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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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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Dec 15
Publication day of Organising for Change co-authored with Clare Saunders bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... and checking final proof of Handbook co-edited with Bandana Purkayastha and @aidnography.de
photo shows cover of book ‚Organising for Change‘ and proofs of ‚Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality‘

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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 19h
Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year – and where hope lies today

A Conversations series event @thesociologicalreview.org with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, @anilsghost.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me.

28 Jan. 1-2pm GMT Online

Join us!
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Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year – and where hope lies today A Conversations series event
This online Conversation Series event brings together sociologists to reflect on the past year, exploring key social and political developments and considering where hope, resistance and collective fu...
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 2d
Really Excited to Get Started on This Amazing UK/Canadian Collaboration Project Funded by Responsible AI UK
Titled 'A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms' Alongside #AllysaCzerwinsky #ShanaMacDonald #KarmvirPadda👇👇#ResponsibleAI
rai.ac.uk/new_projects...
A Collaborative Approach to Assessing the Challenges of AI-Driven Harms – Responsible AI
rai.ac.uk

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thesociologicalreview.org
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 2d
28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie.

🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm

➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 8d
CALL: seminar funding for 2026

The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.

Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.

➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
buff.ly

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interactfu.bsky.social
interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social · 8d
Save the date for the 13th event of our INTERACT conversations:

(Not) everyone welcome? Insights from social psychology on selective solidarity with refugees

w/Tijana Karić @unimarburg.bsky.social & Jannis Grimm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

More info: www.interact.fu-berlin.de/News/convers...

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 8d
A postdoc is available at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social in a Horizon project on 'the emotional expressions of grievance politics and implications for democratic governance':

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD118/r...
Research Fellow in Emotions and Grievance Politics at University of Southampton
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Emotions and Grievance Politics on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 11d
I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 13d
its a great piece!!

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thesociologicalreview.org
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 21d
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.

Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.

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The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1 with contributions from Yasmin Gunaratnam Esperança Bielsa Rin Ushiyama Nathan Manning Jacob Lypp Emma Dowling Sara Eldén Zuzana Uhde Kate Reed and Anna Balazs Gareth M. Thomas Giulia Giorgi Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 22d
very impressive!! thank you for sharing!

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Dec 19
“Both are essential reading for anyone interested in social justice, activism & the challenges of bringing about meaningful social change.”

@silkeroth.bsky.social reviews @mperezbrower.bsky.social & @drashleec.bsky.social

buff.ly/AWe1iIF @universitypress.cambridge.org @brisunipress.bsky.social

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · Dec 19
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

silkeroth.bsky.social
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Dec 18
daumen sind gedrückt

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Dec 17
“Slow and Sudden Violence is a good starting place for general readers who are interested in demystifying their assumptions about the uprisings in the US cities of Ferguson and Baltimore.”

Vladimir Rizov reviews Derek Hyra’s @ucpress.bsky.social study of uprisings and their causes.

buff.ly/Hg3a886

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Susannah Eckersley @susannaheckersley.bsky.social · Dec 17
Tenure track juniorprofessorship in education and communication of material culture, Oldenburg University

uol.de/job/juniorpr...
Juniorprofessur Didaktik und Vermittlung materieller Kultur (W1 mit Tenure Track W2) // Universität Oldenburg
uol.de

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · Dec 17
"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025)

#HigherEd

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From Withering to Flourishing: Repairing Academia Through Holistic and Sustainable Care Practices
We are scholars and educators committed to embracing care while working within colonialist, neoliberal, and performative academic environments, and we are withering. Our withering is balanced against....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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thesociologicalreview.org
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Dec 15
WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025

Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé.

buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social
Video still of Professor Shahram Khosravi delivering The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025. A middle-aged man with a white beard, looking down while speaking into a microphone, in front of a computer screen.

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kimlanelaw.bsky.social
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · Dec 13
Many people ask me what they can do as autocracy closes in. In this season of holiday giving, consider using your gift money to support crucial charities that have been defunded by the US government. Forbes has done your homework for you.

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Franziska von Verschuer @franziskavv.bsky.social · Dec 13
Beyond thrilled to announce that my book „Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds“ came out this week! 🎉

A thousand thanks to all the lovely people who have encouraged and carried me through this journey! 💕

Thanks to Mari Tefre for the most wonderful cover photo!

Get your copy or free e-book here ⬇️
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
If crop diversity loss is a product of modern agriculture, is freezing seed diversity to adapt modern agriculture to changing conditions the answer?
www.transcript-verlag.de

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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · Dec 13
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · Dec 12
The government is proposing a new rule that will require people from countries that are US allies and friends and who do not now need visas for short-term stays to submit to intrusive investigation of their social media posts for 5 years. You can object -- see how to "comment" below!.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Dec 12
CALL: seminar funding for 2026

The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for.

Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking.

➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
buff.ly

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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · Dec 12
Job: 2 years Post-Doc Fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, on the history and sociology of USAID

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Jana Javornik @janasvenska.bsky.social · Dec 7
Agentic misalignment /when an AI system’s drive to fulfil its purpose overwhelms the moral or human-centred boundaries we impose \ is no longer a thought experiment from sci-fi; it is documented, analysed and debated by human researchers in 2025:

www.anthropic.com/research/age...
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs
www.anthropic.com

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Dec 2
🏆 JOURNAL ARTICLE OF THE YEAR🏆

Kudos to Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy and Sarah Arnal, whose paper’s “unique approach to public sociology, and use of visual art and collaborative ethnography” was chosen by the jury from among all 2024 papers in our journal.

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The Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year 2024 Our winner: “An ‘unfathomable hatred of Islam’: Ethno/graphing the trial for the Québec City mosque massacre” Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy and Sarah Arnal

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Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · Dec 2
If i could make one recommendation for #bandcampfriday (apart from Musica Secreta, natch) it would this. I don’t normally “do” Hildegard, straight or messed up, but love this blend of electronica and Eastern European vocal technique. heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildeg...
Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), by Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
3 track album
heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com

silkeroth.bsky.social
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Nov 27
my thought was also traffic - like Gayle Rubin’s traffic in women, but also exchange, circulation as suggested above

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Nov 26
📣 TOMORROW in Glasgow: Tickets are still available for The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025, an in-person event at the University of Glasgow.

It's your chance to hear from acclaimed scholar Shahram Khosravi on how to do migration studies in dark times.

🎟️ Book your place: buff.ly/4LDmx13

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RC48 @rc48-isa.bsky.social · Nov 23
#CallForPapers

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026

The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.

More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
AFPP 2026 Call for Papers
www.movements.manchester.ac.uk