Cemeteries can bee such hotspots for biodiversity (typo intentional).

#deathstudies #cemeteries #academicsky

Fascinating work from Alex Broom and colleagues on how financial barriers shape access to "good death" in palliative care. The hidden costs and coverage gaps they document reveal how class inequality extends even to end-of-life care. #sociology #AcademicSky theconversation.com/a-good-death-has-...

Join me on Earth Day to chat about green burial options and death awareness in Ontario. Sustainability is life-long, after all, and death is one part of life we can count on.

#greenburial #sustainability #deathpositivity #deathcare

Partly why these reviews should be iterative and interdisciplinary to search for these new terms! And involve asking others for what's missing etc etc.

(From an also grumpy interdisciplinary social scientist who loves a good systematic review, but hates a shallow one)

Early career academics are often under-represented in university decision-making bodies across Europe, particularly women, who are almost entirely absent from senior governance roles, a new study has found #academicsky
https://ow.ly/efxk50YCbpj

Civility Analyzer - Communalytic - A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media The Civility Analysis Module uses AI models to detect the level of toxicity and conversation bridging in online conversations. Powered by two machine learning APIs: Detoxify and Perspective, the modul...

Are you studying online toxicity or online moderation?
Our @Communalytic.org research tool includes a Civility Analyzer module that automatically pinpoints various types of toxic interactions in any social media dataset. communalytic.org/docs/civilit... #academicsky #phdsky #comsky #sciencesky

‘It can spare people so much pain’: what is an advance directive and should you get one? My sister and I had to make decisions that determined the course of my parents’ final hours. This important end-of-life document could have guided us

What even IS an advance directive and why does it matter? The Guardian just published this helpful explainer, and we were honored to be interviewed and featured. If you've been putting off thinking about end-of-life planning this is a great place to start. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

A quick little #water and #gender piece from Sadah Mehrabi and me (driven by the former!), sneaking in for the #WorldWaterDay2026 cycle.

#AcademicSky

#psychjobs #AffectSci

"At least one post will be prioritised towards research and teaching in cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience"

Image of rows of tombstones that reflect rainbows through a glass space in the middl of each stone.

Death positivity is not just a mindset, it’s a practice. Our Death Positivity in Action Page is an ongoing chronicle of ways that death positive ideas are emerging in communities all across the world: www.orderofthegooddeath.com/death-positi...

What seems to be important about awe's influence on proenvironmental behaviour? Sense of #self and connection to #nature are up there! Nature is frequently noted as awe-inducing; and awe is connected to prosocial behaviours - like environmental protection and climate actions

An article that was resurrected after various 2020 setbacks, updated & extended to 2025 #awe + #proenvironmental #behaviour research is now live! Another SEE Lab collab
@peopleandnature.bsky.social @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social
@royalroads.ca

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Important conversation between UCLA's Ramesh Srinivasan and Awana Digital's Emily Jacobi on AI's environmental impact. Critical perspectives on tech's ecological costs that we need to center in our research and teaching. #AcademicSky #sociology

https://www.byteseu.com/1845136/

100% agree!!

A green comic book bubble with orange words over it reads: POWER (of attorney) HOURS! Below, white text reads: February 2026. February 12, 2-4pm. February 14, 12:30-2:30pm. February 19, 2-4pm. February 21, 12:30-2:30pm. I'll bring the forms. $5-$10 suggested tip. MaybeItsFate. 1425 Story Ave. Louisville, KY. In the bottom left corner is the logo for My Parents Are Dead: What Now? featuring a cartoon skull with heart eyes atop a lime green heptagon.

POWER (of attorney) HOURS ARE BACK! Get those pesky financial & medical POA forms off your to-do list. I'll bring the forms and my notary stamp. You bring your brains and your determination to make difficult but necessary decisions. It'll be fun.

#louisville #deathpositive #estateplanning

This has truly been so bad. I saw someone who uses a motorized wheel chair on the ROAD a few weeks ago because the sidewalks were impassable for them. So unsafe

The framing of AI through a capitalist lens obscures how digital platforms extract value from user labor while marketing themselves as "free" services. This piece unpacks how profit motives shape AI development in ways that prioritize extraction over equity. #AcademicSky #sociology

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Truly!

Yes - and the journal auto-replied with a bot so I could not get them to understand it was not plagiarism, but my own work. I gave up and moved on when I couldn't get a hold of a real person 🫩🙄

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.

"Generative AI systems themselves tend toward homogenization when used autonomously and repeatedly... Cultural stagnation is no longer speculation. It’s already happening."

#AcademicSky

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#CfP: 'Bridging Emotions: Affect in Overcoming Social and Political Divides', a hybrid workshop, based in Keio University, Tokyo, 16.05.2026, organized by Takemitsu Morikawa and @cvscheve.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 15.02.2026
Details: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/a...
#emosoc #sociology

I'm looking to interview, read, and share disaster narratives. If you have a story to tell, data to share, and want to talk, I'm taking trains and bikes across the EU and want to talk to you. #academicsky #disasters #openscience

www.andrewrusso.me/dnp

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hey everyone, new project on the horizon. Looking for queer writers and academics who want to contribute to a global queer anthology/textbook.

Help me finish collecting #data for my #dissertation! If you’re a faculty member interested in issues of #academicfreedom in the classroom, take 15 minutes to respond to my survey below. #academicsky #highered #freespeech

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If you think you know what constitutes best practice in #QualitativeResearch methods in #HealthResearch, here's a list that may confirm or challenge your understanding 👇

If it challenges you, perhaps give the full paper a read? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#academicsky #ImplementationScience

‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts Drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are arriving sooner than we imagined according to scientists

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org

#FasterThanExpected
#ClimateEmergency

We are very excited to work in partnership with Dalhousie University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology to host our Conference.

Approximately 250 sessions have been planned, so submit your abstract by January 26 to present your work!

www.csa-scs.ca/2026-annual-...

🎓International symposium "Reproductive Health in Fragile Democracies: Bodies, Technologies and Futures"
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky

Interested in #emotions in #climate contexts? Consider applying to our panel at #CAG 2026! @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social

#affect #geography #interdisciplinary

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