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Timothy Shortell
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Computational social psychologist, data analytics & visualization, science studies, sociology of religion, hockey stats. Research: belonging and identity […]

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The transformation is complete. The pieces of the puzzle are now locked in place.

Vance has picked up the mantle of white supremacy so as not be outflanked by fasicsm’s early adopters. https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DSiYD_gCcsy
Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
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December 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nothing brings me more joy than observing the chaos that the blue jays bring to the seed pile every morning. #birdsofmastodon #bluejays #sunflowerseeds #peanuts #ruralvermont
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Omg HOnkhOnK

Lesson one, I can put it together and take it apart, and play 3 notes 😎

HoNk
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It is very important that all of you vote for Timmy:

https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/visit/penguin-of-the-year/

#votefortimmy
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Work on #caturday. She isn't very good at explaining how to create a data extract at IPUMS, but the students like her more than me.
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Mayor Mamdani with a venti-sized endorsement of the @SBWorkersUnited #StarbucksStrike
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I've been working for the last couple of years on a new degree program at the college where I work, BA in Data Analytics. It required becoming familiar with the state Department of Education bureaucracy. But it finally paid off as the state just approved the new degree so we can begin enrolling […]
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sciences.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is what happens when you schedule your online office hour during your cat's (expected) dinner time. #catsofmastodon #publichighered #zoomproblems
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or […]
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October 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In my data analysis class we're reading Massimo Airoldi's Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms.

Tonight, I get to talk about one of my favorite sociological things: Actor-Network Theory.

#sociology #dataanalysis #highered #actornetworktheory
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Good morning from the bird bistro and portrait studio. #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #sunflowerseeds #peanuts #bluejay
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My little baked potato. #catsofmastodon
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A new visitor to the seed pile. #birdsofmastodon #sunflowerseeds
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#windows10 reaches EOL today. Microsoft's message is clear: buy new hardware or pay.

For millions of users worldwide, perfectly functional computers will suddenly become "obsolete" - not because they can't run an operating system, but because #microsoft says […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]
October 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Winter is on the way. Cold enough last night to freeze the bowl of water I put out for the birds and squirrels. Turkeys gathering in large numbers to eat clover. I might get the woodstove fired up this afternoon. #rurallife #winteriscoming
October 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I put out sunflower seeds and unsalted peanuts for the birds, chipmunks, and squirrels. When the squirrels finish eating, they often take extra peanuts and bury them in the yard. Today I watched a blue jay hop around the yard and eat the contents of some of the peanut caches. Corvids are smart […]
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sciences.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ok, ok. Since you asked, I will agree to become the next Prime Minister in France. (I understand that the gig will only last a few days.) I hope they are open to remote work.

#globalpolitics
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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"What is fascism?"
October 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Nice project: A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582

Interactive: https://divercitymaps.github.io/
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just finished reading Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work, by my friend and colleague Ken Estey. I'll be serving as discussant at the book talk on Tuesday. The event is part of a series in the college's Studies in Religion program […]

[Original post on sciences.social]
October 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Some groups that have sought to hide their members' identities.

It is what it is.
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM