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Silke Roth

@silkeroth.bsky.social
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sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 26/09/2026
Powerpose? Leanin? Or bare your vulnerability? @lsemedia.bsky.social #feminist Shani Orgad discusses the imperatives to be #confident and #vulnerable - their costs, stakes, and unequal distribution. #Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear buff.ly/2XooG9z
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
here are some of my favorite texts I point my own students to: judithbeyer.com/2025/10/30/c...
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#Contra AI 🤖 – Arguments against AI
Since I am human, I have an intrinsic motivation to understand. Since I am an anthropologist, I have an intrinsic motivation to understand other humans. Since many humans seem more and more motivat…
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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Berlin Events! Book talk & conversation with @hahauenstein.bsky.social Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations & Migrationsforschung (BIM), 11/6, 6-8pm In conversation with @jacobinoire.bsky.social, José Segebre & Jesse Olszynko-Gryn at diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, 11/8, 7pm
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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll be on book tour for "Demographic Anxieties Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" this fall! Book talks & conversations with amazing friends, colleagues & comrades across Germany, the UK, and the US! @ucpress.bsky.social
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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hi @stephanie-peacock.bsky.social. As the Minister for Civil Society do you have anything to say about far right thugs trying to drown RNLI volunteers in the Channel? Some defence of volunteers using their freedom to help others? Maybe asking the Home Secretary to do something?
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/09/2026
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com
The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 5                                         With contributions from Gala Rexer,  Kirsteen Paton, Karis Campion, Hala Shoman, Mai Taha, Rana Sukarieh, Shereen Fernandez, Waqas Tufail, Isabel Frey, Ben Rogaly, Sociologists for Palestine, Katherine Appleford, Fatima Rajina, Sonya Sharma, Angela Man Xu, Josephine Browne, Phil Crockett Thomas, Iveta Ķešāne  Maija Spuriņa, Diana García-Catena, Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Dennis Nickson, Malene Lue Kessing, Peter J. Hemming, Anna Strhan, Joanna Malone, Sarah Neal, Kate Summers,  Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Jo Ingold, Lisa Scullion, Robert de Vries, David Young
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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delighted to see this new edition of The Sociological Review, including a special section on Sociology in the Times of Genocide, co-edited by our own @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Please share this online book launch Colonialisms and Queer Politics, engaging global historical sociology @rc09-isa.bsky.social @rc56.bsky.social @isa-tg12.bsky.social @wg01-local-global.bsky.social
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Tariq Modood @tariqmodood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/09/2026
🌟 The September 2026 issue of the Magazine is out now! Pam Cox MP connects sociology to social policy; how football mismanagement affects fans’ mental health; meet our award winners; is the GCSE maths exam fit for purpose? Plus, fiction, image-maker and book reviews. #Sociology buff.ly/IhJZTSh
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Invitation to our Colonialisms and Queer Politics book launch - global historical sociology and political sociology in action @asanews.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org @bsatheory.bsky.social @bsa-families.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social @rc48-isa.bsky.social @rc47isa.bsky.social
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bittersweet milestones - our 2020 article "TERF Wars: An Introduction", published in @thesociologicalreview.org, just hit 600 citations on Google Scholar, and has over 100,000 views. I would love for it to become irrelevant. However, given the state of the world, I'm grateful it remains useful.
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TERF wars: An introduction - Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen, Ben Vincent, 2020
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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I got word that our book about the big 2007 Jena 6 protest can be downloaded free until Sept 14 in honor of the APSA conference. This was a transition between the old Civil Rights model and what became Black Lives Matter. We trace how it developed & was discussed. 1/2
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The Jena 6
Cambridge Core - Political Sociology - The Jena 6
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 03/09/2026
What a night! Our Public Lecture with Angela Saini was a brilliant success. Huge thanks to Angela, Karen O’Reilly, Lisa Dikomitis, Bolaji Balogun and our fantastic chair Mukti Jain Campion — and to everyone who joined us. We loved seeing it all come together!
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adding to the reading list... The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good Jon Dean (2020) academic.oup.com/policy-press...
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The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good
Abstract. We praise those people who do things for others. But the symbolic power of giving means individuals can take advantage of the glow of ‘goodness’
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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BSA President and Chair express deep concerns regarding proposed staff reductions at Exeter - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
Dear Professor Lisa Roberts, Subject: Urgent Concerns Regarding Proposed Staff Reductions and Impact on Sociology The British Sociological Association (BSA) is deeply concerned by the University of Ex...
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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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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 31/07/2026
Final call! Just a handful of places remain for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Registration closes at midnight on Monday 3 August. This course won't be running again for a while, so don't miss your chance to join us. buff.ly/LCytOtC
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Really looking forward to this pair of evening workshops next week on Live Sociology. There are still places; all proceeds go back to the Foundation to support sociology. @thesociologicalreview.org
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 23/07/2026
Applications are now open for Strictly Come Writing 2026! 📍 Beautiful Gladstone's Library, North Wales 📅 11–13 November ⏰ Apply by 10 September Three days of focused writing, support & community for early career researchers. Apply here: buff.ly/4CeAhWs #WritingRetreat #AcademicWriting #Sociology
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/07/2026
“Hype underscores a paradox. Capitalism seems to reward expert storytellers irrespective of the truthfulness of their projected narrative.” Konstantinos Poulis and co-authors examine hype, entrepreneurship and the concept of “worthwashing”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/w5HJsKx
Konstantinos Poulis, Christian Linder and Minas N. Kastanakis 

The Sociology of Hype: Worthwashing at the Heart of Capitalism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261261462261 

