Look forward to speaking at the University of California, Berkeley the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Centre for Bangladesh Studies online seminar, ‘New Directions in Bangladesh Studies’! Register here to join us: lnkd.in/ecrNs8Sb

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Pleased to share our latest paper, 'The everyday lives of gig workers in Melbourne', published @urbangeography.bsky.social.This paper explores the spatial and institutional barriers gig workers face while accessing restaurants & delivering to customers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... .

Call for book chapters for our forthcoming book ‘Future of Work and Care’. See details below 👇 Abstract submission deadline: 15 August #futureofwork #care

Our research shows that digital platforms profit from city infrastructure without giving anything back. In this article, we call for greater accountability from platform companies, urging them to share the responsibility for maintaining urban infrastructure. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how...

When they are legally unable to form a union, how can gig workers in #Bangladesh challenge their exploitative working conditions? @lutfunlata.bsky.social on agency, overt and covert resistance and the importance of informal networks. #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/8H35CAX

EVENT ALERT: Platforms and Society and @adtechproject.bsky.social present "How to Approach and Regulate Google?" - an online symposium 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw. 690528)

Pleased to see my latest paper ‘Algorithmic control & resistance in the gig economy’ published in The Sociological Review. This paper explores how Uber drivers in Bangladesh exercise agency through both covert & overt resistance strategies. Read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pleased to see our (w Andrew Copolov) latest paper 'Parasitic platform urbanism in Dhaka and Melbourne' published in Human Geography. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #platformeconomy #urbaninfrastructure #regulation #Uber #Pathao #DoorDash #HungryPanda #Australia #Bangladesh

The next London Inequality Workshop (10th) will take place at UCL on March 20th! Register and find more details about upcoming the workshop here:

The UN human rights commision published its report on the human rights violations during the Bangladesh uprising of July-August 2024. The results are shocking but not surprising, even to those of us who followed events closely. 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Great work showing how people’s career choices mirror their parents' in knowledge, values, skills, and more – and discussing the implications for inequality.

Thousands of workers flooded the streets of Brussels today to oppose the measures the Arizona government coalition wants to impose! We stand with our Belgian comrades 🛑 NO to austerity! 🛑 NO to attacks on trade union rights We will not stand down! 💪🏽 @judekd.bsky.social @ibarthes.bsky.social

Want to take part in an event on conducting fieldwork across national and cultural boundaries? Call for Papers by 31 March for ‘Navigating Challenges and Complexities in Cross-national and Cross-cultural Fieldwork’ a BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 21 May, University of Leeds tinyurl.com/mrf5vtx7

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Reminder: Submit your paper for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies", to be held in Berlin, June 4-5, 2025. #CfP Apply before February 15, 2025 www.weizenbaum-conference.de @claraigk.bsky.social @dscheykopp.bsky.social

NEW PAPER! Shiyu Yuan explores whether COVID-19 removed the inequalities in homeworking practices across gender/racial lines. Although most workers did benefit from the rise of WFH patterns, Black men and Chinese workers not so much. @giwlkings.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

☀️Early view📨 We are observing a new AI spring, but how could we make sense of the complex challenges & govern #GenerativeAI❓ Araz Taeihagh introduces the upcoming SI that unpacks generative AI and its risks & highlights unique challenges👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Hey bro! Tell us again how tech is not political. "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Another excellent book written by @ruha9.bsky.social.”I want more than anything for your imagination to run wild".

What happens after 'early career'? Find out by booking on our event ‘Coping, Thriving, Progressing?’, a @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 21 March, Newcastle University tinyurl.com/ykj8tjdh #sociology

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

📣 Call for proposals for our Sociological Review monograph series. 📣 Editor @silkeroth.bsky.social is looking to commission two monographs for publication in 2027. Deadline for receipt of proposals is 16 June 2025. 🔎 Read more about the call and series: thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with...

📢VACANCY: Research Associate - ELSA longitudinal study. Post focuses on the social science elements of the study espec ethnic inequalities in later life. Full time, 10.5 months. Closing date 31/01/25 @uomsociology.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

"Although the mechanisms through which people reach elite positions are still hugely important, they are now essentially hidden under the veil of meritocracy." Read @samfriedman.bsky.social interview with @hcampsm.bsky.social in Jacobin.

Chris L. Smith, Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari - Bloomsbury, December 2024 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/architect...

We desperately need to de-gig the economy. We're all riding full speed into a dystopian future of hyper-exploitation. 🚲 Over 140 hours on Uber Eats earned one courier just $1.74/hr. 🧵 www.thestar.com/business/i-w...

Just before the end of Term One (for many universities in the UK), we will be holding our final event of 2024 - co-organised with The Bauman Institute! Theory & Society: Zygmunt Bauman - Book Launch 13 Dec 2024 (2:00-3:30pm GMT) Online Register now: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #SocialTheory

📣Join us for the opening night of ‘The Everyday Lives of Gig Workers’, a photo exhibition based on photos taken by our research participants. 🗓️6 - 9pm, Wednesday 11 December 2024 📍Gig Workers’ Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne #gigwork #everydaylife

Great piece in Social Europe on regulating platform work in the EU. It’s one thing to create laws that protect platform workers from exploitation, but quite another to ensure that companies actually comply with the laws. www.socialeurope.eu/eu-pushes-to...

Gig workers in Delhi suffer immensely from heightened air pollution, crossing even 1000 AQI. We conducted a health camp in Delhi for the gig & outdoor workers. Indian Govt should act to protect workers from climate crisis as well as make corporate platforms accountable.

Some snapshots from #TASA2024.

Insightful presentations on work at the #TASA conference today. Emma Lees on co-operative workers and job satisfaction and @lutfunlata.bsky.social on the importance of weak and strong ties in the networks of platform economy gig workers in Australia.

Great keynote speech by Professor Shakuntala Banaji on #hate and #technological disinformation. #TASA2024 @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

If you’re attending #TASA2024, join our Urban Sociology session today at 11am. We have 4 amazing speakers who are going to speak about #housing, #greenspaces & #bluespaces & #snakes @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

We're bringing together scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists to reflect, critique, and imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, and social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, and mythologized. Learn more and apply by January 17, 2025! datasociety.net/announcement...

New #OpenAccess paper in Transactions: 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman doi.org/10.1111/tran...

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

“Urban Transport as a Social Construct” - the first of our Urban Studies journal calls for conceptual advances in urban studies is out! If you’re working on #transportstudies and all things #urbanmobility take a peek and get in touch! 🚨 www.urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers/