The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved. Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

Would you like to read a special @uofgsociology.bsky.social edition of the So Fi Zine wonderfully curated by @awtsn.bsky.social and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social and more (& me)? Thought so: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025). We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research! More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!

icymi: Desire Lines, Queer Cartographies and Cartographic Queers New paper by @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social and me out this week in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space on why and how people contribute to queeringthemap.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am THRILLED to have a new article with Emma Kirby in @societyandspace.bsky.social Focused on Queering the Map, we analyse how people contribute to this queer mapping of life – and become cartographic queers 📍💜 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring: Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture ‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity Illustration by Tim Marrs ...and much more. buff.ly/y8o76RY

So pleased to see this out, Zine-making the Commons, open access in EJCS @ejcs-journal.bsky.social

this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?" It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!

Five years ago today I got my mitts on my debut novel, Into the Sea, a work of sociological fiction published by Brill. I have (finally) really found my love of writing again and am happily working on my second after many many fits and starts

🌱 Feminist zine-making in research and education: call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection ✨ There are so many amazing folks thinking creatively, critically and differently about zines today - if this is you, please consider being part of our new collection! shorturl.at/OtaYf #zine

You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!

‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New fiction in The Sociological Review

Do you use any AI platforms for support, conversation, life questions or companionship? Looking for participants to take part in an anonymous online interview about their experiences with #AI

Quit calling them hallucinations. Call it what it is: bullshit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/chat...

Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This morning we started on the Glasgow special edition of So Fi Zine - watch this space for new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art! One of many wonderful things to come from my time visiting UoG sociology dept, including 3.5 solid weeks of sun 🌞✨✂️📎📚 sofizine.com @academicdiary.bsky.social

Fun start to work today with a sociological fiction workshop ran by @awtsn.bsky.social. I made this little 5 minute comic about boxes & barriers.

Fantastic morning at a writing workshop on sociological fiction with Ash Watson. Thinking and doing and having permission to indulge in serious play. Such an invigorating gift. @awtsn.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events. 🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.

Trigger warning: the cat poem we published in 2021 is back on the timeline

This is a glorious short story - read it free via the link below

Ways of seeing: how can feminist perspectives transform knowledge production? Meet our latest three Image-Makers in Residence – and in conversation: Hannah Buckler, ‪@goblinpurwin.bsky.social‬ and Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/uDUMjAD

Tig and Charlotte have done brilliant work on trans toilet access over the years that unfortunately is now more relevant than ever. Useful resources and info here for speaking to universities and other employers.

Had a great time at #britsoc25 - many fab papers on futures, subjectivity and/in space, creative methods +++ I lowkey love going to a conference and not presenting. so much more brain space for ideas @sazpaps.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @socrevdev.bsky.social

Maybe unpopular opinion, but every academic writer should learn storytelling techniques. How we communicate our research is very important. And some of the best papers I've read tell a story (with data, theory and empirics, but a story nonetheless). NOT A TALE, A STORY (just in case).

Very cute welcome to the BSA! #britsoc25

@sazpaps.bsky.social hello!! see you at the BSA next week? ☺️ I’ll be there and saw your name in the program

“…the real power of trans visibility lies in the potential we hold to build community, and to act as possibility models. To know we have value to one another. To know we have the potential to create and inspire: to write, to draw, to paint, to act, to speak, to love, to be loved, to simply be.”

Anti AI piece in the New York Times and another in CNN from the excellent @amorrow.bsky.social. Something is changing. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

"Computers are good at pattern recognition; but pattern recognition and token prediction are not learning. To continue calling them machine 'learning' or artificial 'intelligence' is to agree with a fallacious metaphor that risks irreparable harm."

i think these people are in the grip of a genuine delusion www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

The election is officially on, so grab your bingo board and play along

“When using the word transphobia is treated as harassment, transphobia is not treated as harassment.”

Meanwhile, in Europe👇

The Sociological Review Foundation’s magazine is now a quarterly and the debut issue features two brilliant sociological fiction stories - read a teaser in the picture and find the full pieces plus the whole issue via: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar... @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

STOP PRESS! The debut issue of our new-format Magazine, edited by @juliettephd.bsky.social & Iris Pissaride. Features, Foundation news, fiction, image-makers, reviews and Michael Burawoy’s final interview, in conversation with @michaelacbenson.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...

It’s long been true that if you can’t make your machines act like humans then the next best (and way easier) thing is to make humans act like machines.

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

Tuning in: our Fiction editor Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social on vibes-based methods.

Movies you’ve watched more than six times using only gifs

I’m having a cracking time talking on radio across Aus + NZ about this piece this week. Why are vibes the vibe?

Me again on vibes: theconversation.com/vibes-are-so...

Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix. tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

Australia has joined 70+ other countries to sign on to the Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI at this week's Paris AI Action Summit. The US and the UK have refused to sign the declaration. www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...

I love this short story by Sudip Sen, a funny and kind and imaginative and wrenching sociological look at a painful year that still ripples. Sudip is a great writer and you can read his story for free at the link below #sociologicalfiction