🎧🌿 Our latest episode of the Culture and Inequality Podcast on the Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis just dropped! 🥩 🐄 I talk with the great Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart, and Shyon Baumann about their and @merinoleschuk.bsky.social just-published book Happy Meat and Emily’s book Eco-Types!

Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀 tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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...

So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege. Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊

🎉Very happy I'm awarded a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. My project uncovers the cultural roots of climate polarization by studying how an 'oatmilk elite' of well-meaning climate advocates in 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇸🇪 fashion like eco-influencers may exclude & moralise people unlike them...🌿

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

New open access paper in Social & Cultural Geography! Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam. Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways: (1/n) >>> doi.org/10.1080/1464...

Er is een directe lijn te trekken van de minister die weigert vrijwilligers die vluchtelingen helpen te belonen met een lintje, naar de totale morele apathie bij de zoveelste oorlogsmisdaad van Israël. Het is zowel wrang als onmenselijk dat het eerste nieuws in Den Haag meer opschudding veroorzaakt.

Another concerning expose from @yaravanheugten.bsky.social about SHEIN's lobbying network, with (very) close contacts in the White House, the Elysee, and 10 and 11 Downing Street...

Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen. Daarom (checks notes): - heftige bezuinigingen - de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL) - morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen

De Duitse socioloog Werner Sombart noemde mode al in 1902 ‘het lievelingskind van het kapitalisme’. Dat staat op gespannen voet met de klimaatcrisis. We spraken met socioloog @luuc.bsky.social over zijn proefschrift naar mode en ideologie ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-201-mode...

Bezos' statement equates freedom with personal liberties and free markets. That is seriously reductive and biased. Read the work by @adedijn.bsky.social on this topic: www.uu.nl/publicatie/f...

Latest publication, together with Naïké Garny, exploring intersectional understandings of resistance with the Sisters' House 👇🏻

The one thing I really wanted to say on live TV tonight: If politicians want to be “muscular”, they should go to the gym. No one needs muscles in politics, it’s not a boxing ring and it should not become one. What one needs is intelligence, strategic thinking & an ability to collaborate.

Important that the collapse of the welfare state gets a mention in this - as the article says, back in the day there was more state support that gave artists breathing room to create. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you" Spotted in Liverpool, UK

Wir haben den echten Grabstein von Franz von Papen vor die CDU-Parteizentrale gebracht. Papen wollte mit den Konservativen über seine Erfahrungen sprechen, Faschisten einzubinden in der Hoffnung, sie dadurch klein zu kriegen. Spoiler: Ein Holocaust, ein Weltkrieg und 55 Millionen Tote.

This is very tragic news, amid all the gloom. Burawoy was an inspiration to many, including myself. I’ll never forget his great opening speech in Porto at ESA last summer, in which he compared the role of labour and capital in Apartheid in Palestine and SAfrica. A great sociologist has passed 😢

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

De AfD overlegt in het geheim met neonazi’s over het ‘zuiveren’ van Duitsland van ‘vreemde smetten’, en Elon Musk prijst hen als de toekomst van het land. Toch zijn er nog steeds mensen die twijfelen of zijn gebaar een Hitlergroet was.

Open brief van Belgische academici en studenten "De situatie in Gaza toont aan dat het uitblijven van actie tegen deze juridisch vastgestelde schendingen het onrecht niet alleen verlengt, maar ook de internationale rechtsorde zelf dreigt uit te hollen." www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...

De stad Gent vertelde haar inwoners dat ze hun kerstboom na de feestdagen niet zomaar weg hoeven te gooien: van de naalden kun je namelijk ‘een heerlijke sparrennaaldenboter’ maken. Maar dat bleek achteraf geen goed idee @trouw.nl www.trouw.nl/buitenland/e...

Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

I spoke to @theguardian.com for their podcast today about the enduring propulsive power of Britain’s private schools, and the impact it has on the politics we get 🎧 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

New article in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and I’m quite proud of this one! What Shapes Feminist Journalism? Comparing Dutch and French Reporting on Street Harassment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Analyzing 80 years of @lemonde.fr archives (1944-2024), we tracked the evolution of gender gaps & stereotypes. Despite a ~5x increase in women presence, they still account for only about 1/4 of individuals mentioned & quoted

Sevenans et al. in EJPR: "our study shows that – whenever there is a significant preference gap between lower- and higher-income groups – politicians’ perceptions of what citizens want are skewed towards the preferences of higher-income voters on socio-economic issues." doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Not Eric's main concern (rightly so!) but these ideas about social infrastructure apply to PhD programs, too. The "efficiency" of working on a laptop at home led to the loss of the computer lab, student lounge, etc. I think this has had profound (and bad) consequences for intellectual development.

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 Most people are willing to infer ideological/partisan preferences based on #food consumption choices in #Italy 🥕🥦🥩🍤 Read the article by G. Scaduto & F. Negri ⌛ HURRY UP! #FreeAccess here until 30th November 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

This is a dawn on Mars captured by Opportunity rover.

To all the researchers here on @bsky.app for whom the topic data access from online platforms is relevant, please consider writing a short feedback on the draft of the delegated acts for the DSA: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

I won't lie if I say that some of the posters from the exhibition "The art of integration: 40 posters promoting #Europe" at the EU #archives in Florence made me a little bit sentimental, even sad, given where things are now. Some posters are also really beautiful and interesting to look at.

This Wolfgang Joop quote illustrates nicely what sociologists can learn from fashion, both as industry and phenomenon, and vice versa.

The frustration at Dutch universities is tangible today. Being faced with huge, irrational, shortsighted cutbacks is frustrating. Being denied the opportunity to protest these cutbacks adds to the frustration. But while today’s huge demonstration may be cancel, the protest is not 🟥

Yesterday, the Dutch parliament openly discussed denaturalization, and a far-right party even brought up large-scale remigration (read: deportation) of citizens with migrant backgrounds. Ten years ago, denaturalization was fringe. How long will it be before remigration becomes mainstream as well?

🚨 Those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, and the privately-educated, are significantly overrepresented in the creative professions in the UK. Our new research uncovers stark inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, including television, film, and music 🧵

6. Hyland et al.: Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class

De kop «Kan kabinet asielcrisis uitroepen? 'Het is ondemocratisch en tegen de rechtsstaat'» is na 2 uur gewijzigd naar «Kabinetsplan om asielcrisis uit te roepen leidt tot zorgen en vraagtekens» https://nos.nl/l/2537060

In "Poor Things," @lendavis.bsky.social writes about “poornography”: distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Read the introduction for free now: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Crises responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. How can we study such processes? And how do they work out for the cases of climate change and Covid? We answer these questions in our new International Sociology article! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian Arno Meyer called a “crisis stratum” of disillusioned young men. 🧵

A zoomed-out map showing everywhere in the Strip that has been bombed as of July 6. Sourced from unosat.org/products/3904