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Erdem Avşar @erdemavsar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved. Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

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OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025). We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research! More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

icymi: Desire Lines, Queer Cartographies and Cartographic Queers New paper by @emmawatsonkirby.bsky.social and me out this week in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space on why and how people contribute to queeringthemap.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers - Ash Watson, Emma Kirby, 2025

Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a commun...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 11/07/2025

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review magazine’s latest issue. Featuring: Image-Maker in Residence @sanamurrani.bsky.social‬ on maps, refuge and rupture ‪Short fiction by Laura J. Bower Bob Jeffrey on bad jobs, bosses and building solidarity Illustration by Tim Marrs ...and much more. buff.ly/y8o76RY

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So pleased to see this out, Zine-making the Commons, open access in EJCS @ejcs-journal.bsky.social

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Srravya @srravya.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

this is an engaging read, loved the anger, humour & contradictions the story surfaces! Quite exciting to learn about sociological fiction, didn't know it's a thing! Also loved an earlier fiction piece, "what's in a name?" It's a great format @thesociologicalreview.org, hope you continue doing them!

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Five years ago today I got my mitts on my debut novel, Into the Sea, a work of sociological fiction published by Brill. I have (finally) really found my love of writing again and am happily working on my second after many many fits and starts

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🌱 Feminist zine-making in research and education: call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection ✨ There are so many amazing folks thinking creatively, critically and differently about zines today - if this is you, please consider being part of our new collection! shorturl.at/OtaYf #zine

Call for chapter EOIs for a new edited collection on feminist zine-making. Text on a pink flyer

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 28/06/2025

You don't have time for your bullshit! And yet you do your bullshit all day! Go write your book!

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New fiction in The Sociological Review

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Do you use any AI platforms for support, conversation, life questions or companionship? Looking for participants to take part in an anonymous online interview about their experiences with #AI

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods:
Methods and Methodologies Across the
Research Process
Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne

We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering
research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to
demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By
their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome
a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are
committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and
perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased.

The core aims of this handbook are as follows:
1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods
2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without
subscribing to ill-fitting categories
3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to
challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash
4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning
from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages
5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of
disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to
academics.
6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in
ways which do justice to queer communities

We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected
in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words.
If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some
information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word
maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the
research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your
contribution is best suited for between:
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Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay
Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches
Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont
Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria
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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This morning we started on the Glasgow special edition of So Fi Zine - watch this space for new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art! One of many wonderful things to come from my time visiting UoG sociology dept, including 3.5 solid weeks of sun 🌞✨✂️📎📚 sofizine.com @academicdiary.bsky.social

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fun start to work today with a sociological fiction workshop ran by @awtsn.bsky.social. I made this little 5 minute comic about boxes & barriers.

4 panel comic with the text boxes = order & control. But they are often a tight fit . They leave things out . They can not contain us.

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fantastic morning at a writing workshop on sociological fiction with Ash Watson. Thinking and doing and having permission to indulge in serious play. Such an invigorating gift. @awtsn.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 08/05/2025

THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events. 🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“Male loneliness” is kind of the perfect antifeminist complaint, because it articulates the moral logic of patriarchal entitlement very neatly: that men deserve women’s attention, company, devotion, sex, and care, and women should provide these to men even at the cost of their own wellbeing.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 30/04/2025

Trigger warning: the cat poem we published in 2021 is back on the timeline

A poem about pet death that can be read on our website

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is a glorious short story - read it free via the link below

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 01/05/2025

Ways of seeing: how can feminist perspectives transform knowledge production? Meet our latest three Image-Makers in Residence – and in conversation: Hannah Buckler, ‪@goblinpurwin.bsky.social‬ and Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/uDUMjAD

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Tig and Charlotte have done brilliant work on trans toilet access over the years that unfortunately is now more relevant than ever. Useful resources and info here for speaking to universities and other employers.

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Had a great time at #britsoc25 - many fab papers on futures, subjectivity and/in space, creative methods +++ I lowkey love going to a conference and not presenting. so much more brain space for ideas @sazpaps.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @socrevdev.bsky.social

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Maybe unpopular opinion, but every academic writer should learn storytelling techniques. How we communicate our research is very important. And some of the best papers I've read tell a story (with data, theory and empirics, but a story nonetheless). NOT A TALE, A STORY (just in case).

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

@sazpaps.bsky.social hello!! see you at the BSA next week? ☺️ I’ll be there and saw your name in the program

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 31/03/2025

“…the real power of trans visibility lies in the potential we hold to build community, and to act as possibility models. To know we have value to one another. To know we have the potential to create and inspire: to write, to draw, to paint, to act, to speak, to love, to be loved, to simply be.”

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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 28/03/2025

The election is officially on, so grab your bingo board and play along

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Tom Witney @twiterney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“When using the word transphobia is treated as harassment, transphobia is not treated as harassment.”

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Meanwhile, in Europe👇

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Sociological Review Foundation’s magazine is now a quarterly and the debut issue features two brilliant sociological fiction stories - read a teaser in the picture and find the full pieces plus the whole issue via: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar... @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 25/03/2025

STOP PRESS! The debut issue of our new-format Magazine, edited by @juliettephd.bsky.social & Iris Pissaride. Features, Foundation news, fiction, image-makers, reviews and Michael Burawoy’s final interview, in conversation with @michaelacbenson.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 27/02/2025

It’s long been true that if you can’t make your machines act like humans then the next best (and way easier) thing is to make humans act like machines.

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!

Table from page 25 of the proposed restructure of ARC grants. Back text on white background, with the table delineated by a dark blue header row and alternating light and very light blue rows.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 24/02/2025

Tuning in: our Fiction editor Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social on vibes-based methods.

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’m having a cracking time talking on radio across Aus + NZ about this piece this week. Why are vibes the vibe?

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 14/11/2024

Die más. Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix. tacobellquarterly.org/poem-in-the-...

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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Australia has joined 70+ other countries to sign on to the Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI at this week's Paris AI Action Summit. The US and the UK have refused to sign the declaration. www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...

Promoting AI accessibility to reduce digital divides;
• Ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into
account international frameworks for all
• Making innovation in AI thrive by enabling conditions for its development and avoiding market
concentration driving industrial recovery and development
• Encouraging AI deployment that positively shapes the future of work and labour markets and
delivers opportunity for sustainable growth
• Making AI sustainable for people and the planet
• Reinforcing international cooperation to promote coordination in international governance

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Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I love this short story by Sudip Sen, a funny and kind and imaginative and wrenching sociological look at a painful year that still ripples. Sudip is a great writer and you can read his story for free at the link below #sociologicalfiction

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