In our December issue, learn about the effects of Countervailing Powers of the state, healthcare organizations and patients on physicians during the Covid19 pandemic: bit.ly/457Y9QY By @taniamjenkins.bsky.social Liza Buchbinder & Mara Buchbinder

Who says graduate school is all work and no play? Preparing for an epic graduate qualitative methods analysis lecture… h/t @mdesoucey.bsky.social for sharing this great assignment idea! #sociology #uncsociology

Media alert: My research on professional culture and physician burnout was just cited in this Medscape article about how medicine can be unhealthy for doctors: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... @asanews.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social

So Your Doctor Is a DO. Does That Matter? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/w...

8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May www.unitn.it/en/phd/socio...

RIP Robert Zussman (1948-2024), sociologist and ethnographer www.asanet.org/footnotes/fo...

After five years of work on a paper, including three years under review at three different journals, the magic words have finally arrived: Accepted!

Calling all sociologists of medicine: please consider submitting abstracts to the ASA med soc Section Session "Is there a Doctor in the House: Updating the Medical Sociology Agenda around Doctoring." Looking forward to vigorous debate about the state of the field! Reminder: ASA deadline 2/26 11:59PM

Super proud that I was able to reach F6 last night during my voice lesson! #vocalrange #whistlerange

“His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain…” RIP Peter ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/a...

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan theonion.com/cat-clinging...

Happy space heater season to all who celebrate

Even Drs dont know how much healthcare costs—and it angers them too: “I should be able to tell my patient in the E.R. if his hospital stay will definitely be paid for. I know exactly how much of my dog’s care will be covered;why can’t I know the same for my patients?” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

Anyone else feel like December is a prime writing month? The craziness of the semester subsides, campus becomes still, and suddenly, time opens up for all the writing that didn't/couldn't happen in the previous months. I love December.

All books on the Columbia University Press website are 50%-70% off today! One day only! bit.ly/4eU8kuB @columbiaup.bsky.social

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

2 weeks ago I woke up with tinnitus and hearing loss in my right ear Saw ENT that day and diagnosed with acute sensorineural hearing loss Prednisone 60 mg daily and my hearing is back to normal If you wake up with acute hearing loss in one ear you should get it checked out asap

Seasonal allergies in late November will never not be weird to this Canuck 🤧

Quebec moves forward with allowing advanced requests for medically-assisted dying for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Finally, individuals can take back some agency over this god-awful disease. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

The Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology at FSC is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Fall 2025). I’m co-chairing the search w/ my wonderful colleague Dr. Shan Siddiqui. We'd especially love apps from social work PhDs. Deadline Nov. 30th. farmingdale.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

I feel like we need a little Friday Evening welcome party to all the new souls at Bluesky (& I’m still trying to catch up). It’s been a heck of a week, but we’re here and that’s a great start!

New pub alert! This piece theoretically bridges two classical areas of medical sociology -- countervailing powers and the stress model -- to better empirically understand physician distress journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Deadline for early consideration is tomorrow! Be sure to apply / spread the word about these two jobs at the assistant OR associate level at UNC-CH in gender, sexuality, or migration!

Sociologists! Vanderbilt is hiring an assistant professor who studies "health/medical and/or environmental sociology through the lens of race and ethnicity using quantitative methods". Link to apply below: apply.interfolio.com/152779

We've got two jobs! Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

Some days I get frustrated with our system of peer review in sociology, and other days, I feel energized and grateful for the reviewers' awesome suggestions. Today, I am strongly feeling the latter. #ConstructiveCritique #BeKind

The social physics of time: Everyone else at the end of January: How is it still January? Doesn't this month ever end? 😩 People on leave: How the *!&@ is it the end of January already?? 😱

JOBS! 2-year Postdoc in Public Policy @ColbyCollege, based in the Sociology Department. Open to any area of policy specialization or social science discipline. Applications due February 12. I'm happy to answer any questions. Please help us spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/137995

New pub alert! Here's my latest article on physician #burnout in Social Science & Medicine. I find that stressors at the societal, professional and organizational level are interdependent, and that physicians must absorb these stressors to keep healthcare going www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...