Our chapter 📖 is out on the tacit assumptions of 🇺🇦Ukrainian's allegedly automatic proficiency in the 🇵🇱Polish language that produces institutionalized marginalization. It's 🧱paywalled💰, so reach out for a copy.
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Grant agencies favor feasibility for good reasons, but if the funding is scarce, #drug studies with hard to reach populations may be disadvantaged. Yes, I didn't get #SonataBIS at the final stage. But with the reviews I will rewrite it 💪🏼. Thanks @ncn.gov.pl for a difficult lesson.🫣
Thanks @ncn.gov.pl for months of inspiring work on the proposal, but when you read reviews full of "excellent" and "diligently", you read that you increased your score in the interview, but you still don't get the funding, it might sound like the threshold is a bit unsustainable. 🥲
Now. Stop it! ✋🏼 Together with the amazing Claudius Stroehle we are going to 🐐🐐Poznan for the 🌾 @easainfo.bsky.social conference with our @premiumeu.bsky.social _EU fieldwork paper “You can’t go to Vienna (or Berlin) anymore”: Migrantization of Anti-Cosmopolitan Narratives in Rural Poland and Austria
Always up for some #DeviantBehavior if you ask me, XD. With @piotrsiuda.bsky.social and CO, we illuminate the shift towards low friction use of affordances to fend off a punitive legal reality and "inconveniences" of street supply. DM for a copy, no💵OA💰this time: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nowa punktacja czasopism naukowych to nie tylko techniczny szczegół, lecz mapa, która na kolejne lata wyznaczy kierunek rozwoju polskich badań: ku światowej konkurencji albo wygodnej lokalnej samowystarczalności – pisze prof. @piotrsiuda.bsky.social ⬇️
Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow.
No royal castle in Krakow.
National Science Centre
A waiting room
Literally chilling in Krakow. 🌫️🥶 I had an @ncn.gov.pl SONATA BIS interview today. Mind boggling but empowering 😮💨. Super proud of myself, whatever the outcome. It would be so nice to do the 🌿 Cannabis Social Worlds x Migrations 🛄 study though. If I owe you an email, revision or review, this is why. 😅
A nice book in the pipeline with our chapter on the spurious language proximity of 🇵🇱 &🇺🇦 and how it complicates Ukrainian folks' interactions with various institutions in PL. Just a heads up. Kudos to the editors - @helenringrow.bsky.social et al, brilliant!👽
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In the department of FAILURE☄: today I DID NOT 🥹 get an @ncn.gov.pl SONATA grant to research Cannabis Social Worlds among people who migrate in Europe. After making it to the 2nd round👩🚀it breaks my researcher's💔heart, but the reviews are really encouraging. Revise and resubmit 🤹🏼♂️
Can it get any cooler than that? 😏
Yes, it can. ☠️☠️☠️ We will organize a seminar on the same topic of DRUGGED SOCIOLOGY at the Instytut Socjologii UJ in Krakow on Oct 17, 2025. 🤳 The calls will be out soon! 📳
Be-beep🤖: our proposal of a SI got picked by the Board of the Polish Sociological Review! Together👯with mighty Justyna Struzik we will be 🤙🏼calling for papers soon for the:
"Drugged Sociology in the Semi-Periphery: Psychoactive Substances, Governance, and Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe".👾👻
Media Studies Meet Drug Research: call for tentative chapter abstracts and expressions of interest for a new edited collection exploring the intersections between media studies and critical approaches to drugs.
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Peep, peep! Calling #drugs or #media folks!
We put together a proposal 👩🏼💻that already received a bit of love 🤍 from Routledge, with Piotr Siuda. We aim to inquire into different intersections of substances use or supply and their mediated realms. SHARE!🫴🏼
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3 speakers give a conference presentation
We started sharing our work on people who migrate and the 🇵🇱 healthcare system. Many undertones to be explored. The report for Krakow & a paper we presented at the Migration, Diasporas and Settlement Forum will follow. 🙌🏼 Iwona Bielska, Konrad Pedziwiatr and Svitlana Luchik-Musiyezdova.
A bit from us on medical cannabis & it's appropriation for nontherapeutic purposes in PL, tl;dr: it gives folks some agency, i.a. to "hold" the state accountable for the quality. It's part of an upcoming SI "Cannabis Policy at the Twilight of Drug Prohibition" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of @ceemr-journal.bsky.social edited by Bolaji Balogun, Kasia Kubin and myself - please share widely and send us your abstracts: 'Race-Making in the East of Europe: Understanding Imperial and Colonial Histories and their Afterlives': ceemr.uw.edu.pl/news
Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland, expresses his regret for signing repressive laws. Another welcome case of "post retirement enlightenment syndrome" #PRES at #EHRC2024
This morning at #EHRC2024, we heard about Poland's legalisation of medical cannabis. In this new article, Dr Greg Los shows how this is experienced by people who use cannabis. doi.org/10.1080/1082...
In our paper on differentiated normalization, we conclude that: "Despite the fact that Polish law on #cannabis remains restrictive, the users cease to think about detachment from mainstream society and move on to define their goals and inspect the use critically." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A gap in a sidewalk against blinding lights.
A flower, not exactely warm beetroots and microwave heated potatoes.
A motel with an oversized restaurant sign.
Doing fieldwork off the beaten track. The oversized resto sign though...