Fascism at the Gates, my public lecture at the Toronto Public Library. In dialogue w/ Prof. Sanjay Ruparelia. I am so thankful to the hundreds of Torontonians who attended! Now you can watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEr...

Today, far right leaders will try to spread hatred and fear on our streets. We’re all too familiar with the consequences of that politics, how quickly dehumanising rhetoric escalates into real-world violence.

Amnesty give three reasons why second ‘Unite the Kingdom’ hate march is worse than you think www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Latest on Farage’s handy 5m: It was nothing to do with politics & it was a reward for Brexit. It was unconditional & it was for security & it enabled a house - buying spree. I guess he’ll just keep throwing various explanations out until one sticks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A man, who builds his platform on calling queer people an “abomination”, aims to sell hatred by weaponising his position. And every politician standing beside him launders that hatred into public life. Disgusting and dangerous. Typical Faragian world. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Social media has long been failing LGBTQ+ people. But it’s getting worse. - buff.ly/Hq6t40W

I wrote for the Sociological Review @thesociologicalreview.org a visual essay: #Memory as #Rebellion You can view the photos I took as well. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may... #AcademicSky #Sociology

I wrote for the Sociological Review @thesociologicalreview.org a visual essay: #Memory as #Rebellion You can view the photos I took as well. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may... #AcademicSky #Sociology

Voting done for the Greens. 🌿 I voted for a politics that takes the climate, public life, and social justice seriously. Democracy still breathes in these little queues, please go and vote!

We have a toxic combination of low wages and high bills. We need to make life affordable for everyone. Make hope normal again & Vote Green. 💚 (& remember to take photo ID to the polling station!)

A fake prize, a real investigation, and one very ambitious award to himself. Academia, please stop trying to become a Netflix subplot 🙈 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CALL FOR SESSIONS 🔊 #ISAWCS27 XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology 'Global Sociology in Turbulent Times' July 4 – 10, 2027 Gwangju, Korea Propose a session to the ISA RC/WG/TG via 🔗 isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20... by June 25, 2026 (23:59 UTC, with no deadline extensions).

Strengthening data collection on #LGBTQ+ staff supports fairer, more responsive equality policies. Emma Jones and Simon Lock outline strategies: https://ow.ly/BeiK50YT871#LGBTQ+#AcademicSky #EduSky #EDI #DEI

Just submitted my response to reviewers for my paper and it is 9,000+ words for the response letter alone. At this point, the revision seems to be a second paper with attitude. Well, we must all admit that academia runs on feedback…and stubborn persistence. #AcademicSky

All The Things for nerds with a conscience! The @ucpress.bsky.social spring sale: 40% off any book, for 1 week. 📚 🧪🗃 #politics #anthropology #sociology #CulturalStudies #AcademicSky 1/

Fascism at the gates. Today at Toronto Public Library. A conversation with Sanjay Ruparelia about my recent works on fascism tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...

Struggling with the "Publish or Perish" grind? Join Prof. Karen O’Reilly for a deep dive into communicating sociology. From ethnographic methods to engaging the BBC, learn how to make your research matter beyond the journal. 🗓️ June 17, 2026 | 09:30 BST Register here: buff.ly/XcE1kX8 #Sociology

Anyone with a brain knows what has ramped up this kind of hate in Britain: politicians, out of control media commentators, and dangerous online extremist gobshites with massive numbers of cult followers

The Office for Students pushed an ideologically loaded case and it collapsed. Finally justice prevailed. UK universities should hold the line by protecting queer lives. Hate speech can't be justfied because someone calls it “free speech.” Universities aren’t arenas for legitimising harm #AcademicSky

My latest blog post, “How to Think Like a Criminologist.” jeffreyianross.com/how-to-think... #crime #criminologist #criminology #criminaljustice #university

