@jessicacalarco.com hit the nail on the head in her @pnas.org editorial about why the trend towards data transparency can be complicated for qualitative research--a dilemma that came to head in our recent PNAS paper on violence. I recommend giving it a read.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research:
"Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every đȘđș country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
The Bethesda Declaration, pushing back against Trump and Bhattacharyaâs unconscionable attacks on the NIH, is a landmark resistance effort
Am proud to be a signatory
We will publish the 2026 Reuters Institute Digital News Report next week. Details here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/digital...
Obligatory nod to the paper @sociologylauren.bsky.social and I wrote on the demographic differences in how people define concepts such as racism, sexism, and classism.
In short, lots of disagreement on whether intentionality, power, and equality in treatment or outcome matter.
The Atlantic alliance is over. The best to hope for is an entente recognising Europe and the US still have shared interests
open.substack.com
Philip Stephens
Evangeline Warren
Thank you. I have the honor of being a recognizable face representing hundreds of NIH staff who are speaking up & pushing back. I would not have had the courage to do this without our community of named & anonymous Bethesda Declaration signers and allies. @27unihted.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/LQZYUdE
This sequential mixed-methods study examines how Americans ascribe meanings to the concepts racism, sexism, and classism. We first conduct interviews (N = 40) using a symbolic boundaries elicitation a...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Jenna Norton
Hank Green did a video on how a lot of people have been doing this "I don't hate any race I just think they are inferior in some way, that's not racism" and, like, yes it is. And it unlocked something for me that feels really obvious about how people think about racism wrong
