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Pamela Oliver

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Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · Nov 11

About me. My current research is about US Black protests in the 1990s and 2000s, filling in the middle between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. I have also done a lot of quantitative analysis of & advocacy around racial disparities in imprisonment.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe even high level univ admins are understanding what they need to do?

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 8h

I remember numbers from the 1960s but not recent. However, I also know that when the printing press was invented there were complaints that it would ruin memory, which it did.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 10h

And for another story about typesetting (not editing), I have twice (!) had my text ruined post-proofreading by transposition of a whole line or page that rendered the resulting text unintelligible even as the transposition was impossible for a reader to detect. Needed an erratum both times.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 10h

Hahahaha. You already know the answer, you said it in your thread. You are just legitimately frustrated. But for example I'm going to try to insert one word based on someone I'm quoting pointing out that the transcript I quoted didn't match the audio of what they said.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 12h

New in the past couple weeks my gmail has been losing messages, especially replies to my outgoing messages when the message was sent to multiple people. E.g. in one case, someone else could see the reply my initial message but it was just not in my inbox. Ideas about where to look for solutions?

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 4d

As lack of answers indicates, mostly you cannot do this. Schools want their own faculty to certify training. There are sometimes informal arrangements when a faculty member provides official mentoring with informal mentoring from someone else who is well qualified whom they know and trust.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 4d

seconding for sociology.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 4d

I would speculate also down river.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! Well deserved.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 6d

Are they experts about Black newspapers who feel unappreciated? Or people who are taking mainstream news as a given objective source that needs no analysis? Or something else I'm not thinking of? 2/2

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 6d

#AcademicSky #commsky #BlackSky Sincere Q'n. Where are reviewers coming from if they question the representativeness of a sample of 37 Black newspapers but not a sample of 3 mainstream newswires in the same paper? & complain about failure to analyze diversity of the former but not the latter? 1/2

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 9d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9d

I am more sympathetic to email for PDF as in some cases publisher will not allow public posting of PDF but privately mailing a copy isn't a violation. (I have a forthcoming piece that I can't post but wish I could because I want people to read it.)

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9d

FWIW I'm nowhere near as famous as TMC and also White, but back when I was often in regional news for work I was doing, I would get phone calls from people telling me I "had" to do some labor-intensive work for them in the same vein and they'd get angry when I said no. People can be jerks IRL.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9d

And what field. Often answer is as simple no. Work around depend on relationships.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 9d

Answer depends on where you and students are.

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Wondering @ninaeliasoph.bsky.social · 11d

How is this legal? Invading people's homes while they're sleeping & forcing them outdoors, naked? Kids, too? abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

#IceGestapo #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

I do remember that thread . . .

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

I agree so much. At the end of the day, a vote is a discrete choice that involves making a summary judgment, and I was thinking to myself that assessment of a person's character and trustworthiness is based on all that they do, but all of us are a mixture of good and bad actions.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

I remember that video!

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

You've seen the research on shot spotter, I'm sure. They "calibrate" their accuracy by declaring that things were really shots when the police tell them to treat something as a shot.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

In my view an important discipline always to view people as mixtures of good and bad. If we attach good/bad to actions, then there is no inconsistency in thinking that the same person has done both. Sorry, I guess I'm in a pontificating mood today. Anyway, agree with your post on both points.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

Good luck. I do hope it works out.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

Also, having written this philosophic response let me say that I also share your screaming outrage about what is going on and your anger at people who seem to be oblivious to how bad it is.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11d

Also agreeing that some people are enemies. You have to stand in opposition to things and groups you think are just wrong. But politics (as you know) is also about trying to persuade the middle, the people who are neither enemies nor supporters.

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