My book, #Queer Under Siege, has been unanimously voted for contract by Temple University Press. It was hard to write, bearing witness to the collective pain of our queer communities as we navigate repression across the world. It is a book about siege, but ultimately about resistance #academicsky

My book, #Queer Under Siege, has been unanimously voted for contract by Temple University Press. It was hard to write, bearing witness to the collective pain of our queer communities as we navigate repression across the world. It is a book about siege, but ultimately about resistance #academicsky

Finally waking up to a glimpse of hope in this country. Gorton and Denton is a good slap for the racist, reactionary party and for a governing party that lost its way long ago. The Greens showing that people want something different; not fear, not complacency. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"Taxing extreme wealth and multinationals is essential to defeating "21st-century Caesarism" and reclaiming democratic governance from the global elite." Will Democracy Govern Capitalism — or Be Consumed by It? #AcademicSky www.socialeurope.eu/will-democra...

9,600 redundancies at research intensive unis in 2 yrs. 9,400 staff paid £100,000+ a yr at Russell Group institutions. 'Uni of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294.' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-ear...

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I've spent years studying how authoritarian regimes criminalise inconvenient knowledge. This is that playbook. If the state bans teaching about certain issues as sociological facts, it tells you exactly what it fears. This is why critical, comparative, historical sociology matters now more than ever

Sanremo 2026 is ON 🇮🇹🎶 Fire crackling, wine poured, popcorn ready because some traditions are non-negotiable ✨ #Sanremo2026 #SanremoLive

Trying to watch Sanremo live on Rai Uno from abroad and getting hit with the copyright block! Anyone found a way around this? Asking for a very culturally deprived Italian abroad 🇮🇹 #Sanremo2026

"For MAGA, 'freedom of speech' is the prerogative of the powerful to offend and humiliate the weak (immigrants, non-whites, and sexual minorities), not the power of the oppressed and exploited to have their voices heard. www.socialeurope.eu/author/slavo...

“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Putin's Russia, Trump's America and many others...the regimes that built deportation machines in the name of "security" saw more violence. Reform UK offers a blueprint written in blood. None of this leads anywhere good for Britain. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My latest blog post, "Why I Keep a Shopping Bag I Rescued from the Trash in Berlin” jeffreyianross.com/why-i-keep-a... #bag #consumerism #materialculture #minimalism #recycling #reusablebag

I refuse to attend any ASA conference while Trump is in office. When a UK tourist shackled and detained by ICE for six weeks, no academic freedom is safe. I hope our US colleagues take note that #sociologists cannot diagnose authoritarianism abroad while sleepwalking through it at home. #AcademicSky

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In sociology courses at Florida’s public colleges, classroom discussions of institutions that “oppress persons of color” and several other topics are now forbidden by the government.

Dozens of protesters sentenced to death in Iran, says rights group - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-protesters-sentenced-death-iran

Universities didn't create Covid, didn't choose lockdowns, and didn't set public health policy. By this logic every airline owes you damages for a hurricane. This is a masterclass in punishing institutions for surviving a crisis. This will accelerate the collapse of UK higher education #AcademicSky

Universities didn't create Covid, didn't choose lockdowns, and didn't set public health policy. By this logic every airline owes you damages for a hurricane. This is a masterclass in punishing institutions for surviving a crisis. This will accelerate the collapse of UK higher education #AcademicSky

Two full moons, bright and enormous, side by side in my dream last night. Impossibly shining and impossibly close. No idea what it means. All I know is I didn't want to wake up.

Doing public-facing sociology? Our Public Sociology Awards 2026 are open. Celebrate creative work beyond the academy. Deadline: 13 March. Apply now 👇 buff.ly/2qmok7D

A man can terrorise a woman to death and the state will call it a private tragedy. 900 women a year. No charges and no shame! The state criminalises protest, dissent and poverty but not this. And that tells you everything about whose lives matter to power. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

A billionaire who moved to Monaco to dodge UK taxes says immigrants are "colonising" Britain and "draining resources." The real colonisers are oligarchs like him, extracting wealth, exploiting workers, and scapegoating the people who actually keep this country running.

Workplace bullying is a persistent problem in academe. I talked to experts about why that is, new efforts to combat the issue, and skeptics who worry that policing bullying will infringe on academic freedom @academicsky @highered www.chronicle.com/article/high...

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

ICYMI: Between April 2019 and March 2025, 107 of the 647 children who died by suicide in England were LGBTQ+

Reform want to financially punish us for not reproducing, and who gets hit? #Women, #Queer people, the #disabled. Anyone whose body or life doesn't serve their demographic fantasy. This is the biopolitics of the far right and they want obedient bodies. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Many university researchers (& many social scientists) have no idea that the 'Sullivan Review' (named after its lead author, sociologist Sullivan) exists nor of its potential potency. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I wanted to set the Review in context rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Academics who appear in the Epstein files deserve their own file: "Another category of Epstein associate: researchers who thought Epstein could either fund their work or help push their careers to the next level." #AcademicSky www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

"He is the logical culmination of the career politician, attracted to government office not because of any commitment to a set of values or public service, but simply for power, position, and profit."

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

‘The war led to the Revolutionary Guards becoming the country’s chief military institution, entrenched a siege mentality and habituated a generation of Iranian leaders to the logic of deterrence, endurance and asymmetric conflict.’ @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on Iran. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The Epstein files offer a case study in how crimes of the powerful operate. Famous names; all aware what was going on. Elite harm needs only a system where accountability is permanantly deferred so the powerful remains powerful by escaping justice. #AcademicSky www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

This isn’t new. It is patterned and systemic. I analysed it 4 years ago in my #OpenAccess British Journal of Sociology article When men kill women, they shift blame and manufacture excuses to avoid punishment. #AcademicSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Grim situation at Texas A & M. #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Restaurant tables sat empty, business windows went dark and students' desks were abandoned in several cities across the country Friday amid a nationwide strike in protest of the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota. https://cnn.it/4kcJWsn

I’m really pleased the Council of Europe has voted to pass @kateosbornemp.bsky.social's resolution for a trans-inclusive ban on conversion therapy. Now it’s time for our government to follow suit.

Left: Labour's Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, "Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’" Right: PM of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, "Yes, my country has offered a path to regulate half a million undocumented migrants" "This is the path we choose. Dignity, community and justice"

The First Amendment fully protects our right to record ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and other government officials performing their duties in public. Know your rights while filming, how to protect your digital privacy, and what to do if you're stopped or arrested for recording.

A new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

So Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein “Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year …”. Working right on across the edge, he then became obsessed with the idea that only Muslim men in the UK operate child grooming gangs www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1-- Epstein was funding white nationalist stuff (see next post) 2- How is he making these many typos 3- I don’t even know what to say about Chomsky anymore

Nobel Peace Prize committee member Asle Toje allegedly met with Steve Bannon in 2018. A further meeting was planned with Bannon, Toje, and then-deputy leader of Norway’s right-wing Progress Party Sylvi Listhaug. Possible MAGA ties raise questions about the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s credibility.

"Compared to the original 669-page textbook, the new version is just 267 pages. ... the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...