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Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️

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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happened to start chatting with a woman on the train this morning. A highly qualified psychologist and #immigrant who works with victims of domestic abuse. The worst days of the week: Friday, Saturday and Sunday - more cases and more extreme violence.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Iranian singer’s 74 lashes for performing without a hijab ‘a form of torture’, say rights groups
Iranian court upholds sentence against 29-year-old star Parastoo Ahmadi and other musicians in crackdown on women flouting hijab law
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham's speech marks perhaps the best opportunity to replace First Past the Post since 1918. I joined @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & @lucyfisher.ft.com recently on "The Long View" to explore the history of electoral reform in Britain - & the lessons we might learn. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Electoral reform
Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of electoral reform.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lawrence of Arabia The Third Man Odd Man Out Trainspotting A Matter of Life and Death
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Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am over the moon with the endorsements for my forthcoming book "Sex, Lies and Statistics: Why we need evidence-based policy on sex and gender". Available for pre-order!
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a guy over in the other place gaining traction for bashing #Sociology. Having worked in three different business schools and refereed for too many journals I could say the same about swathes of Management research. But that would probably not attract as many substack subscribers.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a fan of these measures but we in #Sociology have put in a lot of hard work over several years so maybe it is being recognised.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
⭕Join us on tomorrow, Wednesday, 23 September, at 15:00 CET for the inaugural lecture of the LECAS seminar series "Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology", with Peter Hedström. 💠 Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories 💠 Zoom link and more: liu.se/en/event/fou...
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Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology: Peter Hedström
Welcome to the seminar series Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology with Peter Hedström, who will speak on Social Mechanisms and the Construction of Explanatory Theories. The seminar is or...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are not terrorists; they are internationally aclaimed documentary makers #freespeech novaramedia.com/2026/09/14/i...
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Israeli Minister Threatens Documentary Makers With Citizenship Revocation
An Israeli minister has threatened to have the directors of NAZA – a documentary about the Israeli military’s AI-assisted genocide in Gaza – deprived of their citizenships.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Control without credibility: immigration to the UK since the Brexit referendum. My article in Contemporary Social Science, summarising a decade(!) of research and analysis on this topic by me and others. Free to read/open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Control without credibility: immigration to the UK since the Brexit referendum
Immigration was central both to the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign and to the political narratives that followed it. Yet the trajectory of migration to the UK since the referendum bears little res...
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/11/2024
Ok: 1 like = 1 demographic fact* * may include estimates, generalizations, dataviz, or unsubstantiated claims
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m also anti-communist.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Trickle up has became a torrent.
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Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’
Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Jason Arday tragedy underscores the perils of tokenism www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/jaso...
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The Jason Arday tragedy underscores the perils of tokenism
There is a particular kind of frustration I feel when a white colleague, even with the best of intentions, adjusts the dial on the radio to hip hop the moment I, a British academic of African ancestry...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OMG First as failed social science experiment and now as entertainment. Wtf
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
They're banning sociology now. 🤦‍♀️
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump, as ever, knows how to dominate the news headlines. But the best opinion polling in Northern Ireland keeps saying No to a #UnitedIreland including as recently as May (Institute of Irish Studies / Sunday Times). Was Trump not using it as click bait? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What's next after Donald Trump's united Ireland comments?
At a press conference on Saturday, the US president said he would "love to see" a united Ireland.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A lesson for us all
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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Critiques of meritocracy are having a moment. In this review article, Mike Sauder and I look beyond the "we think it promotes equity, but it doesn't" argument.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This smearing of Professor Martyn Hammersley is completely out of order. He is a first class qualitative methodologist and sociologist and this attempt to condemn by association in a racist plot is utterly disgraceful.
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Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s latest on the declining graduate premium needs to be read alongside this. But it’s also existential for the HE sector when one of the most nuanced and reflective commentators on the issues avers that “the link between academic credentials and career prospects is weakening.” 1/
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dr James Orr, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University has a google scholar page worth visiting. Apparently, he was publishing heavily around the turn of the twentieth century. Didn't know Christians practised reincarnation...
