Really sad news. RIP www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Clear and outstanding by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Another day, another cycle picks a visible trigger➡️surge in coverage of "us" v "them"➡️salience jumps + political entrepreneurs sharpen cues➡️generates more coverage outlets + platforms replicate the frame in pursuit of engagement. In the next news cycle, the original complexity is harder to retrieve.

This headline is a travesty. It's not a protest and it's got nothing to do with Henry Nowak. It's a racist riot. Call it that.

#Identities Pride Month Special Collection! Our newest Special Collection of articles explores LGBTQ+ experiences and identities, and is presented in celebration of Pride Month. Read with #FreeAccess throughout June! www.tandfonline.com/... #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2026 Taylor & Francis Research

New @policy-politics.bsky.social paper revisits how Scotland became 1st UK nation to introduce smokefree public places. I argue for extending Punctuated Equilibrium Theory via Niche Construction Theory to understand behind the scenes policy work required for implementation success: shorturl.at/GlhxR

In reality, racist attacks are the largest part of hate crime, often violent or threatening. Policing is weakened by under-reporting, low victim satisfaction, missing ethnicity data, low charge rates + long-running institutional failures recognised since Macpherson. bsky.app/profile/step...

Our SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027-28 programme is now open for applications, offering an exciting opportunity for humanities and social sciences researchers to engage with the public. Apply now: https://bit.ly/43JR4oA

Foster care provides children who cannot live with their families a safe, stable and loving home. I’m proud to have joined 31 MPs in signing a parliamentary motion to mark Foster Care Fortnight and highlight the life-changing work of foster carers.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

How Larry Ellison’s £257m helped transform the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change into a sales and lobbying operation for Oracle, the Texas-headquartered technology and AI giant Ellison co-founded in 1977.

Closing Monday 1 June 🚨 Apply for the Centre for Public Policy 2026-27 Practice Fellows 📣💡 An exciting opportunity for policy professionals to access academic insights into policy questions they face in their role. Full info and apply 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

'Why #Eid al-Adha matters: understanding #Islam through everyday practice' New Commentary on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Wajihah Hamid Read it online ⬇️ www.identitiesjourna... #EidAlAdha @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

The next @thesccjr.bsky.social Justice Futures seminar will be given by @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social, who will be reflecting on her wonderfully innovative work using science fiction as a way to explore alternatives to imprisonment. You can sign up at the link below.

Great new book from Glasgow Media Group: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis 👇🏽https://www.tickettailor.com/events/redpepper/2233237

🎧: From nurseries to nursing homes, private equity increasingly affects all of us. Hettie O’Brien joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss her book ‘The Asset Class’

Now that the exams and the marking are nearly over, here's a brilliant way to spend some time with our own, supremely creative @erdemavsar.bsky.social.

Tony Blair on my radio doing full AI Silicon Valley boosterism Unrelatedly…. Tony Blair’s personal think tank has had or been pledged $350 million from Oracle boss Larry Ellison democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Newcastle Cathedral to showcase what it’s really like to seek asylum in the UK The harsh reality of life in the asylum system is being revealed to Newcastle Cathedral visitors northeastbylines.co.uk/business/vol...

Here is word, from our friends and colleagues @thesccjr.bsky.social, of a forthcoming online event with Prof Manuel Maroto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) in Spain. Further details and sign up below. Taking place Tuesday 16th June 12-1 pm. Please share.

1/When the UK asylum system is described as in 'crisis', what if that's not a breakdown of the system but instead how it functions? In Policy & Politics, @e-c-hill.bsky.social and I argue that 'crisis ordinariness' is a method of governing in which extraordinary harm is presented as administration.

At The Overseer Class launch at @strandbooks.com we ended w @afeefness.bsky.social reading Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die” in Arabic, followed by the entire audience reading Dr. Alareer’s poem together in English. It was one of the most special moments of my life; the angel line evoked my mom.

