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Guillermina Altomonte

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Sociologist at NYU writing about aging, health care, culture, and markets.

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News, Bad and Good, from the Dean of Arts and Sciences We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows. We have no money for raises, but we’v...

"We had to eliminate merit increases, but our president’s life coach swears that extrinsic motivation doesn’t work anyway, and my masseur agrees. Also, our Morale Boosting Consultant has T-shirts."

02.02.2026 14:30 👍 67 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 5

Our review paper on morals, markets, and medicine with @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social is out!

16.12.2025 13:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊

@newschoolaaup.bsky.social

10.12.2025 21:53 👍 142 🔁 46 💬 0 📌 0
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Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School Around 40% of full-time faculty were offered buyouts and programs are on the chopping block as the university faces a $48M deficit.

"The New School is the only university in the country with a world-recognized art and design school and a Research 2 designation. By gutting the humanities, the administration is eliminating what makes the school unique."

- Heather Davis, AAUP The New School

@newschoolaaup.bsky.social

11.12.2025 14:54 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao

x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

12.11.2025 03:29 👍 8372 🔁 2733 💬 20 📌 1

This piece is great.

08.11.2025 18:40 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

archive.is/7uhwf

16.09.2025 19:07 👍 200 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 3
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

10.09.2025 00:35 👍 109 🔁 91 💬 3 📌 1
Theory and Social Inquiry | Issue: Issue: 1(1) (2025)

The inaugural issue of Theory and Social Inquiry is now available! I love that it includes an orientation toward #ProblemSolvingSociology. Check it out, problem-solvers! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

03.08.2025 01:46 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

01.08.2025 11:15 👍 423 🔁 131 💬 6 📌 17

Congrats BK!!

04.06.2025 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Felicitaciones! Lo voy a encargar!

26.05.2025 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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So excited to be part of this interdisciplinary symposium on the "micro." If you're in Chicago on 5/24 come check it out!

voices.uchicago.edu/mutualnecess...

09.05.2025 21:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We Are Asking the Wrong Questions About Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest The only relevant question is not “How can the government do this?” It is “How can we who oppose this fascist regime?”

I can (and do) explain the "law" behind Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful abduction and rendition to a for-profit concentration camp.
But if you're waiting for the law to stop this, you've got it wrong. Dictators always make their crimes "legal"
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

12.03.2025 15:36 👍 2372 🔁 729 💬 54 📌 47
Announcement for a SPECIAL PANEL ON THE TREASURY with pictures of two speakers.

About this event:

What is at stake with the Treasury's payment systems? Recent events make this question more pertinent than ever before. Cutting across governance, policy, economic regulation, and the bureaucracies that sit at the core of the democratic state, the Treasury's financial pipes and plumbing are critical for the nation's well-being. In this special session, Elizabeth Popp Berman (U Michigan) and Abraham Newman (Georgetown U) will discuss why these systems matter as well as the risks posed by their capture by non-state actors. Please join us on Thursday, February 6 at 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST for what will surely be an excellent conversation.

Please register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSxuanM2TEWy5Hqn4-7KVg

Announcement for a SPECIAL PANEL ON THE TREASURY with pictures of two speakers. About this event: What is at stake with the Treasury's payment systems? Recent events make this question more pertinent than ever before. Cutting across governance, policy, economic regulation, and the bureaucracies that sit at the core of the democratic state, the Treasury's financial pipes and plumbing are critical for the nation's well-being. In this special session, Elizabeth Popp Berman (U Michigan) and Abraham Newman (Georgetown U) will discuss why these systems matter as well as the risks posed by their capture by non-state actors. Please join us on Thursday, February 6 at 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST for what will surely be an excellent conversation. Please register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSxuanM2TEWy5Hqn4-7KVg

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.

This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

04.02.2025 18:44 👍 371 🔁 232 💬 8 📌 19
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It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

11.12.2024 20:02 👍 24 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 6
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The End of Progressive Neoliberalism - Dissent Magazine In a moment of political upheaval, it is up to the left to reject the false choices on offer and seize upon widespread discontent to redefine the terms of debate.

Nancy Fraser on progressive neoliberalism: "Ideals like diversity and empowerment, which could in principle serve different ends, now gloss policies that have devastated manufacturing and what were once middle-class lives."

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

22.11.2024 15:04 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0

Love it!

19.11.2024 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0