Minneapolis police chief expresses heartfelt frustration with the serious problem of gun violence by teenagers. Parents begging for help. Blames county attorney for inaction, indifference. youtu.be/ppYw7kDg0S0?si…

"Kohonnut riski, suojaa, on yhteydessä ja ennustaa ..." Tässä jälleen hyvä esimerkki modernin taloustieteen ja muiden ihmistieteiden erosta: Kaikki tietävät, että korrelaatio ≠ kausaatio (syy-yhteys), mutta jostain syystä vain ekonomistit ottavat asian vakavasti. #uskottavuus

"Too often, debates about 'crime' treat it like a single, continuous variable ... The implication is that all crimes have the same fundamental cause. In reality ... There is no one crime problem. Instead, there are many crime problems." Totes magotes! slowboring.com/p/what-everyon…

MIT becomes the first major university to announce the ethnic composition of its incoming undergraduate class. The figures confirm that standards were being lowered for certain ethnicities and mainly at the expense of Asian Americans. (Clip: NYT)

BREAKING: MIT has published the profile of its incoming class, the first admitted in the wake of the SCOTUS decision again affirmative action. Here is a chart comparing the ethnic profile of last year's class to this one:

Albania, Sweden, Bosnia, Greece, and Serbia. 🔫 💀 📈 🇸🇪

#TimWalz is a man of good taste in headware 🇫🇮 & 🇳🇴 👍

Is the Hamilton Center radical? Of course. Because depoliticizing higher education is radical. “In the current academic climate, it is radical simply not to impose an ideological litmus test.”

Have an interesting new or experimental idea that might improve how we theorize social life? Consider submitting a "theory brief" to Theory and Society: 1,000-3,000 word essays that carefully explore how we might better conceptualize a core concept in social science theory (or

Jarkko Tontti - järjen ääni. Virkistävää viikonloppua.

"Carjackings increased in Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd."

Adults in the room.

(1/6) Because we didn't find racial discrimination, Reviewers thought our findings were wrong and our preregistered hiring experiments were flawed, leading to repeat rejections. Some lessons we learned, as outlined in our Discussion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Rosa Meriläinen Hieman eri mieltä. Kaikkialla on rasismia, mutta Suomi ei ole rasistinen maa. Toivottavasti emme lähde pohjoisamerikkalaiseen ”antirasismi”-hömppään mukaan. Tässä omat vinkkini rasismin vastaiseen työhön, kaksi tapaa vastustaa rasismia Suomessa: x.com/JasonLepojarvi…

This tells you everything you need to know about intellectual standards in queer theory. timeshighereducation.com/news/masturbat…

If I were asked to design an academic major to elicit the greatest amount of regret among its graduates, I'd mix political bias with a lack of rigor.

I like words and stories, but I'm not that into contemporary fiction. Most authors try too hard and say little. But I was delighted to finish this little marvel. FYI, it's not about anthropology or even academics. It's about nothing, like Seinfeld without the jokes.

This is awesome

This sociologist casts his discipline as immune to social forces & defined by pure truth-seeking, while perfectly exemplifying the operations of power & prejudice that ensure progressive hegemony in that very discipline. He's like the bad guy in a right wing movie about academia.

Mount Holyoke College sounds oppressive. Either you (pretend to) adhere to radical gender ideology, or they rat you out to the commissars. (Estimated cost of attendance = $86,702 per year.)