We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

My new short book on emotional labor is available for free until 8 July! In it, I take stock of the development, interdisciplinary uses, public (mis)uses, and future possibilities of this important concept www.cambridge.org/core/element...

A real honor to have this piece written about my work with the Monk Skin Tone Scale. My hope is that momentum keeps building and we can eventually live in a world where we can expect technology to work for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/live...

this is a masterpiece

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

Nurses fighting against corporate greed…I’ve been digging into this for a new book. if academics or sociologists are feeling hopeless, check out some of the top nurse influencers and how pissed off and organized they are becoming…

Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Sure, they’re trying to cancel sociology, but our skillset has never been more useful… Wordiply.com My best guess was 17 letters.

On April 17, 2025 @aaup.bsky.social will bring together major higher ed unions, trade unions, student groups, and allied organizations in the fight to “Free Higher Education.” LEARN MORE: www.dayofactionforhighered.org?source=twitt...

This is an extremely helpful thread.

ISR is accepting applications for the next cohort of Junior Professional Researchers! This is a great opportunity for recent college grads to get experience working in social science research at ISR. Please reach out with any questions! #statsky #episky #econsky #publichealth #academicsky #polisky

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

"Let us be patient with one another. And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go." ✒ #EmilyGreenBalch, American sociologist, #feminist, pacifist, and Nobel Laureate (1946), was #BOTD 8 January 1867. #Sociology #Feminism

Find these and other provocative questions regarding AI-in-education via the link! (So great that we can actually link to things on this site.) And thanks,Tom!

Call for Proposals Work, Employment and Society Special Issue WES is seeking proposals for special issues bringing together and highlighting work on important topics for the sociology of work and employment. www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26691/...

1/2 Can you help make sense of the global flux society is experiencing? We at The British Academy are commissioning up to 40 discussion papers of 4,000-5,000 words to cast light on the issues of the changing international environment www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

Found at my local thrift store. Who says we Americans can’t have nice things?

I’ve taught a few conservatives in my classes and while they usually start off skeptical, by the end of the semester they tend to like the class. It’s because sociology teaches you how to make and evaluate arguments about the social world with evidence. And who doesn’t like to win arguments?

Here’s my chat with Michael Lewis on sociology and sports fandom. Might be useful in intro, soc of sport, religion, or emotion courses. omny.fm/shows/agains...

I'm not a frequent reader of activist tactics - but I found this piece very clarifying, especially his points about the power not of protests or reason but of mass noncooperation. dangerous, messy, and very effective. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

Here’s my chat with Michael Lewis on sociology and sports fandom. Might be useful in intro, soc of sport, religion, or emotion courses. omny.fm/shows/agains...

On Tuesday 10/22 at 12:30pm, please come to the Ohio State Institute for Population Research's Seminar Series, where I'll be presenting a paper on the racialized dynamics of gentrification-induced displacement. I'm happy to share the paper with anyone who is interested! ipr.osu.edu/events/ipr-s...

Global neoliberalism is a bummer, but hey, 🎶🎶 “Whether you sing or pull a pint, you’ll always have a job, cuz wherever you go around the world, you’ll find an Irish pub”🎶 open.spotify.com/track/6zX3Hw...

CFP for early-career scholars working on masculinities and reproduction. Interdisciplinary workshop at the Brocher Foundation in May 2025. I'll be there and looking forward to meeting others working on this important topic! www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/call...

Scientific American takes rare step of endorsing for president www.scientificamerican.com/article/vote...

On new tech: “What really frightened me was the future of mediocrity they suggested: the inescapable screens, the app-facilitated antisocial behavior, the assumptions advanced as knowledge, and above all the collective delusion…” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...

One of the best gifts I ever gave my mother in law. Makes me smile every visit.

How’s your summer so far?

"They have read the books we assigned them. And what they have learned leads them to conclude, with great clarity, that bad things are happening, and that these bad things must stop."

Thanks, Lauren. And nice to see emotions in there!

With DEI and Black pilots in the news, it's an excellent time to (re)visit Evans' "Cabin Pressure" on the double shift of Black pilots and flight attendants. Emotion scholars/teachers- this is a wonderful book to showcase the field to students! #sociology #socemo www.amazon.com/Cabin-Pressu...

Damn, Brandon

Our research topic on Sociologies of Health and Emotion is now complete and available open access! #sociology #emotion #healthcare #emotionallabor www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

New open-access article on Ebola emotions in news and social media: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎵I'm not partial to the martial Or the plutocrats in their beaver hats And the fascists have the outfits But I don't care for the outfits What I care about is music And the communists have the music🎵

This week I learned about Ibn Khaldun for the first time and it turns out that he founded sociology. How did I just learn this?!

Adding this to my emotions and work syllabus.🤣😭

RIP Andre Braugher. One of my favorite actors since back in his Homicide days, but this line reading is a favorite for obvious reasons.

first batch of articles in our research topic on "Sociologies of Health and Emotions" are now out and open access! New work by Jason Rodriquez, Rebecca Olson, and Yvonne Wechuli, and John-Paul Byrne: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

if stoners arent having these conversations on college campuses across the nation truly all hope is lost

New collections added! • Cuban newspapers of the 1960s • Slovakian newspaper archive • Raymond Luc Levasseur Papers  • Vietnamese newspapers • Dolenjski List archive Over 500 online and open access collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents now listed!

Thinking of all my Dutch-based colleagues and friends 😢 apnews.com/article/neth...

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New work on new emotions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...