This is SOOO out of date (after slow start to my bluesky journey) but what a joy to come on today and be reminded of a joyful day and an amazing accomplishment!

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

Are we experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in the west? In the first edition of our new Voices section, we asked six people for their perspectives. Hear from @andrewcopson.bsky.social, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @loielee.bsky.social and more

Delighted to hear the news that Mubarak Bala (president of the Nigerian Humanist Association) has been released, after being imprisoned on blasphemy charges. This case is a reminder that blasphemy & apostasy laws should be repealed, so everyone has the freedom of religion or belief.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

This is a really important point about the very low number of academic texts available in audio format. I often use a screen reader but citation practices, pdf formatting etc means they don’t work well for academic work. To be truly open access, academic publications must have audio versions.

Academic jargon, translated

The average social science journal article now cites five times as many references as such an article did back in 1960 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AcademicSky

Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? https://buff.ly/4fHGfI2 The Pandemic Sciences Institute is offering a scholarship for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health to work with PSI Investigators on a PSI-related project, apply by 3 Dec.

Two year post-doc at LSE's International Inequalities Institute working on inherited inequality and social mobility - deadline Dec 1st jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Come be a sociology professor in a picture-postcard city! www.unilu.ch/en/universit...