Anna Skarpelis

Thank you for the kind words, and congratulations on your slate of awards this year -- the Junior Theorist Award going to a gender scholar is such welcome and great news!

Delighted to receive the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association's Comparative Historical Sociology Section -- and in great company to boot!

Here's the article, feel free to message me if you cannot get past the paywall: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

ACLS awards 36 Project Development Grants, the largest cohort in the… | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ACLS awards 36 Project Development Grants, the largest cohort in the history of the program: https://bit.ly/4iPRP4A The $5,000 grants support scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles who are unde...

Delighted to receive the 2025 ACLS Project Development Grant for my book www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

JTS truly being one of the best things about sociology! Presented in 2015, co-organized it in 2016 with Clayton Childress. Excellent experience.

submit to the 2025 junior theorists symposium! 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium–Call for Précis SUBMIT YOUR PRÉCIS HERESUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 21, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern Time The 19th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open to new s…

Sociology grad students & recent phds: Submit to the 2025 Junior Theorists Symposium! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/s...

Giving a talk at CU Boulder tomorrow and had joked with the wonderful colleague who invited me that if another plane accident happened before the scheduled talk date, I might ask to do an online talk instead. (I landed in Denver on a Delta flight today at noon today. Help.)

Tonight at the IPK: Hilke Schellmann discusses her book The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now with Ed Kang and @akms.bsky.social.

This Wednesday!

Looking forward to discussing Hilke's book at @ipk.bsky.social in mid-March -- come one, come all!

We're down to the wire here, but the UW Center for an Informed Public is taking applications for (2) postdoctoral scholars. Review starts very soon. For more info about these positions, including qualifications & instructions for applying:

Read more: lnkd.in/g6q_spek
Job posting: lnkd.in/gJ7x5Zwk

our call for papers for a special issue: "Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century?" edited with @ulrikebialas.bsky.social & #AryanKarimi

Deadline for abstracts: March 31st

More info: imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

—STS-inspired analyses of the epistemic assumptions in mathematical modeling, innovative methods for handling unusual or problematic data, or theoretical work addressing the normative aspects of modeling complex systems.

whether brought about by the data used, theories applied, or epistemologies. We are especially curious about creative and non-conventional uses and manipulations of data. Submissions can take various forms:

study how power and epistemology influence mathematical and computational models of culture. We invite contributions on any empirical topic that highlight how authors navigated the moral and normative challenges posed by the aim of modeling culture,

Section Sessions | American Sociological Association Section Sessions are planned by the ASA Sections. Section sessions are open to all paper/extended abstract submissions that meet the submission criteria. You

@asanews.bsky.social folks, please submit to the Culture / Mathematical sociology section session "Culture and Computational Social Science" that I'm organising More information here www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...

Specifically, we are looking for papers that:

On Jan 7 the PAPERBACK of Seeing Others came out w/
UNDERGRAD TEACHING GUIDE (link below). Simon and Schuster sends a free copy (pdf or hard copy) if you consider it for your course

The book is partly about Gen Z and it certainly speaks to them!!
simonandschuster.com/books/Seeing...

EGEN The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group

HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!!

EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics.

Due Feb 1, 2025

www.egenpolisci.org

#gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social

Would love to be added, too! Thanks, @tomaashby.bsky.social and @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social !

People telling me to sort out my footnotes as I write, as it will save time later. Don’t they realise that time now is scarce, time later infinite?

Follow @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social for more good stories on AI + hardware.

Job!!!!

Hey friends! I went and quickly put together a starter pack for those of us who research media technology history. It's got some glaring ommisions at the moment, so please send me more names.

Would love to be added! Thanks!

| Knight First Amendment Institute

okay I guess we're trying Bluesky again! Job opening @knightcolumbia.org - come work with me and @nadinefj.bsky.social as a program coordinator for our research and policy teams! Info here: knightcolumbia.org/page/researc...

Check out the @asaskat.bsky.social Starter Pack of 60 sociologists of science, knowledge, and technology!

To be added in the list, use the Google Form in the next post. Will add folks every few days.

go.bsky.app/UFYjuhM

I’ve pulled together a provisional Right-Wing Studies starter pack.

go.bsky.app/CQuuiuL

Nylon stockings under a microscope, 2021. Nylon, a polymer created in 1939, had widespread use, particularly and gradually replaced natural materials like silk, catgut, fur, and leather (Quye 2014: 214). Image: Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2023-03-27_(pt) https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabricated-natures-stories-bio-material-archive-deadline-july-15-2024

CFP for "Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive" (workshop deadline Jul 15 2024)--please share to folks working on studies of multidisciplinary sciences re: #biomaterials #fibers #textiles #biomimesis #materials #animals #plants #prostheses www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/fabrica...

Luis Flores is one of the most innovative and unafraid scholars I have had the pleasure to see grow.

His work is at the intersection of stratification research and economic sociology and you should absolutely check it out: www.luisflores.online

So proud to have been along for a bit of the ride!

Expressions of interest are invited for articles to appear in the 50th anniversary issue of the journal Social Science History. Theme is ‘past and present’. Short abstracts due Apr 2nd 2024; paper is due Jan 15 2024. More info:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ag7s0...

📗📉📈🗃#history #demography #AcademicSky