25 April marks the end of fascist rule in Italy. Today it matters to remember because power still flirts with fear. It sells order by dividing people and it still tests how much silence it can buy. Ordinary Italian people refused to kneel fascism and that refusal matters today again. #AcademicSky

25 April marks the end of fascist rule in Italy. Today it matters to remember because power still flirts with fear. It sells order by dividing people and it still tests how much silence it can buy. Ordinary Italian people refused to kneel fascism and that refusal matters today again. #AcademicSky

ISA Statement Condemning the Escalation of War and Violence in the Middle East

Sociology’s new issue is out! Find articles on long COVID, electronic employee monitoring, and veganism and culinary activism in the April issue. journals.sagepub.com/toc/soca/60/2

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy, Revised and Expanded Edition, October 2026, you can pre-order here www.amazon.com/Wannabe-Fasc...

'Universities across the UK have reported more than 1,000 job losses in the first four months of this year, with the actual number likely to be far higher as institutions continue to roll out cost-saving initiatives.' 1/4

EU’s top court finds Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law in breach of key values. ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Read it slowly. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a preschool can take taxpayer money and turn a four-year-old away because their parents are gay. A child is a child. If that question deserves a hearing, this is moral collapse. #AcademicSky #LoveisLove

Why are colonial histories often sidelined in our understanding of the modern world? Join us on 27 May with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social & Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Part of our Conversation Series. Free & online! 🔗 buff.ly/lTcfQjW

It’s not just the remarkable 63% who say they’d vote to rejoin the EU. It’s also the fact that this figure continues to rise slowly but steadily. Brexit has failed and is seen to have failed. And geopolitics brings Britain and its neighbours, with whom it shares interests & values, closer together.

BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...

We can now be expelled for objecting to someone calling us, a queer person, a pervert. Tennessee calls this protecting free speech. This is very familiar to us. They punish the wound and shield the knife. They want queer students/staff to endure hatred, and do so in silence, or leave. #AcademicSky

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

Why Fascists Hate Sociology The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power. By Professor Michael Schwalbe www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Some news...I am writing a book on resistance for @vikingbooks.bsky.social!

“There are a whole lot of different political crises impacting on universities in a way that can only change them quite dramatically.” Karl von Holdt in conversation with journal editor Carin Runciman in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/kcJzLpc

What a fantastic series of @thesociologicalreview.org seminars!

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Keir Starmer said Magyar’s victory marked “an historic moment, not only for Hungary, but for European democracy” www.attitude.co.uk/news/world/h...

Calling out these far right networks’ sponsorship of historical propaganda is one reason why The Critic and The Spectator published falsified personal attacks on me: alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin... And alanlester.co.uk/blog/a-lesse...

It's here. Letters to a Young Criminologist is now available. www.routledge.com/Letters-to-a...

Sixteen years of courts hollowed out, press captured, and neighbours turned against neighbours. The damage is real and it will take years to undo. But in a world tilting toward darkness, a light came on tonight from Hungary! We must hold it and make it bigger! #AcademkicSky

Censorship of queer lives is rising - from algorithms burying stories to AI-driven misinformation 🏳️‍🌈 That’s why we’ve pledged to improve access to LGBTQIA+ journalism - but we can’t do it alone. 🚨 And right now, your donation is doubled thanks to matchfunding! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf202...

On the dark side of politics and the history behind it...you can subscribe for free to my substack... substack.com/@federicofin...

Thrilled and deeply honoured to receive Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award. My sincere thanks to the jury for their generosity and recognition. And congratulations to Peter Katzenstein for the jury award; his speech was powerful, sharp, and truly memorable. #AcademicSky

I wish someone did this for #Sociology. My guess? The picture would look even worse than #Politics #Academics

“.. No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

A Latin American perspective on the Protests, my substack open.substack.com/pub/federico...

Fascism presents an almost symbiotic relationship between the militarization of politics and the aesthetic glorification of violence. Trump here is attempting the same in a more vulgar way but his fascist ideological tendencies are clear!