"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million." Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

This is a terrible blow to the social sciences and humanities at UNC-Ch. I don't think anybody would buy the officially stated reason for "sunsetting", given the amount of money the university spends on sports.

Yikes!

Mark your calendars! Our online panel is coming up next Monday!

Please join us ! Online Panel on Global Youth Mobilization in Times of Polycrisis December 8th (Monday), 11 am Central/ 12.00 EST Register at [http://bit.ly/3K1ZUIi]. We will discuss youth mobilization across diverse political contexts—including Indonesia, Morocco, and the United States.

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]

📚 In our Collection on #Polarisation in #Turkey Political #Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey 🆓Read the #FreeAccess article by @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social, M. Odabaş, D. Tunaoglu & @mustafa-yavas.bsky.social 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

sometimes there's just Too Much World, isn't there

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

This fantastic map by Francis Galton shows travel time from London to the rest of the world in 1881.

Revisions can be overwhelming, and I often encourage authors to rank revisions from "critical" to "if-there-is-time." I also tell authors to write down three parts of the manuscript that make them proud because every manuscript has fantastic parts, too. #AcademicSky #amediting #academia #writing

📢 Submit your paper for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference (@bjsociology.bsky.social) by Monday 20 October - three weeks today. There is no predetermined theme. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts relating to any aspect of sociology. Find out more: www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Calling political sociologists and political scientists! Submissions are open for the 2nd People-ing Politics Mini-Conference at ESS! This year's theme is "Bringing the People Back In." To submit a paper, please use the ESS conference portal and be sure to choose our mini-conference. www.essnet.org

historic home page for one of brazil's leading outlets

If you study democratic erosion and protests, the outcome of Bolsonaro trial in Brazil is an important one to keep an eye out www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Next ECSR conference will take place 15-17 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract deadline 11 January 2026. If you're wondering if this conference is for you, have a look at the kind of work we publish in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Submissions: col.eventsair.com/ecsr-2026/su...

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

Turkish women's volleyball team lost the world championship golden medal in a nail-biting game against Italy, but they definitely aced against the Turkish Internet trolls and their negative campaigns throughout the tournament (esp. on the other site). Congrats for the silver #FileninSultanlari

Turkey will face Italy at the volleyball world championship final tomorrow. Both of them had a though semi-final match today. I expect tomorrow's match to be full of fire and drama 😎

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

It is those that try to get the political seats by any means necessary, the ones they believe they are entitled to have, that dismantle democracy. No matter how many times they chant "democracy" in their teams' slogans

Now.. These are the types of grants I dream of

@asa-cbsm.bsky.social #contentiousky #CBSM2025 🧵 Some take-aways about protest and social movements. (1) Protest movements have opponents, who will fight back if they lose, things are never settled. (2) You protest when you are in a losing position, of course protest does not always win 1/

I think this might be the hardest point to digest for some folks on the ground 😅 but also the young might think the elders always had it easy, that is why their protest worked in the past 🤷🏻‍♀️(twist on the same it-worked-in-the-past trope)

Myra Max Ferree nods at Gamson 's work and argues terrains > playing fields. Encompassing macro institutions and norms so we are heading out to think more about political history #CBSM2025

One of the important take aways from #CBSM2025, as Deana Rohlinger puts it," current social movement theory no longer fully captures the dynamics of political influence in a digitally mediated outrage driven environment."

It is a great day to get all nerdy about social movements research! Plenary session of the mini conference starts in half an hour at #CBSM2025. There is also coffee ☕! See you all soon #ASA2025

Just concluded an amazing panel at #ISA2025 in Rabat on social movements and democratic backsliding @rc47isa.bsky.social Thanks to all presenters!

Writing on the civil society reactions to democratic erosion in Brazil. While there are a lot of positives, I feel like it is too early to dismiss Bolsonarismo. Despite some pundits' remarks and recent polls showing most of the centrists' would love to him drop his presidential candidadcy.

Great to read about this research providing evidence that the value of a degree involves much more than the salary graduates go on to earn: theconversation.com/why-a-rip-of...

Congratulations to the CBSM Charles Tilly Book Awardees🎉: Sharon M. Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social for Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social for Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg

Preliminary schedule for our mini conference, "The Many Impacts of Social Movements: Fifty Years after William Gamson’s The Strategy of Social Protest" is up! Check it out: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

Looking at Crunchyroll anime awards: Solo leveling is so overhyped. Overall bored with the dominance given to action animes :/

Student protest against an ultra conservative invited speaker on Boğaziçi campus is resulted in police intervention, over 90 students are reported to be detained, and University administration demands criminal investigation against its own students

Looking forward to a lively discussion on social movements and democratic erosion! Join us on May 13th. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent.

As I see European/Canadian calls to "lure" BEST scholars in the US, I cannot agree with this point more:" we see old-fashioned greed, acting in the guise of standing up for academic freedom and science. The ordinary scholar is left on their own." www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

This is a really important point — when we point out that governments are crippling HE by attacking visas, we also need to a) talk about international students as people not £££ and also b) point out *why* overseas tuition fees have become an apparent panacea for UK universities

I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

For context: "Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance." bsky.app/profile/wire... Lost for words to follow US news rn to lighten my mood🤷‍♀️

Özel, the leader of the opposition party announced 2 million people joined the rally in Istanbul. No matter the number this seems to be the biggest rally of the 21st century Turkey. Also important to note: the call for boycotts of media and consumer good companies associated with AKP cadres

Crowd in front of the city hall at Saraçhane, Istanbul tonight

Main opposition party CHP had a presidential primary scheduled for today. With İmamoğlu's arrest, they opened the primary to all citizens. Result: around 15 m voted for İmamoğlu today nationwide. For context: 55 m TOTAL votes for all parties in 2023. 15 m in 2 days,w/ limited resources. Remarkable!

More than 300 thousand are reported to have gathered in saraçhane, istanbul while smaller scale protests also continue in different neighborhoods of istanbul tonight. Big demonstrations in Ankara and İzmir. Smaller ones in other cities. 2m people watching the demonstration live on X at the moment

Major protests in Turkey for two days in a row led primarily by university students and joined by opposition parties in response to the arrest of the mayor of istanbul (opposition's presumed president candidate) pushing the main opposition party towards endorsing social movement tactics.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Great summary of the (unfortunately) predominant perspective on the labor to sustain public services

Reminder: one day left to submit your abstracts to the mini conference!