Louis Theroux’s ‘Inside the Manosphere’ shows the reach of misogyny, but not its harms - ABC Religion & Ethics The manosphere offers a false certainty in a time of social flux. It promises cheat codes, leadership and restored order — what it delivers is hierarchy repackaged as empowerment, with consequences th...

Great piece by @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social on Theroux's manosphere documentary - www.abc.net.au/religion/lou...

Jacob Lypp Rethinking governmentality and citizenship in Germany: The spiritual path of civic education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251376960 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

Can we overcome the crisis of democracy by teaching people to be better citizens?

@jacoblypp.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social reflects on civic pedagogies, Foucault and how the focus on self-transformation obscures power relations.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/LAbwX3I

Ala Sirriyeh Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251366887 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?

@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.

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New Australia Institute analysis shows the ANU had a $90 million profit in 2024 and INCREASED the value of its net assets...

All while the ANU was claiming a budget crisis to justify staff cuts!

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

In NZ a Sunday column today focuses on gender divides between young men/women voters. But in reality in NZ our divide is deeper between older men vs everyone else (including older women!)
The moral panic that young men are ‘lurching right globally’ obscures much longer history of gendered politics

Youth offending drops with safe, stable housing - study The study found that 3 years after moving into public housing, alleged offences and court charges among young people reduced by 11.7 percent and 10.9 percent more than the general population.

Youth offending drops with safe, stable housing - study

TASA is deeply dismayed by Macquarie Uni’s proposed restructuring that would decimate sociology. The social sciences matter — they help us navigate a complex world. Our full statement & call to action here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

#Sociology #HigherEd #SupportHASS

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

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Political volatility has been taking us by surprise for a while now. Here’s little exercise to illustrate. Rewind two years and take a look at where the polls were, what people expected, and what they failed to anticipate. You have to go back a while before politics is predictable even 2 yrs out 1/

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PhD Scholarship: Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces - Flinders University

🚨🚨 New funded PhD, looking at Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
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Friends and colleagues abroad, the Sorbonne is on furlough... The French govt is cutting 50% of our funding. Please forward to raise awareness and send us love 🫶

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

Postdoc position alert! 🚨Based at Uni of Adelaide with the ever-brilliant Dr Nathan Manning and me, our focus is on digital extremism and young Australians.

🔥 Deadline is 3rd April 🔥

careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Hi all, the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association - @awgsa.bsky.social - now has a Bluesky account as the executive made the decision to leave X - pls follow :)

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

What I remember most about Michael:

- The massive portrait of Gramsci behind his desk, staring down at students during office hours

- Helping edit his edited volume of global sociology, a volume I think about at least once a week

- The way he lived theory

He had so much life left in him

RIP 💔

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable | Jan-Werner Müller In the end, the best bet against oligarchy remains countervailing power

What exactly is oligarchy? And which anti-oligarchic measures have proven effective in the past?

New Guardian column.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is a really good study that tells us that we should stop talking about misinformation as a general sociological change, and instead understand it specifically as far-right politics #politics #SociologySky

Meta’s shift to ‘community notes’ risks hurting online health info providers more than ever Between allowing more “free speech” and removing official fact-checking, Meta’s platforms risk becoming more hostile to public health organisations.

Worried about how Meta's new moderation policies will impact online sexual and reproductive health promotion? So am I! This piece is co-authored with my expert colleague & HDR student Joanna Williams: theconversation.com/metas-shift-...

Hello Bluesky! We've just joined to share research, events and debates about basic income, economic security, ending poverty, inequality, conditionality and how we recognise diverse contributions to our community. Find out more at www.ausbasicincome.org

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

David Lodge, 1935–2025 We are deeply saddened to announce the death of David Lodge, CBE. He died peacefully with close family at his side. We have published David since 1975, when his seminal fifth novel Changing Places was...

No book ever gave me more pleasure than "Small World". (I told David Lodge that once at @bathfringe.co.uk and he was charmingly embarrassed.)
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...

Chart showing working-age families by employment status (left) and poverty status (right): UK

More than half of families in poverty now have at least one person in work, a major increase from the mid-1990s.

But despite the increasing rate of in-work poverty, employment still remains a good defence against poverty, with only a minority of working families in poverty

https://buff.ly/41t2I7u

The number of English households living in temporary accommodation more than doubled between 2010 and 2023.

Poverty and homelessness is a political preference for austerity, low wages/benefits, unchecked profiteering.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects over 1 in 4 women worldwide.

Mothers face a higher risk of violence than women without children.

Why?

A new study by Gabriela Deschamps delves into this troubling link. Let’s unpack the findings in a short thread. 🧵 👇
#EconSky #EconJMP #IPV

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