Seth Abrutyn
@sethabrutyn.bsky.social
Sociology, UBC. Theorist of Emotions, Suicide, Institutions, Evolution. Unrepentant DeadHead and Mets Fan.
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www.sethabrutyn.com
Check out our new book on youth suicide: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/life-under-pressure-9780190847
From Moscow University’s social science and economics depts website for current grad students:
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
From Moscow University’s social science and economics depts website for current grad students:
Some zen moments for the day
September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Some zen moments for the day
darkness descends
August 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
darkness descends
Here is your #sociological moment of zen
Karl Marx and his best bud, Freddy, snorting coke, and smoking with his other best bud Fred.
Karl Marx and his best bud, Freddy, snorting coke, and smoking with his other best bud Fred.
June 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Here is your #sociological moment of zen
Karl Marx and his best bud, Freddy, snorting coke, and smoking with his other best bud Fred.
Karl Marx and his best bud, Freddy, snorting coke, and smoking with his other best bud Fred.
Two kids and a smallish washer means 6+ months is a pipe dream
June 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Two kids and a smallish washer means 6+ months is a pipe dream
From now on, when I use evidence from rat studies and a reviewer says, yeah but they’re rats, I’m showing them this shit.
June 20, 2025 at 4:34 AM
From now on, when I use evidence from rat studies and a reviewer says, yeah but they’re rats, I’m showing them this shit.
Life before electricity is nothing like Hollywood makes you think it is. You were likely to walk into a void, break your neck on a curb, or be injured. Sometimes cause it was super dark (gas lights don’t actually light shit up) or because of soot!
June 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Life before electricity is nothing like Hollywood makes you think it is. You were likely to walk into a void, break your neck on a curb, or be injured. Sometimes cause it was super dark (gas lights don’t actually light shit up) or because of soot!
Walking down the street in my neighborhood wearing this shirt, and a kid maybe 12-14 years old told me he likes my shirt. Maybe the kids are alright?
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Walking down the street in my neighborhood wearing this shirt, and a kid maybe 12-14 years old told me he likes my shirt. Maybe the kids are alright?
Like everything in life, fenced in so as not to ruin it bc instead of coming to admire it, folks would like touch or steal it. In any case, here’s to the invisible hand and the secret influence the Scottish moralists had on pragmatism.
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Like everything in life, fenced in so as not to ruin it bc instead of coming to admire it, folks would like touch or steal it. In any case, here’s to the invisible hand and the secret influence the Scottish moralists had on pragmatism.
Just show them the receipts.
April 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Just show them the receipts.
This. I don't regret leaving my first job at Memphis. But, it took a long time to build the sort of rewarding system at UBC that I have now. I also have observed many friends (and acquaintances) move depts. for extrinsic reasons and never find that sweet spot again. A cautionary tale to be sure
April 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This. I don't regret leaving my first job at Memphis. But, it took a long time to build the sort of rewarding system at UBC that I have now. I also have observed many friends (and acquaintances) move depts. for extrinsic reasons and never find that sweet spot again. A cautionary tale to be sure
Relevant observations about how taken for granted the mythos of academia grips the imagination and challenges some of the reactions to governments or uni admins changing the structural rules as they can and have before
April 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Relevant observations about how taken for granted the mythos of academia grips the imagination and challenges some of the reactions to governments or uni admins changing the structural rules as they can and have before
Few truer words about academia have been spoken. Science as a vocation is far more brutal than I recall.
April 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Few truer words about academia have been spoken. Science as a vocation is far more brutal than I recall.
Weber doing his own electric kool-aid be-in events before they were even a thing...
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Weber doing his own electric kool-aid be-in events before they were even a thing...
The fates of science as
A calling
A calling
April 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The fates of science as
A calling
A calling
Some musings from Weber on whether or not one should pursue academic callings.
April 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Some musings from Weber on whether or not one should pursue academic callings.
Reminds me of the time I overheard a student remark: Adam smith and Karl Marx suck balllllzzzz
April 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminds me of the time I overheard a student remark: Adam smith and Karl Marx suck balllllzzzz