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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This weekend, the University of North Texas removed the homepage of its LGBTQ+ archive. We are proud to host the Lesbian Mothers Oral History Project by Nancy Lee Marquis. These oral histories are also housed at UNT. Explore the exhibit on OutHistory: outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 12/09/2026

Very much appreciated! Wonderful words to hear as an author. Thanks so much.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 12/09/2026

Thanks so much, Sheena. I also believe that the article offers a good starting point to understand better collective paralysis, why it happens, and how we can overcome it.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 22/08/2026

New article: My new #openaccess article in Cultural Sociology traces how authoritarian power evolves and shows how #democracy can be hollowed out by actors who capture institutions, flood the public sphere, and weaken our capacity to act together. #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 19/08/2026

A wonderful new endorsement for The Autocrat’s Playbook from David Cunningham: “A counter-playbook for alarmingly autocratic times.” Very grateful for his generous reading of the book. Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in 2027.

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Jeffrey Ian Ross @jeffreyianross.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My university just published a piece on my LETTERS TO A YOUNG CRIMINOLOGIST. The book answers questions about what criminologists actually do beyond the classroom and why it matters. www.ubalt.edu/about/newsro... #book #criminology #criminologist #criminaljustice

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 18/08/2026

My new article in Sociological Theory has been published now #OpenAccess. I argue that #authoritarian #politics thrives through hegemonic fragmentation by transforming resentment into belonging, enemies into political necessities, and cruelty into common sense. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 10/08/2026

Delighted to have Ruth Ben-Ghiat's blurb for the Autocrat's Playbook. I have long admired her scholarship and writing, so her words mean a great deal to me.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 06/08/2026

Rage and remembrance: “Remembering is a political act. To forget would be a second murder.” Through conversations with citizens and a tour of public memorials, @bariscaylimessina.com explores how commemorations of Sicily’s mafia victims expose a wound that has never healed. buff.ly/Fm2QZDI

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Jeffrey Ian Ross @jeffreyianross.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Recently published review of my book, INTRODUCTION TO CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY (2024), by Jim Thomas, Ph.D jeffreyianross.com/wp-content/u... appeared online in CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW #bookreview #convictcriminology #corrections #prisons

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 22/07/2026

UC Press recently shared this generous endorsement from Didier Fassin whose research has long been a major intellectual inspiration for me, so this means a great deal. Out in March 2027 with @ucpress.bsky.social #TheAutocrat'sPlaybook #BookSky #Authoritarianism #NewBook

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 27/06/2026

Congratulations Juan @juanpabloferrero.bsky.social ! A very important work addressing a crucial puzzle in state-society relations.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 26/06/2026

Delighted to share that I've recently joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology, of the British Sociological Association. I look forward to supporting constructive feedback and reading exciting new work in the field. Please send your best work our way. journals.sagepub.com/home/CUS

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Universities are indispensable to reproduce democracy, society and all kinds of other jobs. So if they are showing up as costs on your balance sheet but not as essential capacities, get a different balance sheet approach

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 15/06/2026

My editor has just shared the cover of my forthcoming book, The Autocrat's Playbook: How Authoritarians Weaponize Morality to Destroy Societies @ucpress.bsky.social (April 2027) l really liked the cover. The striking typography and crowd imagery capture the book's central argument well! #NewBook

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 11/06/2026

The final copy of A Slow Revolution from @cornellupress.bsky.social has arrived. The next 30 days I will be spending on the most meticulous stage of the proces as I will be checking every word and punctuation mark second time. One final push before the book meets its readers hopefully. #AcademicSky

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#OnThisDay, 90 years ago, the Popular Front took office in France. Formed after the failed far-right coup attempt of February 1934, the coalition of Socialists, Communists, and the Radical Party emerged from growing demands for left-wing unity against fascism.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/06/2026

Our lives. Our families. Our futures. The LGBTQ community has always fought for our right to exist freely. This Pride Month and every other month of the year, we’re protesting the government’s attacks on our rights and celebrating our queer joy.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 01/06/2026

As a gay academic, #PrideMonth has a personal meaning for me. I stand with queer scholars worldwide whose honesty can still cost them safety, freedom, or careers. Pride means solidarity, memory, and courage. It exists because #queer people before us rebelled and refused to disappear. #LoveisLove

