should be acting as arsenals of academic freedom - financing the research the administration is cutting, funding the programs Trump is targeting, and going on the attack in the legal sphere. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Signed!
A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed.
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
You can do that here:
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
March 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Signed!
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And then Trump said “oh that’s great, now I am happy, and I will certainly not come back with further demands” and they all lived happily ever after. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands, with $400 million in federal funding at stake.
www.wsj.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And then Trump said “oh that’s great, now I am happy, and I will certainly not come back with further demands” and they all lived happily ever after. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
@msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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We really don't spend enough time just stating that Trump hates good things.
Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise.
Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise.
NEW: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered officials to stop action on all Biden-era discretionary grants to build bike lanes and other "green infrastructure" so the agency can review the project for possible removal.
BREAKING: U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USA
Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!
usa.streetsblog.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We really don't spend enough time just stating that Trump hates good things.
Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise.
Green infrastructure and biking are among the best things in cities and only retrograde losers think otherwise.
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Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.
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How will academia respond to the attacks from Washington?
February 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How will academia respond to the attacks from Washington?
Like so many people touched by him, I am at an utter loss for what to say about the passing of Professor Michael Burawoy, but wrote up some memories anyway: alexvbarnard.org/2025/02/05/m...
Michael
There is a disorienting amount of tragedy out there, right now, so it’s hard to know why you wind up fixating on one. But, like so many people who were lucky enough to have been drawn into hi…
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February 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Like so many people touched by him, I am at an utter loss for what to say about the passing of Professor Michael Burawoy, but wrote up some memories anyway: alexvbarnard.org/2025/02/05/m...
Wow, who would have thought universities collecting the names of students engaged in peaceful protests, and publicizing them via disciplinary proceses, the spring before a potential takeover by a malevolent presidential administration, would turn out badly. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters
U.S. President Donald Trumpsigned an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Wow, who would have thought universities collecting the names of students engaged in peaceful protests, and publicizing them via disciplinary proceses, the spring before a potential takeover by a malevolent presidential administration, would turn out badly. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians
December 21, 2024 at 1:36 AM
The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians