Sophie Moullin
@sophiemoullin.bsky.social
Sociologist (inequality, policy, economics, culture)
Neurospicy mama
Auto-exile in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
https://sophiemoullin.github.io/
Neurospicy mama
Auto-exile in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
https://sophiemoullin.github.io/
“I feel Ms. is ideologically going the wrong way,” she said. “It's promoting a ‘mushy sisterhood’ and tells its readers to work within the system for individual liberation rather than for economic radicalism…”- 1975 NYT: www.nytimes.com/1975/08/29/a...
Dissension Among Feminists: The Rift Widens (Published 1975)
Article on dissension in feminist movement in form of debates over ideological questions, with some saying movement has become too liberal and reformist, forgetting its radical origins; notes charges ...
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 3:12 AM
“I feel Ms. is ideologically going the wrong way,” she said. “It's promoting a ‘mushy sisterhood’ and tells its readers to work within the system for individual liberation rather than for economic radicalism…”- 1975 NYT: www.nytimes.com/1975/08/29/a...
Mother-in-law’s most sanctimonious Snakes and Ladders.
Alt-text highlights:
Indolence —> Poverty
Disobedience—> Disgrace
Also, save a drowning girl because there’s money on it.
Alt-text highlights:
Indolence —> Poverty
Disobedience—> Disgrace
Also, save a drowning girl because there’s money on it.
September 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Mother-in-law’s most sanctimonious Snakes and Ladders.
Alt-text highlights:
Indolence —> Poverty
Disobedience—> Disgrace
Also, save a drowning girl because there’s money on it.
Alt-text highlights:
Indolence —> Poverty
Disobedience—> Disgrace
Also, save a drowning girl because there’s money on it.
Apparently Acemoglu is not so accepted anymore… Posterior converging … www.economist.com/finance-and-...
August 28, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Apparently Acemoglu is not so accepted anymore… Posterior converging … www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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"Not now, son. I'm busy fine tuning a way to make it so I'll never have to talk to you ever again. It will take me a year of my life."
August 25, 2026 at 5:30 AM
"Not now, son. I'm busy fine tuning a way to make it so I'll never have to talk to you ever again. It will take me a year of my life."
This is it: we need to talk about the insane commodification, the pre-automation, of children (and parents) that AI was designed for.
August 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
This is it: we need to talk about the insane commodification, the pre-automation, of children (and parents) that AI was designed for.
Certainly, research finds that marae were vital in the successes of NZ’s response to Covid-19, for all New Zealanders. sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur... @miriamruthross.bsky.social
August 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Certainly, research finds that marae were vital in the successes of NZ’s response to Covid-19, for all New Zealanders. sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur... @miriamruthross.bsky.social
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Never let a writer help you move
August 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Never let a writer help you move
citation-checking, I see that Baron-Cohen's UK title, 'Zero Degrees of Empathy', was translated into US English as 'The Science of Evil' !
Simon Baron-Cohen is definitely redeeming himself. But not sure we should forget that he did define autism as a lack of cognitive empathy - an “extreme male brain” - for a generation, based largely on a short lab test involving two dolls hiding marbles.
August 19, 2026 at 11:05 PM
citation-checking, I see that Baron-Cohen's UK title, 'Zero Degrees of Empathy', was translated into US English as 'The Science of Evil' !
Simon Baron-Cohen is definitely redeeming himself. But not sure we should forget that he did define autism as a lack of cognitive empathy - an “extreme male brain” - for a generation, based largely on a short lab test involving two dolls hiding marbles.
August 18, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Simon Baron-Cohen is definitely redeeming himself. But not sure we should forget that he did define autism as a lack of cognitive empathy - an “extreme male brain” - for a generation, based largely on a short lab test involving two dolls hiding marbles.
Thanks to Will Self for writing this appropriately enraged and astoundingly wise piece. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
willself1.substack.com
August 18, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Thanks to Will Self for writing this appropriately enraged and astoundingly wise piece. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...
Don’t outsource the analysis of data to AI! Simply outsource it to your large, privately financed lab. I’ve been able to attract people prepared to work all hours and learn any skill, purely on the promise of a career path that we’re further pushing toward extinction. #automations
August 18, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Don’t outsource the analysis of data to AI! Simply outsource it to your large, privately financed lab. I’ve been able to attract people prepared to work all hours and learn any skill, purely on the promise of a career path that we’re further pushing toward extinction. #automations
Now imagine:
“My graduate student did almost all the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece.”
“My postdoc did almost all the writing… “ 🤯
“My graduate student did almost all the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece.”
“My postdoc did almost all the writing… “ 🤯
Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one):
"AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece."
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
"AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece."
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
When AI writes the words, who is the author?
After an AI detector classified one of my opinion pieces as entirely AI-generated, I found myself questioning where authorship ends, where expertise begins and what readers deserve to know.
www.nature.com
August 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Now imagine:
“My graduate student did almost all the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece.”
