spoiler alert: #Backrooms is IMO a psychothriller about the reification of AI and what kind of “generative hallucinations“ it would have whilst figuring out memory and human consciousness, by putting the Upside from Stranger Things into Severance’s basement offices, ad infinitum.

EdCMA 2026 Annual Lecture by the wonderful Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS): “The Social Body, Chronic Violence, and the Right to an Ordinary Life: Lessons from Iran“; thinking across poetry, ethnography, and slow analysis, on death, dignity, and dance as meaning making. @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Last webinar in our series before we break for summer! please register online and join us: free and all welcome!

Is there a critical study on the politics of marketing colourism in the publishing industry and spec on the colour-coding of book covers? the preponderance of orange and lilac covers in African studies and Black feminist writer sections is astounding.

Every now and then I am reminded of the sheer brilliance of Susan Leigh Star: a solid, luminescent thinker that combined feminist pragmatist approaches to scientific issues with unparalleled depth and range of analysis, and clarity of writing. Timeless! #sociology #STS

Swear to the goddess that I just crossed paths with Brad Pitt. Last year, it was Shirley Manson and no believed me.

New OA article: "Mapping the social studies of ADHD: From medicalization theory to neurodiversity in the digital age, and future directions". Reviewing 30y of scholarship, its shifts (global, decolonial, digital) and futures, entering the 'social studies of ADHD' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌍 How can we rethink urban life in an age of extreme heat? Join us for this online talk with anthropologist Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social, joined by Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social, exploring new ways of imagining future cities. 📆 Monday 1 June, 3pm-4pm (BST) Book here👇

Work is relentless, but one gets to do the pink carpet walk 💕🌸 and list 10 pink-themed songs

What a specimen! #tinyjoys

Looking fwd to thinking with and welcoming @martinsavransky.bsky.social on our *Weather, Climate and Health* series, 11 May! We have a stellar line-up and I'm adding a few more speakers, as we continue gearing toward Climate Affects, Politics, Atmospheres, and more in 2026/27. Watch this space.

Looking fwd to thinking with and welcoming @martinsavransky.bsky.social on our *Weather, Climate and Health* series, 11 May! We have a stellar line-up and I'm adding a few more speakers, as we continue gearing toward Climate Affects, Politics, Atmospheres, and more in 2026/27. Watch this space.

#britsoc26 Special Event tomorrow! 🌆 Climate Affects and Liveable Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis 🗓️ 10 April 2026 🕒 15:15 - 16:45 📍 University Place, R4.213 📘 Panel + SI/Ed. Vol. Workshop Join us in-person or virtually, if you must head home early! www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27155/...

Our brilliant colleagues Kevin Gillan and Vanessa May @uomsociology.bsky.social will be launching their new ed vol, Interrogating the Global Social Challenges @brisunipress.bsky.social at #BSA2026. FYI #sociology, on Vanessa's behalf (all deets and invite via link below).

The BSA celebrates its 75th anniversary during the #britsoc2026 annual conference, held at the University of Manchester, 8-10 April. I'm excited to be attending as one of the new co-convenors of the Climate study group and organiser of a Special Event, 10 April (15:15, R4.213) @britsoci.bsky.social

🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 Our Multispecies Mutualisms post doc roles are now also on jobs.ac.uk 🐦‍⬛ 🐕‍🦺🐄🐴 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS438/4...

Registration for our new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities is still open for Nordic students (either citizens or did bachelors in a Nordic country). Please pass along this great tuition-free study opportunity! www.uis.no/en/studies/t... #envhum #envhist #ecocrit

Pleased to be chairing this online event with Benoit Dillet tomorrow, on occasion of their new book release. Free registration below:

On Mothers’ Day and Oscar’s night, the award goes to… all academic mums with toddlers out there.

Good god.

We are organising a pre-conference workshop on Values in science in the rest of the world in Helsinki in August, just before ENPOSS 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract!

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

This Thursday (05.03) at noon, we will be chairing a guest seminar by @johnmacartney.bsky.social (Warwick), in our Durham Health & Social Theory* research group lunchtime series. He will talk on end-of-life research and “On permeant ethnography: Reflections of a sociologist in a medical school”.

