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Taylor Brooks
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PhD Candidate in Sociology •• Researching: US immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• photography 🏳️‍🌈
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It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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It has been enormously difficult to see our members at American Families United go through forced family separation. Here's the story of Jenni and her husband. "Mexican father, reflecting a trend, leaves family of 19 years and self-deports due to threat of arrest."

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Mexican father, reflecting a trend, leaves family of 19 years and self-deports due to threat of arrest
Fidel Rivera, a husband and father who has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is one of thousands of undocumented migrants who have self-deported due to the threat of arrest.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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State regulators should step up to investigate Ring’s new face recognition feature. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature
Many biometric privacy laws across the country are clear: Companies need your affirmative consent before running face recognition on you.
www.eff.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿

Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:

Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia by Guest et. al. (2025)
YouTube video by librebel
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November 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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annika lindberg on what immigration detention in Denmark is like: www.manchesterhive.com/downloadpdf/...
www.manchesterhive.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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'Can sociology meet the moment?' by Adrian Favell

Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'

Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...

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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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It’s easy to dismiss the humble exclamation mark as harmless enthusiasm — but new research suggests it says a lot about gender, communication, & power.

🔗 tinyurl.com/bdd994dy

TLDR 👇

#langsky #linguistics #appliedlinguistics #language #languageandgender #languageandpower #punctuation
Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?
It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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event.newschool.edu/immigrationd...

Online Immigration Detention Event, with the authors, on November 6th
ONLINE | Book Talk: Immigration Detention Inc.
Join us ONLINE on November 6 for a book talk with authors Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon!The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019, and even higher today. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up.Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income. At the same time, those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operations. Drawing on over a decade of research focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US.Coming at a pivotal social and political moment, Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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It's hard to know whether he's lying or delusional. Certainly 'AI' provides an explanation for the incredulous amongst his supporters. But here's Reagan's speech where, very early in, he states he is loathed to introduce tarrifs > youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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🚨 New blog post!🚨

'Uncovering the linguistic rules at play in internet memes', by @lieven.bsky.social & Barbara Dancygier, authors of The Language of Memes (out now).

https://cup.org/49eHzSj

#Linguistics 🐦🐦 #LangSky #BookSky #AcademicSky #ReadUP
Uncovering the linguistic rules at play in internet memes
During the 2022 Oscars ceremony, actor Will Smith famously walked onto the stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face, in response to a joke about the former’s wife.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Three episodes in and I think I'm hooked.
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ill-advised by Bill Nighy - coming soon!
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October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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📣New Interview📣

'Moving from an immaterial feed to a poster on a street furnishes AfD’s claims with context and permanence.'

@gsamaras.bsky.social discusses the mnemonic normalisation of the German far right through its visual politics.

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Interview: Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right (Georgios Samaras) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Georgios Samaras's article 'Mnemonic normalisation in the visual politics of the German far-right' (2025)
reacpol.net
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Our team presented five papers at the CSCW (computer supported cooperative work and social computing) conference this week in Bergen, Norway. (CSCW is an ACM conference and a “home conference” for my team.) I’m going to share a few highlights in a thread here.
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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New paper out in Visual Communication with Steve Strudwick (open access). Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump - Christopher Hart, Steve Strudwick, 2025
The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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*Highly recommended* - Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra have created a vital stack of evidence of the financial and business behind rapidly expanding #detention facilities. Coming to a 'managed migration' system near you: food offered at minimum calorific intake to increase outsourcer profit.
Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention.

Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️

www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Join us on zoom tomorrow for @crexuio.bsky.social & CANSES webinar series, with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London. We will discuss the challenges of using an empathetic methodology to interview far right extremists 🤓
Webinar series: Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
This webinar series, co-organized by CANSES and C-REX, aims to facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional challenges that ar...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future.
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And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...
October 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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How many people who went to school in the U.K. have English to A-level standard? And how are they going to prove/measure it? They are just picking stupid ideas out of a tombola at this stage.
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology
The Sociological Quarterly
Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly
www.tandfonline.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM