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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Catch up with ASA’s Contexts Magazine, publishing cutting-edge sociology research that’s accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Open access to featured articles and podcast interviews with authors. bit.ly/ASAcontexts

image of hands typing on laptop next to text: see what's new! contexts magazine

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Literally yelled at the screen “NOOO!!!” When I saw it.

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Literally yelled at the screen “NOOO!!!” When I saw it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For a cool $10, you can grab my novel, The Set Up, on sale. Supercool author of Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy, calls it: "An M-80 of Vegas noir through an intersectional lens." Link here:

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The Set Up

Ally, an aspiring actress, is about to give up on getting her big break. But then, after another disappointing audition, a charismatic scene partner says he has a fun gig for her. Soon, Ally is making...

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another great program on hold thanks to our federal govt. I am super proud to have helped with it, and hope it’s reinstated soon.

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Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#Sociology has been in the news a lot lately. A new piece just dropped in @wsj.com, featuring some comments from me. Per usual, they only used a few sentences from the hour+ conversation. Let me to expand a bit below. tldr: my answer to the titular question is an emphatic "no"🧵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Inconsolable to learn that "lefebrvrists" aren't followers of Henri Lefebvre.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new issue of Contexts is out! As the new Books Editor, I'm particularly jazzed about @joyamisra.bsky.social's banging review of RF Kuang's Katabasis, but lots of great public-facing work in here!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Billy Wilder with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon during production on THE APARTMENT (1960). “We started with 29 pages, and he wanted to see the interpersonal reactions of Lemmon and me,” MacLaine said. “He was a great sociologist.” #BOTD #FilmSky

Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon dine with writer/director Billy Wilder during production on THE APARTMENT (1960).

Wilder has apparently said something funny, which should surprise nobody. (Photo by Richard C. Miller)

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The world's first trillionaire did this

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Great news, nerds. (The candy, not academics.)

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 27/05/2026

scam likely

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"The researchers warn that as more people rely on AI systems instead of traditional web searches to understand politics, health, ethics, and public affairs, society could gradually lose exposure to the messy but deeply human diversity of reasoning that shapes public discourse."

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We are waaaaaaaay closer to having a President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho than we should be.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Janice Irvine's latest "queer thoughts/psychedelic heresies" substack is up, called "Against Healing." Check it out here: janiceirvine.substack.com

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Absolutely thrilled to have just finished reading Alexandre Frenette's (@vusociology.bsky.social ) new book on internships as the shaky fulcrum between the culture industries and higher education. This banger is rich, expansive, and for anyone who's interested in the arts + higher education!

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New issue of Contexts Magazine is out! Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/curr....

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Contexts - Volume 25, Number 1

Table of contents for Contexts, 25, 1

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CUNY GC Sociology @cunygcsociology.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Join us for the last colloquium of the spring semester, May 8th, from 3-5 ft. Prof. @jonwynn.bsky.social

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

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The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is just crushing to think about in regards to teaching undergrad and grad students...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I've been enjoying Dan Silver's substack, but this post on avoiding a "sucker sociology" really speaks to me: open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...

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The social construction of crime

Or, how to avoid becoming a sucker

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There's no #Oscars for "Best Film Based on a Board Game" because there's no improvement on Clue.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

these eichmenn in washington make it easy to see how easily fascism takes hold

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

They fired forest rangers making $50k

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Christopher Martell @chrismartell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...

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$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours

Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“The new textbook — edited by staff of the Board of Governors alongside a work group of sociologists — was created in large part by deleting sections of the former textbook…The resulting state-created book is less than half the length of the original text.”

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Chapters deleted, sections added: Florida's new sociology textbook is 'stop-gap,' says professor

The controversial new Introduction to Sociology textbook, created by the state of Florida to meet its new academic restrictions, is missing entire chapters like Race and Ethnicity, Global Inequality a...

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It is equally shocking and yet wholly expected to see this kind of talk.

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Soc Theory Nerds should check out @dsilver432.bsky.social's always illuminating Substack. The most recent missive, on "The Iron Cage of Authenticity" is fun into Tay Tay's philosophy (Charles Taylor, of course. Did you think Taylor Swift?). thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/the-iron-c...

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The iron cage of authenticity

Why there can be no more traditionalists, only Trads

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Some folks in the Yard Goats Facebook comments are upset about them posting a message of unity. Yard Goats: "if caring about people is woke I ain't sleeping"

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

‘The state has moved from telling us what we cannot teach to telling us exactly what we can…giving our students a really impoverished version of the discipline,’ Katie Rainwater ‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr

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Florida escalates its battle on sociology with new curriculum, textbook. Professors push back

In a dramatic escalation of a years-long battle over sociology in Florida colleges and universities, FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an att...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It's been just over a year since many academics and sociology folks came over to Bluesky. Thought Id share for some more community building and the later arrivals. Feel free to add other sections and areas to the list and or request to be added to any packs!

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