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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

🏆 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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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

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:

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Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3.15-4.15 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from early Jan - mid-Feb?

Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), by Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko 3 track album

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...

my thought was also traffic - like Gayle Rubin’s traffic in women, but also exchange, circulation as suggested above

📣 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

AFPP 2026 Call for Papers

#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/

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

“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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but in the company of majestic cats! 😻

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)

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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and a cool video too! thanks for sharing

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...

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

Social protection. It’s isn’t just for protecting the poor. It’s for maintaining the social fabric.

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!

1 Assistant Professor in Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG506/a...

Southampton Science Comedy! An November evening of science-themed stand-up comedy, stories, and silliness from some of Southampton’s funniest and nerdiest people!

Calling all Women in STEM!
November's Southampton Science Comedy features women in STEM who rap, control AIs and electrocute men - because science! Come along and bring your friends!!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

Text-based graphics for The Sociological Review Foundation Annual Report 2022, The Sociological Review Foundation Annual Report 2023, The Sociological Review Foundation Annual Report 2024

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.

➡️ Read our recent Annual Reports to learn more about the work we do:
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just sent you an email, but without exclamation points - obviously a mistake!

Gute Besserung!❤️

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

Join us for a virtual conversation with ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winners, Chana Teeger and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, on race, memory, and injustice. I’ll be moderating this discussion.

📅 November 19 (Wed) 10–11 AM CST / 4–5 PM GMT
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

oh Jannis, so sorry to read this and such an understandable decision, so very sorry about what you have experienced, the work of you and your team is so important! glad that @interactfu.bsky.social remains here and will certainly stay in touch

Lizzie Reed and Robin Skyer Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251388708 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it?

@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

What a beautifully written and breathtakingly honest paper. It's rare to see this level of honesty, reflexivity, and creativity in academia.

It’s a terrific article and will hopefully be widely read!

”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social

How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.

➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo

Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all.

You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423

Bipolar time is a metaphor for the complexities of times as we variously experience them, and as it intersects with other times and demands. It provides a way to index the components of time, of illness, of accelerating contexts, which construct the experience of failure. Bipolar time describes the non-rhythmic space where failure is everywhere and nowhere, personal-affective, contextual and structural. It is not just a metaphor for personal struggle; we offer it as a critical tool to analyse how times move – and how (or whether) we move against/with time – in ways which reinforce inequalities. Bipolar time offers a mechanism to explore how failure is attached to certain bodies and why ‘reasonable adjustments’ or accommodations for disability do not preclude the painful affective experience of delivering work on time, slowly, or not at all

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review

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#bipolar #Sociology