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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Black and white photo of poets Philip Larkin and John Betjeman under a grey sky, smiling and windswept in tweed

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thank you to all the amazing @britsoci.bsky.social staff for putting on such a lovely event this year! #britsoc25

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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Alternative View Studios @altviewstudios.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Research by Newcastle, Northumbria & Durham universities reveals gaps in police custody healthcare, sparking calls for healthcare for those in custody to be brought under the NHS remit. Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

On my way to #britsoc25 and ofc my first train of the day is cancelled 🤦‍♀️

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Looking forward to the @britsoci.bsky.social conference this week. l'll be giving the plenary 'What Can Sociology Say about Right-Wing Extremism & the Mainstreaming of Racism & the Far-Right?' and @bsaecf.bsky.social masterclass 'Teaching & Researching the Far-Right & Extremism' tinyurl.com/bdhcmhhp

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BSA Annual Conference 2025: Social Transformations

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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 21/04/2025

so they're mycoblogging

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

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April 3, 2025
Dr. Joseph Rezek
Dear NEH Grantee,
This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.
Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant
Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.
For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

'Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Off to Newcastle Sociology today to host this event - with wonderful speakers including Les, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, @katesang.bsky.social, Anoop Nayak, Alison Phipps, and @britsoci.bsky.social’s own Alison Danforth. #AcademicSky #Sociology

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.

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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I was made very welcome today at Topping & Co Edinburgh. *Sixty* copies of Pathfinding have now been signed, alongside quite a few copies of Wanderers. Pop in if you’re in the area and fancy an autographed first edition of my new book!

A large stack of cream purple and green books bearing the title Pathfinding

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/03/2025

Leadership from UC Berkeley. "...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Like many of you, we are gravely concerned about recent Federal government actions in regard to higher education. While we recognize that the government plays an important role in addressing discrimination and ensuring good stewardship of public resources, we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression. We do not know what demands the Federal government may make of Berkeley, but do know that we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values. A Berkeley without academic freedom, without freedom of inquiry, without freedom of expression is simply not Berkeley.

We recognize that some of you may find our statement too timid or too bold or deficient in some other way. That’s okay—a key to Berkeley’s excellence is our diversity of opinion and perspective. Robust debate is essential to scholarly advance. The purpose of a university is not to present us with ideas with which we are comfortable. To borrow from Clark Kerr, it is to make us safe for ideas.

We don’t know what will happen. In part because we don’t know what may be demanded of us and in part because we won’t be the only decision makers. But what we do know is that we will stand up for Berkeley’s values and defend them to the very best of our ability. For 157 years, through the education it provides and the research it produces, Berkeley has produced immense economic and societal benefit to its students, California, the nation, and the world; this societal jewel needs to be preserved and defended, and we will toil tirelessly to see that it is.

Fiat Lux.

Rich Lyons

Chancellor

Ben Hermalin

Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 17/03/2025

Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊ The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪 The whole union is behind you 🪧 Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...

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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum @bsaecf.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨🚨 An ECF workshop is going to be hosted at Newcastle University on 21 March 2025: "Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?" Hope to see you there! 🚨🚨 www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

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Kat Out of Hell @katriddell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Me: *reading Wuthering Heights at age 10* Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

words I never imagined writing in my lifetime..... General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio: "I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I feel like David Lynch deserved more than 5 seconds of a montage, and Shelly DuVall deserved more than to be nearly cropped out of the frame, hovering above the orchestra, and Tony Todd deserved literally anything. I guess sometimes I wish the Oscars were a funeral to celebrate those lost.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Week 2 of our industrial action to save jobs at the University of Dundee begins now. Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am. Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵 www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

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German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If the guy who arguably has the most to lose from telling Trump to get fucked can manage it, then everyone else should too.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In the Oval Office today, two of the smallest men in the world met one of the biggest, and they realised which was which. Slava Ukraini.

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

For those wondering why Trump is spouting Putin's talking points regarding Ukraine/Zelensky: 1) Trump is utterly in awe/thrall of Putin & has been for years 2) He's a fascist and feels an affinity with dictators & 'strong men' 3) He thinks Zelensky was mean to him & he has no emotional control

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Apropos of nothing in particular (*cough* Charles III inviting Trump over for tea *cough*) this seems like as good a time as any to mention that Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6635225

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Historians believe the Duke of Windsor actively collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Cambridge’s efforts to undermine its students’ civil liberties – by seeking an injunction to effectively ban expressions of Palestine solidarity both on and off campus until 2030 – represented the broadest restriction on university protests to date" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Top university loses court battle to stop Israel-Palestine protests on campus

The order was ‘urgently’ needed ahead of a Saturday graduation ceremony, lawyers said

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Democracy dies in deference

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Apologies to my dissertation students: I was just about to read your work and then a cat sat on me 🤷‍♀️ #AcademicSky

Photo shows a tortie cat sitting on a tartan blanket, which is on top of me. I’m sat on a green velvet sofa. The cat is making biscuits, her little round face so determined and concentrated.

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

what in the living, breathing fuckery is that POSE?! 😂🤦‍♀️

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ah, George "pain-along-the-way" Boyne. What a legacy.

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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My colleages and I are organising a panel at the RGS this summer - please share! CfP - Relentless injustice: trauma, exhaustion and researching zombie problems (or banging your head against a wall) We invite papers that consider the challenges, traumas & exhaustion of conducting research... (1/2)

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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This will be an in-person session only due to limited availability of hybrid sessions. We welcome creative formats or approaches that can fit in a standard paper session. Please email your abstract (max 250 words) to Sinéad O’Connor ( sio13@aber.ac.uk) and Yvonne Ehrstein (yve@aber.ac.uk) by 28 Feb

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BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group @bsasocrel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

SocRel Annual Conference 2025 Funded Places These include the registration fee, day-time catering throughout the conference & the anniversary conference dinner. Apply here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/LPKFTLR Applications close 7/03 5pm @britsoci.bsky.social

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Starting my day with a ghost story and am absolutely delighted to see @luciejones83.bsky.social on Uncanny! #AcademicSky

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Free Caledonia @freecaledonia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Book now for our @britsoci.bsky.social event supporting early career academics in coping with the problems of UKHE and finding our own strategic path through the mess! Great sociologists involved, free event, bursaries available. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Something wildly unpleasant about the successful marketing of things to the British middle class as "oooh, this is kinda like an illegal drug", while that same class refuses point blank to legalise a drug trade that exploits/incarcerates huge numbers of poorer and racialised people

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Mushroom magic? M&S introduces ‘shots’ said to bring you up – or down

Retailer’s ‘functional juices’ contain lion’s mane and reishi, supposed to help reduce stress, fatigue and anxiety

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

ICE went to the home of a 61-year-old man with poor health and after his family informed ICE agents that they needed a warrant signed by a judge, dozens of ICE agents instead showed up in an armored vehicle with a battering ram and flash grenades and took him by force.

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