🎄Wishing all of you a merry Christmas 🎄 Whether you celebrate it or not, with family and friends or having a solo one, at home or elsewhere. We hope you have a lovely day, and are safe and well, from all of us in Sociology. #UniversityofYork #Sociology #Christmas #Joy

Emma Casey’s book The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up has been chosen as one of CHOICE’s outstanding academic titles for 2025. According to CHOICE, these are selected for their excellence in scholarship and novel treatment of their chosen subjects. Read more: buff.ly/jK5mfvL

OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization. 1/

Now Lord Vallance is back on his ‘three buckets’ theory of R&D funding Here’s @ersatzben.com on the ‘3-bucket problem’ www.ersatzben.com/p/the-three-... Bucketism now the frontier of R&I policy. “We must defend the first bucket” says the Minister. A rallying cry to echo down the ages #REF2029

To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral

Really important research, to which we can add our work on what AI researchers think about some of these things zenodo.org/records/1511...

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

“Big change sometimes results from small steps. Incorporating a supportive research culture into the REF is one such step. Bullying and harassment are serious problems, and excellence in research and a supportive environment are not mutually exclusive” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@icsjournal.bsky.social hello, is the submission site down at present? Thank you.

tl;dr - the only effective digital sovereignty is digital socialism https://listed.to/@24601/67437/digital-sovereignty-or-digital-socialism

TikTok to give users power to reduce amount of AI content on their feeds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social

This 3-year research project explored the realities, challenges, and opportunities of disabled young people. This workshop is for practitioners, policy makers, disabled young people, and their families. It’s about what we’ve discovered and working together to shape what comes next.

Low bar for authorship these days

Humans evolved strong mechanisms for evaluating credibility. Yet these depend on an information ecosystem rich in trustworthy institutions and credible choices. The question is whether we can rebuild this epistemic infrastructure before norms of authenticity decay beyond repair, writes John Wihbey.

Gareth Millington's Archiving the Inner City project, funded by Leverhulme Trust is hosting a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on Friday 14 November. @leverhulme.ac.uk More info below 👇 #UniversityYork #Sociology #Race #Politics #UrbanHistory #BlackHistory

Photo credit:Leon Walls, Science Magazine.

Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...

Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?

The AI boom has crystallized feelings of anxiety in the public sphere, writes Lam Tran, yet recent policy developments have revealed the potential of an unlikely coalition to safeguard the public interest in AI.

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science to join our Department from January 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: http://bit.ly/48Ll8nU Closing Date: 9th November 2025 #WeAreSTS #education #lecturer

32% of peer reviewers now use AI tools. RoRI’s Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and Denis Newman-Griffis discuss the rise of AI in peer review and why it may be a “sticking plaster” for deeper systemic problems: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Deep breaths…

We're hiring at BRAID UK! Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r... Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.

My new piece is up: Silicon Valley billionaires use science fiction to justify dystopia, AI overlords, space colonies, escape plans. I call this “science fiction materialized”. But radical science fiction offers blueprints for resistance + rebuilding and new worlds. untoldmag.org/silicon-vall...

4 years ago I wrote this www.tommys.org/about-us/new...

New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy Find out more/register here: bit.ly/4mUdESC

A key question for the AI industry will be whether energy consumers see data centres as just infrastructure for their digital lives or an unnecessary indulgence for new AI

Sociology is marking Black History Month with a poster display highlighting the work of Black scholars and writers who have made significant contributions to the social sciences. Come and visit our display on the second floor of the Law and Sociology building, from 1 October to 31 October 2025.

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

I am running 50k for SANDS this September. 30k in, I’m proud to be raising funds for this amazing challenge. fundraising.sands.org.uk/fundraisers/...

Essential reading for the @royalsociety.org, which has gravely underestimated the seriousness of what is happening to science in the US. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

‘Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too’. Good, thoughtful editorial in @nature.com on #Metascience2025 & the new Alliance www.nature.com/articles/d41... @helenpearson.bsky.social @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

Great news: At #Metascience2025 @wellcometrust.bsky.social just announced its signature of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information! Wellcome CEO John-Arne Røttingen made the important argument that open research information offers crucial evidence to support metascience. @cwts.nl

Do get in touch with Paul if you feel able to contribute to his research

Just been sent this one to advertise an AI talk. Always count the fingers, people. Always count the fingers.

SATSU is having a couple of days in Edinburgh for the 2025 Assist-UK conference hosted by ISSTI at University of Edinburgh

@satsu-york.bsky.social great work Dr Ryan Shum for being awarded the Andrew Webster PhD prize! @assist-uk.bsky.social

Euphoria as a heritage value! doi.org/10.1080/1352...

So proud of @yorgospaschos.bsky.social for passing his PhD viva today 🤩🥳

📢 Job Opportunity: Research Associate 📢 For an NIHR Three Schools' Mental Health Programme funded project: Reducing loneliness for perinatal Muslim women. The role is part-time, on a fixed-term contract, with applications closing on 29 April. Apply today: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

#Metascience2025 will be the biggest meeting in the field to date. We also want it to be one of the most inclusive. Travel bursaries now available for those who need support to attend. More details here: metascience.info/funding/ @cos.io @briannosek.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social

#OnThisDay in 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times in the Vostok 6 space capsule. Tereshkova remains the youngest woman to reach space, and the only woman to fly a solo space mission.

Well! royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

Good response to the Fiona Fox piece on the 'politics' of what the Royal Society should do about Elon Musk .