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Dt. Gesellschaft f. Soziologie @dgsoziologie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Stellenmarkt: Assistenzprofesssur (m/w/d) für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt "Kommunikation und soziologische Theorie" […]

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Nathalie Raoux @nathalieraoux.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Marseilleeeeeeeee ❤️

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

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Soziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

„We live in an ordinal society, a society oriented toward, justified by, and governed through measurement“, argumentieren @marionf.bsky.social und @kjhealy.co. Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social und @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social haben das Buch rezensiert: www.soziopolis.de/grenzen-eine...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/07/2025

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

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Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung @wisstechdgs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

CfP Plenarveranstaltung "Die gesellschaftlichen Zukünfte der Künstlichen Intelligenz" auf dem @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Kongress 2026 in Mainz. Jury: @fanicker.bsky.social und @annekkrueger.bsky.social kongress2026.soziologie.de/calls-for-pa... Deadline: 31.03.2026

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Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Mainz 2026: Die gesellschaftlichen Zukünfte der Künstlichen Intelligenz

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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 09/12/2025

Damit die Suche nach dem perfekten Weihnachtsgeschenk nicht zur Tragödie wird, beraten wir morgen alle, die noch das perfekte Buchgeschenk suchen. Wen wollt Ihr beschenken? Je genauer Eure Umschreibung, desto passender sind unsere Tipps für Bücher und Caps.

Die drei neuen Suhrkamp-Theater-Basecaps, die ab morgen lieferbar sind.

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Now available! INSIDE DATA SCIENCE shows how the interplay of personal reflection, technical rigor, and collective scrutiny gave the big-data era, for better or for worse, a human face. buff.ly/YZtcxic #DataScience #BigData #Tech #DataForGood #RSTATS #NYC #Sociology #Discovery #Innovation

Promotional graphic for Philipp Brandt's Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession. It includes the books cover, a blurb, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

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Lukas Pfäffle @lukaspfaeffle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Für die theoretisch Versierten unter euch: Die Ausschreibung für die Professur für allgemeine Soziologie an unserem Institut ist raus. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

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Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

do we (sociologists and historians) know - its from the late 18th, early 19th century on that 'home' became the seemingly natural space for a seemingly natural disposition of women fascinating new study

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Dr. Mikaila @mmlarthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

NECHE is proposing eliminating libraries from accreditation standards, making them optional in higher ed. Public commentary is open until 10/15. Learn more from EveryLibrary: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., make public comment to standardsreview@neche.org, & share this widely.

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At the Risk of Disappearing: How the Draft 2026 NECHE Standards Remove Libraries and Librarians from Accreditation - 6 Oct 2025

Executive Summary For decades, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) has shaped institutional priorities across governance, academic quality, student success, and resource allocation...

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Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer setzt generative KI in das Konzept des verteilten Handelns und postuliert "Im Kern stellen Systeme generativer KI eine Art agentifiziertes menschliches Wissen und Können dar. Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch." #DGS2025

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Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Heute um 14.15 alle so: "Model car, model wife, model village - Model farm, model right, model village" #dgs2025

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Katharina Hoppe @katharinahppe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“ Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...

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michael veale @michae.lv · 12/08/2025

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME
Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden.

Fix a leaking toilet – leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day.

Use water from the kitchen to water your plants.

Avoid watering your lawn – brown grass will grow back healthy.

Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving.

Take shorter showers.

Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

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👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

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Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 29/04/2025

What DOGE doesn’t understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social

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Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why

More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 29/04/2025

"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI & SOCIETY
Why machine learning in the wild is a rare species
Curmudgeon Corner
Published: 10 April 2025

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Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time

Caption from NYT reading "Ron Hubbard, the chief executive of Atlas Survival Shelters, runs one of many companies that designs and builds bunkers for wealthy clients. His business is booming"

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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!

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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1 www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

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From the fednews community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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Georg Rilinger @rilinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am very excited to see "Market Design as Organizational Problem" out at AJS: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1.... How do we explain systemic levels of destructive behavior in platform markets (system failures)? I suggest that we should focus on the organization that

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Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

SUCH a great idea - bsky posts about academic papers from accounts you follow. LOVE THIS 🧪⚒️

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

💡 Generative KI in der Wissenschaft: Chance oder Risiko? Wo sollte KI eingesetzt werden – und wo nicht? Welche Auswirkungen hat das auf das Wissenschaftssystem insgesamt? Diese Fragen diskutieren wir im #weizenbaumforum 👉 Jetzt anmelden und mitdiskutieren: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...

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Dt. Gesellschaft f. Soziologie @dgsoziologie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Plenarveranstaltungen auf dem DGS-Kongress 2025 in Duisburg kongress2025.soziologie.de/calls-fo…

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/01/2025

📻 Amateur radio shaped modern tech, from satellites to the internet. Yet, much of its history is at risk of being lost forever. 🕳️ #VanishingCulture Why does this matter? ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/14/vanishi…

“When amateur radio enthusiasts die, their media collections are often disposed of by survivors who don’t have any connection to amateur radio. File cabinets and bookcases full of (sometimes irreplaceable) materials are emptied into recycle bins.”
Kay Savetz
Radio & communications curator

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Cornelius Heimstädt @cheimstaedt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🌍 Call for Contributions: Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism 🌍 taschn.bsky.social and I, cheimstaedt.bsky.social, invite submissions for a special issue exploring how sustainability is valued in economic activity. 🌱 Full details here: valuationstudies.liu.se/valuing_sust...

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Bluesky

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actionuni @actionuni.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Hi everyone! We are starting up a new bsky account for actionuni, the organisation representing mid-level academic staff in Switzerland. Follow us for our updates!

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Anne K. Krueger @annekkrueger.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Out now! @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social Our Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society has arrived! A big thank you to our fantastic colleagues who have contributed to this comprehensive compendium of research on valuation and evaluation in various societal spheres! lmy.de/ASSuq

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Peggy O'Neill-Jones, Ed.D. @peggyoneilljones.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Library of Congress is on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/libr...

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Some of your archival needs may be met here ---> go.bsky.app/4EpKvv2

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Is digital public infrastructure like roads, an essential infrastructure that others can build businesses on? Or like radio, which makes an informed citizenry possible and is a backbone of democracy? Smart, thoughtful essay engages with some of my work: www.techpolicy.press/what-is-digi...

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What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity | TechPolicy.Press

Mila Samdub and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci disentangle two different visions of digital public infrastructure (DPI): DPI as roads, and DPI as radio.

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