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Brendan Churchill

@brenchurchill.bsky.social
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| Associate Professor in #Sociology
| Co-chair, Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative
+ Tasmanian export at The University of Melbourne | Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy
#FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️‍🌈

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#Free #SSW2026 #Event #Sydney 14 September Join researchers, people with lived experience and end-of-life practitioners at UNSW for a free and welcoming public conversation about death, dying, grief and care. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/talking-ab...
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Talking About Death: Conversations About Dying, Grief and Care
Break the silence around death and dying through expert discussion and facilitated community conversations.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is from 2018, but just re-read it while working on something else. Thanks again, Dolly, for everything. Working Nine to Five: What a Way to Make an Academic Living? dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/d02c3ed...
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CHAPTER 17 | Bodies of Information | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One reason big tech developers seem so keen to set up data centres in Australia apepars to be that the social license for these centres in the US has evaporated
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
huge design flaw in adulthood: no one claps when you do the right thing.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fancy a trip to Korea next year to be at @isa-sociology.org's XXI World Congress to talk about gender and the gig economy? More details here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20... @rc30sociologywork.bsky.social #sociology #gigeconomy #gender
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Session: Reimagining the Gig Worker: Gender, Platforms and the Future of Livelihoods (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027))
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is something!
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fancy a trip to Korea next year to be at @isa-sociology.org's XXI World Congress to talk about gender and the gig economy? More details here: isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20... @rc30sociologywork.bsky.social #sociology #gigeconomy #gender
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Session: Reimagining the Gig Worker: Gender, Platforms and the Future of Livelihoods (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027))
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Jan Kabatek 💙💛 @jankabatek.com · 24/07/2026
📢We're hiring 📢 Short notice, but Melbourne Institute is looking for a Senior Research Fellow (level C) to work on applied industrial microeconomics research using Australian administrative datasets. Apply here: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...
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Senior Research Fellow
Role type: Full Time, Continuing (Research Contingent) Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics Department/ School: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research Salary: Level C - $15...
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
💯 agree
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
lol of course
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/06/2026
“…its most severe and widespread heatwave on record—an oppressive force made hotter by carbon pollution and less bearable by repeated failures to prepare for it.” rare capsule description acknowledging both human-caused pollution and human-caused inaction?
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‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?
Scorching summer of 2003 triggered first efforts to deal with the problem but heatwaves still have devastating impact
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is tragic but also what happens when you do not enough to combat climate change
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DC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
IT CAN’T CONFESS! IT ISN’T SENTIENT! FFS, people.
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Oneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Being a professor is just giving yourself homework for the rest of your life.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Haven’t been able to put down Cris Shore and Susan Wright’s Audit Culture. Superbly written and so many great case studies. #newprojectreading
Photo of Audit Culture book
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It’s so good we’re getting hard evidence about this !!!!! We’re led to believe we’re in some loneliness epidemic!
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Pepa 🌚 @almanefelibata.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
'Jardín en Giverny o Camino en el jardín de Monet' ,1900 Claude Monet 👨🏻‍🎨
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A good point
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Bonafide evidence to strip your life of hasslers. This has been my approach to working life this year. Stop engaging.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Absolutely. 💯 %
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.
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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
lol of course
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thrilled to see this paper finally out in #BJS, which delves into the work of getting work on project-based platforms. It's hard work! Often invisible, affective and always gendered #Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social
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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Question: Can straight men even have fun without making it a commodity? Answer: No.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
L.o.l
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Looking forward to reading this - I’ve heard so much about the great project behind it
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My book is out today! Do me a favour and ask your library to order a copy? www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16/12/2025
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13/12/2025
"Only 37% say their institution rewards applying research outside academia through tenure or promotion; 30% say they receive no recognition at all." Ht @petersuber.bsky.social
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Do social scientists care if they make societal impact?
A new Sage white paper, “Do social scientists care if they make societal impact?”, shows that social and behavioral science researchers want their work to make societal impact, but don’t perceive thei...
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 15/12/2025
From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries
Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...
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Ely Strömberg @elystromberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Mine and @pengzell.bsky.social paper "How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?" was published in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social yesterday edu.nl/y7ct3 More details in the future, but for now short explanation of what we did, and the origin story of the paper. [Thread below]
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How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?
Article: How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2025
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I got promoted to Associate Professor this week. I'm putting it on all my socials because it took 7 months for the outcome to be decided (not to mention the hard work). And I'm going to get my flowers as the kids would say!
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@akane100.bsky.social hello! 👋 👋 👋
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Good thread on peer review
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.” Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
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EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/11/2025
Scientists have a point!
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time (edited) for them to get out more.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@barrieshannon.com well done you bloody star <3
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Fiona Fidler @fidlerfm.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
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Bluesky
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/11/2025
I will never let them take the em dash from me—they’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?
This paper examines how Australian attitudes toward the future of work shape support for policy interventions, drawing on nationally representative survey data (n = 1,035). We focus on three dimens...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025
"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
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Charlie Kirk Did Not Practice Politics The Right Way
We don't have to lose our humanity to bear faithful witness, but we do have to keep our nerve.
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Brendan Churchill @brenchurchill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?
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