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Anna Skarpelis

@akms.bsky.social
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Asst. Professor of Sociology & Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair, CUNY Queens College. Formerly NYU (PhD), Harvard (postdoc). Sociologist of race, citizenship, fascism, AI. www.skarpelis.com, she / her

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@ebharrington.bsky.social is the knight in shining armor sociology needs -- her defense of the field is linked below, and an unpaywalled version is here brookeharrington.com/wp-content/u...
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Why is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?
Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Congrats, @ghaltomo.bsky.social !! Can't wait to read it.
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Jacqueline @notjack.space · 30/07/2026
tc;dr (Too Claude; Didn't Read)
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Job opening: University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is hiring a postdoctoral fellow (with the potential to transition to a tenure-track position) in international policy (possible focus areas listed in the description). Open to all social sciences, deadline 9/13.
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Job opening: University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy is hiring a senior scholar in democracy policy, 'an area of research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions.' Open to all social sciences, deadline 9/13.
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Professor of Public Policy, Democracy Policy | U-M Careers
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/
Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation that treats LLM capability improvements as grounds for updating the critique. We argue that both misdiagnose the problem as the issue is not whether or not LLMs work, but what kind of working is happening and at whose cost. Drawing on meta-theoretical frameworks of cognitive science, feminist labor analysis and critical pedagogy, we propose a conceptual reorientation. We develop this claim through registers of (i) the cognitive, examining what is forfeited when statistical pattern-matching substitutes for the iterative, grounded processes that constitute thinking; (ii) the pedagogical, examining how “AI literacy” as currently deployed is itself a symptom of the confusion it purports to address; and (iii) the political, examining how the infrastructure framing of AI naturalizes asymmetric labor displacement, particularly of feminized cognitive and reproductive work. The stochastic parrot, deployed with mechanistic precision rather than mere rhetorical convenience, specifies what is forfeited when cognitive labor is delegated, who bears the cost, and why a literacy adequate to this moment must begin from the epistemology of those most harmed by the systems it describes. We conclude with underlining that critical AI literacy, which this paper embodies an instance of, is the only sensible way forward.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As a biographer, I work where scholarship & literature overlap—history and the human life. I find grand pronouncements exasperating. My work is a bit like Vince Gilligan's in television. The best and worst people are complicated—dangerous. So is context. Villainy makes heroism possible & meaningful.
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This makes me wish I was a postdoc. Really cool project!
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Periodic reminder that publishing papers is not the goal in and of itself. The paper is a mechanism for sharing what you have learned--sharing processes and outcomes that others should be aware of/should think about too. 1/3
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Had a really great time discussing this book with Natasha Wheatley and Fiona Rose Greenland at the Association for the Study of Nationalisms (ASN) annual conference at @columbiasipa.bsky.social . Thanks to Eugene Finkel for the invitation!
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The great Carlo Ginzburg has died. I cannot begin to summarise how much his micro historical method has shaped my way of relating to the past. The journal Sociologica had an entire symposium on his scholarship, to which I contributed an article.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/06/2026
Also, Anna Skarpelis has been writing about this question: bsky.app/profile/akms...
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Interesting take on "historical LLMs" as potential research tool for the humanities. I have been working on a paper for SSHA in November 2026 that will address some of these issues and am curious to follow what people publish in the interim
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/05/2026
Breen is right that "we truly have no idea." Also, this sprawling conversation is not limited to the humanities + CS. Sociologists have been very active. See Kozlowski et al. "In Silico Sociology" — and many critiques of "silicon sampling" — and this interesting theoretical piece by Skarpelis:
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
📖 New publication out 📖 This piece is a first attempt at articulating why computational social science needs qualitative and historical approaches—especially as we begin to rely more heavily on simulation. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
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View of From Archives to Algorithms: Distance, Evidence, and Inference
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Theorizing Our Times We’re launching a new blog and would love to feature your work! We welcome book and article summaries, reviews, reflections on current events, interviews, curated reading lists, and works in progress. Posts should be 500–3,000 words. 🔗 asatheory.com
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ASA Political Sociology Bulletin @asapolisocbulletin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🔔 Submit your work to the Political Sociology calls for ASA 2026! ⏱️Deadline: Wednesday, Feb 25th
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Delighted to receive the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association's Comparative Historical Sociology Section -- and in great company to boot! Here's the article, feel free to message me if you cannot get past the paywall: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Delighted to receive the 2025 ACLS Project Development Grant for my book www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...
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ACLS awards 36 Project Development Grants, the largest cohort in the… | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS awards 36 Project Development Grants, the largest cohort in the history of the program: https://bit.ly/4iPRP4A The $5,000 grants support scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles who are unde...
