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

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023! An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

🌟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

Stepped out of my wheelhouse to work on this with my dear friend to analyse the violence unleashed on our students demanding justice for Palestinians and an end to genocide.

SOLIDARITÄT — WAS HEISST DAS? morgen 18h in Neukölln: epiz-berlin.de/veranstaltun...

… A methodological addition to our academics’ wives material. How can we reconstruct the part played by wives of major disciplinary figures in their husbands' intellectual endeavours when evidence is patchy, concealed or missing? 6+1 doi.org/10.1177/0038...

What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza? A powerful event held today by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. So refreshing to hear such powerful, reflexive, and challenging demands that the humanitarian sector has to do better in the face of this genocide. youtu.be/N-H0vU64xp0

OUT TODAY: @alimeghji.bsky.social on social struggles & sociological perspectives, research insights on chicken shops & beedi-makers, Alice Bloch on podcasting, Journal editors on peer review, #Alevelsociology resources + much more. ➡️ The Sociological Review magazine Sept issue buff.ly/5crknOP

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess). 💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series. buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com

auch etwas für @guesnet.bsky.social

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Ein tagaktiver Igel 🦔 ist hilfsbedürftig, bitte bietet ihm Futter an - gerne Katzenfutter, KEINE Milch. Erstversorgung Igel wildtierrettung.de/erstversorgu... Igelfutter www.igel-in-bayern.de/igel-im-herb... Bauanleitung Igelhaus www.bund-naturschutz.de/oekologisch-...

‪ ‘Shaping for Mediocrity’ was published a year ago. Among other things, we are discussing the authoritarian turn in universities, financial issues, academic freedom and, last but not least, the expulsion of #CriticalManagementStudies at a Business School. www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

🚨 New Methods Papers 🚨 📱 Social media-based diary methods 📱 In January 2024 I produced a training resource for @ncrm.ac.uk exploring social media-based methods and offering a guide to develop your own project: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on... 1/5

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below. janabacevic.net/against-acad...

Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing

Organization Special Issue Call for Papers: Alternative organising and degrowth: Countering capitalist polycrisis and organising liveable worlds Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026 #OrgStudies #Degrowth Link to CfP: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Assessing the value of qualitative research Qualitative research should be guided and evaluated according to its methodological principles not by any false or imported ideas of how it should be. In my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press, 2025, I argue…

Home truths: Obligated to Care, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on the family in today’s China. Edited by Xiaoying Qi & Jack Barbalet, its 11 chapters focus on subjects ranging from LBGTQ+ people’s intergenerational relations to da pei and modern childrearing. ➡️ buff.ly/BbE8crZ

WRITE FOR US: we’re inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for The Sociological Review magazine's Research Insights series. The editors are currently seeking proposals for our December issue, with a pitch deadline of 5 September. 🔎 Read more about contributing: buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

@britishacademy.bsky.social will be running a webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants on Monday 8 September at 12.00 U.K. time. Register to attend here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Many thanks for this great threat! With apologies for self-promotion Clare Saunders and I discuss most of these points in our book in particular dynamics between (counter) movements and varieties of tactics bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... see also exchange in @thesociologicalreview.org

🔥 Excited to share some great news 🔥 Our article 'Teletherapy Matters – Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages' co-authored by @dalupton.bsky.social & myself, has just been published in Social Science & Medicine. #OpenAccess link: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

New call for applications for the Global Studies cohort of 2026! There's still time, but you can get an early start on your application & mark your calendars for our virtual info events about @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de! Details below & here: tinyurl.com/4y2ra9p9

Colleagues and friends, please point me to researchers in/from the MENA region with experience and interest in survey research (both expert and public opinion)!

Our #nuntastic physical CDs have arrived! And if you wait just a few more hours, you can pre-order one on Bandcamp for #BandcampFriday! You can also pre-order the digital album - and it's commission-free to us if you order then. You know what to do, and when to to it 😍

ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben 100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger ab 1.12.2025 Soziologie & Gender Studies deadline: 15.09.2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip... Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.” www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...

Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell! This workshop provides basic oral history training aimed at trade and tenant union members interested gathering oral testimonies of working class struggles, 23 July Glasgow Zine Library www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2025/...

Look what came in the post! What a joy it was to work on this with an amazing set of colleagues. Will be available open access from Thursday 24th July. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/caring-fathe...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Chapter, verse, etc: if you’re an early career researcher with some serious writing to get done, Strictly Come Writing might hold the answer. Apply by 1 September to join the Sociological Review Foundation's annual funded and facilitated writing retreat in beautiful rural Wales. buff.ly/HGegMPZ

What can the ideas of Axel Honneth and Pierre Bourdieu tell us about higher education in Chile? Carlos Palma-Amestoy @cfpalam.bsky.social explores the struggle for recognition, individual responsibility and how education has become a “normative imperative”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/meRukDb

#TrusteeOpportunity: Our Board of Trustees guides our work advancing public education on sociology and related disciplines – and we're recruiting. #Volunteer your time and #ShareYourSkills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing. Info: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

How useful is the concept of extraction for understanding the algorithmic society we live in? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social on the AI industry, technocolonialism and the exploitation of human labour and natural resources. #OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/SGRiQvs

HOME TRUTHS: Obligated to Care, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on family relations in today’s China. Edited by Xiaoying Qi and Jack Barbalet, its 11 chapters focus on subjects ranging from childrearing & food to LBGTQ+ approaches to intergenerational relations. ➡️ buff.ly/BbE8crZ

Hilfreiche Antworten auf häufige Fragen zu einem akademischen Boykott Israels: www.anthroboycott.org/but-what-about

If you have information about the effects of the abolition of USAID, here's an opportunity to spread your knowledge: usboell.bamboohr.com/careers/78?s...

Talking (social science) shop: join us in Glasgow on 27 November for our annual Early Career Researchers Day, where professors Shahram Khosravi and Karen O’Reilly will lead sessions on migration studies and ethnographic practice. Apply by 8 September for this funded opportunity. buff.ly/RwAgtTj

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Sociology, politics, gender major and more to be axed at Macquarie University. Please consider sharing and signing this petition. #HigherEd www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Get your words' worth! Apply by 1 September to join Strictly Come Writing, the Sociological Review Foundation's annual funded writing retreat for early career researchers. Join us in beautiful rural Wales for the time, space & facilitation you need to get that chapter/paper done. buff.ly/HGegMPZ

This statement by a collective of Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues we must oppose the murderous assault that the Israeli and US militaries are carrying out against people in Iran while also refusing to condone the oppression perpetrated by the Iranian government.