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Remember when people said Brexit would pacify the migration debate because the government would be able to control the flows
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm with Michael Owen. If you have to tell them then you have watched too much American TV. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ny! New for @josimarfootball.bsky.social! A deep dive into Curaçao's murky waters, where lurk the whales of illegal betting, including a bookmaker that produces content for PornHub and claims Francesco Totti as an ambassador.
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In Curaçao We Trust - josimarfootball.com
A Curaçao-licensed  bookmaker that produced sponsored content for PornHub claims Francesco Totti as an ambassador - and the  honorary consul for Denmark is the managing director of the trust behind it...
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stopped reading after the first sentence which describes Cofnas as a ‘sociologist’. He’s a philosopher (of biology). Doh!
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Celtic Supporters Limited @celticsupporters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We are struggling to get traction here on Blue Sky, like most we hate the X platform but see so much more interaction Can we please ask you to push this out to the Celtic Blue Sky community encouraging support 🙏🏻 We truly believe CSL is the vehicle to affect change in our club 🍀 #celtic
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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Point 👇
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
JOB vacancies in International Relations at LSE: Two Assistant Professorships, focusing on Geoeconomics and Global Environmental Politics. Just over a week until the deadline, 7 Sept 👇
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Stimulating #ESA #Sociology plenary on the paradoxes of work and care at a time of economic and AI induced change with Judy Wajcman and Anna Matysiak (University of Warsaw). Classic questions still hold.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It has happened again! I had two applications for a job that ended 12 years ago. Take care with this website job hunters!
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is an excellent explanation of the difference between "free speech" and "academic freedom" - two related, but distinct concepts. [my tl:dr - free speech *is* (broadly) viewpoint neutral. Academic freedom, not so much.]
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Enjoyed hearing a strong set of rigorous empirical papers on Labour Precarity and Economic Insecurity at the #ESA #Sociology conference in Warsaw.
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David Spencer @davidaspencer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Work-creating AI www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AI flooding public bodies with complaints and requests
AI flooding public bodies with complaints and requests
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The most entertaining (and vulgar) account of trade negotiations that I have ever read. OK it is a low bar but this Aussie is well informed on the USA- CAN tariff clash. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
An important study and not only for those of us who live or work in the centre of London. Reducing the dirtiest vehicle emissions via (Ulez) has had benefits for children’s lung development. 👏 theconversation.com/ulez-linked-...
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Ulez linked with better lung growth in children, research finds
Even modest differences in lung function and growth across childhood can matter for long-term health.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good news from a declining organisation #InfantinoOut www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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World Cup 2026: Argentina's Paredes banned for 10 games over World Cup final clashes
Fifa ban Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes for 10 matches over his role in clashes with Spanish players after the World Cup final.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
McWhorter on the Arday tragedy - painfully incisive as usual. www.city-journal.org/article/jaso...
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The Arday Tragedy: from Tokenism to Wokenism
His blackness was the crucial factor in his elevation to the pinnacle of academia by whites eager to feel good about themselves and secure that they couldn’t be called racist.
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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
While many folks lament the loss of trust in higher education, the bigger issue is the loss of trustworthiness. Regular people are not supposed to do their own research on things like masks or plagiarism—they *should* just be able to take what institutions like Cambridge tell them for granted.
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It would be too easy to blame certain Telegraph and Times journalists for ‘hounding’ Jason Arday. What should be remembered is that the readers of those titles were buying the stories in huge numbers (easy to measure these days). And so more was produced - it is a market press.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apparently we're still very proud of Shakespeare and the NHS (National Health Service), but the BBC has plunged to the bottom (right-wing bias?)
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I’m out of the country and had no idea. Press regulation badly needed - Awaiting #Leveson2
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Recommended for #Sociology ‘’Remember, sociology is meant to explore how your subjects understand their own lives, not how you want them to understand their lives. The cardinal sin of the social researcher is squeezing the world into his worldview.”’ www.persuasion.community/p/we-must-sa...
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We Must Save Sociology From Itself
A field that once illuminated scarce truths has become an ideology in search of evidence.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Some good advice, for all of us. www.samaritans.org/about-samari...
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Tips on posting about suicide online safely
Tips on posting about suicide online safely
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Pat McGovern @patmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Very sad news about Jason Arday this morning. Diana Winstanley also comes to mind though she was never accused of plagiarism. But her employer also used her (imo).
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