A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...

new podcast project talking combat sports, culture, and politics w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social! The first three guests - Julie Kedzie, Stephan Kesting, Nate Quarry - are a dream lineup for me and I'm hoping some listeners will agree! pod.link/1531590204/e...

Shudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.

New Dear Adam Silver! Rafi Kohan, author of Trash Talk, shares his experience giving the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and why the petition that followed demonstrated a misunderstanding of talking trash. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

#sociology peeps: I am organizing a section at ASA called neuroscience, cognition, and sociology. Please submit. Please pass around. Papers need not do both neuroscience and cognition...

new GTaC! A discussion with Dr. Chris Connor about his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps + life lessons that can be taken from the respective projects. thesocietypages.org/theory/2026/...

MASA Winter Webinar: “On Community in Martial Arts" 4 February, 9:00AM-10:30AM - Online via MS Teams www.eventbrite.com/e/masa-winte... feat. panellists Lyn Jehu, University of South Wales and Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University, discussion led by Kyle Green, SUNY Brockport.

A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

This is INSANE. A SCHOOL. “The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.

So ends an era of ASA’s public facing journal as @contexts.org officially leaves print behind and moves completely online. I've somehow spent 1/3 of my life w/ @contexts.org starting on the grad board under the leadership of @chrisuggen.bsky.social, Douglas Hartmann, and @lettapage.bsky.social

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Check out @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social's excellent review of @mlamont.bsky.social's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World & @ruha9.bsky.social's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want in the newest issue of @contexts.org - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

An amazing list of quality journalism/writing worth reading and supporting! Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for sharing.

a belated Thanksgiving thanks to James Hamilton for creating the Posters Basketball podcast and filling the hole left in my heart when @netw3rk.bsky.social and @sheaserrano.bsky.social pulled the plug on Six Trophies. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Abigail and I spoke to Maryam Amirvaghefi about the dark humor underlying her (*incredible!) art, the shared experience of losing, her sport fandom origin story, and trying to avoid reductive readings of her work --> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

can't claim hero status but I am proud and happy to provide a space for nerds like @drcrmatthews.bsky.social!

new GTaC! @drcrmatthews.bsky.social joins for a wide-ranging conversation on the co-production of knowledge, radical honesty in the methods section, finding inspiration in the work of Simone Weil, and understanding research as sacred. thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @thesocietypages.bsky.social

With the absence of any news to occupy your mind, you probably are wondering what Zach Snyder used to accessorize his dapper suit for the 2023 Hollywood Reporter profile. And, if you can only remember the top portion of the photo you would be justified in guessing a croquet mallet of course! Well…

This looks to be a great and necessary conversation!

In my personal newsletter this week: 51(ish) things you can do to make a difference. amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-...

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

co-hosted Dear Adam Silver podcast and spoke to Emmy Award-winning writer, comedian and producer James Hamilton (@thejamham.bsky.social) about basketball fandom, the changing media landscape, his favorite jerseys, and his about to drop podcast Posters! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

@firstpublics.bsky.social is asking the type of questions that I think all academics should be asking at this moment. Honored to be included on an advisory board made up people I value and respect and excited to see where this project goes! thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...

new GTaC! @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social stopped by to discuss their new book Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life: thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

one relevant starter pack: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

new GTaC! Stefano Bloch shares lessons from his recently published article “Crime as Relational Concept in Political Geography” and says nice things about @timcresswell.bsky.social - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social

Hi all, I’ve got a crowd sourcing request for an essay I plan on writing. Please send me the names of any movies where someone chops wood with an axe, maul, or wedge (or I guess chipper or saw). *the scene does not have to central to the plot! *many thanks in advance!

As sociologists we have failed to adequately address the absurdity and canon prophesying powers of Max Weber’s full name. *Unless this is a wikipedia joke that made it into the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Can't wait to listen. The mundanity paper is one of my all-time favorites. Thanks for sharing!

"...this is an ideological project to remove local news access from rural communities...It eliminates access to information within one’s own community. This is about changing the information ecosystem that eliminates local news & replaces it with national news."

New GTaC! @danchambliss.bsky.social joins us to reflect on life lessons that can be taken from reading social theory. Really enjoyed thinking about how the "mundanity of excellence" extends far beyond the pool. @sunybrockport.bsky.social #hamiltoncollege - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

One of my faves this issue is @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social and @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social's piece, "TQ+: public memory, structural violence, and transgender erasure," on the indelible trans and queer community refusing erasure by Executive Order! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Our new issue is free to read, download, and share: contexts.org/articles/sp2... Peer-reviewed features include: ↪️@cantonwiner.bsky.social‬ on asexuality and queer gatekeeping ↪️‪@makchur.bsky.social‬ and JV Bastidas on environmental justice ↪️@avbsoc.bsky.social‬ on conservatorships #Sociology

It's here! Our latest issue takes up big social problems, from the multi-front assault on queer and trans people to the opioid epidemic, urban segregation, and environmental racism. #sociology Clickable table of contents: contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/ Companion playlist: tinyurl.com/CTXsp25tunes

The new issue of @contexts.org is a good one! And be sure to check out @dsilver432.bsky.social's examination of the @jonwynn.bsky.social ouvré (including The Setup, Jon's debut work of fiction) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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New GTaC! @sethabrutyn.bsky.social returns (!) to discuss Daniel Chambliss's "The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers" (1988) - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... @sunybrockport.bsky.social #hamiltoncollege

🚨New blog! Yolanda Wiggins, SJSU sociologist and Public Voices Fellow w/ The Op-Ed Project, urges us to "Let Sociology Majors Dream Bigger" and trust that the discipline "can thrive beyond traditional academic spaces" ↪️contexts.org/blog/dream-bigger/

New GTaC! Rahsaan Mahadeo introduces us to the ideas of Denise Ferreira da Silva and helps us understand the radical/generative possibilities of engaging with her work. thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... @sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social

"you root for the sacramento kings because you are a sick pervert, not because you believe they will ever win the nba finals." (this piece is fantastic.)

is it banana tell me it's banana

Spent the morning talking about AI use in the classroom, what professors can do, and whether it is all simply inevitable as a guest on Connections with Evan Dawson. Listen here —> www.wxxinews.org/show/connect... Watch here —> www.youtube.com/live/U2EU9Bl... @wxxirochester.bsky.social

I'm deeply, deeply saddened by the passing of Richard Alba @alba42.bsky.social. He was such a great scholar and source of support to me - blurbing my first book, writing for me on multiple occasions, and generally discussing ideas (incl when we didn't agree - which is rare for scholars these days).