Sarah Quinn

@SarahQuinn
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Sociologist at the University of Washington.
Webhttps://www.sarahquinn.org/
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This is an excellent support group model for folks with chronic illness or fatigue-

co-resting groups facilitated by @ninahatfield

http://www.co-resting.org/

Co-Resting

virtual gatherings for community support

Co-Resting
@shrinkthinks "What if dread is an unconscious practice of surrendering the illusion of control? " is a sentence I needed right now. Whew.
@interfluidity In Democratizing Finance https://www.versobooks.com/books/3929-democratizing-finance @SarahQuinn @selenguler and I contributed a chapter that covered some of the many depression-era ideas to create public financial infrastructure in context of Berle’s “Modern Financial Toolkit.” Given the public nature of finance we argued citizens should be able to exert pressure for a fairer and more accountable finance system. OSF link (can’t remember how close to final). https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7e2fc/
Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

Would you rather fight one giant mystery balloon or 99 luftballoons?

Nice write-up here about the local church-state project I've been working on with @garyadlerjr @jonathancoley Rebecca Sager and Eric Plutzer!

https://news.colby.edu/story/damon-mayrl-looks-at-the-politics-of-church-and-state/

I have the Patty Duke theme song stuck in my head. Why? I have no idea.

A 9-month investigation by the @[email protected] and others finds that "more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless".

This is a sizable part of the carbon offset market, and should provide a wake up call on the need for reform. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows

Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating

The Guardian
Book Proposal Development Grants

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.

My winter break project was an app to browse and follow academics from many of the lists on the Academics on Mastodon page.

https://find.sciences.social reads data from the lists, and makes it easy to see profiles and follow academics.

The app doesn't scrape or store any information - it just shows the cdv-files in a new and (I hope) more useful way.

Give it a try.

Find Academics on Mastodon

Find, browse, and follow academics on Mastodon