Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

Thank you to all the amazing @britsoci.bsky.social staff for putting on such a lovely event this year! #britsoc25

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Research by Newcastle, Northumbria & Durham universities reveals gaps in police custody healthcare, sparking calls for healthcare for those in custody to be brought under the NHS remit. Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.

On my way to #britsoc25 and ofc my first train of the day is cancelled 🤦‍♀️

Looking forward to the @britsoci.bsky.social conference this week. l'll be giving the plenary 'What Can Sociology Say about Right-Wing Extremism & the Mainstreaming of Racism & the Far-Right?' and @bsaecf.bsky.social masterclass 'Teaching & Researching the Far-Right & Extremism' tinyurl.com/bdhcmhhp

so they're mycoblogging

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

'Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler

Off to Newcastle Sociology today to host this event - with wonderful speakers including Les, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, @katesang.bsky.social, Anoop Nayak, Alison Phipps, and @britsoci.bsky.social’s own Alison Danforth. #AcademicSky #Sociology

In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.

I was made very welcome today at Topping & Co Edinburgh. *Sixty* copies of Pathfinding have now been signed, alongside quite a few copies of Wanderers. Pop in if you’re in the area and fancy an autographed first edition of my new book!

Leadership from UC Berkeley. "...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊ The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪 The whole union is behind you 🪧 Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...

🚨🚨 An ECF workshop is going to be hosted at Newcastle University on 21 March 2025: "Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?" Hope to see you there! 🚨🚨 www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Me: *reading Wuthering Heights at age 10* Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!

words I never imagined writing in my lifetime..... General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio: "I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"

I feel like David Lynch deserved more than 5 seconds of a montage, and Shelly DuVall deserved more than to be nearly cropped out of the frame, hovering above the orchestra, and Tony Todd deserved literally anything. I guess sometimes I wish the Oscars were a funeral to celebrate those lost.

Week 2 of our industrial action to save jobs at the University of Dundee begins now. Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am. Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.

CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

If the guy who arguably has the most to lose from telling Trump to get fucked can manage it, then everyone else should too.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

In the Oval Office today, two of the smallest men in the world met one of the biggest, and they realised which was which. Slava Ukraini.

For those wondering why Trump is spouting Putin's talking points regarding Ukraine/Zelensky: 1) Trump is utterly in awe/thrall of Putin & has been for years 2) He's a fascist and feels an affinity with dictators & 'strong men' 3) He thinks Zelensky was mean to him & he has no emotional control

Apropos of nothing in particular (*cough* Charles III inviting Trump over for tea *cough*) this seems like as good a time as any to mention that Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6635225

"Cambridge’s efforts to undermine its students’ civil liberties – by seeking an injunction to effectively ban expressions of Palestine solidarity both on and off campus until 2030 – represented the broadest restriction on university protests to date" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Democracy dies in deference

Apologies to my dissertation students: I was just about to read your work and then a cat sat on me 🤷‍♀️ #AcademicSky

what in the living, breathing fuckery is that POSE?! 😂🤦‍♀️

Ah, George "pain-along-the-way" Boyne. What a legacy.

There is no student experience without staff (academic & professional services)

My colleages and I are organising a panel at the RGS this summer - please share! CfP - Relentless injustice: trauma, exhaustion and researching zombie problems (or banging your head against a wall) We invite papers that consider the challenges, traumas & exhaustion of conducting research... (1/2)

This will be an in-person session only due to limited availability of hybrid sessions. We welcome creative formats or approaches that can fit in a standard paper session. Please email your abstract (max 250 words) to Sinéad O’Connor ( [email protected]) and Yvonne Ehrstein ([email protected]) by 28 Feb

@michaelacbenson.bsky.social saw this advertised and thought of you!

SocRel Annual Conference 2025 Funded Places These include the registration fee, day-time catering throughout the conference & the anniversary conference dinner. Apply here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/LPKFTLR Applications close 7/03 5pm @britsoci.bsky.social

Starting my day with a ghost story and am absolutely delighted to see @luciejones83.bsky.social on Uncanny! #AcademicSky

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

Book now for our @britsoci.bsky.social event supporting early career academics in coping with the problems of UKHE and finding our own strategic path through the mess! Great sociologists involved, free event, bursaries available. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Something wildly unpleasant about the successful marketing of things to the British middle class as "oooh, this is kinda like an illegal drug", while that same class refuses point blank to legalise a drug trade that exploits/incarcerates huge numbers of poorer and racialised people

ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.