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)

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⭐ 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

"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/