Learning from the Luddites “A still-underappreciated truism of our technological moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology—AI, mostly—that is used to exploit or replace a worker” www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

Be like Betty, Join a union !

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Picked the last winter vegetables from my (small & urban) garden this weekend - looking forward to warmer weather in Northern England 🥶 💨 ☔️ ⛈️

Twigs for skypeople

@fcomim.bsky.social we were discussing Habermas and Nancy Fraser and she's written this @lrb.co.uk blog

Rejoicing in the return of flowers and sunbeams

No idea how this app works #books2026

#books2026 this is actually book 14, Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence, Cavarero, Butler and Honig, edited by TJ Huzar and C Woodford. book 13 is on Castoriadis.

Yeah

EDI Event “Rethinking Inclusion: EDI In a Time of Uncertainty” @uniofgalway.bsky.social 🗓️ 26 March ⏰ 1-3pm @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social @sociologyireland.bsky.social #EDI #equality #diversity #inclusion

Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

@janephuong.bsky.social @sumingkhoo.bsky.social

#books2026 book 13 is Schismenos, Ioannou and Spannos, 2021, Castoriadis and Autonomy in the 21st Century. Bookmarks is Olafur Eliasson 2010, Your Blind Passenger

here's me at the opening last week saying a few words next to a 2022 video samia recorded of me talking about my research. please enjoy my signature duck face. 🦆 the show also features interviews w/ @gabriellehecht.bsky.social, jill jarvis, patrice bouveret of @obsarm.bsky.social & more!

We introduce our new book The Modern World After Colonialism on 4the March at 11am GMT registration link below

Our book The Modern World After Colonialism is just out, isn't it pretty?

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ASA Marxist Section Awards - deadline 6th March! * Lifetime Achievement Award * The Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award * Teaching and Praxis Award * Outstanding Marxist Sociology Article Award * Szymanski-Young Graduate Student Paper Award marxistsociology.org/about-the-se... 📝

Joy

Lo Hei!

Continuing my struggle with book 6 of #books2026 Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other. The analogies that have emerged so far for his contractualist argument are "porridge" and "fudge". It all starts to go wrong when he begins to discuss friendship

#books2026 book #12 is Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell, Radical Abundance. Bookmark is Toulouse-Lautrec, The Two Friends, 1894

Next week, Franek will share the results of his postdoc and will receive comments from @sumingkhoo.bsky.social and Krystian Join us on 26th of February at 2:00 PM (CET). Registration: bit.ly/SCRGKrawczyk

Book 11, 38 Londres Street was simply gripping. I read it in one sitting. On universal jurisdiction, impunity, immunity and the continuities of killing, torture, and lies #books2026

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share! events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

Book 11 #books2026

The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources 📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hurray! Come join our launch of #TMWaC on 3 March, thanks to the lovely @brisunipress.bsky.social

Royal Academy promoting their new exhibition with this rather wonderful Raoul Dufy: Golfe Juan, 1927

This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.

Hadn't posted anything on #books2026 zero idea how threads work here. Still on these books, currently chs 4+5 of 5/ - wonderfully written with sensitive insight and around 100 pages into 6/ - tough going but discussions are rewarding. Reading a few pages most days

Measles. Again. Imagine wanting this to happen, out of sheer stupidity and spite

People need to think about this graph

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Here's the news in English: #ClimateChange #Netherlands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...

The characteristics of this ongoing genocide are utterly horrendous, targeting any vestige of humanity, anything that could help people to survive as human beings.

Boycotting is something

In recent years, American tech money has flooded into Ireland for the construction of data centers and the infrastructure to support their energy needs. This has threatened the country’s boglands, and complicated the debate around its green transition.

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

Data cleaning is not something you'd associate with wellbeing. 'Boring' probably springs to mind. Or 'what's data cleaning?' Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month. theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

It was a great @dsaireland conference this year, maybe the one I've enjoyed the most! Thanks to the conference convenor Susan Murphy and a great conference team

If Carbon was 7/ Frankenstein 1818 is 8/ #books2026

Exactly this: “disruption”