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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!

Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Jun 1

Amazing how every Stanley Fischer obit ignorrs that he was one of the high priests of neoliberalism/Washington Consensus, at time when IMF was wreaking havoc in Eastern Europe

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Influential economist Stanley Fischer dies

Former policymaker at the Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank also taught generations of students

on.ft.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · May 26

#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike

"I walked through the fire all by myself"

"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"

"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"

"I want to be with them"

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · May 27

»Det er helt efter bogen, at Israel forsvarer sig selv. Det mener jeg, at de er forpligtede til at gøre.«, sagde statsminister Mette Frederiksen i sidste uge.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · May 26

#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike

"I walked through the fire all by myself"

"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"

"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"

"I want to be with them"

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · May 7

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Apr 25

My review of George Steimetzs book is out in @actasociologica.bsky.social Its a model for analyzing disciplinary amnesia and transnational relations in social science. Something most social sciences should be concerned with. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy and honored to contribute to this special issue. Check out the papers!

Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Apr 23

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mapping relational structures in culture

Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Apr 3

Væsentlig udeladelse fra Wegener. En anden man kunne pege på de store forskelle mellem områder og de nedskæringer som særligt har ramt samfundsvidenskabelig og humanistiske uddannelser og forskningsområder. Der er alt for store forskelle i betingelserne for at forsker og undervise mellem områder.

victor @heldigt.bsky.social · Apr 3

Budskabet fra Wegener er at Danmark er det bedste sted at forske fordi det vælter ind med penge til forskning.

Men han forholder sig til at hvordan de selvsamme penge har bidraget til den projektøkonomi på universitetet der medfører uholdbare vilkår for forskere.

sciencereport.dk/samfund/henr...

Henrik Wegener ser Danmark som verdens bedste forskerland - på papiret - Science Report

Tidligere rektor på Københavns Universitet Henrik Wegener har store ønsker til Danmark som forskningsnation om 15 år. Hvis vi forvalter den nuværende vækst i forskningsmidler kan kan vi i 2040 stå som...

sciencereport.dk

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Dr. Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · Apr 1

So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.

The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!

How is this science?!

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Mar 29

Students from #Serbia (yes, those protesting for months now) just announced that they are going to cycle from Novi Sad to—Strasbourg.

Why? To personally deliver news to European institutions of certain important developments in Serbia, since they have been sort of ignoring them.

Here's the route 👇

Students from Serbia have just announced that they are going to cycle to Strasbourg. This is their route.

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Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social · Mar 28

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.

Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)

The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Mar 25

Super interesting project + super nice PI! No reason not to apply.

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · Mar 25

💥Postdoc call 💥

Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University

🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension)

❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth

🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data)

Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

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Peter Andersen @germline.bsky.social · Mar 24

⌛📝 One week left to apply to our latest call for faculty positions here at @molbiolau.bsky.social in Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰

Two (👀) positions are available w. open topic + rank (tenure-track assist or assoc professorship dep. on career stage).

mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

mbg.au.dk

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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · Mar 21

"Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber"

Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · Mar 21

The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.

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Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social · Feb 26

Isaac A. Reed gave a brilliant guest lecture at @oslomet.bsky.social earlier this week, discussing the balance between under- and overinterpretation when using theory in empirical social research. The lecture can be seen here: youtu.be/3vmmafrv9kY?...
#sociology #philsky

Isaac Ariail Reed: “Interpretation reframed: On theory and truth in the human sciences”

YouTube video by Norwegian Microsociological Network

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · Mar 20

This statement is nearing 1600 signatories. Have you signed? Have you sent to your friends & colleagues? Your department or university list-serve? Your alumni network?

if not, can you?

bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
or to go right to signing bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Mar 20

And mine. And probably yours too.

Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · Mar 20

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · Mar 20

Jeg er uenig. Trump er fascist og han vil være diktator, hvis han da ikke allerede er det.

Jeg forsker i diktaturer og jeg mener ikke, at man bør bruge disse termer let. Men nogle gange må man råbe vagt i gevær. Trump har utvivlsomt stærke fascistiske træk.

Trump er ikke fascist. Han er heller ikke diktator. Et helt andet ord beskriver ham bedre

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · Mar 20

This is unfortunately true.

Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · Mar 20

I can't see how any scientific community can defend holding academic conferences in the US in the present situation

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

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Alexander Holm @alexanderholm.bsky.social · Mar 19

Så blev det Danmarks Country Overshoot Day 2025, og fra og med idag har vores lille grønne foregangsland brugt så mange naturressourcer, at alt vi forbruger fra nu af, er lig med et overtræk på naturkontoen. Godt, og heldigvis, at langt de fleste andre lande forbruger mindre end os.

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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · Mar 14

New book: 'The Sociology of C. Wright Mills' link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Sociology of C. Wright Mills

This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills, whose work is considered classic in the USA.

link.springer.com

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Thierry Rossier @thierryrossier.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨
🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015
w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
A thread (1/10)

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RT 42 AFS • Sociologie des élites @rt42-afselites.bsky.social · Mar 11

[ #socioelites] Summer school: "The Business of the State: Elites, Expertise, and Policy Instruments Shaping the Public-Private Intersection"
Organizers: @benjaminlemoine.bsky.social, Marte Mangset, Antoine Vauchez
⌛️ May 15th, 2025: Call for Applications
🔗 www.hf.uio.no/paris/franca...

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Veit Braun @toteraltermann.bsky.social · Feb 19

And related: Ute Tellmann (TU Darmstadt) is looking for a postdoc (full) and a PhD student (65 %) to work on the financialisation of waterbody protection in the EU. Profile: Sociology, cultural economy, environmental humanities; German & English skills.

Deadline 10 March 2025

PhD position (unfortunately no English version available) https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU-Darmstadt/stellenangebot/45429/55749

Postdoc position (unfortunately no English version available) https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU-Darmstadt/stellenangebot/45535

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