Just over two weeks to the summer school in South London Feat some amazing speakers and free lunch! Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

c.org/KGmTvZw7Ry Save Humanities at University of Herts

Was bitter ist: Medienberichte haben sich überschlagen über die Niederlage Orbáns. Die Verbindungslinien dazu, wie der autoritäre Umbau in Ungarn begann in Bezug auf Presse, Zivilgesellschaft, Arbeit … werden von deutschen Journalist*innen bei den Reformen hier kaum gezogen.

⭐🎨 NOW LIVE: 2026 GOLDSMITHS UCU ART RAFFLE!! 🎨 ⭐ Raising money to support striking staff resisting savage redundancies at Goldsmiths Win art by Florence Peake Jeremy Deller Peckham Keffiyeh Louis Pohl Koseda Anna Higgins Eddie Peake &many more! Tickets £5, draw 26 July 🔥 www.gucu-raffle.com

New Conversations event! How can sociology help us make sense of 2026 so far? Join Carolyn Pedwell, Siniša Malešević & Mariam Motamedi Fraser, chaired by Miranda Iossifidis, for an online discussion on AI, empathy, accountability, social change and more. 📅 8 July | 1–2pm BST 🎟️ buff.ly/K5Evv8c

This made me smile even though it’s absolutely true 😝😝😝

Ergänzend - wir haben das Ende der kritischen Managementforschung und der politischen Ökonomie in Leicester auch in Buchform aufgearbeitet: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

How higher education is vandalised in the UK. Here is our last published annual report (www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/univ...) containing info about "a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balance of £211m."

Exeter claims that our financial situation is dire. Yet in 2023/4 the execs awarded themselves a 12% pay rise, because they couldn't get a bonuses since they hadn't met key performance indicators. I guess if you decimate the faculty, get AI to teach & destroy education, you deserve a raise.

We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

As our union indicates "If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!"

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

If you are interested in doing research differently please come and be part of this conversation. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the foundation and funding sociology.

Anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist Frantz #Fanon is oft-cited by sociologists. Here, @juliango.bsky.social describes what it was like to seek out Fanon’s work in #gradschool and to sit with the author’s #writing and rage… buff.ly/d0azKVa

🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...

Came accross two interesting new papers on the functional role of "grand theory" for the disciplinary identity of sociology. Sociology of sociology meets epistemological self-reflection. Monika Krause's journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and Döpking et al.'s journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

c.org/jLYD9TMpTP solidarity with the amazing colleagues at Exeter uni, stop the redundancies

Our latest #bookreviews come from Hannah Farrimond, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Eirini Ktori and Madhuri Kamtam. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read The Sociological Review magazine. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/HcfvZUa

📢🚨Job Alert🚨📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam! Just two days left to apply. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

We're delighted to support the Class, Culture & Discontents Summer School this July! Free to attend and bringing together scholars working on class, culture & inequality. We'll also be sharing resources from our Connected Sociologies project. buff.ly/YY5FcK1 #Sociology #Class #Culture

What an amazing conference!

My latest article, open access! 'Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World' examines the collapsing liberal world order through a decolonial lens and argues that this is just one end of many ends of worlds, suggesting productive ways forward towards future humanitarianisms doi.org/10.1093/ips/...

📢 New workshop series! Join Les Back this August for a two-part online workshop exploring #LiveMethods, sociological craft and creative approaches to research. 📅 4 & 18 August 🎟️ Early bird tickets until 24 June buff.ly/VNue1Ff #Sociology #ResearchMethods

This shows just how farcical constructions of 'terrorism' are, and how they exist to criminalise dissent. But to be clear: these constructions are no better when the average terror suspect is a brown or black man in his 20s - the accceptance of which paved the way for our current predicament.

📢🚨Job Alert🚨📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam! Just over a week left to apply. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

newest article! coauthored with Ali Meghji for @ersjournal.com anniversary special issue: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RFXXS...

"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.

Independence – and after: why do former colonies replicate hierarchies they fought to dismantle? Madhuri Kamtam on Tunisian writer Hélé Béji’s lyrical reflections on democracy and humanity, liberation and responsibility, borders and hope. @politybooks.bsky.social buff.ly/SIQxkws

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For weekend readers a post on how a 1970s sociologist foresaw some flaws in AI (with an added Aaron Sloman quote) #AI #sociology #histsci makingsciencepublic.com/2026/06/05/p...

This 👇👇👇

According to a new Gallup poll, women are driving the increasing opposition to data centers. This aligns with what D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social is seeing in her research on PA's data center industry, she tells @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2026/05/wome...

Rioters, not protestors.

two more weeks to submit proposals for the 2028 [email protected] Monograph Series. Information on how to submit a good proposal can be found here thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/feb... and thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with... looking forward to receiving your proposals!

@isa-rc31.bsky.social #ISA_RC31 Check out this 🎥 ISA Webinar: Transnational Families: Doing Family across Borders. Co-hosted by RC31 Sociology of Migration! 🌍 What does it mean to be a family across international borders? How do families navigate transnational spaces? What challenges do they face?

@isa-rc31.bsky.social Call for Contributions for the June ISA RC31 Migration Newsletter! Share your recent publications, research updates, events, reflections, or relevant activities with our community. Submit by 15 June 2026 to this URL: forms.gle/YW1SVwAH57Na... @isa-rc31.bsky.social #ISA_RC31

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:3, featuring 14 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, 45 Years of Manufacturing Consent, on the legacy of Michael Burawoy’s work. Guest edited by Constantine Manolchev, Ryan Nolan @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/0mk3Tf4 @journals.sagepub.com

such an important, urgent point. The EHRC has *repeatedly failed* disabled and trans people and their communities of care. Don’t forget, the far-right instrumentalises disability rights in their anti-abortion natalism, too. Trans rights are women’s rights are disability rights are human rights.

📢 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 💫