Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer setzt generative KI in das Konzept des verteilten Handelns und postuliert "Im Kern stellen Systeme generativer KI eine Art agentifiziertes menschliches Wissen und Können dar. Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch." #DGS2025

Heute um 14.15 alle so: "Model car, model wife, model village - Model farm, model right, model village" #dgs2025

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“ Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚

Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!

I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".

What DOGE doesn’t understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social

"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time

Wait, is Role Theory back?

Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution" Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!

As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

I am very excited to see "Market Design as Organizational Problem" out at AJS: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... How do we explain systemic levels of destructive behavior in platform markets (system failures)? I suggest that we should focus on the organization that

SUCH a great idea - bsky posts about academic papers from accounts you follow. LOVE THIS 🧪⚒️

💡 Generative KI in der Wissenschaft: Chance oder Risiko? Wo sollte KI eingesetzt werden – und wo nicht? Welche Auswirkungen hat das auf das Wissenschaftssystem insgesamt? Diese Fragen diskutieren wir im #weizenbaumforum 👉 Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Plenarveranstaltungen auf dem DGS-Kongress 2025 in Duisburg https://kongress2025.soziologie.de/calls-for-papers/plenen

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

📻 Amateur radio shaped modern tech, from satellites to the internet. Yet, much of its history is at risk of being lost forever. 🕳️ #VanishingCulture Why does this matter? ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/14/vanishing-culture-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications/

🌍 Call for Contributions: Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism 🌍 taschn.bsky.social and I, cheimstaedt.bsky.social, invite submissions for a special issue exploring how sustainability is valued in economic activity. 🌱 Full details here: valuationstudies.liu.se/valuing_sust...

"Von welchen Organisationen sprechen wir eigentlich, wenn wir von Organisationen sprechen?" Ich freue mich ungestüm auf die Diskussion am #dgskongress2025 CfP: www.soziopolis.de/ausschreibun...

Hi everyone! We are starting up a new bsky account for actionuni, the organisation representing mid-level academic staff in Switzerland. Follow us for our updates!

Model Village

Out now! @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social Our Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society has arrived! A big thank you to our fantastic colleagues who have contributed to this comprehensive compendium of research on valuation and evaluation in various societal spheres! lmy.de/ASSuq

The Library of Congress is on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/libr...

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

Some of your archival needs may be met here ---> go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

Is digital public infrastructure like roads, an essential infrastructure that others can build businesses on? Or like radio, which makes an informed citizenry possible and is a backbone of democracy? Smart, thoughtful essay engages with some of my work: www.techpolicy.press/what-is-digi...

Delicious chaos as another DAO found to be an inadvertent general partnership in CA gizmodo.com/judge-rules-...

Check out the @asaskat.bsky.social Starter Pack of 60 sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology! To be added in the list, use the Google Form in the next post. Will add folks every few days. go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM

I created a starter pack for people interested in all things social and sociological theory and theorizing. Let me know if I should add anyone. go.bsky.app/ByNfpie

I started a Starter Pack for folks interested in Work, Organizations, and the Economy, from sociological perspectives. LMK if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/9S2CgcW

New Article: My colleagues and I discussed the agency of artificial intelligence. Turned out that we had to reinvent sociological agency theory to make sense of it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Job: 100%, 3 years at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in a research project on "Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era". The PI is @annekkrueger.bsky.social, who is a fantastic colleague. Deadline is 25.11. More Info: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Today it finally happened. 5yo: "Why is the world inside your phone?" I am so prepared:

"Organization and Valuation": Global Perspectives – Submit abstracts for the session at the @isa_sociology Forum in Rabatt 2025. Abstracts Submission Closes: October 15, 2024 - No deadline extensions. isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/foru...

Mein Artikel darüber, wie sich meritokratische Begründungen in Berufungsentscheidungen historisch herausgebildet haben und mit Begründungen sozialer Passung konkurrieren, wird in der FAZ besprochen:

Together with @amateurgarde.bsky.social we are organizing an international workshop on the rise and crisis of expertise in early June in Lucerne. We're honored to have Gil Eyal (Columbia University) as our keynote speaker on June 5th.

We're delighted to announce the launch of a new journal, Political Philosophy, with the same editorial team & editorial board as the old JPP. Send us your new papers & support the fight against private ownership of the means of (intellectual) production! www.openlibhums.org/news/668/

Friendly reminder to make your donation to the @archive.org that currently has a 1:1 donation matching and some important lawsuits going/coming up

Als letzthin die Kollegen ihre einverleibte Abneigung gegenüber Waschnüssen kundtaten war mir nicht klar, dass sie literally von Nüssen sprachen

About some findings one is reluctant to think hard about: children choose more difficult moves when playing for fun vs. the win scholar.google.com/citations?vi...