Next week I will be chatting with Dr Nadine Levy at Nan Tien about happiness. can't wait!

Chuffed to be a part of this!

Imagining the future — sci-fi, doomsday preppers and hope punks - ABC listen The way we imagine the future matters. Not only does it change how we feel, those feelings change how we live today — and that might just change how things actually turn out!

The culmination of my ABC Top5 experience is out - I made a radio show!

I interview @jordanmck.bsky.social about our emotional reactions to the future. We talk about prepping, parenthood and emotional uses of technology. Give it a listen! 🎧

I am excited to see this one out in the world

Thanks for your support!

What is prepping – and how does it work in Australia? Prepping in Australia is distinctive: less about guns and militias; more about food, water and community. While anti-government preppers are a problem, they’re rare.

My article in the Conversation today with @tomdoig.bsky.social on prepping culture in Australia. It’s not all guns and bunkers.

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

This is horrific - www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

***Job Alert*** 18-month full-time post-doc. Looking for an experienced qualitative researcher to join our team investigating youth radicalisation online. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... @tasayouth.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

This is an interesting article and patrimonialism is definitely part of the picture here. The work of sociologist Julia Adams builds on Weber in original and interesting ways and should definitely be on your reading lists.
sociology.yale.edu/people/julia...

#socialtheory

Hi everyone.

We are looking for participants for a study we're doing on how parents and families cope with climate anxiety and disasters. We're after any parents who would like to talk to us living in Australia, in NSW, QLD, or the ACT.

Use the QR code for more info and feel free to share 👍

Yikes

The dark side of sports betting and its impact on NBA players: Death threats, racism and Venmo requests The legalization of sports gambling has led to players being harassed online like never before.

This is disgraceful. Sports entertainment is being destroyed by gambling and leagues do not give a shit.

Looks like Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality is going back on the syllabus for this year.

I just bought fruit mince tarts and hot X buns in the same basket. There are no rules in the end times.

#tasa2024 FOMO is real. Wishing I could be there this week.

More than 300 Australian university executives make more money than state premiers, report reveals Union says average vice-chancellor gets paid almost double the prime minister, with salaries seemingly ‘plucked from thin air’

Something is very very broken with Australian universities

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As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.

There’s a lot that the democrats could have done differently. Personally I would have liked them to go far left rather than try to court moderate voters. But I get the strategy; “maybe we can give people an out if they personally find Trump gross.” But the thing is,

Sure! Thanks for sharing :)

Hey everyone! We are looking for participants in a study on families and climate disasters/change/anxiety in NSW and QLD. Use the QR code for more info and feel free to share 👍

What do we want from a sociology of the future?: Exploring the epistemological needs of an emerging field The aim of this article is to examine the epistemological conditions of a sociology of the future. This article offers three conditions for a grounded…

First post here and it is shameless self promotion :) the article is free and probably worth having a debate about www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Flyer advertises an inaugural event for the The Academic Activist Incubator at UOW, Room 19-2072, Oct 31, 1-3.30. The Incubator is a network bringing together an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars whose academic work in the humanities, creative arts, media and technology studies, policy, and social and natural sciences is primarily concerned with issues of justice/injustice, the imposition of power and the exercise of agency. It is open to all those who consider their academic work to be activist-, advocacy- or justice-oriented, taking place on a local or international scale. The launch event is a tribute to David Graeber, the anarchist and anthropologist.

At UOW in Wollongong on Oct 31, 1-3.30: launch of the UOW Academic Activist Incubator, by way of a tribute to David Graeber, with Cammi Webb-Cannon, Susan Engel, @jordanmck.bsky.social and me.