SocImages News:

• Happy birthday, little blog!  You’re 8!

• A huge thanks to Jon Smadja for freshening up the site and made it mobile friendly!

• Dr. Nicole Boucher Spottke put together a set of discussion questions and activities to go along with some SocImages advice to new students. A great exercise in analyzing writing!

• Our coverage of the intersection of sexism and racism experienced by female scientists was covered at the Smithsonian.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Mass shootings in the U.S. are on the rise (2,400+ likes)
• White American male with a weapon white American male with a weapon white American male with a… (2,200+ likes)
• Americans own 42% of all the guns on the planet (2,200+ likes)
• The corrupt economics behind Greece’s troubles (1,700+ likes)
• Less than 1% of women regret their decision to have an abortion (1,700+ likes)
• Nearly half of black and Latina female scientists mistaken for janitors or assistants (1,400+ likes)
• Why do people hate the word “moist”? (1,000+ likes)
• Are drag queens doing “girlface”? (1,000+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• Trigger warnings, the big picture: Changing our culture of social control
• Slave families’ desperate efforts to reunite during Reconstruction

Top comic:

• Why people become sociologists, by Charles Schultz

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers (5,300+ notes)

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

It’s been a hard summer so far, but let’s not let July 2015 go without one more time reveling in the joy of discovery: