The good news is there is already a team of actual interdisciplinary experts putting together detailed advice around data collection on sex and gender, informed by medical science as well as feminist and trans perspectives. They are the MESSAGE project and you can learn more here:

Very interesting (open-access) piece by Nicholas Gane on Gillian Rose's Marxist Modernism and her broader oeuvre. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Join for a Report Launch Event on "Increasing the Representation of Women from Racially Minoritised Communities in UK Local Politics" w/ Khursheed Wadia on Tuesday 04/02 @7-8.15pm (GMT). To register for this ONLINE event and to read the report, please click here: www.elect-her.org.uk/events-works...

A big thanks to all the presenters including those from @sociowarwick.bsky.social for yesterday’s inaugural conference of The Fear Network. So great to listen to folk from different disciplines exploring the same theme. Thinking about how this all can relate to punishment.

I joined protestors outside the RCJ today because our politicians continue not only to ignore the evidence of climate breakdown , but accelerate our species collapse with this obsession over growth above all else . No growth on a dead planet , solidarity with the #LordWalney16

We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

The cruelty, hate and harm of this new administration - and speed of it - is just awful. So much forthcoming harm to so many, and in this case esp trans and nb kids just trying to get educated.

Calling all #SocialScienceStudents! Our #StudentResources have #Free papers, #Webinars, #Podcasts, and more!

Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence. I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.

When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries

What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking? @emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p 🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I

I also have MONEY to give folks if you need help paying for your train or accommodation. Hmu on [email protected] #AcademicSky

Are you an early career researcher who needs support? Or help moving into the next stage of your career? As part of the BSA Early Career Forum we're hosting a very cool event on this with very cool people and it's FREE www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #AcademicSky

OMG but like have you even heard? Listen on: buff.ly/4h3sAvo

Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl

📌 Save the Date! Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.

JOB (pls share!) you still have some days to apply for this Impact Coordinator role to join the Vulnerable State Project team at Warwick. For details please see here: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

The @sociologicalreview.bsky.social invites proposals for two monographs (ca. 100.000 words/12 articles) to be published in 2027. Proposals are due 16 June 2025. Looking forward to hearing from you! More information here: thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with...

SEMINAR 📌Leaving being ‘left behind’: itineraries of operation & resistance in a post-industrial English city 🗣Dr Ajmal Hussain 📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 16 January 2025 (hybrid - all welcome) @uomsociology.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leaving-be...

End of year round up for The Sociological Review’s Fiction Series ✨

Glad to have this gorgeous monograph from The Sociological Review arrive! It features some amazing articles on memory, photography, poetry, theatre, wine, art, prophets and more Grab an irl copy or find it online via thesociologicalreview.org/journal @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

Great to see this #CallforPapers on Gaza, genocide and sociology from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social go live - responding to our manifesto call to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures - with thanks to all those involved in making this happen thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Working on a new article with @michaelacbenson.bsky.social on teaching differently including a discussion of podcasting as a sociological learning resource. Am very proud of these ones for the second series of Recovering Community - www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...