{"id":7424,"date":"2025-02-18T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:53:03","slug":"tsp-tuesdays-february-18th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2025\/02\/18\/tsp-tuesdays-february-18th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TSP Tuesdays | February 18th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This week’s Clippings<\/a> includes: Zeynep Tufekci<\/a> comments on the Trump administration\u2019s NIH funding cuts, warning they endanger America\u2019s biomedical research infrastructure. Elizabeth Bruch<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amie Gordon<\/a> launched Revel, a University of Michigan dating app that doubles as a research tool to study relationship dynamics. Meanwhile, Ruby Lai<\/a> examined Hong Kong\u2019s subdivided flats, Musa Al-Gharbi<\/a> commented on corporate responses to anti-D.E.I. efforts, and scholars mourn the passing of Michael Burawoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accents are Seen and Heard<\/a> by Eleanor Nickel<\/a> writes up work by Ethan Kutlu<\/a>, who found that visual racial cues influence how listeners perceive accentedness, with participants more likely to rate speech as accented when shown an image of a South Asian woman, regardless of the actual accent. This research highlights how racial biases shape not just visual judgments but also auditory perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As of February 11th, 2025, 27 religious groups are suing the Trump administration over mandates allowing ICE agents into sensitive locations like places of worship. This 2018 Contexts<\/em> piece<\/a> by Genesis Torres<\/a> and Kim Ebert<\/a> highlights how institutions manage immigration control, claiming increased security while immigrants face extreme threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 8th, thousands protested in Union Square<\/a> against Trump\u2019s order to withhold federal funding from hospitals providing gender-affirming care. A similar protest in 2017 opposed his policies on women, immigrants, and marginalized groups. Read this 2017 piece<\/a> by Jacqui Frost<\/a> to explore how gender shapes protest and the vital roles activists play in social movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Pope Francis condemned Trump\u2019s mass deportation plans, citing biblical calls to \u201cwelcome the stranger\u201d and opposing JD Vance\u2019s use of Catholic theology. This 2015 piece<\/a> by Jack Delehanty<\/a> explores divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church on social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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