The World Cup has become today’s grand celebration of brutality. Modern slavery, money laundering, animal cruelty — you name it. And yet everyone’s so eager to indulge in this abomination.

We are seeking individual and co-editor applications for the editorship of The Journal of Musicology. See the Call for Editor/s: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

Et investit plus de 35 % de ce profit en IA militaire et armes de guerre. Dystopique, c’est peu dire.

✍️Statistics play a vital role in informing and shaping public policy and decision making. Ed Humpherson argues that for government statistics to be trusted they need to be more than just openly available. #PublicStatistics #OpenResearch

The last nuclear weapons control treaty between the US and Russia has expired (10,624 missile), and thus the post-Cold War narrativesーthe world should be trembling. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“J’aimerais peindre comme chante un oiseau.” Claude Monet

Publishing R & Python work is easy. Sharing it securely and efficiently isn’t. In this live webinar, we’ll break down when Posit Connect vs. Connect Cloud makes sense, with a practical framework you can use right away. 📅 Feb 19, 2026 🔗 posit.co/webinar/publ... #RStats #Python #DataScience

Great opportunity for quantitative research and historical sociology works! 📊📚⏳💡

Only six days left! Tutorial submissions close on February 2nd. Submit here: ic2s2-2026.org/submit-tutor...

On AI and artistic copyright: art is fundamentally human labour [work of art]. Legal practice and regulation should prioritise artists — not the empty formalism of algorithms that steal the intellectual endeavour of those crating from lived experience. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

L'art, comme toute activité humaine, est profondément ancré dans la responsabilité éthique. Dans une société démocratique, aucune valeur artistique ne l'emporte sur le respect fondamental de la vie. Philip Glass incarne cet idéal humaniste — il est un créateur au sens le plus noble du terme. Bravo!

I love this idea: duckdb.org/community_ex.... It translates dplyr syntax _inside_ of duckdb so you can mix it with regular SQL

I spoke to the brilliant @petergeoghegan.bsky.social about the British elite and how they profit from the symbolic market for ordinariness democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-really...

Just started this book, and it’s been incredibly eye-opening about how we’re data-mined for almost every breath we take. Highly recommended for anyone teaching Big Data and surveillance. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204881...

Great instance if you’re entering the Posit community ✨💻!

La musique qu'on n'a jamais entendue est, réellement, une promesse d'avenir dans la beauté.

Bleak, dystopian, an absolute nightmare… nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

First Patagonia, now 24,000 hectares of hell and damnation in Southern Chile. This isn't just a new chapter of climate crisis—it’s the future we’ve spent decades creating.

15,000 hectares of wildlife burned to ashes in less than a week in Patagonia. I can’t believe this is the new normal: no water, no life, no future.

Methodologically trailblazing —another strong example of cutting-edge research at the intersection of art and science 🧪 🧬 🖼️

When computational science and social science work together, great things happen. Excellent workshop by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data 📊✨!Congrats to all participants! #IMFD #UAI #CSS

May your reading goals come true!📚✨🎆 #happynewyear #goodreads #booksonbooks

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

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. ➡️

New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers” pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...

📣 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🗓️ New deadline: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (anywhere on Earth) 👉 Find abstract requirements, conference topics, and submission instructions here: www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs... We can’t wait to see your contributions! 🚀

🚨 Final reminder — Applications close Nov 5! The ChiSocNet Summer School on Social Network Research offers an introduction to network analysis with a focus on statistical models and hands-on work in R. 📍 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 📅 November 5 deadline 🔗 snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/

After a brief hiatus, we’re thrilled to bring Knitting Networks back on air 🎧 Our new episode features Omar Lizardo, one of the most influential scholars connecting culture, cognition, and social networks.. Listen here: 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/5zpC... #NetworkScience #CulturalSociology #SocNet

It’s both fascinating and unsettling to realize that in a world flooded with images, we’ve lost the ability to truly see. Interesting experiment! Reminds me of Foucault’s text on Las Meninas.

Python and R code editing works flawlessly here! 📊📈📉

Diving in! My very first attempt at reading art theory in Portuguese 🇧🇷 🇵🇹📚. Also, such beautiful edition by ubueditora.com.br !

Just finished this book in preparation for the graduate course I’m teaching this term! A solid intro if you are interested in the evolution of sociological theories of art in recent years. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

The art market never sleeps: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

If, like me and many democratic theorists, you believe social status is what we ought to equalize to fight contemporary inequality, this is an article (and interview) for you: www.rsfjournal.org/content/rsfj... Thanks for featuring it alongside so much great research. faculti.net/the-architec...

Las meninas 📷!

👀 Call for Papers 👀 The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥 www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!

The new regimes of visibility call for the invention of updated styles and forms of gatekeeping. We may be witnessing the dawn of a new era of tastemaking in highbrow cultural institutions.

Inside our latest issue, you will find a terrific Special Feature on Harrison White. Here is a snippet of the introduction by Peter Bearman (@incitecolumbia.bsky.social) and Ronald L. Breiger. Enjoy! Read the whole issue here: sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1...

Great idea for a network of networks perspective!

À force de passer d’une langue à l’autre, je constate que les liens entre l’art et la sociologie naissent d’une tentative de rapprocher deux mondes trop souvent perçus comme antagonistes 📚💭 #cequelartfaitalasociologie

You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #useR2025

How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

“As C. Wright Mills said, each generation must recognise its own elite. The work Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman have done here will be indispensable in this quest .” ‪simonarthur.bsky.social reviews Born to Rule by @aaronreeves.bsky.social‬ and @samfriedman.bsky.social‬ . buff.ly/RIU6ngh

Great work by @pablogerbas.bsky.social! Loved the clear, causal lens on educational mobility — such a productive framework. The insights on Chile’s 2015 tuition-free policy were especially compelling. Thanks @mebucca.bsky.social @andreacanales.bsky.social @taniahutt.bsky.social for the workshop!

This is fascinating! I wonder if one could do the same for visual art patterns in art history.

I’m very pleased to announce that a preview of the 3rd Edition of Deep Learning with R is now available! mng.bz/X7xa The book is 50% off through July 8!

Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe. @gregbarber.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathemati...