hopefully it finds the right home soon, don’t give up!

What a fantastic series of @thesociologicalreview.org seminars!

Delighted to share that the forword by @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social, the introduction and a couple of other contributions of @thesociologicalreview.org Monograph on War Frames are free to access for a limited time

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

looks very cozy!

Why is it so controversial to criticise Israel’s scholasticide in Palestine? Paris-Saclay’s statement reprimanding its own ethics committee provides a prime example of the Palestine exception, says Jonathan Rosenhead

"Why is it so controversial to criticise Israel’s scholasticide in Palestine?"
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/why-...

Launching of 'Gender and the Body in East European Jewish History' - two online panels 12:30-5 pm, one in-person panel from 6 pm at University College London with keynote by Joanna Degler about 'Corporealty in Sara Schenirer's Early [Polish-language] Diary'

Register here:

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Healthcare for the armed forces community How the NHS can help if you're in the British armed forces, a veteran, a reservist or a family member of someone who is serving or who has served.

Reform’s TV suggests that military veterans are denied health and housing support while ‘illegal immigrants’ are prioritised. In fact there is dedicated support for veterans while asylum seekers share no choice housing & basic GP access. Lies, lies, lies

www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

The Chilling Effect: How Do Researchers React to Controversy? Drawing on interview and survey data, Joanna Kempner's study finds that political controversies shape what many scientists choose not to study.

In light of today's NYTimes article about self-censorship in academia (www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...), sharing my (now ancient) effort to measure the "chilling effect'" of a single effort to suppress science way back in the W administration. Stay safe out there.

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NHS hospitals urged to reject £330m data platform part-owned by Trump ally The NHS Federated Data Platform is designed to collate information from across the service so hospitals can analyse it more easily and improve how care is delivered and supporters say it is already he...

Palantir has no place in our NHS.

The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now.

Listen to what health workers are saying.

news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...

Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

Book review:

Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars. By Rita Maricocchi, PhD candidate at the University of Münster and Brian Quinn, PhD candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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Kachel: Medienkritik mit und für alle Heute: Das Pro und Contra Meinungsstück

Guten Tag, neues Format!

Dank vieler Nachfragen analysiere ich als Medienkritikerin ab jetzt besondere Medienformate.

Den Start macht das ~PRO UND CONTRA MEINUNGSSTÜCK~. Es wird gerne auf Titelseiten oder in Streit-Ressorts platziert und birgt etliche journalistische Problematiken.

Und los.

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and the latest monograph is out now journals.sagepub.com/toc/sor/curr... focusing on war frames and contributing to the sociology of war (sadly very timely)

Please do share if you enjoyed, it helps so much!

Welcome To The Journal The Sociological Review Is Welcoming 20 New Members To Its Editorial Board The Soc Rev

⭐ WELCOME to the 20 scholars who have joined The Sociological Review journal’s Editorial Board this month

Read more about these appointments: buff.ly/Jvu5XS0

“Regardless of how assembly is defined, people will find creative ways to collectively resist the increasingly totalising impact of AI.”

@bnjacobsen.bsky.social reviews AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World, edited by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz.

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Congratulations! Fantastic news!

Mudde is correct, of course. One thing I find interesting about this though is how it varies by discipline. I’ve rarely heard the manel concern in soc, but we do have a whanel concern: not just white people on a panel committee.

There indeed is so much to fight for, and in some countries (looking at you, US), some old fights have become new fights.

One thing (academic) men can do is not participate in manels! It can be uncomfortable at times but it is also still necessary. Here’s my experience: 🧵

All the AI boosters saying LLMs are uniquely positioned to help with academic research never went to their library orientations at university.

90% of what they praise AI as being able to do with wide eyed wonder are things jstor, Scopus and LexisNexis etc have been doing for decades already.

Literally every company now YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Every post I see about AI makes me think of this video from @eleanormorton.bsky.social "I don't think AI is useful for that company. Well, you'd be right! But we're doing it anyway." www.youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

it was a great pleasure and I am thrilled that the book is published so soon!

Amazing!! Looking very much forward to the publication. Congratulations!

never been as scared about the future as I am now, wish more people would think critically about AI and its various consequences (for democracy, work, mental health, environment, integrity, peace, equality, etc.)

• Sociology of LGBTQ+ Rights in Times of Crisis This panel invites sociological scholarship examining how LGBTQ+ rights are shaped by, and respond to, contemporary crises. From rising authoritarianism and humanitarian crises due to wars and genocides to climate emergencies, crises fundamentally reshape the terrain on which LGBTQ+ rights are envisioned, enacted, and contested. This panel seeks papers (or extended abstracts) that analyze the complex relationship between crisis and LGBTQ+ experiences, communities, and mobilizations. What discourses, strategies, and technologies of "human rights" do LGBTQ+ as well as anti-LGBTQ+ movements deploy under conditions of crisis? How do LGBTQ+ communities, at the intersection of other minoritized communities, become targets of political scapegoating during periods of multiple crises? How do crises exacerbate existing vulnerabilities while potentially opening spaces for mobilization, coalition, and more? The panel is open to highlighting diverse political and cultural contexts as well as theoretical and methodological approaches.

Global Queer/Trans Movements This panel examines contemporary queer and trans movements across diverse global contexts, analyzing how activists mobilize for rights, recognition, and belonging amid an intensifying global wave of anti-LGBTQ backlash. As LGBTQ rights become increasingly contested in political and cultural discourse worldwide (particularly with the rise of illiberal and authoritarian regimes), this panel explores the discourses, strategies, and coalitions that queer and trans movements deploy to resist state homophobia and transphobia, repressive legislation, and anti-LGBTQ mobilization. How do queer and trans movements organize and build coalitions in times of backlash and scapegoating? How do intersections of gender, class, race, and empire become central or marginalized in movement formations? What roles do transnational networks (including global funding flows, transnational advocacy networks, and anti-rights mobilization) play in these processes? How do movement strategies and meanings vary across geographic contexts, and how are they connected to one another? This panel welcomes papers and extended abstracts that advance critical understanding of how queer and trans movements navigate increasingly hostile political climates across different parts of the world.

If you’re working on LGBTQ+ movements or rights and thinking about ASA submissions tonight, I’m organizing two connected panels on queer/trans movements and LGBTQ+ rights in times of crisis and backlash. Submissions are due tonight at 9PM (EST). Thanks for considering!

I’m honoured to be giving the Neudstadt Lecture in Leicester tonight. I’ll be talking about: How wives helped to shape the foundations for knowledge about society
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Congratulations! 🎉

Online book launch if our edited collection - please register - speakers address WPR and decolonising policy analysis, material objects as policy, and extending WPR spatially

@lizziereed.bsky.social this

Today is the third anniversary of the publication of our book. At a time when imperial powers are grappling with their limits the concepts of this book cant be limited to #internationaldevelopment. White saviorism exists across multiple factions and elements of our world.

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