Jonathan Wynn
@jonwynn.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at UMass Amherst. Author of The Tour Guide, and Music/City; and co-author of The City & The Hospital. The Set Up, a novel, is now an audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Set-Up-Audiobook/B0FG9BSBN4 ORCID: 0000-0002-8670-1101
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Jonathan Wynn
@jonwynn.bsky.social
· Jan 1
The Set Up
By Jon WynnMay 20, 2025 Ally, an aspiring actress, is about to give up on getting her big break. But then, after another disappointing audition, a charismatic scene partner says he has a fun gig for h...
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My ‘sociological thriller’ The Set Up is out May ’25. It’s “an M-80 of Vegas noir through an intersectional lens...” Pre-orders are 30% off thru January with the code PREORDER30! beltpublishing.com/products/the.... $14 bucks! But, you may ask: “Why would a sociologist write a novel?”
Please help support the victims of domestic violence here in Western Massachusetts by donating to me and/or our UMass Sociology Team in the Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage.
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Hot Chocolate Run 2025 - Jonathan Wynn
The Hot Chocolate Run, in Northampton, MA is a fundraiser for Safe Passage. Sign up and give safety, hope, and justice to survivors of domestic violence.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please help support the victims of domestic violence here in Western Massachusetts by donating to me and/or our UMass Sociology Team in the Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage.
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The 3rd installment in Janice Irvine's "queer thoughts/psychedelic heresies" series has arrived: janiceirvine.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...
Is Ketamine Funny?
What is ketamine, anyway?
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The 3rd installment in Janice Irvine's "queer thoughts/psychedelic heresies" series has arrived: janiceirvine.substack.com/p/is-ketamin...
#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...
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This week in Freak Scene: Winterpills are back with their first new album since 2016, and it's a little different, but very good:
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Freak Scene #91: Winterpills Return With 'This Is How We Dance'
Plus, Western Mass. trio Our Three debut with the EP 'Never Fall in Love'
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November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This week in Freak Scene: Winterpills are back with their first new album since 2016, and it's a little different, but very good:
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...
buttondown.com/freakscene/a...
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Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
This sounds amazing.
“Using music as a time machine, the authors transport the reader from their personal experiences as Black neurodivergent students to their present academic careers.”
@alexamacdermot.bsky.social on Chantelle Jessica Lewis and @profjasonarday.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social buff.ly/0Q9fglU
@alexamacdermot.bsky.social on Chantelle Jessica Lewis and @profjasonarday.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social buff.ly/0Q9fglU
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This sounds amazing.
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"One rock? Okay, fine. But every house in the neighborhood? This was obviously a coordinated effort to humiliate our family."
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A Letter to the Parents that Gave My Son Charlie a Bunch of Rocks for Halloween
Fellow parents, I am so angry and drunk right now that I am shaking. This evening, our young son spent several unsupervised hours trick-or-treating...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"One rock? Okay, fine. But every house in the neighborhood? This was obviously a coordinated effort to humiliate our family."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-l...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-l...
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Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
Me, to my students who've gathered at the door of class ten minutes early: "You're early!"
Response: "We're not early. You're late."
Zing! A+
Response: "We're not early. You're late."
Zing! A+
October 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Me, to my students who've gathered at the door of class ten minutes early: "You're early!"
Response: "We're not early. You're late."
Zing! A+
Response: "We're not early. You're late."
Zing! A+
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
And, broadly:
Step 1: Make public X as shitty and stressful as possible
Step 2: Sell private X as the antidote
Step 3: Funnel public X funding into private hands
Step 1: Make public X as shitty and stressful as possible
Step 2: Sell private X as the antidote
Step 3: Funnel public X funding into private hands
The GOP's education playbook.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers.
Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness.
Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
And, broadly:
Step 1: Make public X as shitty and stressful as possible
Step 2: Sell private X as the antidote
Step 3: Funnel public X funding into private hands
Step 1: Make public X as shitty and stressful as possible
Step 2: Sell private X as the antidote
Step 3: Funnel public X funding into private hands
The audiobook for my novel drops today, and it's a blast to listen to these actors play these parts. Check it out on Audible/Libby, request at your library, write a review, drop some stars, etc.
September 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The audiobook for my novel drops today, and it's a blast to listen to these actors play these parts. Check it out on Audible/Libby, request at your library, write a review, drop some stars, etc.
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”
August 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”
My colleagues are quite smart. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
The Family Business: An Open Letter (satire/opinion)
Things have changed, Jennifer Lundquist writes (satirically).
www.insidehighered.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My colleagues are quite smart. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
See y'all at the conference this wkd...
August 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
See y'all at the conference this wkd...
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Straight facts 🎯….respect Kurt Loder!
August 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Straight facts 🎯….respect Kurt Loder!
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My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here…
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August 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Congratulations to co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for his latest book, Long Live Queer Nightlife!
July 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Congratulations to co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for his latest book, Long Live Queer Nightlife!
Requesting immediate follow up over the summer and then getting an automated Out of Office reply is the opposite of my love language.
July 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Requesting immediate follow up over the summer and then getting an automated Out of Office reply is the opposite of my love language.
It's faaaaarrrrr more likely I would publish an article entitled "Woody cover..." about a Woody Guthrie cover, not about trees and shrubs.
July 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's faaaaarrrrr more likely I would publish an article entitled "Woody cover..." about a Woody Guthrie cover, not about trees and shrubs.
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Listen to @jonwynn.bsky.social on the “Give Theory a Chance” podcast discuss how he "tweaked the formula" for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory!
Jon Wynn on writing fiction - Give Theory A Chance
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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July 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Listen to @jonwynn.bsky.social on the “Give Theory a Chance” podcast discuss how he "tweaked the formula" for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory!