"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

“Both are essential reading for anyone interested in social justice, activism & the challenges of bringing about meaningful social change.” @silkeroth.bsky.social reviews @mperezbrower.bsky.social & @drashleec.bsky.social buff.ly/AWe1iIF @universitypress.cambridge.org @brisunipress.bsky.social

"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025) #HigherEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tenure track juniorprofessorship in education and communication of material culture, Oldenburg University uol.de/job/juniorpr...

“Slow and Sudden Violence is a good starting place for general readers who are interested in demystifying their assumptions about the uprisings in the US cities of Ferguson and Baltimore.” Vladimir Rizov reviews Derek Hyra’s @ucpress.bsky.social study of uprisings and their causes. buff.ly/Hg3a886

WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé. buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond thrilled to announce that my book „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ came out this week! 🎉 A thousand thanks to all the lovely people who have encouraged and carried me through this journey! 💕 Thanks to Mari Tefre for the most wonderful cover photo! Get your copy or free e-book here ⬇️

Many people ask me what they can do as autocracy closes in. In this season of holiday giving, consider using your gift money to support crucial charities that have been defunded by the US government. Forbes has done your homework for you.

The government is proposing a new rule that will require people from countries that are US allies and friends and who do not now need visas for short-term stays to submit to intrusive investigation of their social media posts for 5 years. You can object -- see how to "comment" below!.

CALL: seminar funding for 2026 The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for. Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking. ➡️

The body of USAID is barely cold, but the academic dissection already begins ;)...on a more serious note: This sounds like an excellent project with a great team (limited to 2 years, but at least a 100% position (not always the norm at German universities...).

🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆 Kudos to Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy and Sarah Arnal, whose paper’s “unique approach to public sociology, and use of visual art and collaborative ethnography” was chosen by the jury from among all 2024 papers in our journal. buff.ly/ioq5Tlv

Agentic misalignment /when an AI system’s drive to fulfil its purpose overwhelms the moral or human-centred boundaries we impose \ is no longer a thought experiment from sci-fi; it is documented, analysed and debated by human researchers in 2025: www.anthropic.com/research/age...

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3.15-4.15 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from early Jan - mid-Feb?

If i could make one recommendation for #bandcampfriday (apart from Musica Secreta, natch) it would this. I don’t normally “do” Hildegard, straight or messed up, but love this blend of electronica and Eastern European vocal technique. heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildeg...

📣 TOMORROW in Glasgow: Tickets are still available for The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025, an in-person event at the University of Glasgow. It's your chance to hear from acclaimed scholar Shahram Khosravi on how to do migration studies in dark times. 🎟️ Book your place: buff.ly/4LDmx13

#CallForPapers Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026 The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026. More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/

“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.” @alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s most recent issue. buff.ly/BWdBY33

Can anyone point me to any public health campaigns (ideally video) from during Covid19 which in some way say "stay apart to stay safe" or similar messaging? I know the UK ones, but I want an example from further afield (reposts appreciated)

Food for thought: explore our Virtual Issue of The Sociological Review journal, a companion to our Annual Lecture 2025 with Shahram Khosravi. 📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring migration, refugees and borders, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U

A new collective volume (in open access) that could be of interest to people working on #tenant activism and #housing struggles: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... #RentStrike

Social protection. It’s isn’t just for protecting the poor. It’s for maintaining the social fabric.

1 Assistant Professor in Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG506/a...

Calling all Women in STEM! November's Southampton Science Comedy features women in STEM who rap, control AIs and electrocute men - because science! Come along and bring your friends!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

The Sociological Review Foundation is a registered charity whose purpose is to advance the education of the public on the subject of sociology and related disciplines. ➡️ Read our recent Annual Reports to learn more about the work we do: buff.ly/za7JJDZ ➡️ Support our work: buff.ly/QLL2sQs

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

Join us for a virtual conversation with ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winners, Chana Teeger and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, on race, memory, and injustice. I’ll be moderating this discussion. 📅 November 19 (Wed) 10–11 AM CST / 4–5 PM GMT RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it? @lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

What a beautifully written and breathtakingly honest paper. It's rare to see this level of honesty, reflexivity, and creativity in academia.

It’s a terrific article and will hopefully be widely read!

”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme. ➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo

Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all. You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Chapter 16, "Humanitarian organisations as gendered organisations" by Rianka Roy highlights that in their operations, directions, meanings, & identities, humanitarian organisations are gendered, embodying a structural distinction between men & women (16/x) aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/05/hand...

Chapter 15, "Race, racialisation & coloniality in the humanitarian aid sector" by Lata Narayanaswamy argues that the Global North has centred & invisibilised (aspirational) whiteness as integral to the racial hierarchies prevalent in humanitarian work (15/x) aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/04/hand...

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at [email protected] so that we can get an idea of numbers!

JOIN US ONLINE on 22 October at 18:30 BST as we look at the shifting politics of #immigration in the UK, how policy is shaped and challenged, and the state of protest and public debate. With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social 🎟️ buff.ly/f5IH9pL

I’m honoured and excited to be talking about ‘How Wives Helped to Shape the Foundations for Knowledge About Society’ for the Neustadt Lecture on 29 October 2025, 17:00-18:00 If you’re in Leicester, come along in person. If you’re not, you can attend online.

Sounds amazing!

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube. So far over 60,000 people are following live. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Sociological Theory (the journal) invites contributions to a special issue on "Sociological Theorizing in the Global South". Find out more: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

I've been part of the movement to stop detentions and deportations since the early 2000s. I wrote a book about this movement, freely available here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026202820... Never ONCE have I ever heard any activist on the left say 'anti-ICE.' I'm not exaggerating.

@robinskyer.bsky.social @lizziereed.bsky.social

🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟 ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me @ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social