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Universities want new business models, not just discounts.

As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models

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You can subscribe now on all the most evil podcast platforms (Apple linked below, but search on your fave). I hope you’ll listen, and share, and tell me what you think. I’ve never put so much time into any project, and certainly not into a podcast. So I am very curious about how it is received.

Attention Higher Education, which has much more in common with Starbucks than it would like to acknowledge:

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Another #openaccess #research article up on Knowledge Stitch. This one on Canada, and how government policy has shaped advocacy: knowledgestitch.com/advocacy-cha...

Tucking back into Knowledge Stitch to amplify some #openaccess #research. This article from #Canada: When Stigma Doesn’t Transfer: Uber and taxi drivers. knowledgestitch.com/when-stigma-...

BASAS Annual Lecture 2025 with @naomihossain.bsky.social looks so good #Bangladesh: www.basas.org.uk/news-events/...

📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Michael Burawoy’s legacy: Why sociology must engage with the public for a more just world

Sociologist Tannistha Samanta, a member of our journal's editorial board, pays tribute to a giant of the discipline and staunch advocate for public sociology.

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“We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.”

@michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline.

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Gurminder K. Bhambra traces the entanglements between modern social thought and the history of colonialism.

🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers free open-access educational resources, including lectures, lesson plans & reading lists.

What have Russell Group universities been doing with all the money they got from hovering up all the home students after the lifting of the student numbers cap? Incredible to me they screwed the rest of the sector while still not avoiding gigantic deficits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(1/6) NHS Cheshire and Merseyside is considering stopping gluten free prescriptions, and they want feedback from those living in the area. A six-week public consultation is now open to gather views before the decision is made.

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Kayleigh Garthwaite looks at the rise of food banks in the UK, the idea of deservingness for those who use them and why #RightsNotCharity matters.

🔎 #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers open-access educational resources, including video lectures, reading lists & detailed lesson plans.

I’d like to share a project I’ve been building out, as I’d really love your support!
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This song, again. And also some irony in artists being included without having provided their consent. amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

Getting the awkward first post out of the way. Happy to have found another space to share and connect.