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سيد علی ‎ syed ali @skyedali

author “The Peer Effect," “Dubai: Gilded Cage," other stuff. hack potter. layabout. sociologist. tweets my own and do not reflect my employer. he/him.

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سيد علی ‎ syed ali@skyedali
1 Dec 2017
was hoping for a pony, but... thanks @ASAnews -- it was an honor to be involved with @contextsmag!
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Srsly your life will be changed.
Ben Tanzer@BenTanzer
24 May 2024
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Thirty-Two - Mind Alternating, starring the Syed Ali. Listen. Be effected (see what I did there). Share. tanzerben.com/blog/this-podc… @skyedali #thepeereffect #workculture #ultimatefrisbee #culturalcapital #newyorkcity
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completely unsurprising reaction from @UVA, my alma mater. i'm sure a fiery statement is coming from @UVASociology, right?
legalrealist (Bluesky: legalrealist.bsky.social)@legalrealist
4 May 2024
UVA admin told students that camping tents on grounds violated policy. Then, they found out that camping tents on the grounds didn't violate policy. So, they changed the policy at 11:13am and had police enter grounds to enforce the new policy by noon.
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I voted no to genocidal Joe
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Tomorrow at 6. Don’t be square!
سيد علی ‎ syed ali@skyedali
11 Mar 2024
Hey Chicago peeps: come out to see me and @BenTanzer talk about my book, The Peer Effect, at the seminary co-op bookstore! It's free! Impress your friends! Do it! semcoop.com/event/syed-ali-p…
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You all should read this -- it's short and impactful.
Contexts Magazine@contextsmag
20 Feb 2024
In "Good Schools, Bad Schools," @skyedali considers the segregating effects of #schoolchoice--which, he writes, is at least partly about parents determining who their kids' peers should be. Read, download, and share this short, impactful essay at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…
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Hey Chicago peeps: come out to see me and @BenTanzer talk about my book, The Peer Effect, at the seminary co-op bookstore! It's free! Impress your friends! Do it! semcoop.com/event/syed-ali-p…
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This is going to be huge this man is a genius
DEACTIVATED@thrasherxy
29 Feb 2024
Some news: Thrilled to share on the last, leap year day of Black History Month that I sold my next book THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION to @AmistadBooks @HarperCollins. C u in 2025 w stories of marginalized ppl who amass power by cracking the skulls of their own!
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: Narrative THE OVERSEER CLASS By Steven W. Thrasher Imprint: Amistad February 28, 2024 Inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair at Northwestern University Steven W. Thrasher PhD, CPT'S THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION, analyzing Black police officers, gay corporate managers, and other "overseers" to understand how a small but influential class of people from minoritized backgrounds has amassed power in the United States by impeding their own people; as they've entered segregated institutions, these gatekeepers have not opened the doors of liberation for other Black, migrant and LGBTQ people like them; rather, their representation has repressed attempts and maintained inequality, to Abby West at Amistad, in a good deal, by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary (world).

ALT Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: Narrative THE OVERSEER CLASS By Steven W. Thrasher Imprint: Amistad February 28, 2024 Inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair at Northwestern University Steven W. Thrasher PhD, CPT'S THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION, analyzing Black police officers, gay corporate managers, and other "overseers" to understand how a small but influential class of people from minoritized backgrounds has amassed power in the United States by impeding their own people; as they've entered segregated institutions, these gatekeepers have not opened the doors of liberation for other Black, migrant and LGBTQ people like them; rather, their representation has repressed attempts and maintained inequality, to Abby West at Amistad, in a good deal, by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary (world).

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you should read this article i hear it's really good
Contexts Magazine@contextsmag
20 Feb 2024
In "Good Schools, Bad Schools," @skyedali considers the segregating effects of #schoolchoice--which, he writes, is at least partly about parents determining who their kids' peers should be. Read, download, and share this short, impactful essay at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epd…
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I know this joint is just for dumpster fire stuff now, but look at this teapot and mug I made to make you take your tea more seriously.
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Outtrain needs to be a #scrabble word, @MerriamWebster
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obituary and postmortem of claudine gay's presidency at harvard. @thrasherxy on point, as usual.
DEACTIVATED@thrasherxy
2 Jan 2024
here's my read of what happened with harvard's president, who i predicted would be out: we are in a dangerous place w political expression in journalism & academia, but (w one notable exception) not primarily bc of republicans & right-wingers, but bc of democrats & liberals.
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Hey #loftypigeonbooks can you put #thepeereffect in the window I’m a Brooklyn author yo
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First book review for “The Peer Effect” in the Wall Street Journal.
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Yet again, this is what happens if you’re critical of Israel.
DEACTIVATED@thrasherxy
30 Nov 2023
OH FUCK -- "MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan’s show" there it is, friends. the war machine has come for the best broadcaster on a mainstream network semafor.com/article/11/30/20…
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This wa a very good day in history.
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Come for a great conversation with @adacalhoun, author of the highly sociological Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis, and the highly personal Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me
Ada Calhoun@adacalhoun
17 Nov 2023
A Stuyvesant High School reunion, a book talk, and a conversation about the sociology of influence, all in one. 11/30 at 6pm. @StuyNY @Roosevelt_House @skyedali @CUNY #ThePeerEffect
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hey so we did this interview for #thepeereffect
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@FacultiNet
9 Nov 2023
Syed Ali @skyedali and Margaret M. Chin @ProfMChin @NYUpress discuss the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future success faculti.net/the-peer-effect/… #peereffect
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Was interviewed by @forbes on my book #thepeereffect @NYUpress youtu.be/1tNkpaeWe-U?si=L0jb…
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So this book is out on 11.14. (Yay.) it’s really good and makes a great stocking stuffer. You can read about it here: syedalisociology.weebly.com/…
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I wrote a book.
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