Colin J. Beck

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Revolutions and so forth. Next book without red spine
Websitehttps://colinjbeck.sites.pomona.edu
I'm the reviewer you want today: I just submitted an "accept as-is" on this R&R *two hours* after receiving it. Somebody give me a cookie (or send this kind reviewer energy my way, please).

"Sociology Lens" is the new name for the Journal of Historical Sociology. And it seems they've changed their mission towards more general soc. Given how few outlets there are for comp-hist work, I am quite disappointed.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x

#ASADisconnect is trending on ASA Connect.
It’s even more embarrassing when you’re both those presidents.
You know what even more embarrassing than having to resign from the Stanford presidency? Being the Stanford president who tried to clap back at a student journalist.
The southwest US heat wave has gone on so long now that a group of mockingbirds is sucking the moisture out of our ripening tomatoes. Lost almost the whole crop in one day.
But, of course, the trenchant observation only exists to set up beating the dead horse of America’s moral decay, which somehow would be forestalled by abolishing consideration of race.

“In what sane world do we sort people — often for life — based on their ability to be teacher-pleasers from age 15 to 18?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/opinion/college-admissions-affirmative-action.html

Opinion | Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process

If affirmative action goes, bigger changes are necessary.

The New York Times

No, no I do not want my institutional cloud based file storage system "adding AI" and ingesting the contents of my files wherein I store sensitive human subject data.

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I’ve been sniffling and coughing and feeling foggy. Covid negative but I’m worried it’s the woke mind virus.