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Peter Mallory

@pmallory.bsky.social
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Sociologist at St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Cultural sociology; social theory; personal life. Writing a book on friendship and therapeutic culture.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I really struggle with the idea that all we need is love and the internet to build community. I don’t know how we failed the next generation so badly on this but yall materiality matters. Very much.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No, AI Bot, I would not like you to provide a detailed analysis of these Seamus Heaney poems
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), professionals, and even affluent folks are in DSA. That’s good! 🧵
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
De-skilling humans in the navigation of everyday public interaction
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The “wellness” space was already a snake oil cesspool and AI is apparently making it even worse. There’s a churning confluence of class, gender, and politics here that make this particularly poisonous and dangerous
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Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed
The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperreali...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Prior to being elected prime minister, Carney dubbed climate change “an existential threat.” Yet last week, he called the plan to fight climate change “unsustainable over the long term” & “too expensive.” @chrishatch.bsky.social on the new Carney doctrine. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/06/o...
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Mark Carney's new climate doctrine
Prior to being elected prime minister, Carney dubbed climate change “an existential threat.” This week, he was calling the plan to fight climate change “unsustainable over the long term” and “too expe...
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Maybe one tech model for AI might be the microwave? People thought it would change everything about cooking. But then realized faster but terrible isn’t worth it. Perhaps we’re just living through the AI version of microwaving a turkey?
1980s microwave cookbook with a picture of a microwaved turkey on the cover
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you use AI to write emails, you can save a lot of time by having no friends
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Just learned students use the robots to come up with things to say during class discussions, and oh man, what are we even all doing together
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StFX Department of Sociology @stfxsociology.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A wonderful roundtable discussion today at the CSA annual conference featuring authors of the edited collection, Critical Friendship in the Modern World, edited by Laura Eramian (Dalhousie) & Peter Mallory (StFX) 📚 www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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StFX Department of Sociology @stfxsociology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
To everyone in Halifax for the @csa-scs.bsky.social conference, please join StFX's @pmallory.bsky.social for the Jean-Sébastien Guy Memorial Lecture, titled "Theoretical Approaches to Therapy Culture" on Tuesday, June 9th at 2:30 pm in Rowe #1011 cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is evil collective punishment.
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Received this lovely box of books in the mail! I learned so much working with these fantastic authors www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
A box with copies of the book, Critical Friendship in the Modern World
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.
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Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles
Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hence killing 100+ children on day one.
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I hate that I’m grading midterm tests instead of midterm papers because the giant plagiarism machine in the sky has been allowed to rampage unchecked and pillage our education system
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In Canada, we call this level of support a majority government
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🇨🇦 take note: “America’s collapse into authoritarianism was accelerated by those who overlooked the early warning signs—from the increased prevalence of conspiracy theories to the end of civil discourse—because they assumed that American democracy was indestructible.” By Lucan Way via Maclean’s
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Canadians Love a Conspiracy Theory - Macleans.ca
The country’s conservatives have embraced American right-wing rhetoric. Our democracy is in danger.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
looks like Canada is keeping the sign in the window for this one
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I have my own views on Carney and the Liberals. But still, I can't imagine any of the other Canadian prime ministers in my lifetime speaking this way in public. Remarkable in so many ways. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News
Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
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Julie Beck @julieebeck.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
when did people become so weird about friends venting to each other? www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
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The Common Friendship Behavior That Has Become Strangely Fraught
A theme keeps popping up in relationship advice: Don’t vent so much.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
happy new year socialists, we are so back
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
to keep functioning society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship, in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper. Read now below: doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Image text says: Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper.
Read now below:
https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231157440
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“AI is not your friend” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
What an interesting discussion of the history of the NDP. Should be useful for anyone in the party thinking about how to rebuild it open.spotify.com/episode/1CFj...
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The NDP’s untapped radical potential
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We had a great conversation about power and informality- so many interesting things to talk about in your paper! Great you can use this research in you new work helping people facing these dynamics.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I get to discuss this article with students today, and it's so good. One of the best discussions of friendship and informality at work I've come across. Thanks @maryleighton.bsky.social! Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting expl...
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A fantastic article. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is one of the main reasons I still have a NYTimes subscription www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Mourn, or Else
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What a great surprise to see our paper on this list!
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Brian Mulroney Institute of Government @mulroneyinstitute.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📘Upcoming Book Launch! Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event. 🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre
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Royal Histories
The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022

Joel Z. Garrod - includes his photo.

Sept. 19, 2025 - 5 p.m.
Sobey's Reading Room, 4th Floor Nasso Family Science Centre.

Lower banner: Sociology Department
Logo: StFX | Brian Mulroney Institute of Government
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The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022
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Joel Z. Garrod presents a historical analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada, illustrating how Canadian capitalism and the Canadian banking industry have transformed as they have consolidated nationally and expanded abroad.
Emphasizing how national institutions and rules are increasingly becoming capabilities for transnational forms of capital accumulation, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources to document the transformation of the assemblage of territory, authority, and rights that have supported the bank’s activities over time.
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Peter McInnis @defendeducation.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The federal government seeks to undermine 80 years of collective bargaining practice. This is both counterproductive and callous. #canlab #CUPE www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Flight attendants ordered back to work say labour law violates right to strike | CBC News
The federal government has once again used a contentious section of Canadian law to stop a strike in Canada — a move unions and legal experts say sets a dangerous precedent for labour relations in thi...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Five things to remember about war:
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Received this fantastic book in the mail today! Looking forward to reading more
The Civil Sphere in Canada, edited by Jeffrey Alexander and Mervyn Horgan
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Non-stop horror. Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike." By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
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Girl survives after mother, 5 siblings killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City school shelter | CBC News
Harrowing video of a young Palestinian girl trying to escape a school shelter that had been set on fire after a deadly overnight Israeli airstrike widely circulated social media Monday.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sharing this article that Laura Eramian and I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com about our research with people without friends. Thanks so much to our editor Eleni Vlahiotis! When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...
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When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any?
A new study aims to understand how adults without friends experience and move through life.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Had a journalist edit some of our writing recently, and it's amazing what a professional can do. Affirms my belief that no one should ever learn to write from a university professor
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Health workers should never be a target. And yet, we’re here today, digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics,” Jonathan Whittall, the head of UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, said from the site. Via @cnn.com
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It is! It’s also a problem that it’s only available to those who don’t have the option to purchase private insurance, which many have but can’t afford.
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The US may not have much of an opposition party, but at least it has these two
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Erin Morton @erindmorton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chilling report from @caut.bsky.social on the U.S. administration’s targeting of Canadian researchers www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers
(Ottawa – March 17, 2025) The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Looking forward to reading this! I've been learning a lot from your other work on choice
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Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Bye to the Halifax Oval, one of the best things about the city in winter
people skating at the Halifax Oval while the sun sets
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