"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

📢 CFP @isa-sociology.bsky.social RC33 on Methodology (Sept 22-25, Naples) Qualitative Multimodal Approaches: Ethics and Practice for Visual, Creative, and Participatory Methods 📝 Submit your abstract here: rc33.org/call-for-abs... ⏰ Deadline: March 15, 2025

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

“Per my last email.”

Reminder: Call for Papers for the 2025 SSHA Conference closes March 1st! Check out the details and submit your proposals here: ssha.org/conference/

@isa-sociology.bsky.social Hi there! We are RC56 Historical Sociology and now on Bluesky! 🦋 Please share our account with anyone who may be interested in hearing from us @isa-sociology.bsky.social

Don't forget about the upcoming episode of #Culture & Contemporary Life Talk Series (@ASACulture, @ASAnews) at 3 p.m. U.S. Eastern time on Feb 11 about #Gender, #Religion, & #Nationalism in #Global Perspective. Past episodes can be found here: asaculturesection.org/culture-in-c...

📡New Issue Out!📡 Among other things, the issue proposes an amazing Special Feature titled “On Mentoring”, edited and introduced by David Stark, with seven contributions. Find it here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...

Read this new article by Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup and Kaspar Villadsen entitled "The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis". #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a4DJtw

"Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations" with @mayrl.bsky.social is inching along. Behold: automated collection, parsing, and matching of acknowledgments from seven ASA sections, covering award-winning publications (and a few comparators) spanning 1979-present! Fine-tuning still, but looks face-valid!

You better watch out, you better not cry

It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

My article, "Saving one's face while saving one's soul?" has found a home! If you're interested in learning how people (in my case, early modern penitents) tactically approach disciplinary networks and how these tactics can be further transfigured into disciplinary tools, this might do the trick.

In a week, Matteo Bortolini and I will host the first ISA RC08 online conference focused on the uses of archival and digital methods in the history of sociology. Register using the link below! Thanks to the support of the MoHu Centre and the DiSSGeA department (@unipd.bsky.social).

Yale Sociology and the world lost a wonderful human being last week: Adam Valen Levinson. For all who knew him, his family is organizing a memorial bench in his honor per his wishes. If you would like to give, here is the info: www.gofundme.com/f/adam-levin...

Fellow writers, I come bearing bad news. #AcWri #AcademicSky #WritingSky

Hot off the presses! Our fall issue, full of passionate, exciting, innovative sociology, is free to read, download, and share through Dec. 15: contexts.org/articles/f24... Resilience. Vulnerability. Protest. And joy... no matter what comes!

"One of the more reliable chemical reactions in European culture occurs when particles of German mental matter enter Italy. Suddenly, German writers discover that life is worth living again, as they succumb to the view from the veranda." 🤌 The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School

This is the starter pack for #ComparativeandHistoricalSociology. I am sure that I have missed some colleagues, so if you have expertise in comparative and historical sociology, please write to me. go.bsky.app/EviT7cV

Never mind your job, what about His? nypost.com/2024/11/20/t...