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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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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 7d
“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

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 7d
"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!

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 8d
daumen sind gedrückt

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 9d
“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.

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Susannah Eckersley @susannaheckersley.bsky.social · 9d
Tenure track juniorprofessorship in education and communication of material culture, Oldenburg University

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Juniorprofessur Didaktik und Vermittlung materieller Kultur (W1 mit Tenure Track W2) // Universität Oldenburg
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 9d
"[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

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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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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 11d
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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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 13d
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 · 13d
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 · 13d
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 · 14d
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 · 14d
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.

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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?”
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Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · 14d
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 · 19d
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 · 24d
🏆 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 · 24d
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 · 29d
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

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Nov 14
“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.”

@alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s most recent issue.

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Illustration for The Sociological Review magazine's September 2025 issue. Whimsical drawing of three anthropomorphic flowers – orange, green and black against a brown and cream background – protesting together. One holds a black flag, another shouts through a megaphone, and the third listens intently with blue sound waves connecting them. Artist: Raquel Figueira

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Nov 14
but in the company of majestic cats! 😻

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Nov 13
Can anyone point me to any public health campaigns (ideally video) from during Covid19 which in some way say "stay apart to stay safe" or similar messaging? I know the UK ones, but I want an example from further afield (reposts appreciated)

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Nov 12
Food for thought: explore our Virtual Issue of The Sociological Review journal, a companion to our Annual Lecture 2025 with Shahram Khosravi.

📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring migration, refugees and borders, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Nov 7
and a cool video too! thanks for sharing

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Marcos Ancelovici @mancelovici.bsky.social · Nov 7
A new collective volume (in open access) that could be of interest to people working on #tenant activism and #housing struggles: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

#RentStrike
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
uclpress.co.uk

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Lisa Ann Richey @brandaid-world.bsky.social · Nov 1
Social protection. It’s isn’t just for protecting the poor. It’s for maintaining the social fabric.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 1
Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Oct 29
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · Oct 31
1 Assistant Professor in Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG506/a...
Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Politics at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Politics on jobs.ac.uk!
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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Oct 31
just sent you an email, but without exclamation points - obviously a mistake!

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Oct 31
The Sociological Review Foundation is a registered charity whose purpose is to advance the education of the public on the subject of sociology and related disciplines.

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