Marci Cottingham

Marci Cottingham

@mdcottingham.bsky.social

Sociologist at Kenyon College. I study emotions, inequality, healthcare, culture, work and orgs. Book: https://tinyurl.com/bdz739kp New emotions: https://tinyurl.com/yckj8k59

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I want to give a shout out to Sara Rocks, our section newsletter co-editor and designer of buttons! Sara will be presenting her research on chronic illness narratives at a session on Monday! Buttons will be at the section open house on Saturday. #emosoc #sociology #sociologyofemotions

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We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

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A real honor to have this piece written about my work with the Monk Skin Tone Scale. My hope is that momentum keeps building and we can eventually live in a world where we can expect technology to work for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/live...

current.fas.harvard.eduLives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone biasA two-dollar badge is saving lives in hospitals around the world. The product, groundbreaking but simple, is a scale of colors that reflects a more complete range of human skin tones. Developed by Pro...

Nurses fighting against corporate greed…I’ve been digging into this for a new book. if academics or sociologists are feeling hopeless, check out some of the top nurse influencers and how pissed off and organized they are becoming…

Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social

🧵 A tiny baby. Not breathing. The desperate mom pulls into a shuttered ER. Nurses—off duty, protesting the closure—rush to save her child. THIS is the future the GOP is pushing: Medicaid gutted so millionaires have tax cuts. Closed hospitals. Dead children. And they do. not. care.

Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!

Jonathan G. Heaney@jonathangheaney.bsky.social

Really interesting-looking new paper by @mdcottingham.bsky.social just out in Society. 'Synthetic Earth, Synthetic Emotions: What Could a New Epoch Mean for the Sociology of Emotions?' link.springer.com/article/10.1... #emosoc #socialtheory

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

reuters.comDutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FDABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

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"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

buff.lyI Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My TaxesI’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...

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"Let us be patient with one another. And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go." ✒ #EmilyGreenBalch, American sociologist, #feminist, pacifist, and Nobel Laureate (1946), was #BOTD 8 January 1867. #Sociology #Feminism

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Find these and other provocative questions regarding AI-in-education via the link! (So great that we can actually link to things on this site.) And thanks,Tom!

Tom Mullaney@tommullaney.bsky.social

Just a fantastic breakdown of three "AI for teachers" courses by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social. #EduSky buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/pedagogy-o...

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On Tuesday 10/22 at 12:30pm, please come to the Ohio State Institute for Population Research's Seminar Series, where I'll be presenting a paper on the racialized dynamics of gentrification-induced displacement. I'm happy to share the paper with anyone who is interested! ipr.osu.edu/events/ipr-s...

ipr.osu.eduIPR Seminar Series - Mahesh SomashekharMahesh Somashekhar, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Illinois ChicagoTitle: Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods

On new tech: “What really frightened me was the future of mediocrity they suggested: the inescapable screens, the app-facilitated antisocial behavior, the assumptions advanced as knowledge, and above all the collective delusion…” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...

nplusonemag.comAn Age of Hyperabundance | Laura PrestonEveryone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...

“What about cultural differences?” said someone else. Caitlyn attempted an answer, but before she could produce anything cogent a male voice boomed from the back of the room. “WE’RE TALKING ABOUT MICRO-PROSODIC FEATURES BELOW THE LEVEL OF HUMAN PERCEPTION,” the voice said.”

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"They have read the books we assigned them. And what they have learned leads them to conclude, with great clarity, that bad things are happening, and that these bad things must stop."

Jeff Wasserstrom@jwassers.bsky.social

Jim Millward on Tiananmen analogies and US encampments now t.co/2leuYyeiKG