Can we overcome the crisis of democracy by teaching people to be better citizens?

@jacoblypp.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social reflects on civic pedagogies, Foucault and how the focus on self-transformation obscures power relations.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/LAbwX3I

How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?

@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp

New Australia Institute analysis shows the ANU had a $90 million profit in 2024 and INCREASED the value of its net assets...

All while the ANU was claiming a budget crisis to justify staff cuts!

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

In NZ a Sunday column today focuses on gender divides between young men/women voters. But in reality in NZ our divide is deeper between older men vs everyone else (including older women!)
The moral panic that young men are ‘lurching right globally’ obscures much longer history of gendered politics

Youth offending drops with safe, stable housing - study

TASA is deeply dismayed by Macquarie Uni’s proposed restructuring that would decimate sociology. The social sciences matter — they help us navigate a complex world. Our full statement & call to action here: www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

#Sociology #HigherEd #SupportHASS

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

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Political volatility has been taking us by surprise for a while now. Here’s little exercise to illustrate. Rewind two years and take a look at where the polls were, what people expected, and what they failed to anticipate. You have to go back a while before politics is predictable even 2 yrs out 1/

🚨🚨 New funded PhD, looking at Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
@timlegrand.bsky.social
@tasayouth.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social

Friends and colleagues abroad, the Sorbonne is on furlough... The French govt is cutting 50% of our funding. Please forward to raise awareness and send us love 🫶

Postdoc position alert! 🚨Based at Uni of Adelaide with the ever-brilliant Dr Nathan Manning and me, our focus is on digital extremism and young Australians.

🔥 Deadline is 3rd April 🔥

careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Hi all, the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association - @awgsa.bsky.social - now has a Bluesky account as the executive made the decision to leave X - pls follow :)

***Job Alert*** 18-month full-time post-doc. Looking for an experienced qualitative researcher to join our team investigating youth radicalisation online. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... @tasayouth.bsky.social @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social

What I remember most about Michael:

- The massive portrait of Gramsci behind his desk, staring down at students during office hours

- Helping edit his edited volume of global sociology, a volume I think about at least once a week

- The way he lived theory

He had so much life left in him

RIP 💔

What exactly is oligarchy? And which anti-oligarchic measures have proven effective in the past?

New Guardian column.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is a really good study that tells us that we should stop talking about misinformation as a general sociological change, and instead understand it specifically as far-right politics #politics #SociologySky

Worried about how Meta's new moderation policies will impact online sexual and reproductive health promotion? So am I! This piece is co-authored with my expert colleague & HDR student Joanna Williams: theconversation.com/metas-shift-...

Hello Bluesky! We've just joined to share research, events and debates about basic income, economic security, ending poverty, inequality, conditionality and how we recognise diverse contributions to our community. Find out more at www.ausbasicincome.org

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈

Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇

With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n

No book ever gave me more pleasure than "Small World". (I told David Lodge that once at @bathfringe.co.uk and he was charmingly embarrassed.)
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...