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 27/05/2026

”It’s a damning reflection of the UK's slide away from being a world leader on LGBTQIA+ rights." From 1st to 22nd in just ten years, the UK drops again in ranking of LGBTQIA+ rights 👇

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UK drops in Rainbow Map scoring again, as Spain takes top spot

The United Kingdom has slid down yet again in the ILGA Europe annual Rainbow Map ranking of countries’ LGBTQIA+ rights provisions.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 25/05/2026

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 22/05/2026

After more than a decade of research, it is moving to see A Slow Revolution read, reviewed, and endorsed by scholars whose work I have long admired. Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 6 months and can't wait to see the book cover. #AcademicSky #BookSky www.waterstones.com/book/a-slow-...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/05/2026

How do colonial histories continue to shape the modern world? Join us next Wednesday 27 May for a free online discussion exploring colonialism, capitalism and sociology today. 📅 27 May ⏰ 6:30–8pm BST 💻 Zoom Free to attend — spaces limited. Register here: buff.ly/7reEMGi

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Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Nearly 700 sociologists have pledged to boycott this year's ASA meeting in a fight for a democratic sociology. Join the boycott, and share (DM or email video) with us why you plan to #BoycottASA Read #BoycottASA FAQ: www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/faqs

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

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Sian Berry MP responds to EHRC single-sex space guidance - Green Party

Sian Berry MP said:“While some consideration seems to have been given to the utter impracticality of implementing the previous version of this code, under the demands of the Supreme Court judgment, th...

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 21/05/2026

Thanks Seth. I compare Trump’s US and Putin’s Russia to examine how authoritarian formations persuade their publics to participate eagerly in the destruction of reality. I put Hannah Arendt and Stuart Hall in dialogue to think through truth, hegemony, mass consent, and authoritarianism.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 21/05/2026

Wonderful news to wake up to this morning as my paper “The Consent to Destroy: Imperial Melancholia and the Hegemony of Fragmentation” has been accepted by Sociological Theory. It also reminds me why 15,000-word limit like in #SociologicalTheory still matters for theory-driven work. #AcademicSky

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 20/05/2026

#Sociology is hugely relevant and it is primary discipline to understand a world changing at brutal speed. But the discipline has softened its public voice out of fear of being labelled activist rather than scientific. Meanwhile, philosophers occupy spaces once shaped by sociologists. #AcademicSky

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 20/05/2026

Join us in the May issue of The Sociological Review magazine as we explore the world, revisit the past and walk in each other’s shoes. We meet young people in India, mafia resisters in Italy, Black mothers of autistic children, and explore the work of sociologists in Ukraine. buff.ly/IvAo1Fb

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 20/05/2026

Proof that sociologists occasionally leave the writing, pause the marking, and see daylight while trying to pose.

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Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com · 20/05/2026

Some AI writing is easy to spot because it has no rhytm and remains superficial. But I am cautious about abandoning perfectly good English phrases simply because AI now overuses them. Repetition, contrast, tricolons, and em dashes are all the tools of narrative. And all good writers have used them.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 12/05/2026

The May 2026 issue of The Sociological Review magazine is out now! Les Back and Laurie Taylor take us back to 1960s gangland London, plus we examine how Sicilians remember those killed by the mafia, sociology’s role in Ukraine, and the barriers to adulthood in India. Read it here: buff.ly/rdTFWsq

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Fascism at the Gates, my public lecture at the Toronto Public Library. In dialogue w/ Prof. Sanjay Ruparelia. I am so thankful to the hundreds of Torontonians who attended! Now you can watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEr...

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Federico Finchelstein | Fascism at the Gates

YouTube video by Toronto Public Library

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today, far right leaders will try to spread hatred and fear on our streets. We’re all too familiar with the consequences of that politics, how quickly dehumanising rhetoric escalates into real-world violence.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Latest on Farage’s handy 5m: It was nothing to do with politics & it was a reward for Brexit. It was unconditional & it was for security & it enabled a house - buying spree. I guess he’ll just keep throwing various explanations out until one sticks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving £5m gift

Standards watchdog investigating money from crypto billionaire which Reform UK leader now says was ‘reward’ for Brexit

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