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
JTS truly being one of the best things about sociology! Presented in 2015, co-organized it in 2016 with Clayton Childress. Excellent experience.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sociology grad students & recent phds: Submit to the 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...
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submit to the 2025 junior theorists symposium!
2025 Junior Theorists Symposium–Call for Précis SUBMIT YOUR PRÉCIS HERESUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 21, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern Time The 19th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open to new s…
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Giving a talk at CU Boulder tomorrow and had joked with the wonderful colleague who invited me that if another plane accident happened before the scheduled talk date, I might ask to do an online talk instead. (I landed in Denver on a Delta flight today at noon today. Help.)
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tonight at the IPK: Hilke Schellmann discusses her book The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now with Ed Kang and @akms.bsky.social.
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This Wednesday!
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Looking forward to discussing Hilke's book at @ipk.bsky.social in mid-March -- come one, come all!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We're down to the wire here, but the UW Center for an Informed Public is taking applications for (2) postdoctoral scholars. Review starts very soon. For more info about these positions, including qualifications & instructions for applying: Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
our call for papers for a special issue: "Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century?" edited with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social & #AryanKarimi Deadline for abstracts: March 31st More info: imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...
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Call for Papers Special Issue: Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century? - IMISCOE
IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@asanews.bsky.social folks, please submit to the Culture / Mathematical sociology section session "Culture and Computational Social Science" that I'm organising More information here www.asanet.org/2025-annual-... Specifically, we are looking for papers that:
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Section Sessions | American Sociological Association
Section Sessions are planned by the ASA Sections. Section sessions are open to all paper/extended abstract submissions that meet the submission criteria. You
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Michele Lamont @mlamont.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
On Jan 7 the PAPERBACK of Seeing Others came out w/ UNDERGRAD TEACHING GUIDE (link below). Simon and Schuster sends a free copy (pdf or hard copy) if you consider it for your course The book is partly about Gen Z and it certainly speaks to them!! simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing...
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Seeing Others
“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexam...
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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
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The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
People telling me to sort out my footnotes as I write, as it will save time later. Don’t they realise that time now is scarce, time later infinite?
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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Follow @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social for more good stories on AI + hardware.
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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Job!!!!
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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey friends! I went and quickly put together a starter pack for those of us who research media technology history. It's got some glaring ommisions at the moment, so please send me more names.
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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
okay I guess we're trying Bluesky again! Job opening @knightcolumbia.org - come work with me and @nadinefj.bsky.social as a program coordinator for our research and policy teams! Info here: knightcolumbia.org/page/researc...
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Larry Au @larryau.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Check out the @asaskat.bsky.social Starter Pack of 60 sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology! To be added in the list, use the Google Form in the next post. Will add folks every few days. go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I’ve pulled together a provisional Right-Wing Studies starter pack. go.bsky.app/CQuuiuL
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Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
CFP for "Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive" (workshop deadline Jul 15 2024)--please share to folks working on studies of multidisciplinary sciences re: #biomaterials #fibers #textiles #biomimesis #materials #animals #plants #prostheses www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabrica...
Nylon stockings under a microscope, 2021. Nylon, a polymer created in 1939, had widespread use, particularly and gradually replaced natural materials like silk, catgut, fur, and leather (Quye 2014: 214). Image: Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2023-03-27_(pt) https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabricated-natures-stories-bio-material-archive-deadline-july-15-2024
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Luis Flores is one of the most innovative and unafraid scholars I have had the pleasure to see grow. His work is at the intersection of stratification research and economic sociology and you should absolutely check it out: www.luisflores.online So proud to have been along for a bit of the ride!
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Expressions of interest are invited for articles to appear in the 50th anniversary issue of the journal Social Science History. Theme is ‘past and present’. Short abstracts due Apr 2nd 2024; paper is due Jan 15 2024. More info: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ag7s0... 📗📉📈🗃#history #demography #AcademicSky
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
We are hiring a senior lecturer in sociology at Stockholm University. It is an open position, we welcome all kinds of sociologists. (But I would personally be very happy if political sociologists applied.) www.su.se/english/abou...
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Anna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Cohen's take is valuable, especially for already existing and publicly available, often quant, datasets. As someone who uses non-English language archival sources that I am legally not allowed to publish, I have been wondering how to take on this good intuition -- make research accessible
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
4 year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Bergen, Norway (project "Contested frontiers of settler states": www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Postdoctoral fellow on the ERC project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (ConFront) (254642) ...
Job title: Postdoctoral fellow on the ERC project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (ConFront) (254642), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Stockholm: www.su.se/english/abou...
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Available jobs - Stockholm University
Available jobs at Stockholm University. PhD student positions, researchers, teachers and administrative staff.
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