Hot off the press: an analysis of ethnic minority representation in the Scottish Parliament after the most recent election, from Timothy Peace and our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social.

More progress without parity? Ethnic minority representation at Holyrood after 2026: www.electionanalysis.uk/uk-election-...

An analysis led by @uofgsps.bsky.social and funded by @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social gives fresh insights into the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. The Scottish Election Analysis features a wide variety of topics by leading scholars. gla.ac/4dtOwzt

Please share word of this brilliant new podcast series - raising awareness of disabled people in the migration system - from the Working Together Collective, a collaboration between community members, various community organisations, as well as academics including our own @nickyburns.bsky.social.

If you're near Birmingham on the 3rd June, here's a chance to reflect on the importance of music to Stuart Hall's work. Organised by the Stuart Hall Archive project, with Mykaell Riley and our own Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social

📣Tomorrow: Stevenson Trust launch of the Scottish Election Analysis Report ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-the-... Stellar panel @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social @merylkenny.bsky.social @ailsahenderson.bsky.social

The result of normalising Reform’s ideas? Nesrine Malik: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think we can safely say that those lessons were not learned…

And look at this from my colleague in sociology, Angélica Thumala: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152615887...

'On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor' From our #LatestIssue, by Liam Gillespie With #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070...#LatestIssue,#OpenAccess:#FarRight #racism

There are only a few weeks left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Grants are tenable for between one and 24 months. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

Lens on Gaza - The Sun and Moon Still Rise | Fadi A. Thabet 7-9 Friday 22nd May at the Alchemy Experiment: www.bethlehemculturalfestival.com/events/lens-...

Amongst other treasures in the most recent @thesociologicalreview.org magazine, do take a look at the brilliant interview between Laurie Taylor and our own Les Back (@academicdiary.bsky.social).

Catch up on @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland The Sunday Show at the weekend 🎤 Including on the mechanism for an independence referendum, the mindset of voters and parliamentarians, and the performance of the parties. Listen from 1:07:00 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What happened when we invited 90 school kids onto campus to interview our academics? Learning, fun…and just a touch of chaos 🤪 Watch the full video: gla.ac/4d8BM2x

88% of UK millionaires proud to live in Britain. 75% willing to pay more tax to fund public assets. Yet right-wing constantly peddles project fear ... They would leave, etc. Capital gains, dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Tax the rich. Redistribute. Alleviate poverty.

2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.

NEW #UofGSpotlight - After the Elections: Power, Policy and the Next Five Years 🚨 We discuss the result of the election and crucially ask what next for public policy in Scotland? With: 🎙️@graemeroy.bsky.social 🎙️Kate Higgins Tune in 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

Heather Dewey-Hagborg joins us at the ARC on 12 & 13 May for two special events. On 12 May, experience a screening of Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera followed by a Q&A. On 13 May, join the conversation: “How much can you learn about a stranger from a stray hair?” Grab your tickets: gla.ac/4dctiaJ

LIVE at 1pm - What just happened? Unpacking the election results📢📊📝 With @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @kezdugdale.bsky.social, @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social, @cjcarman.bsky.social. It's not too late to tune in - we're live on YouTube here in 15 minutes ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/Y6WW7g7...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

Man who made dehumanising 'joke' about George Michael’s ashes being consumed in a curry by his partner Fadil Fawaz, complains about "disrespect" www.heraldscotland.com/news/nationa...

As it’s Liberation Day in the Channel Islands (a day later than VE Day, which commemorates the surrender of the Nazis in Berlin), here’s what I wrote in 2021 for @bylinetimes.bsky.social reflecting on British Holocaust memory politics (and amnesia) in the Brexit era: bylinetimes.com/2021/05/10/a...

Interesting early result from Dundee. MRP poll was putting Reform second...

We know what the vote flows are from extensive survey data. We *dont* know the turnout story. It’s mad to draw vote flow inferences from seat changes.