📢 Job Alert! 📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Do you have expereince teaching introductory and advanced courses in international relations? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org

Join us on Wednesday 20th May 2026 at the Volksbühne Berlin for what promises to be a spectacular night of #PostOst debates and performances on 'FUTURES EAST #2'. I will be part of a fab roundtable hosted by my fav podcast X3 at 6pm. Get tickets here: www.volksbuehne.berlin/en/repertoir...

Wer jetzt am Wochenende etwas Zeit hat für Lektüre: mein Text über Ulmen, digitale Gewalt und was wir daraus als Gesellschaft mitnehmen sollten ⬇️

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social this is a rich, multi-layered text, you may need to watch several tunes for the full effect.

Some reading and viewing for Nakba Day: our Interventions series on the Palestinian genocide antipodeonline.org/2024/03/01/i... and the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...

should be required reading 💫

The May 2026 issue of The Sociological Review magazine is out now! Les Back and Laurie Taylor take us back to 1960s gangland London, plus we examine how Sicilians remember those killed by the mafia, sociology’s role in Ukraine, and the barriers to adulthood in India. Read it here: buff.ly/rdTFWsq

New open access article looks at how the critical humanities literature on GenAI can contribute depth to #sociology. Referencing the great work of people like Julia Velkova @melhogan.bsky.social @zgtcooper.bsky.social Patrick Brodie and more compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New report from @frameworks.bsky.social: "Framing the Social Implications of AI." www.frameworksinstitute.org/resources/fr...

New article with Alejandro Peña in @iojournal.bsky.social rethinking world order beyond the West from the bottom-up www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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What a fantastic event! Very sorry that I will miss it - will it be recorded @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social?

Join us for another stimulating conversation, this time on Activist Scholarship, with Professor Akwugo Emejulu, Dr Panos Theodoropoulos, and AK Thompson. 12 May 2026, 4pm BST, online. Free & open to all as always. To register: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Our new paper "Financing ‘sustainable welfare’: a critical review of the options" has now been published in New Political Economy. In it, @nicklangridge.bsky.social and I assess financing options for welfare without growth and discuss wider policy implications. It's open access: tinyurl.com/y6z374x6

This symposium was nearly 5 years in the making but we are very proud of what we have put together with care on care. Contributions based on research in Zambia, Chile, Bolivia, Pakistan, India and the US.

Symposium — “Tensions of Care”, organised by Jules Allen, Yasmeen Arif, Asiya Islam, Clare Walsh, and Sibylla Warrington — five articles and two AV interventions available now antipodeonline.org/2026/04/22/t... @jjjules.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social

What a fantastic series of @thesociologicalreview.org seminars!

Delighted to share that the forword by @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social, the introduction and a couple of other contributions of @thesociologicalreview.org Monograph on War Frames are free to access for a limited time

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

"Why is it so controversial to criticise Israel’s scholasticide in Palestine?" www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/why-...

Launching of 'Gender and the Body in East European Jewish History' - two online panels 12:30-5 pm, one in-person panel from 6 pm at University College London with keynote by Joanna Degler about 'Corporealty in Sara Schenirer's Early [Polish-language] Diary' Register here: polin.pl/en/conferenc...

Reform’s TV suggests that military veterans are denied health and housing support while ‘illegal immigrants’ are prioritised. In fact there is dedicated support for veterans while asylum seekers share no choice housing & basic GP access. Lies, lies, lies www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

In light of today's NYTimes article about self-censorship in academia (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...), sharing my (now ancient) effort to measure the "chilling effect'" of a single effort to suppress science way back in the W administration. Stay safe out there. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Palantir has no place in our NHS. The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now. Listen to what health workers are saying. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...

Book review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington. newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...

Guten Tag, neues Format! Dank vieler Nachfragen analysiere ich als Medienkritikerin ab jetzt besondere Medienformate. Den Start macht das ~PRO UND CONTRA MEINUNGSSTÜCK~. Es wird gerne auf Titelseiten oder in Streit-Ressorts platziert und birgt etliche journalistische Problematiken. Und los. 1/x

and the latest monograph is out now journals.sagepub.com/toc/sor/curr... focusing on war frames and contributing to the sociology of war (sadly very timely)

Please do share if you enjoyed, it helps so much!

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

“Regardless of how assembly is defined, people will find creative ways to collectively resist the increasingly totalising impact of AI.” @bnjacobsen.bsky.social reviews AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World, edited by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz. buff.ly/HqKSI3p

Mudde is correct, of course. One thing I find interesting about this though is how it varies by discipline. I’ve rarely heard the manel concern in soc, but we do have a whanel concern: not just white people on a panel committee.

There indeed is so much to fight for, and in some countries (looking at you, US), some old fights have become new fights. One thing (academic) men can do is not participate in manels! It can be uncomfortable at times but it is also still necessary. Here’s my experience: 🧵

All the AI boosters saying LLMs are uniquely positioned to help with academic research never went to their library orientations at university. 90% of what they praise AI as being able to do with wide eyed wonder are things jstor, Scopus and LexisNexis etc have been doing for decades already.

Every post I see about AI makes me think of this video from @eleanormorton.bsky.social "I don't think AI is useful for that company. Well, you'd be right! But we're doing it anyway." www.youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

If you’re working on LGBTQ+ movements or rights and thinking about ASA submissions tonight, I’m organizing two connected panels on queer/trans movements and LGBTQ+ rights in times of crisis and backlash. Submissions are due tonight at 9PM (EST). Thanks for considering!

I’m honoured to be giving the Neudstadt Lecture in Leicester tonight. I’ll be talking about: How wives helped to shape the foundations for knowledge about society www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Online book launch if our edited collection - please register - speakers address WPR and decolonising policy analysis, material objects as policy, and extending WPR spatially

@lizziereed.bsky.social this

Today is the third anniversary of the publication of our book. At a time when imperial powers are grappling with their limits the concepts of this book cant be limited to #internationaldevelopment. White saviorism exists across multiple factions and elements of our world. Buy here shorturl.at/UPN7C

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

Scotland folk! Join me for the launch of my book OCCUPIED REFUGE on Friday, 6 March 2026, 4-6pm at University of Glasgow. To order the book in the UK & Europe: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313... (Discount code: E26BRNKM) It’s a free, in-person event and everyone is welcome! You can sign up below:

Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year – and where hope lies today A Conversations series event @thesociologicalreview.org with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, @anilsghost.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me. 28 Jan. 1-2pm GMT Online Join us! thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI rai.ac.uk/new_projects...

28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie. 🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam 📅 Online 1-2pm ➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx

Save the date for the 13th event of our INTERACT conversations: (Not) everyone welcome? Insights from social psychology on selective solidarity with refugees w/Tijana Karić @unimarburg.bsky.social & Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...

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. ➡️

A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance': www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...

I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.

OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal. Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey. buff.ly/lubHIf8