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Ian Anthony
@sociananthony.bsky.social
Sociologist, PhD candidate @ UCSB. I study identity and culture by way of race, gender, religion and science.

I also listen to all the podcasts, talk all the astrology and watch all the movies.
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Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool
April 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
March 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I am not strategically doing life as well as I could be. This is what I learned from this. Wow.
Lil Wayne received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program. Here's how he spent it: www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
December 19, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.

Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.

Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Privileged to be part of a community that puts on events like this.

Thanks @jessicacalarco.bsky.social and @tristanbridges.bsky.social!
November 19, 2024 at 3:23 AM
This is mildly embarrassing for a field whose focus is (almost) entirely about inequality.

(Important side note: I skipped ASA this year because poor)
Also FYI, I can't find a comparable professional association whose membership dues are as high as the American Sociological Association's.
November 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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something tells me a certain newspaper is going to treat this as a non-story. i mean, it’s not like we’re talking about a black lady at harvard or an old president.
13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump
Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.
www.nbcnews.com
October 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Humanity is safe then. GPT-5 will be struggling with imposter syndrome, learn only to procrastinate, and will just burnout
June 22, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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"On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender Inequality" w/ @Soc_IanAnthony in dePICTions. Online here (message for the PDF - coming soon): parisinstitute.org/on-the-crisi...
On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity • The Paris Institute
Image: "A Bantam," from Shadows by Charles Bennett (ca. 1856)
parisinstitute.org
June 18, 2024 at 5:26 PM
No matter how many times I see the video of the beaver making a damn out of random things around the house, I watch it again like it’s the first time I’ve seen it
October 7, 2023 at 3:43 PM
So far, my favorite part of blue sky (and maybe Twitter too) is seeing established academics post dgaf types of posts which often make little to no sense versus junior academics trying to create community.

Something interesting in the grist, indeed.
October 4, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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Hear me out: Beeker of the House
October 4, 2023 at 1:01 AM
After spending the afternoon writing, I am offended… and will spend tomorrow editing heavily.
September 25, 2023 at 2:21 AM
I know I’m late to this party but as I get set to teach this, I just want to take a moment to say how excellent and useful I found this book.

Are Jessica and/or Mario on Blue Sky yet or are they still trapped on the other site? #sociology
September 24, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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“In the mid 20thC, “hard sciences” were producing tangible highly-publicized results. Psychologists looked on enviously. Their results were squishy & difficult to quantify. The longing for mathematical approval burned hot. So psychology textbooks created statistical significance”
How the strange idea of ‘statistical significance’ was born
A mathematical ritual known as null hypothesis significance testing has led researchers astray since the 1950s.
www.sciencenews.org
September 24, 2023 at 12:26 PM
This is not encouraging 😭
I’ve had an academic job for 11 years and no sabbatical yet.
September 23, 2023 at 6:13 PM
I was lucky enough to see Raul at ASA. This looks great.
📌Join me, @victorerikray.bsky.social & Simon Weaver virtually October 9th as we discuss Raul Perez’s incredible book, The Souls of White Jokes, chaired by Nasar Meer & organized by Identities Journal: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-conversa...
September 22, 2023 at 3:19 AM
This looks exactly like Twitter and I’ve only been here for five minutes but I already like it miles better.
September 22, 2023 at 2:58 AM