Thrilled to announce that my new book, A Slow Revolution, will be published by Cornell University Press in 2026! Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, I narrate the story of Sicilians who have fought the mafia at great cost and with extraordinary resilience. #AcademicSky

See the new #openaccess article from International Social Science Journal: An Analysis of the Antecedents of #Poverty Among Households Headed by Older People in #SouthAfrica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AcademicSky

I enter Rosh Hashanah with a heavy heart. I believe in Palestinian freedom and dignity, yet watching children and families buried under rubble is unbearable. Justice can’t be built on mass graves. This new year must begin with life, not endless death.

Andrew Ross, author of PUBLIC CITY/PUBLIC SEX, will present his book at Profs and Pints Baltimore: The Victorians' Sexual Underground on September 24 at 6:00 pm at Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Avenue in Baltimore, MD.

My latest blog post, “What’s the Role of Belonging in Urban Environments?" jeffreyianross.com/whats-the-ro... #belonging #politicalparticipation #street #streetculture #urban #urbanenvironments #urbansemiotics

They are transforming classrooms into propaganda camps. Patriotic education is a new code for state-approved brainwashing. This will strip kids of critical thought & replace history with nationalist lies. #Fascism is taking root and if you listen closely, you can hear its heavy steps. #AcademicSky

They are transforming classrooms into propaganda camps. Patriotic education is a new code for state-approved brainwashing. This will strip kids of critical thought & replace history with nationalist lies. #Fascism is taking root and if you listen closely, you can hear its heavy steps. #AcademicSky

An #executiveorder that might as well be stamped: “Welcome, #mafia" A $1 million ticket to permanent residence is an open auction for organised crime bosses, money launderers, and kleptocrats. Criminals in suits are probably celebrating this grotesque decision now with champagne! #AcademicSky

This is a Kafkaesque higher education playbook unfolding now in the US: fire the professor who teaches gender theory, then punish the VC for not firing fast enough. Due process outsourced to panic. #AcademicSky

👋 Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social have joined Bluesky Give them a follow for resources, events and upcoming actions calling on sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinian If you want to get involved email [email protected]

Historic. Faculty, staff, and unions refusing to bow to Trump. UC workers standing up to Trump’s weaponisation of civil rights law actually shows us all what real defence of democracy looks like. #AcademicSky

My latest blog post, "Parking as a Microcosm of Broader Urban Struggles" jeffreyianross.com/parking-as-a... #parking #urban #street #streetculture

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Musgrave is right that getting a PhD right now is financially disastrous & even increasingly physically dangerous, but it’s this idea at the end that illustrates the stakes beyond the academy: “Sometimes, there are lost generations; this will be one of those times.“

This is #fascism in plain sight, creeping back through the campus gates. #Universities betray their own, trading freedom for fear, and turning campuses into outposts of state surveillance. Shame! #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

The situation at Texas A&M is disgusting. Gender identity formation is an appropriate and necessary topic for any children’s literature course and should be included even if not detailed in course descriptions. Firing professors for teaching the truth is fascism. #AcademicSky

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

The US Supreme Court allowed race, language, job as “factors" for a stop and raids. Agents now have license to profile. This is doctrine of denial with deadly consequences. It is judicial complicity in racism. Another rotten day in the corpse of US justice. #AcademicSky bbc.com/news/article...

The Boris Files Boris Johnson was paid £240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:

Today, I have received the readers' reports for my third book: One reader loved it, another hated it, stating: “appealing only to people who read the NY Times or the NY Review of Books...writing is too accessible” Strange insult! Why are readers categorised in such a rigid way? #AcademicSky

We are pleased to announce that we are bringing back our Twenty Questions series of interviews.⁠ Today we relaunch the series with a fresh set of questions: our first interview is with Judith Butler. ⁠ www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Only now might #Labour and #Starmer realise what is at stake if they let #UK #Universities fail. But it is close to “too late”. But they won’t realise. #£billions of #investments will be lost. Revenue will #decline. #Tories & #Labour are #toast #UCU #UUK www.theguardian.com/education/20...

My latest blog post, “Rethinking the Subway Sandwich Guy Incident" jeffreyianross.com/rethinking-t... #activism #crime #criminaljustice #ICEprotest #protest #WashingtonDC

As an Editor, I understand why non-native authors use AI for language support. But when they use it for other purposes, it generates false citations, which is academic malpractice. This morning alone I spent an hour fact-checking AI’s inventions across submissions. Truly exhausting! #AcademicSky

My latest blog post, "Why Paying Attention to the Streets Can Change How You See the City“ jeffreyianross.com/why-paying-a... #city #observation #publicspace #semiotics #street #streetculture #streetlife #urban #urbanlife #urbanpublicspace #urbananthropology #urbangeography #urbansemiotics

Reposting from my Feb. 23, 2025 blog post, “The Never-Ending Demonization of the American Inner City” jeffreyianross.com/the-never-en... #innercity, #crime #criminaljustice # demonization #federaloversight #urban

A sad affair of myopic greed drains the Humanities. And with them goes the spine of our future. #AcademicSky www.chronicle.com/article/they...

Cruel and evil...

Great article from @nasarmeer.bsky.social who wisely notes that revealing asylum/immigration status masquerades as transparency, but actually fans prejudice, erodes justice, and fractures society. In our volatile info era, clarity stems from fairness and due process, not identity tags! #AcademicSky

Please stop posting 9-month fixed-term jobs. Make them at least 12 months. Anything less signals you value budget savings over people’s lives. It damages your institution’s reputation and treats staff as disposable. This is inhumane. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH075/l...

The federal government’s $1B demand is an attack on @UCLA and its mission to serve the public good and higher education. #StandUpForUC here: bit.ly/standuc. But make no mistake - this goes beyond UC/publics - it affects ALL higher ed! We need to @standhighered.bsky.social. #AcademicSky

I popped to the loo this afternoon and Gino (my cat) had nicked my chair. He snoozed like he owned the place, slept like royalty so I waited an hour until he woke up for his dinner. Then I finally got my seat back to continue writing the book. He is clearly the real author here. #AcademicSky

Please help us save the discipline of sociology at Macquarie University www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

My latest blog post, "Thirty Years After VIOLENCE IN CANADA” jeffreyianross.com/thirty-years... #canada #criminology #criminaljustice #myths #mythmaking #peaceablekingdom #violence

Reposting from my July 6, 2024, blog post, "How many correctional systems does it take to install air conditioning?” jeffreyianross.com/how-many-cor... #airconditioning #carceralstate #convicts #corrections #incarceration #jail #prison #prisoners

My latest blog post, “Interpreting Graffiti and Street Art Tours” jeffreyianross.com/interpreting... #graffiti #streetart #tours #authenticity #expertise

These students from Gaza have earned scholarships through resilience and brilliance. They only need a safe way to reach the futures they've worked for. The UK government should offer safe passage. Blocking them means wasting potential the world sorely needs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement." edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...

Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over. ‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

What a powerful speech from Spain’s first trans lawmaker Carla Antonelli: "Do you not feel any shame at all for trying to remove, to erase, to cut out of this society a historically persecuted group of people?" #Transrights are #humanrights youtube.com/shorts/8Jx6U...

"...two women who were shot by quadcopters while sheltering in their tents...One was breastfeeding her child when she was hit; the second was pregnant." 'I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a man-made disaster. Enough is enough. The United Nations must be allowed to deliver aid of all types at scale to families in Gaza, wherever they are.

The Trump Administration seemingly has a new reason to target Harvard University. 🔗: bit.ly/44Z8Xlw