For those of you who might be interested, I have a new article in the Tyee with some of my on the ground observations at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ok y'all I'm throwing out a hot take on LLMs in Toronto in January: "We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI" Enough of the bias talk. LLMs are a completely different beast and our old frameworks are no longer useful. datasciences.utoronto.ca/dsi-home/dat...

My PhD student (@colteruscola.bsky.social) and I have a new chapter out on social pain and how we can better integrate neuroscience into social science! Check it out! #sociology link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Department of Sociology (University of Virginia) invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position in the sociology of religion, to begin fall of 2026. apply.interfolio.com/173879

⛅ The climate of political polarization ⛈️ E. Huddart, T. Silva, P. Muzzerrall & S. Dimitrakopoulos’ #Socius study analyzes #survey data on attitudes towards #decarbonization policies to link affective #climate polarization to #political identity-based boundary-making Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

From ABCs to CVD 🫀 A. Zajacova, S. Fishman, & E. Lawrence’s new #Socius research examines national #UnitedStates #health data to uncover the complex relationship between #educationalattainment and #cardiovasculardisease Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Congrats to my grad student @alyypatel.bsky.social on her article "Re-theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet" in Canadian Review of Sociology. How can the closet be a source of violence, esp. for multiply marginalized groups? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology

My phd student @colteruscola.bsky.social crushing it. Great #sociology here

Free to read! New research from ASA member Colter J. Uscola @colteruscola.bsky.social, University of British Columbia, shows how marginalization and trauma influence the performance of gender through alcohol use. @sociusjournal.bsky.social

🎀🍺 Alcohol Miss-Use C. Uscola’s (@colteruscola.bsky.social) new #Socius study examines how women and men seek to resist #familytrauma informed #genderexpectations through their performance of #alcoholuse. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

New in Sex&Sexualities by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social ! "Color Outside the Lines" offers methodological tools - ethnography attuned to ephemerality and a palimpsestic approach - to study queer nightlife and changing social worlds. doi.org/10.1177/3033... #QueerMethods

New pub is out in Socius! This article examines how the narrowing gender gap in alcohol misuse is not only about drinking rates, but about the meanings of drinking. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Congratulations, @colteruscola.bsky.social!! 🎉

New pub is out in Socius! This article examines how the narrowing gender gap in alcohol misuse is not only about drinking rates, but about the meanings of drinking. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

The Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Utah is hiring!! Assistant Professor specializing in criminology & ideally overlapping in one of our other specialty areas (health, political, environmental). utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)