“My postdoc did almost all the writing… “ 🤯
“My graduate student did almost all the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece.”
“My postdoc did almost all the writing… “ 🤯
I realise this wasn’t clear. I’m not saying that people confuse their objectives. I’m saying: when you seriously work toward one vision, you can’t help support the other too.
There are 2 main visions of sociology’s purpose:
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
August 16, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I realise this wasn’t clear. I’m not saying that people confuse their objectives. I’m saying: when you seriously work toward one vision, you can’t help support the other too.
There are 2 main visions of sociology’s purpose:
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
August 15, 2026 at 12:39 AM
There are 2 main visions of sociology’s purpose:
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
1. To offer a critique capitalism as a culture; and
2. To provide a systematic, empirical analysis of society as it is.
The problem is, in practice, these missions are too often one and the same.
They actually filmed the dinner with Toby Young spouting off. The man who didn’t get the grades for Oxford but Daddy (Michael Young, coiner and critic of meritocracy) got him in. www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7o...
August 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
They actually filmed the dinner with Toby Young spouting off. The man who didn’t get the grades for Oxford but Daddy (Michael Young, coiner and critic of meritocracy) got him in. www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7o...
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The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.
August 14, 2026 at 8:28 PM
The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.
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No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative to this is people lying with impunity, with the media knowingly covering it up. It's an awful story. And the media will get a lot of the blame. But those who perpetuated the lies and shielded Arday from facing up to them deserve more of it.
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified
Revolting
August 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
No, that is not the alternative
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
Perhaps the worst thing is knowing that, when Arday died, The Spectator and friends in right media in UK will have been popping the champagne celebrating their clicks being up so much during their unrelenting daily “coverage” of this story.
August 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Perhaps the worst thing is knowing that, when Arday died, The Spectator and friends in right media in UK will have been popping the champagne celebrating their clicks being up so much during their unrelenting daily “coverage” of this story.
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Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
August 2, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
The story does not need more oxygen, but one bit of historical context: when I was an undergrad at Cambridge in the 2000s, there were many *more people with the surname White* than there were Black people.
August 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
The story does not need more oxygen, but one bit of historical context: when I was an undergrad at Cambridge in the 2000s, there were many *more people with the surname White* than there were Black people.
Come for the oversharing, stay for the decolonial STS and public health.
My article on the role of indigenous, Māori thought in NZ's response to COVID-19, including its epidemiological models of it, is out now in Counterfutures.
sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur...
#STS #biopolitics
My article on the role of indigenous, Māori thought in NZ's response to COVID-19, including its epidemiological models of it, is out now in Counterfutures.
sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur...
#STS #biopolitics
sophiemoullin.github.io
August 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Come for the oversharing, stay for the decolonial STS and public health.
My article on the role of indigenous, Māori thought in NZ's response to COVID-19, including its epidemiological models of it, is out now in Counterfutures.
sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur...
#STS #biopolitics
My article on the role of indigenous, Māori thought in NZ's response to COVID-19, including its epidemiological models of it, is out now in Counterfutures.
sophiemoullin.github.io/MOULLIN_Maur...
#STS #biopolitics
False Belief Test of 4 year olds, in non-laboratory settings:
Autistic: [not looking up] I'm not doing your stupid game. I know its a test.
ADHD: grabs dolls, eats chocolate/ marbles, runs away.
AuADHD: both of the above, and asks big questions about the whole Theory of Mind at bedtime.
Autistic: [not looking up] I'm not doing your stupid game. I know its a test.
ADHD: grabs dolls, eats chocolate/ marbles, runs away.
AuADHD: both of the above, and asks big questions about the whole Theory of Mind at bedtime.
August 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
False Belief Test of 4 year olds, in non-laboratory settings:
Autistic: [not looking up] I'm not doing your stupid game. I know its a test.
ADHD: grabs dolls, eats chocolate/ marbles, runs away.
AuADHD: both of the above, and asks big questions about the whole Theory of Mind at bedtime.
Autistic: [not looking up] I'm not doing your stupid game. I know its a test.
ADHD: grabs dolls, eats chocolate/ marbles, runs away.
AuADHD: both of the above, and asks big questions about the whole Theory of Mind at bedtime.
My next epigraph.
August 3, 2026 at 5:02 AM
My next epigraph.
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A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.
August 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM
A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.
“What a child brings to language that no algorithm does is a body, a history, and a brainstem full of ancient affect.” iai.tv/articles/the...
The brain is not a computer
<p><em>Artificial intelligence is advancing on the assumption that the brain is essentially a computer and if that is true, replicating the mind in silicon is only a matter of time. Philosopher <stron...
iai.tv
August 2, 2026 at 4:22 AM
“What a child brings to language that no algorithm does is a body, a history, and a brainstem full of ancient affect.” iai.tv/articles/the...