Listen to @tsingleton.bsky.social and I talk with adventurer, jiu-jitsu expert, and firefighter @stephankesting.bsky.social as a reminder of the cool people who still exist in martial arts combat sport.
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*academics too.
Hey! I know that podcast! Seems like one of the hosts should have caught that...Also, is it the collective poetry community that you are seeking forgiveness from or does it only take one?
I had the honor of talking with MMA legend @juliekedzie.bsky.social about combat sport culture and the hypocrisy of UFC fighters clamoring to fight at the White House. Thanks to @tsingleton.bsky.social for having me as a co-host.*
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*art courtesy of Claudia Fung
I also recommend checking out some of Blake’s other writing including my personal favorites “A Battle for Basketball Paradise” (for Oxford American) and “ON WOMEN DUNKING AND BASKETBALL AS A HUMAN POTENTIAL ACCELERANT” (presented in partnership with the Black Womens Basketball Museum).
A new episode of the Dear Adam Silver podcast! Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, writer, life long baller, and creator of the Spirit of Hoops project (spiritofhoops.com) talks about his essay “WILL BASKETBALL IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAKE YOU TO ACTION?” - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Today is a good day to follow Generative AI Slop-Free news outlets bsky.app/starter-pack...
new podcast project talking combat sports, culture, and politics w/ @tsingleton.bsky.social! The first three guests - Julie Kedzie, Stephan Kesting, Nate Quarry - are a dream lineup for me and I'm hoping some listeners will agree! pod.link/1531590204/e...
Shudder calls the corners — and some of the smartest minds in horror — to conjure a tale that needs telling.
Thank you!
Link, please.
*this episode features Tunisha Singleton (www.tunishasingleton.com) as an additional guest host/discussant.
New Dear Adam Silver! Rafi Kohan, author of Trash Talk, shares his experience giving the keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and why the petition that followed demonstrated a misunderstanding of talking trash.
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#sociology peeps: I am organizing a section at ASA called neuroscience, cognition, and sociology. Please submit. Please pass around. Papers need not do both neuroscience and cognition...
This conversation is part of the Spring 2026 Sociological Life Lessons class @sunybrockport.bsky.social. An experiment that I will be writing about soon for @firstpublics.bsky.social! *posting this with the goal of upping the accountability...
new GTaC! A discussion with Dr. Chris Connor about his research on the electronic music scene and gay dating apps + life lessons that can be taken from the respective projects.
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and, perhaps most importantly, organized and chaired by Alex Channon, University of Brighton.
MASA Winter Webinar: “On Community in Martial Arts"
4 February, 9:00AM-10:30AM - Online via MS Teams
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feat. panellists Lyn Jehu, University of South Wales and Jack Sugden, Liverpool John Moores University, discussion led by Kyle Green, SUNY Brockport.
A reminder that they defunded the police that target white collar criminals and corruption — at the exact same that time they lavishly funded the police that killed Alex Pretti.
“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice.
Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be
counting his bullet wounds.”
This is INSANE. A SCHOOL. “The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.
and then returning one more time as the book reviews editor where I had the honor of working with a series of scholars who I admire including Ryanne Pilgeram, Stefano Bloch, @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social, @dsilver432.bsky.social, and @kaareeenah.bsky.social
and then again with Kelsey Berry to write about emergence of a new type of final girl in horror movies - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
then recording the official @contexts.org podcast with @sarahlageson.bsky.social before returning a few years later as an author to write about masculinity in the surf and on the mats with Clifton Evers - contexts.org/articles/int...
So ends an era of ASA’s public facing journal as @contexts.org officially leaves print behind and moves completely online.
I've somehow spent 1/3 of my life w/ @contexts.org starting on the grad board under the leadership of @chrisuggen.bsky.social, Douglas Hartmann, and @lettapage.bsky.social
a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
Also worth noting that this is the concluding issue under the amazing editorial leadership of @sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @lettapage.bsky.social. I feel lucky/honored to have been invited to tag along as the books editor for the final stretch.
"While we face an era marked by rising authoritarianism, entrenched racism, and a culture of hyper-individualism, the hope for a more livable society remains real and worth striving for." @mlamont.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social
"They remind us that the work of seeing and valuing others begins not with abstract policy but everyday acts of recognition. This vision offers important possibilities, inspiring ongoing effort and collective care."
"And yet, scholars like Michèle Lamont and Ruha Benjamin urge us to imagine a different society. Their books challenge us to consider how a more just and livable world might be built, how it emerges and fails, and how it might be reclaimed in moments when justice is endangered."