Two things should be true in a democracy: 1. Being rich should not help you get elected. 2. Getting elected should not help you get rich. How’s your country doing on these criteria?

Crowley in the first 30 minutes of the finale is a heartbreakingly loyal stray cat 🥲 #GO3Spoilers

It is indeed an achievement to unify Italian press. Next level is the football fans youtu.be/phb4N12_aAk?...

Looking for timeline cleanse? Here you go.

Cat of the day, sleeping at a café in Istanbul

‼️📆 Call for papers – The politics of place: geographic divides in contemporary democracies (AECPA, Granada, 9-11 Septiembre) Con @asanchezgarcia.es @aldeleon.bsky.social @juanperezrajo.bsky.social te invitamos a que nos envíes tu propuesta antes del 31/03 👇 www.aecpa.es/es-es/the-po...

SEVENTY YEARS ago today - March 19, 1956 – Washington Post article "Fumes seen warming Arctic seas" - reports oceanographer Roger Revelle’s statements... allouryesterdays.info/2024/03/18/m...

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

So he's saying that he knew Israel was going to attack Iran and he believed Iran would retaliate by attacking US bases, so we had to strike first since Israel was going to get US forces attacked.

In case the scam here isn't obvious - Grammarly is, without permission, creating little LLM agents based on the work of academics and then claiming this is the same as their "expert opinion" - using their names and reputations for free without consent.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Love it when nerdy table top RPG references meet political commentary 😎

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The replies here, with multiple scholars noting that U Chicago’s IRB seemingly approved a study that violated copyright and subject consent, points to a serious failure at that university and the supervising professor on the research. It may not seem so from the outside, but this is a big deal.

"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

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