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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excited to share that my new article, with colleagues from University of Toronto, has been published in Social Forces It contributes by conceptualizing four problem-solving designs and a concept we term 'workability', highlighting the ease of management of problems academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I will be part of this panel on teaching with a problem-solving lens in early February, with the #ProblemSolvingSociology group! Looking forward!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This was a really touching article on the life and death of Michael Burawoy. 47 years at UC Berkeley. He loved the community and the community loved him back. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/06/m...

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Hit-and-run driver kills legendary, retired UC Berkeley sociology professor

Michael Burawoy, a widely influential labor scholar, was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Tragic that we have lost (in a hit-and-run) one of the best people in sociology – his public work has served as mentorship to so many, including those who never formally met him. He will be missed.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I made an infographic for my recently published article in Qualitative Sociology PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/10mjO... My students each term make infographics to share knowledge, and so here I am also learning to make infographics ... thanks to @unm.edu for the Adobe creative cloud sub!!

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Check out the call for applications for this Problem-Solving Sociology Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop on May 16, 2025, in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins will cover travel w/in the continental U.S., accommodation, & meals. Deadline is Feb. 7, 2025. bit.ly/3PJEEWZ

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Problem-Solving Sociology - Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop

Call for Applications: Problem-Solving Sociology Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop (deadline February 7, 2025) Doctoral students in departments of sociology who have not yet defended their ...

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International Sociological Association (ISA) @isa-sociology.org · 13/12/2024

Hi there! We are now on Bluesky! 🦋 ☁️ Is the ISA community around? Wave hello in the comments if you're online!

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Also this is the legal sharing link for the article that the journal just sent me. You can read the article here, just not download it: rdcu.be/dZCMR

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The Genesis of Care: Knowledge-Emotion Connections, Extension of the Self, and Care for Nature at an Urban Nature Centre

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Therefore, I suggest that bolstering support for institutions and programs that help a wider array of people develop a positive relationship with nature may be one significant part of more sustainable societies.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If more people are going to care about nature, it is important to buttress the conditions by which people learn to care about it.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I also suggest that understanding this process of knowledge-emotion links and self extension can help us better understand how to create more sustainable societies and address inequalities in access to nature.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Therefore, I make the claim that this process of knowledge-emotion links and self-extension can help us understand many cases where people care so deeply that they act to care for cultural products, people, non-humans, sports teams, and a wide variety of other entities and beings.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

For example, opera fans get so invested in opera that they end up trying to defend opera from “attacks” when operas are too unconventional.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The paper also advances a general version of that argument: whenever people intertwine knowledge and emotion with anything they are interested in, over time this may lead to them extending their sense of self into it and then trying to protect it

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

For example, if someone learns how to identify many bird species and learns to find birds exciting, they may think about themselves as someone who loves birds, and that extension of self can lead to wanting to care for birds.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I found at this nature centre, people linked knowledge and emotion with different parts of nature, which gave them opportunities to extend their sense of self into nature.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I investigate why spending time in nature often leads to care for it. The article is based on a 5-year ethnographic project I conducted at a nature centre in Toronto, where I volunteered as a nature teacher for people of all ages and interviewed 50 people involved with the centre.

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TJB @tylerjbateman.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Excited to share that my first sole-authored article has just been published in the journal Qualitative Sociology! I investigate why spending time in nature often leads to care for it.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/05/2024

Are you headed to grad school in the fall? Or looking for a gift for a recent college grad? A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum is only $9 with code FIFTY from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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A Field Guide to Grad School

An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad school

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Early whales, just becoming comfortable in the water 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #cetaceans

Reconstructions of Remingtoncetus (top) and Rodhocetus (bottom) swimming

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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Great news: Smologies is finally its own show! So if you need an all-ages, classroom-safe, or kid-friendly podcast, they're now in one dedicated place. Let the autoplays begin. Subscribe to Smologies: pod.link/1746567248 Please pass it along to get the word out! So genuinely thrilled.

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Smologies with Alie Ward

Ologies → Smologies. It’s all of the science, with none of the swearing! Smologies are shortened, kid-friendly episodes of the award-winning science podcast, Ologies, which covers topics from Toads (B...

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