#Vaccination & social trust in #Alberta: new research from @mmaroto.bsky.social @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social & me. #Measles outbreaks make this especially timely. @picardonhealth.bsky.social of interest to your readers? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely thrilled that our article “Institutionalized but Under Implemented: Factors Affecting Women’s Inclusion in Peace Negotiations b/t 1975 and 2020” has just been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution #WPS go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y @grantforks.bsky.social @liamswiss.bsky.social

New article out with @grantforks.bsky.social and @miriamjanderson.bsky.social in the Journal of Conflict Resolution:

Are you interested in when and why women are included in civil war negotiations--either as part of belligerent delegations or as part of a broader civil society process? You should read this new article by @miriamjanderson.bsky.social @liamswiss.bsky.social and myself. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

As a journal editor, I agree 💯 with @catherinedevries.bsky.social. To me, the lit review is the single most important part of any paper. There are many ways to do one, and it is often hard to do well, but this essay gives some excellent advice: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter...

The Canadian Sociological Association (@csa-scs.bsky.social) is seeking Expressions of Interest in hosting the 2026 CSA Annual Conference. See call here: www.csa-scs.ca/news/confere...

The 2025 Canadian Election Study (CES) team is pleased to announce our very first hackathon. Early career scholars are welcome to apply by Sept. 5 and selected projects will get pre-release access to the 2025 CES. Full call here: c-dem.ca/wp-content/u...

Mood: youtu.be/OZzIQXH00EE?...

Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them. We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization. The public doesn't echo elite battles. 📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh) 🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1

It's still not too late to register for Thursday morning's (EST) seminar, "Power and resistance in the food system." Register on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"They unfurled every sock. They flipped through every page of my book. They went through every item in my wallet." That's likely what you can expect at the Canada-US border if you've been publicly critical of Israel. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Carney's new Cabinet relegates International Development to a Secretary of State level for first time in 30 years. Disappointing.

Amazing Day One at the 2nd Annual Acadia Faculty of Arts writing retreat. So much fun!

Calling all academics & community-based researchers! Join us on May 1 for a free Media Training & Research Mobilization Workshop where @nolore.bsky.social & @csaulnier.bsky.social will share tips & tricks on translating research for media. Register now! #NSpoli

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, drew this last November. No newspaper would print it. It now deserves an outing.

The Acadia University Sociology Society is hosting a "Professor Trivia Night" tonight! Come and learn some embarrassing facts about your Acadia Sociology Professors! 6:00-8:00pm upstairs at Paddy's Pub, Wolfville.

Last night was our annual Honours Student Presentations where our Honours cohort presented their excellent thesis research. Congratulations to all on the excellent work!

Read this thread on the shameful treatment @nkalamb.bsky.social received at the border. What an embarrassment.

Don’t forget my department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor. The position is open to non-Canadians.

Are you an Acadia SOCI Major or Arts Student looking to pick up some additional course credits over the summer? Check out our summer 2025 course offerings. All courses are condensed into 2-3 week periods and offered as synchronous online classes. Register now to reserve your spot!

Come work with us in beautiful Canada! We are seeking a social science research leader with expertise in public policy. Please share with your networks! #academicsky #academia #PoliSciSky #polisky usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

Join us this Friday, March 7th for Dr. Stacey Hannem's talk on the #MeToo movement. All are welcome!

New from my McGill Political Science colleagues Daniel Béland, Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social , and Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social www.policymagazine.ca/trumps-attac...

Canadian universities look pretty similar across the country, but this illustration by @caut.bsky.social illustrates the profound variation in where they get their money. www.caut.ca/bulletin/202...

Please join Acadia Sociology for an event organized by the Department’s Anti-Colonization and Anti-Racism Committee on February 28 from 11:30-12:30 at BAC 325. Everyone is welcome!

Acadia Sociology Speaker's Series: "Trial by Media: #METOO, Media Logic, and Hierarchies of Victims" Dr. Stacey Hannem (WLU). March 7, 2025. BAC 325. 11:00am-12:30pm. All are welcome!

The Acadia University Sociology Society invites all students to attend a student-led discussion panel next Monday, March 3rd, from 11:30am-1:00pm in BAC 325. The panel will be an open and critical discussion of Acadia University's "Campus Protest and Demonstrations Policy". All are welcome!

In these Potemkin "peace talks" between the U.S. and Russia, keep in mind: -Russia needs to claim more territory and concessions to claim a 'win' -Ukraine can't accept flimsy security "assurances," especially not without the U.S. -Trump has no actual plan. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/22/u...

Unlocked | Foreign aid cuts in the U.S. could provide 'fodder' for a Canadian government to go down a similar path, says international assistance expert Liam Swiss.

Aisha Ahmed: Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Congratulations to Acadia's Dr. Emily Lockhart who has received a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant with co-applicant Allison Smith to work with the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia (LISNS) to support 2SLGBTQIA+ youth who have experience technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence.

Canadian aid workers warn ‘catastrophic’ USAID halt puts Ottawa’s projects in limbo www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

This week, the Department of Sociology Anti-Colonization and Anti-Racism Committee will host "Holding Space" - an event to learn and listen about experiences with discrimination and racism at Acadia. All are welcome! Friday, February 14, 2025; 11:30-12:30; BAC 325

UNB's St. John campus is hiring a TT position in Sociology with an emphasis on quantitative methods. Although there are rules about prioritizing Canadian candidates, I would encourage US folks to apply. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Curious how many mothers and children worldwide will die from slashing USAID programs? We'll never know, because we're gonna stop counting.

The Canadian Sociological Association is now on BlueSky! Learn more about our association at www.csa-scs.ca

Insightful post on the USAID shutdown on the McLeod Group blog by Lauchlan Munro: www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/02/shut...

Tomorrow @acadiasociology.bsky.social! Please join our student society for this timely discussion.

"Canada and the US have always had trade quarrels... But Canadians have long assumed that the US would never deliberately seek to harm Canada. That assumption was shattered over the weekend." Read my @chathamhouse.bsky.social commentary here: www.chathamhouse.org/2025/02/trum...

One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget. It's actually ~1%. Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending. From the Brookings Institution:

Spoke to folks from the Kyiv Independent last week about the consequences of USAID freeze in Ukraine kyivindependent.com/how-us-forei...

This USAID situation reminds me of why I’ve always called BS on Dambisa Moyo’s argument about foreign aid. Is aid dependency a bad thing? Absolutely. But “aid” is a small word that covers an array of things and calling for the unilateral suspension of aid without parsing that through is dangerous.

If you’re wondering how USAID folks are doing, this is from my wife, a first generation daughter of Latvian immigrants who is normally almost preternaturally stoic in the face of a crisis:

Trump/Musk eliminating USAID - the agency responsible for delivering more than a quarter of the World's Official Development Assistance - will have massive global repercussions if allowed to happen www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

The Canadian Review of Sociology is soliciting applications for a new Executive Editor! For further information, visit mailchi.mp/csa-scs/crs-...

If we're going to talk about "fake feminists" in #cdnpoli, then it's time to re-up our article that demonstrates about 1 in 5 Canadians hold sexist views about women's capacity for politics. The right's more willing to say that out loud than the left www.cambridge.org/core/journal...