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Matt Patterson

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Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, studying cities and culture. https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/matt-patterson

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · 15d

Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · 23d

Our department is hiring!

Ariel Ducey @aducey.bsky.social · 23d

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Jul 18

At least it brought some excitement into his life.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · May 2

The average American has three friends

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Apr 25

Waging war against pop music is something Adorno and the Gores share in common!

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Apr 24

NGL it’s pretty crazy to hear Al Gore quote Adorno and reference Habermas (though he uses the past tense as if he’s dead)

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 23

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Apr 22

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...

Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Mar 26

Getting flashbacks to the Captain John’s controversy.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Mar 3

Actually, for exploring, the East Village in 2007 is crazy (I also got to Calgary only 10 years ago and never saw any of these neighbourhoods back then)

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Mar 3

10 Ave SW:

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Feb 9

Academics in their 40s should dress like Edward Said.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Feb 5

I would have suggested Mike Davis’ “Militarization of Space” but looks like he got it.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Jan 11

“Screw the meek!” I remember this one from the 90s!

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Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · Jan 2

Want an introduction to the practice of #UrbanPlanning and #CityBuilding?

@sfucity.bsky.social CITY101 with @nlamontagne.bsky.social is open for enrollment.

Starts Wed, Jan 22 | 6pm PST | Register:
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City Program

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Jan 2

While we look back nostalgically at the formal fashion of the 1920s, the people back then were dreaming of the day it would be socially acceptable to wear pajamas to work.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Jan 1

People will be awakened by radio alarm clocks and baldness will be almost universal

The average man of 2025 will be awakened by a radio alarm clock. He will take a few minutes of radio light treatment to keep fit and alert for the business day. Little time will be wasted in putting on his synthetic felt one-piece suit and his hat -- the latter being worn almost continuously owing to the fact that baldness will be almost universal then.
--The Macon News, 20 Sep 1925

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Dec 27

Are you not carrying the truth of home ice inside you, Ted?

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Dec 27

I can’t remember the last time I saw an escalator working at a Bay in Calgary.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Dec 25

This, except you can only make out every 5th word over the Hans Zimmer score and the sound of a helicopter.

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Tim Haney @timhaney.bsky.social · Dec 19

My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply:

mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Dec 18

Check out this new tenure-track sociology job in Calgary: mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

MRU eRecruiter - JS Job Details

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Dec 4

Try this book, by Mauro Guillen, which looks at the role of the early clients of Bauhaus (European industrialists) and does not rely on conspiracy theories about woke socialists controlling the world: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Nov 30

City looked nice this week.

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Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Nov 21

Former YMCA, Philadelphia Chinatown (closed since 2007)

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Nov 19

Neil Postman, in 1985, predicting TV programs like the Daily Show intended to satirize television news but ultimately just further blurring the boundaries between entertainment and news.

Matt Patterson @yyz2yyc.bsky.social · Nov 14

Second, the GOP does not hold a monopoly on materialism. Trump’s status as a celebrity businessman lent credibility to his materialist campaign message. Less so for Romney’s businessman persona. Dems could have run a campaign that was both progressive and materialist 8/8