The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst
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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just over two weeks to the summer school in South London Feat some amazing speakers and free lunch! Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
c.org/KGmTvZw7Ry Save Humanities at University of Herts
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Was bitter ist: Medienberichte haben sich überschlagen über die Niederlage Orbáns. Die Verbindungslinien dazu, wie der autoritäre Umbau in Ungarn begann in Bezug auf Presse, Zivilgesellschaft, Arbeit … werden von deutschen Journalist*innen bei den Reformen hier kaum gezogen.
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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
⭐🎨 NOW LIVE: 2026 GOLDSMITHS UCU ART RAFFLE!! 🎨 ⭐ Raising money to support striking staff resisting savage redundancies at Goldsmiths Win art by Florence Peake Jeremy Deller Peckham Keffiyeh Louis Pohl Koseda Anna Higgins Eddie Peake &many more! Tickets £5, draw 26 July 🔥 www.gucu-raffle.com
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Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/06/2026
New Conversations event! How can sociology help us make sense of 2026 so far? Join Carolyn Pedwell, Siniša Malešević & Mariam Motamedi Fraser, chaired by Miranda Iossifidis, for an online discussion on AI, empathy, accountability, social change and more. 📅 8 July | 1–2pm BST 🎟️ buff.ly/K5Evv8c
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Mark Anthony Austin @bobafettanhse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This made me smile even though it’s absolutely true 😝😝😝
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ergänzend - wir haben das Ende der kritischen Managementforschung und der politischen Ökonomie in Leicester auch in Buchform aufgearbeitet: www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...
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Shaping for Mediocrity from Zer0 Books
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what wa...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How higher education is vandalised in the UK. Here is our last published annual report (www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/univ...) containing info about "a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balance of £211m."
Performance
We are pleased to report a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation
(EBITDA) of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balances of £211m. This surplus of income over expenditure, despite the challenging environment, is the result of significant hard work across the University following another challenging international recruitment round and continued economic pressures. Total income increased by 2% to £681m through growth in research grants and contracts income (+£8m, 6%), capital grants (+£3m) and donations (+£4m) bolstered by strong commercial income performance.
Tuition fee income maintained the historic high of £350m achieved in the prior year. The University saw continued strong interest from Home Undergraduate (UG Home) and Postgraduate students, but this was offset by contractions in Undergraduate and Postgraduate International.
These contractions were compounded by increased levels of scholarships, resulting in international fee income seeing a 2% year on year reduction to £135m, representing 38% of teaching income and 20% of total University income.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Exeter claims that our financial situation is dire. Yet in 2023/4 the execs awarded themselves a 12% pay rise, because they couldn't get a bonuses since they hadn't met key performance indicators. I guess if you decimate the faculty, get AI to teach & destroy education, you deserve a raise.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
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The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As our union indicates "If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!"
EUCU: Our Six Key Messages

1/ Exeter Uni’s finances are strong. We’ve large cash reserves (£200m in 24/25). Never had a budget deficit. This ‘crisis’ is manufactured.

2/ Executive pay at Exeter is out of control. If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!

3/ No meaningful consultation, but a confused mess: faulty and insufficient data, no real discussion, and an impossible, anxiety-inducing and unreasonable timetable to push this through over the summer.

4/ An all-staff meeting of 600 staff resoundingly voted no confidence in Vice Chancellor Lisa Roberts (whose pay and benefits are pushing £400k). We believe this is the biggest single vote by any uni staff in the history of UK HE.

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Redundancies are a management choice, not a financial necessity. They even have alternative costed plans with no cuts, but think it’s easier to go for job losses.

6/Exeter is a fantastic uni, with world-class research, creative and inspiring teaching, and a caring, thoughtful and imaginative community of staff and students. Let’s keep it that way.

#DefendExeterUni
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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...
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Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are interested in doing research differently please come and be part of this conversation. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the foundation and funding sociology.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 26/06/2026
Anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist Frantz #Fanon is oft-cited by sociologists. Here, @juliango.bsky.social describes what it was like to seek out Fanon’s work in #gradschool and to sit with the author’s #writing and rage… buff.ly/d0azKVa
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨 New jobs! 🚨 We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Research Fellows (1 quant, 1 qual), for a full-time, fixed-term position for up to 4 years! The Fellows will have full control over the nature/direction of their research while here 📝🌏 Deadline: 31 July 2026 🔗 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/event/postdo...
Image of the Department of Sociology building overlaid with text: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Positions). Deadline: 31 July 2026
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Fabian Anicker @fanicker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Came accross two interesting new papers on the functional role of "grand theory" for the disciplinary identity of sociology. Sociology of sociology meets epistemological self-reflection. Monika Krause's journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and Döpking et al.'s journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
c.org/jLYD9TMpTP solidarity with the amazing colleagues at Exeter uni, stop the redundancies
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 24/06/2026
Our latest #bookreviews come from Hannah Farrimond, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Eirini Ktori and Madhuri Kamtam. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read The Sociological Review magazine. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/HcfvZUa
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📢🚨Job Alert🚨📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam! Just two days left to apply. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Science, Specialization in International Relations
<p>Are you an enthusiastic international relations scholar with a passion for education? Do you conduct research at and on the intersections of militarism, war, and technology? Are you interested in w...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/06/2026
We're delighted to support the Class, Culture & Discontents Summer School this July! Free to attend and bringing together scholars working on class, culture & inequality. We'll also be sharing resources from our Connected Sociologies project. buff.ly/YY5FcK1 #Sociology #Class #Culture
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Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents
Summer School on class, culture and discontents.
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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What an amazing conference!
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My latest article, open access! 'Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World' examines the collapsing liberal world order through a decolonial lens and argues that this is just one end of many ends of worlds, suggesting productive ways forward towards future humanitarianisms doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
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Humanitarianism at the End of (This) World
Abstract. Western humanitarianism’s spatiotemporal zone of action and mode of operations is crisis. Western humanitarianism and humanitarians should be in
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