/4 🎓 This is the final episode before summer. For me, it marks the end of a relentless academic year of mostly teaching - the purest form of public sociology. This also wraps up my first decade of teaching. More reflections on this milestone and what changed for better and worse to follow later!💫

/3 🙏With thanks to our stellar guests, our support from the @aissr.bsky.social ‬and @erc.europa.eu funded BINQ project (Grant No. 101052649). Shout out as well as to co-editors Kobe de Keere and Sanne Pieters and our audio wizard Geert Veuskens.

/2🎙️✨ Great as summer travel listen or teaching companion for any MA seminar on the politics of meat, climate polarization, or the cultural sociology of the climate crisis! More platforms linked below.

You can find more about Happy Meat here (bit.ly/4527yKl) and Eco-Types here (bit.ly/40TStbf)

So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege.

Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊

✨Abstract below. Looking forward to keep on working with colleagues at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and beyond. Grateful to those who kindly gave advice when writing this grant @giselinde.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @dekkermischa.bsky.social Michiel Stapper @yoshaw.bsky.social & others 🙏

'Wandeling' is ook zeer eufemistisch van de Standaard hier. Toen ze uit de halte op St Cat kwamen waren ze al voelbaar op jacht. En let op: VRT e.d. bestempelen dit niet zelf als racistisch, hoe overduidelijk het motief ook is, laat dat liever over aan lokale media (bruzz) en politici. Typisch.

Ik zag ook al een copilot ding verschijnen in outlook. En zelfs de zoekmachine van de KU Leuven bibliotheken wil nu een AI integreren. There's no escape...

Seen this? Quite elegant and less reductive (but also somewhat less seductive...)

bsky.app/profile/camp...

Maps like these are a seductive but also somewhat reductive reading of the result, and one that plays into western German stereotypes of the East and the Ossis. See also @benstanley.eu 's thread below bsky.app/profile/bens...