Most of research is discovering that the data doesn't care about your theory

Nothing makes you feel alive like submitting a paper and immediately finding a typo

The Social Science History Association 2026 Call for Papers is up! The meeting will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 19th to 22nd, 2026. Submission deadline is March 1st, 2026. Submission link and details here: ssha.org/conference/

🔔 Upcoming Talk "Speaking of Solidarity" w/ Phil Gorski Monday, January 12 · 2:00 PM EST Join us for a conversation with sociologist Philip Gorski about the possibilities and challenges of solidarity and the role of sociology in these times. www.eventbrite.com/e/speaking-o...

Academia is mostly just opening pdfs you swear you've never seen before, only to find your own highlights

In which Rogers Brubaker, Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co comment and Greta Krippner and I reply. Read if you like getting into the theoretical and technical weeds of the relationship between categorization, quantification, and different imaginaries of the relationship between variables and persons.

🔔 Recently out: "Emotions in Meaning-Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis" by Dmitry Kurakin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

! NEW ISSUE OUT ! Our latest issue (and the last issue of this 2025) is OUT and ready for you to enjoy here: lnkd.in/euHFDNvZ Inside you will find a conversation between Edwin Amenta and Theda Skocpol on U.S. politics, higher education, and the relationship between sociology and political science.

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

Asked by the 1905 census carried out in Eritrea what language he habitually spoke, this hero said 'Veneto dialect' (but confessed he spoke a little Italian as a secondary language 'un pocco di italiano' Also enjoying his religious faith: 'God without priests '

#Italy is set to hold a referendum by spring 2026 on a major constitutional reform of the justice system known as the Nordio reform. Leonardo Puleo writes on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social that while the reform might appear limited, it could lead to a further weakening of Italian liberal democracy.

Join us for the Culture Section's inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture by Dr. Ben Carrington, “‘The University is a Critical Institution, or it is Nothing’ - Stuart Hall, The Elephants’ Graveyard and the Sociology of Race.” Register here: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The President’s Speech by our outgoing president @emilyerikson.bsky.social to close our third day of the 50th SSHA Conference in Chicago.

the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.

Academia is just a series of increasingly specific regrets, each with its own citation style

We're seeking a full-time LSE Fellow to contribute to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and to act as an academic mentor to undergraduate and postgraduate students. 📅 Applications close Sunday 16 November Apply here ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

the worse the shared draft the better the friend

I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice? 🧵

Nothing sums up research better than spending one week tweaking a paragraph until it returns to its initial state

New in ST!🔔For a Strabismic Sociology: A View from the Southern Cone - Claudio E. Benzecry, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South Full details here: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u... @asanews.bsky.social

Every grant application is basically “what if I did the same thing, but with a budget and lower expectations”

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference! The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field. Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025. www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

"Significant contribution to the field" often translates to "first person to care about this very specific thing"

📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI

Not book smart, not street smart, but a secret third kind of smart (not)

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

👀 Call for Papers 👀 The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Every academic has exactly one paper they're secretly proud of and twelve they pretend don't exist.

Artisanal, small batch, typo-strewn emails are becoming the real currency of our time

We are happy to announce the 2025 International Sociological Association's RC16 Junior Theorist Award! This year the RC16 Junior Theorist Award goes to Romulo Lelis (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning), for his paper:

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Excited that my article 'Levels of Legibility: Roles and the Flow of State Information in French Morocco' is now out in Social Science History! The paper shows how French administrators' internal communications transformed environmental knowledge and practices in Morocco dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

getting ready for #ASA2025 at the Art Institute of Chicago

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

The inaugural issue of Theory and Social Inquiry is now available! I love that it includes an orientation toward #ProblemSolvingSociology. Check it out, problem-solvers! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

Happy to share that my paper has received the BJS early career prize!

Wowza this issue is phenomenal. Three comments. 1. Protect the dolls. 2. Check out the special section on defending DEI - curated to include some of my favorite scholars on the topic (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....) 3. Their Spotify playlist includes Fugazi. FUGAZI. So yea. Amazing issue.

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

It is impossible to drink “too much” coffee. You have failed the coffee in your weakness. The coffee is not to blame

Dave Allen, post-punk's greatest bass player, has died. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXL...

Sociology grad students & recent phds: Submit to the 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...

Don’t forget the deadline for submissions is March 1st. Just two days away! Here is the link to get right into the submission system and find the CFP: ssha2025.ssha.org