Excellent piece from Luke de Noronha for @ersjournal.com An experiment in cutting race down to analytical size 'The challenge, as ever, is to get on top of the contemporary and make arguments rather than assume them.' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Support @sheffielducu.bsky.social! Oppose the lock-out threat! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Two FREE Sociology events this Thursday!🎤 At @manchester.ac.uk, author @scarletharris.bsky.social will be discussing her new book on what is, and isn't, being done to tackle Islamophobia in Britain. At @glasgow.ac.uk, join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social to chat all things wind power.

Brilliant open-access collection of essays on 'The Cultural Location of Fascism' here including by @gavant.bsky.social @charlottefraser.bsky.social + many more I couldn't find on here! reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3.15-4.15 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from early Jan - mid-Feb?

...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc... I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

I am buzzed, chuffed, thrilled, made up, over the moon. Pellicle is the beer publisher of the year. Now would be a perfect time to support our all-independent, extremely award-winning work. Www.patreon.com/pelliclemag

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

The racial politics of police warfare by Jas Nijjar for @manchesterup.bsky.social with a foreword from David Theo Goldberg will be must read/must teach for anyone interested in race, racism and/or policing! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/

She’ll be asking universities next…

Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Into week 2 of our strike action @sheffielducu.bsky.social as we fight for no compulsory redundancies and a pause to the programme of unjustified reviews and restructure. Donations from branches/orgs/individuals very welcome as we financially support members to stay out: tinyurl.com/yxrz3p5d

New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6

My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016. Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social tinyurl.com/y33k947p

My Manchester beer and pub guide is currently on sale in the @camraofficial.bsky.social webshop, so if you're looking for a good value stocking filler, I've got you sorted: shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...

Out today (ebook version)! jameskneale.com/2025/11/13/t...

This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print! Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717 @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

This is appalling, devastating for the staff and students involved (and their families & communities) and shocking in its extent. This is jobs and lives - and a whole sub-discipline (and I know other disciplines are also at risk). We can not just stand by. Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.

New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Join us for an exciting panel event - Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing 📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm 📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH Book your spot now: 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social

Looking to build back up my group of PhD students. Primarily interested in supervising in the area of drug policy but open to other areas, too. Drop me an email if you have an idea. For more information about me and my work, take a look here: tobyseddon.com

Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Hurricane Melissa by Luke de Noronha for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Some old photos of Glassy Junction from the 1990s, including a snap featuring Saeed Jaffrey pouring a pint

This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

Are you a high-school or college student working part-time while studying in Manchester? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session 📍 Manchester Central Library 🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did... #ESRCFestival

TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration. 🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social 📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST ➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564

💥 Apps open for 2026/27 entry @sriucl.bsky.social! 📌Sociology MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Data Science MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Social Inequalities MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights MA www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Submit an abstract for the BJS Conference - April 23 and 24 2026 at LSE. Deadline this Monday! www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Beneath the snark, I’m actually looking for economics research on apprenticeships and informal knowledge transfer. Pointers anyone?

📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society. 📅 Deadline 3 November. 👇 Details below!

This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965 Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social: 📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx 📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7 📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL 📌Chevening: www.chevening.org Applications open from October 13!

Dear hive: Does anyone have an idea on how to recruit *production workers in the Netherlands* for a qualitative study? Asking for a PhD colleague. Slim chance, but all hints would be welcome. Feel free to share as well! Thanks!

We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns'). I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: cultural theorists Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh explore the place the pub in Nigel Farage's English nationalist imaginary renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

Short essay for @renewaljournal.bsky.social me and Vallu wrote on Farage, politics and pubs... a bit of a preview to the book we're working on about pubs, race and the nation to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social in September 2026 renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Only the memories of Mike Tyson at his most destructive in sparring can rival the vivid images I carry of the young Ricky Hatton training in an old hat factory. He was utterly lost in boxing. It all felt so pure. Ricky was unforgettable then – and remains so now www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time www.ft.com/content/0723...

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research. Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Brilliant & important analysis from @kojokoram.bsky.social: why the populist right’s attack on history is integral to its attack on democracy & human rights: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m so excited to share that we’re getting ready for the next @bjsociology.bsky.social conference! Now accepting abstracts. Please submit, and encourage friends and colleagues to do the same! (And if previous attendees are wondering, yes, we plan to repeat the success of the boat party, IYKYK)