Join us for another online seminar in the Weather, Climate & Health IMH theme series. Dr @benoitdillet.bsky.social (Bath) will talk on "Overcoming the sad affects of the energy transition" (w/ Sophia Hatzisavvidou), further marking their new book ("Transition Imaginaries"). Free registration ⬇️

Call for Abstracts for EASST2026 conference which takes place in September, in beautiful Krakow, will close on 9 March 2026 [23:59 CET]. Please submit your abstracts to our panel below welcoming submissions on topics across #STS #environmental #climate #socialscience #affect #planetary thinking.

🧧Xin Nian Kuai Le! 新年快乐 🌙 Ramadan (Eve) Mubarak! 🎉 E um bom Carnaval galera! To all students, colleagues, and friends celebrating, in the UK and around the world.

Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.

Philosophy of medicine international online reading group is back Feb 11! We will be reading "The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine" by Jonathan Fuller academic.oup.com/book/61541?l... Join the group here: groups.google.com/g/philmed-rg/ Please share widely!

People that bake your own sourdough or any kind of bread really: please say a little prayer for me and send me a recipe that works?! I’ll pay fwd

Fab roundtable happening now on “Seasonal Bodies: Weather, Movement, and Wellbeing” with @hesterparr.bsky.social and Antonia Hodgson. Co-organised by Discovery Research Platform's Moving Bodies Lab, Durham's Department of Geography research clusters, and the Weather, Climate, and Health (IMH)

Join us for an instalment of the IMH Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's talk series. The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea by David Livingstone Monday, 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00 GMT | Online Institute for Medical Humanities

📣 Call for Abstracts – ESHMS 2026 Submit your work to the ESHMS Conference in Hamburg (19–21 Aug 2026), themed Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty. 🗓️ Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🔗 Info + submission: www.uke.de/english/depa... #ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology #MentalHealth

Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

UK weather: Month’s worth of rain to fall in 24 hours as Met Office issues amber warnings https://www.europesays.com/uk/603511/ Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…#uk #news #uknews

New module trivia: agrobiz try to bolster crop yields by GM their herbicidal tolerance, only for weeds (p. amaranth) to learn glyphosate resistance (Landecker 2024). In 3,000 y.o. Chinese oracles, amaranth is used as elemental metaphor for longevity, holding on (tight-enough) in moral deliberation.

More info and registration here: easaonline.org/event/easa-m...

Considering postdoctoral research opportunities? Book now for ‘Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar’, an online @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 30 January tinyurl.com/muas4sk8 #sociology

📢 @durham.ac.uk has announced the competition for eight PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences, for candidates starting October 2026. Find out more 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Nothing like a digital tidy-up to rediscover one's own thinking. Found a cool paper I gave back in 2018 and the panel I convened for the Science in Public conference, on topologies of collaboration, interdisciplinary sites, and biosocial research.

@lighthousebks.bsky.social “ecosystems of change” book fair looking rad and Steve McQueen’s project “Resistance” on the history of protest + photography in Britain @nationalgalleries.bsky.social Not to be missed!

What fizzy feeling is this? Starting the day overjoyed by the news?! Way to go #NYC 🗽

Fascinating collection of essays on #philosophy in public life: www.nuffieldfoundation.org/research/our...

As we surf the post-X wave of “oh, they’ve resuscitated LinkedIN?!” here’s some unsolicited (visual) advice:

"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Polycrisis Network at Leeds led by Sebastien Nobert, is running a truly star-studded hybrid series with talks from Olivier Borraz, Michael Lawrence, Colm Murphy, Noémi Tousignant, Yves Citton, and Dimitris Papadopoulos, tmw!

This week, we launch 6 Durham IMH research themes for 2025-27. Jed Stevenson, Maximilian Hepach and I will lead Weather, Climate & Health bridging #medhum and #envhum: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... In it, we bring together our foci on Weird Weather, Climate Anxieties, and Seasons. Events TBA!

Want to do a PhD in social science & humanities at Durham? Interested in social justice or health / digital / environmental humanities or a mix of these? I’ve been working in fab cross-dept PhD supervisions and further to to our ESRC DTP, we’ll open a call for 8 H&SS PhD on 3 Nov. #EnvHum #MedHum

Want to do a PhD in social science at Durham? Are you interested in health and mental well-being? Or in environmental and planetary health? Our ESRC NINE DTP scholarships come w/ a range of pathways and perks: call now open for 2026-27! Get in touch. www.ninedtp.ac.uk/the-application-process/

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.