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📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research. Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Join us for the next BJS conference in April 2026! I came away from the last energized and inspired. Can’t wait to learn from colleagues from around the world.

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

I’m so excited to share that we’re getting ready for the next @bjsociology.bsky.social conference! Now accepting abstracts. Please submit, and encourage friends and colleagues to do the same! (And if previous attendees are wondering, yes, we plan to repeat the success of the boat party, IYKYK)

We're delighted to announce that British Journal of Sociology's impact factor has increased to 3.3 for 2024 and that our submission to first decision time is 57 days ⬆️ Find out more about the #BJS, read recent open access papers, and submit an article here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...

How can sociology help to understand and possibly tackle the climate crisis? Are there signs of climate politics optimism in the current political moment? I hosted a podcast episode with ‪@catherinewong.bsky.social‬ and @rfelliott.bsky.social discussing this! pod.link/1533967764/e...

this is naked political persecution. this is a student at my university and in my neighborhood. they are coming for yours next.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 "Moral Economies of the Polycrisis. Conflict, Critique, and Legitimation in Critical Times" Workshop, June 16-17 University of Hamburg Deadline for abstracts: 07/04 Supported by the Economic Sociology section of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social linuswestheuser.com/cfp-moral-ec...

How does venture capital shape work, innovation and inequality? Join us to hear @bshestakofsky.bsky.social discuss his new book with @rfelliott.bsky.social 👇 📆 Wednesday 12 March ⏰ 2.30pm to 4pm 📍 OLD.3.24, LSE

There will never be another scholar like Burawoy. His reach & impact is impossible to convey. In the last event I saw of him, Burawoy enthusiastically spoke about Du Bois (his fav sociologist ever, he said), so eager to share his love of Du Bois's ideas w/ a new audience. Totally infectious energy.

Essential reading on LA wildfire risk from @koslov.bsky.social + Kathryn McConnell “Managed retreat that is not accompanied by substantial investment in creating safe, sustainable and affordable sources of housing could worsen an already monumental housing crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Thrilled to announce our upcoming seminars for this term, starting next week! All seminars co-hosted by the LSE Departments of Geography and Environment, @lsesociology.bsky.social, and the Global School of Sustainability. Open to all and held in the LSE's Old Building (room 3.24)

New data from Treasury & the Nat'l Assn of Insurance Commissioners is yet more evidence that our current home insurance system is failing households across the country. We urgently need a better system that prioritizes housing resilience & affordability. #SharedFates www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And just today, an NYT op-ed describing the alternative: "Financial markets, if left to their own devices, would naturally force Americans to confront the ugly realities of our changing climate..." Americans already are, because financial markets have been left to their own devices.

Anyone saying we need to privatize the flood insurance market: watch what the private CA insurers do in the coming weeks & months. Many residents have already lost coverage, others will not be able to renew or will see premiums skyrocket.

Sending strength to all facing the flames in CA. Some insurance tips: if you haven’t evacuated yet, take photos of everything you own. This will support your claim. The insurance co will fight you. If you return to a damaged house, don’t throw away or clear anything until an adjuster has seen it.

To make real climate progress, we need a green economic populism that brings immediate, material benefits to the working class—tackling both carbon and the cost-of-living crisis. We can start local rn. Thrilled to share my NYT op-ed w @triofrancos.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

Are you doing environmental sociology? Consider nominating your work (or the work of a colleague) to the ASA Section on Environmental Sociology's 2025 awards. I'm currently serving as Policy & Research Committee Chair for the section and will be chairing two of the award committees.

New from me in Social Problems -- "The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States" -- in which I set out an analytical strategy for reckoning with the emerging set of complex issues at the intersection of climate impacts and homeownership doi.org/10.1093/socp...

A plea on behalf of journal editors everywhere.. When you receive a request to review, answer it. Declining is (from everyone's perspective) far preferable to not answering at all, which just leaves everyone - not least the author - in limbo. You wouldn't your paper delayed. Don't delay others'.

Save the date for our Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture! Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years. 📆 Wednesday 19 March

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in the field of #UrbanSociology, who can demonstrate expertise in the social and spatial life of the city, and how planning and/or design impacts urban life. Applications close Sunday 19th January 2025 (23.59 UK time).

New forum in Contemporary South Asia on Threatening Dystopias with reviews by several scholars I've learned so much from (Andrea Nightingale, Ambarish Karamchedu, @mills-novoa.bsky.social, David Ludden) + my response So honored by the chance to engage with them 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccsa20/3...

“We don’t even travel anymore, we’re too afraid of the water,” says Anne Marie. “What are we going to do if it rains, turn the airplane around?” @dubstein1.bsky.social @placesjournal.bsky.social #longreads placesjournal.org/article/in-t...

🚨 My dept @lsesociology.bsky.social is hiring an asst prof in urban sociology! Apply/spread the word! 🚨 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Also that the price of insurance is some kind of humane “nudge” is one of the most unproductive, waste-of-time ideas in this space.

Together with @jtsimes.bsky.social I'm organizing a panel on "Law and Environment" for the #Sociology of Law section at #ASA2025. Please spread the word to law-people working on environmental topics, and environment-people working on legal topics! CFP in the image below:

Very excited to share the details for the 2025 @bjsociology.bsky.social Annual Lecture, featuring Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams." 19 March, 6:30pm, at the LSE. More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Here’s the interview they did on The Dig: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... And here’s our insurance work: climateandcommunity.org/research/sha... #SharedFates