Views + reviews: our June issue gets the measure of six new books. Steven Brown @academicdiary.bsky.social Stuti Roy @simonarthur.bsky.social Rachele Reschiglian @caryshill.bsky.social ‬on PhDs, @thewhitepube.bsky.social, class, neoliberal universities + more.‬ thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/

xkcd.com/3089/ Modern @xkcd.com

“The purpose of education is so you can get a good job” No it’s not…. Nooooooo it’s not The purpose of education is so you won’t be a dumb ass

Augar is right that new regulations should include claw back pay from vice-chancellors in the event of financial catastrophe (defined as?). But is wrong to tie employment outcomes to tuition. At no point is there any mention of how basic and non-goal oriented research is an essential public good.

This is literally how toddlers act

Ronan the head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat: ‘No human was better’

This is the graph I've wanted to see all day... governments get kickings but this shouldn't be happening to an *opposition party*

Hans Poelzig’s Sulphuric Acid Factory in Luboń, Poland (1911-1912) #germanexpressionism

You can’t argue with the peer review method. The conclusions are unanimous that Giorgia Meloni is a racist piece of sh

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen? Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump on why he announced a tariffs pause: "I thought people were jumping a bit out of line. They were getting a little bit yipee."

Every day:

"...as of 7 am on Wednesday, the signs are not good. There is good reason to think that we may be entering fullblown bond market meltdown. The headlines of Bloomberg and the FT and the WSJ all concur. The bond market is the story." - @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

It's a good book!

Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next... Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right

NEW✨ The universal republic – a utopian ideal or a feasible mode of global governance? The Universal Republic: A Realistic Utopia? by Mathias Koenig-Archibugi @lsegovernment.bsky.social revisits an often-dismissed Enlightenment idea of a world democratic state. Review by @simonarthur.bsky.social

@dkthomp.bsky.social: “The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.”

I have just signed the contract to publish the book based on my PhD thesis, with R outledge books!! Titled "A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking" which I need to submit in October 2026. I am both excited and terrified!!

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons theonion.com/concern...

It's only runaway inflation with a Democratic president; otherwise, it's sparkling positional gain.

Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, drew this last November. No newspaper would print it. It now deserves an outing.

one thing that I think is actually good about elon is that he is too unsophisticated to do this sort of thing in private like a normal billionaire so everyone gets to see the rank corruption of our system all out in the open. in this way his social ineptitude is actually very helpful

These guys think they're spewing cutting-edge posthumanist theory and it's all just the corniest, shittiest science fiction that actual writers wouldn't waste a minute on.

It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5

Yay!!!! We control the future of Western Civilization now!!! Yay 🙌🏼

Here it is, my syllabus for "Futures of Nostalgia." I heavily revised this because we live in a very different world than the last times I taught this even as recently as 2022. I think this is one of the best undergrad syllabi I've ever put together.

On Trans Day of Visibility, we're highlighting a few of our new and forthcoming books. They are a beautiful sight to see.

A surge in U.S. wealth has been driven by stock and home values. But the gains are concentrated at the top — and the country’s economy remains deeply unequal.

This weekend, the so-called "Tesla Shield" came out to defend Elon Musk and counter the #TeslaTakedown protests. Among those taking part: • MAGA • Proud Boys • Armed Militias • And a guy dressed as Hitler www.wired.com/story/proud-...

Let's hope Farage is sweating like a pig...

Breaking News: Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement, jeopardizing her plan to run for president in 2027.

it turns out it is actually possible not only to find rich politicians in violation of the law, but to also actually enact penalties for it.

Thank god the far right are cleaning the swamp... BBC News - Marine Le Pen found guilty in EU funding embezzlement case www.bbc.com/news/article...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces one of the defining days of her political career on Monday, when a court rules whether she is guilty of embezzlement in a trial that could see her barred from the 2027 presidential race reut.rs/3DZbukp

Morning.

Leftist speech must be purged and fascist speech protected. This has been the goal all along.

Protesters picket London Tesla showroom on global anti-Musk day

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey. A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it! Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel: “Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷

😂😂😂 What a crybaby. #SheShed

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The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Disrespectful to Greenlanders not to wear a suit.

The Trump Administration is trying to forge a personalist authoritarian regime and honestly the conditions for success are there. However, they're *way* out over their skis at the moment. Their pure recklessness is making their path to success way harder 1/x

Please share! I'm editing a special issue of international labor and working class history on "The Global Labor History of Artificial Intelligence" with Susannah Glickman (Stony Brook). Please submit an abstract (just 250 words) for our issue if this is your topic! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

What role can central banks play in addressing climate change today? In our just-published article, we argue that we are at a critical juncture in which the future is highly indeterminate. Written with @matpaterson.bsky.social + 14 other amazing scholars /1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism