Pamela Oliver

@pamelaoliver
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Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison
I study social movements, especially US Black movement in the 1990s and 2000s. I also do research and advocacy on racial disparities in the criminal legal system.
Websitehttps://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/
Bloghttps://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoliticsjustice/
Pamela OliverNov 6, 2022
I currently have two Mastodon accounts but will be moving over to sciences.social as soon as I get the nerve to try following the instructions. It will be a while before I am trying to do much on either site. Mostly just getting set up in case needed.
Pamela OliverNov 6, 2022
VincentNov 5, 2022

I don't know how useful this will be, but I've compiled a quick start guide, with lots of screenshots, aimed at #humanities #academics who are #NewToMastodon, trying to cover some of the things I see people most frequently getting stuck on in some less technical language than existing documentation.

I've put it on #HumanitiesCommons open for edits and comments so that other folks can help fill out things like useful hashtags.

https://hcommons.org/docs/mastodon-quick-start-guide-for-humanities-scholars/

Pamela OliverNov 5, 2022
Moving right along. I thought I'd try to move myself to science.social as a less busy and more focused server, but I managed somehow to mess up the email addresses and passwords. Great, now I've locked myself out of the other account.
Pamela OliverNov 4, 2022
JP Pardo-GuerraNov 4, 2022
I really hope we can foster an #academicmastodon community as vibrant as the one we had on Twitter. Staying on the other platform for academic conversations less sustainable by the day.
Pamela OliverNov 4, 2022
Cameron Campbell 康文林Nov 4, 2022
I am moving to a paid instance at masto.host @cameron Please follow me there! I will do an account transfer in a few days.
Pamela OliverNov 4, 2022
Daniel LaurisonNov 4, 2022

US friends - if you're worried about the election Tuesday, the most effective thing YOU can do (besides voting yourself) is to talk to potential voters, in person if possible, or else by phone. Find a place to volunteer at http://swingleft.org, or your favorite local candidate.

If you can't do in person,here's a good PA phone option: https://www.mobilize.us/seedthevote/event/496730/?force_banner=true&share_context=event_details&share_medium=copy_link

Donate to key races

Swing Left makes it easy to invest strategically!

Pamela OliverNov 4, 2022
Alex HannaNov 3, 2022

Reposting this on the new instance --

An #introduction:

I'm Alex Hanna, the Director of Research for the Distributed #AI Research Institute. I'm a #sociology PhD who has been studying #tech and society for over 10 years. I'm involved in #labor and #trans organizing, and am currently Chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice. I sometimes teach at Cal #Berkeley. The rest of my free time goes to #RollerDerby -- I skate, announce, and sometimes referee with Bay Area Derby in #Oakland.

Pamela OliverNov 3, 2022
Having new posts roll past me too fast to read them is not an improvement.
Pamela OliverNov 3, 2022
In my non-academic life, I'm discovering that a co-congregant who is a former pastor thinks the only way to teach others about the threat of Christian nationalism is a multi-month study of a book criticizing its theology. I'm pushing articles about the sociology of it. Talk about cultural conflict.
Pamela OliverNov 3, 2022
This site isn't going to work without a lot more tutorials about how to make it work. I suspect algorithms do have a role to play. So far as I can tell, the high-traffic twitteristas have not moved. Other notes: (1) So far I see only one Black academic I know on here. (2) Is this a good place for frivolous posts? (3) the sub-forums (whatever subgroup you randomly signed up for) are not all that well organized.