Letter from COP 30 in Belem, Brazil | The Tyee What’s the buzz at the UN climate summit as it nears the finish line? A UBC sociologist sends this dispatch.

For those of you who might be interested, I have a new article in the Tyee with some of my on the ground observations at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil:
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Data Sciences Speaker Series - DSI The Data Sciences Speaker Series is a collaboration of data science programs at U of T. Seminars are held on the third Monday of each month.

Ok y'all I'm throwing out a hot take on LLMs in Toronto in January:

"We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI"

Enough of the bias talk. LLMs are a completely different beast and our old frameworks are no longer useful.

datasciences.utoronto.ca/dsi-home/dat...

The Pain of Social Loss: The Biosocial Roots of Motivated Action and Solidarity Social pain, of all detrimental experiences, remains largely overlooked by sociological inquiry. While attention to the sources are fused to Durkheim, from anomie to fatalism, the discipline centers i...

My PhD student (@colteruscola.bsky.social) and I have a new chapter out on social pain and how we can better integrate neuroscience into social science! Check it out! #sociology
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The Department of Sociology (University of Virginia) invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position in the sociology of religion, to begin fall of 2026. apply.interfolio.com/173879

⛅ The climate of political polarization ⛈️

E. Huddart, T. Silva, P. Muzzerrall & S. Dimitrakopoulos’ #Socius study analyzes #survey data on attitudes towards #decarbonization policies to link affective #climate polarization to #political identity-based boundary-making

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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From ABCs to CVD 🫀

A. Zajacova, S. Fishman, & E. Lawrence’s new #Socius research examines national #UnitedStates #health data to uncover the complex relationship between #educationalattainment and #cardiovasculardisease

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Re‐theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet: Evidence From Queer South Asian Women Scholarship generally assumes the closet is a place of safety from the perceived risks associated with coming out. However, this overlooks its function as a source of violence, particularly for those...

Congrats to my grad student @alyypatel.bsky.social on her article "Re-theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet" in Canadian Review of Sociology. How can the closet be a source of violence, esp. for multiply marginalized groups? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #sociology

My phd student @colteruscola.bsky.social crushing it. Great #sociology here

Unveiling the Gender Gap in Alcohol Misuse: Fear, Anger, and the “Game of Secrets” - Colter J. Uscola, 2025 Gender scholars often assume that alcohol misuse is representative of hegemonic masculinity, but women are simultaneously consuming rates and quantities that pa...

Free to read! New research from ASA member Colter J. Uscola @colteruscola.bsky.social, University of British Columbia, shows how marginalization and trauma influence the performance of gender through alcohol use. @sociusjournal.bsky.social

🎀🍺 Alcohol Miss-Use

C. Uscola’s (@colteruscola.bsky.social) new #Socius study examines how women and men seek to resist #familytrauma informed #genderexpectations through their performance of #alcoholuse.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

New in Sex&Sexualities by @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @jorge-ochoa.bsky.social !

"Color Outside the Lines" offers methodological tools - ethnography attuned to ephemerality and a palimpsestic approach - to study queer nightlife and changing social worlds.
doi.org/10.1177/3033...
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Unveiling the Gender Gap in Alcohol Misuse: Fear, Anger, and the “Game of Secrets” - Colter J. Uscola, 2025 Gender scholars often assume that alcohol misuse is representative of hegemonic masculinity, but women are simultaneously consuming rates and quantities that pa...

New pub is out in Socius!

This article examines how the narrowing gender gap in alcohol misuse is not only about drinking rates, but about the meanings of drinking.

Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Congratulations, @colteruscola.bsky.social!! 🎉

Women drank to resist invisibility and manage trauma, producing hybrid femininities that brought recognition but also misuse. Men drank to protect authentic selves from social injury, which eroded authenticity and produced hybrid masculinities shaped by roles they sought to avoid.

Unveiling the Gender Gap in Alcohol Misuse: Fear, Anger, and the “Game of Secrets” - Colter J. Uscola, 2025 Gender scholars often assume that alcohol misuse is representative of hegemonic masculinity, but women are simultaneously consuming rates and quantities that pa...

New pub is out in Socius!

This article examines how the narrowing gender gap in alcohol misuse is not only about drinking rates, but about the meanings of drinking.

Read here: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

The Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Utah is hiring!! Assistant Professor specializing in criminology & ideally overlapping in one of our other specialty areas (health, political, environmental). utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)