Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 51mDeclan Rice needs to play 180 minutes of competitive football every single week or he turns into this 010
Reposted by Will DaviesEconomy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · 22hWe're delighted to announce the winner of our inaugural Early-Career Paper Prize is Oda Eide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Oda will receive £1000 from the journal. We're also delighted to announce that our Prize will now run on a biennial basis, with the next competition due to open shortlytandfonline.comMaking jobseekers amidst joblessness: The proper work of work-seeking in inner-city JohannesburgDrawing on ethnographic research on formalized employment services in Johannesburg, South Africa, this paper examines the making of formal labour market participants where employment is structurall... 054
Reposted by Will DaviesLSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 23hJoin the @lsesociology.bsky.social & the III for the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, with speakers @will-davies.bsky.social, @urbanmorph.bsky.social, María Luisa Méndez, Annette Lareau, & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, chaired by @aaronreeves.bsky.social.buff.lyThe Oxford Handbook of Global Elites Book Launch | LSE Sociology6.30pm Thurs 22 October | Will Davies, Caroline Knowles, María-Luisa Méndez, Mike Savage and Annette Lareau mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites at LSE 089
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Blair wins in terms of most rapid transition from total tech ignoramus to big $$ koolaid drinker 000
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Now that the Fonagy report is making headlines, re-upping these reflections on the social conditions that might drive neurodevelopmental diagnoses upwards substack.com/@willd10/p-2...substack.comWhat do want from diagnosis?Or how to circumvent a culture war 062
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think he’s said both things, which is a fine line to thread, and agree that most of the media will focus only on one 010
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Who is being ableist here? The government or the review? 100
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And 26% lower than in 2023... To which the response will be to push the prices even higher. 022
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yeah, lets see. The Fonagy report due tomorrow looks likely to come at the issue in an unusual way, not unlike what I'm suggesting, implicitly with the aim of reducing diagnoses inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukSchool pupils should get help for ADHD even without a diagnosis, major report to sayA review into mental health, autism and ADHD diagnoses is set to find that rising rates of distress are 'real' 010
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i think they've opted instead for slow death by reduction to TikTok clips 010
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026well quite. Come back Blairite 'market failure' arguments, all is forgiven 020
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yes, very tricky. But it's been made trickier in the UK by cuts and Covid, which meant that assessments became more infrequent and streamlined, ultimately costing the state more money because of the inability to attend more closely to individual needs and capabilities 110
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026a BBC friend told me a few years ago it was affectionately known internally as 'Moans and Moaners' 100
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yes, agree completely. And I do generally accept that the editor is boss. But the levels of surgery involved can, at times, feel like the patient has been murdered in the course of the operation. 020
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026have you ever written for a US magazine or newspaper? The first draft might as well be submitted as a collection of post-it notes, that can then be tried out in various permutations. 250
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/20261. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance The five stages of dealing with a US-style heavily interventionist edit of one's writing 2171
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thinking Allowed 😢 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...theguardian.comBBC axes long-running Radio 4 show You and Yours in push towards podcastsThinking Allowed, The Artificial Human and Free Thinking among other programmes hit by £500m cuts 5163
Reposted by Will DaviesUnfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 08/10/2026*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it. 15125
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026he was looking for the one that "pretends to be a sauna" 130
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The problem with human taxi drivers: they sometimes dare to speak and they are ‘dodgy’ 1101
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026thanks, Alan! I believe the Fonagy final report is imminent, so we will see how they approach some of these same issues. 020
Reposted by Will DaviesWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How else might we address the question of diagnosis? Some thoughts in advance of the welfare storm to come substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhat do want from diagnosis?Or how to circumvent a culture war 42416
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That’s really interesting. I didn’t realise that penmanship skills were so significant in this respect 100
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thanks. I didn't want to push these kinds of suspicions too far, as it's a very wide field indeed. But what you say may describe some instances, and is certainly a factor in the intergenerational conflicts/misunderstandings that now arise in workplaces 100
Reposted by Will DaviesLeonora Merry @leonoramerry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A great read here on the thorny issue of diagnosis and what our quest for diagnosing and recognising neurodevelopmental conditions tells us about society 👇 064
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How else might we address the question of diagnosis? Some thoughts in advance of the welfare storm to come substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhat do want from diagnosis?Or how to circumvent a culture war 42416
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026yes, I suppose it does, though it could manage with a less grand-sounding one. The Limehouse Cut always managed as just the Limehouse cut. 100
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I asked AI a question, 'are you willing to die for me?'. Its answer gave me more hope than I was expecting: 'no, because I don't have a life to give up'" [ends] Thought for the Day, you are spoiling us 180
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a ‘spirit of capitalism’ that is joyless, compulsive and nihilistic, in which money is available because of the vast number of stupid people out there who don’t know what they’re doing 292
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Fascinating piece on Gen Z pro polymarket bros - especially the mood of alienation and ennui, that isn’t even lifted by big wins share.google/i6MBW68Jptxl...share.googlePolymarket’s Alpha tradersIn a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’ 194
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026and there was this www.theguardian.com/society/2013...theguardian.comJobseekers made to carry out bogus psychometric testsUnemployed people are told they risk losing benefits if they fail to carry out meaningless questionnaire 130
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this is roughly the epistemology of the randomistas that he funds 140
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026EVIL FASCIST STATE: HOW THE SCARY RICH PEOPLE MURDERED THE PLANET - I'll be discussing my new book, tickets from £185 1162
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Looking forward to speaking at this event on 22nd October at @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...lse.ac.ukThe Oxford Handbook of Global Elites Book Launch | LSE Sociology6.30pm Thurs 22 October | Will Davies, Caroline Knowles, María-Luisa Méndez, Mike Savage and Annette Lareau mark the launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites at LSE 1117
