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Eli Melby

@elimelby.bsky.social

PhD fellow in sociology, University of Bergen Associated researcher, CRAPUL University of Lausanne Political Sociology, gender, social movements, the microsociology of grassroots organizing Fulbright Fellow 24-25, UC Berkeley

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Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction โ€” โ€œAll I Think About Is Buying Cowsโ€ The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w

The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿ’–

on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...

30.10.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 154    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial [Garcia, Manon, Kronic, Maya B.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Living With Men: Reflections on the Pelicot Trial

Hi Bluesky,
The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now.
a.co/d/a0qeZeh
I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

08.09.2025 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Towards a critique of care fetishism: Social reproduction feminism and the ethics of care - Sara R Farris, 2025 Recently, there has been a notable rise in scholarly publications, research projects and public discussions engaging with care ethics and social reproduction fe...

"Using Marxโ€™s theory of commodity fetishism, it thus contends that care ethics risks treating care as a fetish, obscuring the systemic inequalities and inherent contradictions embedded in caregiving." doi.org/10.1177/1464...

28.09.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

25.09.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3894    ๐Ÿ” 1672    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 99
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

โ€œIf this madness doesnโ€™t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its peopleโ€™s voices silenced, their faces erased โ€” and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.โ€

Israel just killed him.

10.08.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6376    ๐Ÿ” 4779    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 128

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

30.07.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3813    ๐Ÿ” 1392    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

Hi and thank you!

13.05.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
r/ChatGPT
u/Kjfitz โ€ข 1h
The "Enshittification" has arrived

News
I asked ChatGPT about the impact of the current tarrifs on inventories over the next few months. It returned a long list of links to toiletries I might want to buy.
l asked it why it did that. It replied:
"As of April 28, 2025, OpenAl introduced new shopping features to ChatGPT, enhancing its capabilities to provide product recommendations complete with images, reviews, and direct purchase links. These features are available to all users, including those on Free, Plus, and Pro tiers, and even to users not logged in. The recommendations are generated organically, without paid advertisements or commission-based incentives, relying instead on structured metadata from third-party sources such as pricing, product descriptions, and reviews.
This update aims to offer a more personalized and streamlined shopping experience directly within the ChatGPT interface, allowing users to explore products across various categories like fashion, beauty, electronics, and home goods. If you have any specific preferences or need tailored recommendations, feel free to let me know!"

r/ChatGPT u/Kjfitz โ€ข 1h The "Enshittification" has arrived News I asked ChatGPT about the impact of the current tarrifs on inventories over the next few months. It returned a long list of links to toiletries I might want to buy. l asked it why it did that. It replied: "As of April 28, 2025, OpenAl introduced new shopping features to ChatGPT, enhancing its capabilities to provide product recommendations complete with images, reviews, and direct purchase links. These features are available to all users, including those on Free, Plus, and Pro tiers, and even to users not logged in. The recommendations are generated organically, without paid advertisements or commission-based incentives, relying instead on structured metadata from third-party sources such as pricing, product descriptions, and reviews. This update aims to offer a more personalized and streamlined shopping experience directly within the ChatGPT interface, allowing users to explore products across various categories like fashion, beauty, electronics, and home goods. If you have any specific preferences or need tailored recommendations, feel free to let me know!"

lmaooo

29.04.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3242    ๐Ÿ” 422    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 120
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Kvinnene i de ยซgule vesteneยป fikk mye makt Bevegelsen รธnsket รฅ vรฆre flat og uten ledere. Dette รฅpnet et handlingsrom for kvinner, viser en ny sosiologisk studie.

Hvilke lederoppgaver kreves for รฅ opprettholde lederlรธse og horisontale bevegelser, og hvem forventes รฅ gjรธre disse oppgavene? Jeg har blitt intervjuet av Kilden Kjรธnnsforskning om en nylig publisert artikkel basert pรฅ mitt doktorgradsprosjekt.

25.04.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œWe are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoyโ€™s passing. His untimely death is a great loss to sociology & to movements for justice around the world.โ€

@michaelabenson.bsky.social on a collegiate, courageous giant of the discipline.

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

05.02.2025 13:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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"Ce serait diffamer Jean-Marie Le Pen que de ne pas le traiter de tortionnaire" (P. Vidal-Naquet).
Aux racines coloniales du lepรฉnisme. Le dossier complet rassemblรฉ et contextualisรฉ pour la premiรจre fois.
En Algรฉrie chez Barzakh, en France au Passager clandestin (2024).

22.11.2024 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1013    ๐Ÿ” 430    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
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Grunnleggeren av Frankrikes ytre hรธyre er dรธd Det hรธyreorienterte franske partiet Nasjonal samlings grunnlegger, Jean-Marie Le Pen, er dรธd (96).

๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ

07.01.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me, facing the academic job market

06.12.2024 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about peopleโ€™s experiences with the state?

We use ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น reform to find out

shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

05.12.2024 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 826    ๐Ÿ” 386    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84

@margunn.bsky.social
@mlsee.bsky.social
@enlar.bsky.social

29.11.2024 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you've asked and still not fund yourself on this starter pack, please let me know because I think there may be some bug with the servers go.bsky.app/V9URRDU ,๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

29.11.2024 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love to be added, Thanks!

29.11.2024 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It seems that there was no Sociology Journals starter pack, so we created one: go.bsky.app/93ta3Gs -- do let us know which journals we missed!

22.11.2024 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 186    ๐Ÿ” 114    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Please add me, thanks!

18.11.2024 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Studentโ€™s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT Site web dโ€™Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.

In response to OpenAIโ€™s recent โ€˜A Studentโ€™s Guide to Writing with ChatGPTโ€™, Arthur Perret (maรฎtre de conferรฉnces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal โ€” A Studentโ€™s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

15.11.2024 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 675    ๐Ÿ” 317    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71

Seeing the new inflow from the other place I made a small starter pack of some people working on gender &/OR sexuality, biased towards Sociology. Let me know if you or anyone else should be on it!

12.11.2024 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Under the Smokescreen of Horizontality: Gendered Leading Tasks within the Yellow Vest Movement - Eli Melby, 2024 There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand ...

Very stoked to see the first article from my PhD project out open access in Gender & Society. Based on fieldwork in the Yellow vest movement, I explore the critical leadership work that is demanded to uphold so-called horizontal social movements.

1/2

24.09.2024 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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The refusal to accept leaders masks the work demanded to maintain flat structures.

I argue that while horizontal organizing opens up possibilities for women, it is also a smokescreen for movement participants to reproduce gendered expectations of women to do a third shift in organizing.

24.09.2024 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Under the Smokescreen of Horizontality: Gendered Leading Tasks within the Yellow Vest Movement - Eli Melby, 2024 There is little scholarship on how gender impacts the construction of leadership in supposedly leaderless, horizontal social movements. In this study, I expand ...

Very stoked to see the first article from my PhD project out open access in Gender & Society. Based on fieldwork in the Yellow vest movement, I explore the critical leadership work that is demanded to uphold so-called horizontal social movements.

1/2

24.09.2024 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, please.

21.09.2024 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would love to be added. Thanks!

16.09.2024 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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DIVE IN! Professor Bev Skeggsโ€™s archive is online.

Explore the work of the renowned sociologist, feminist & campaigner against #inequalities, and former editor of The Sociological Review & former chief executive of our Foundation. Includes research by theme and teaching resources.

bevskeggs.com

27.08.2024 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Angelo Reira med den beste norske klassiske raputgivelsen pรฅ flere รฅr Raptalentet kommer seirende ut i en fortelling om et liv der tungsinnet kunne tatt overhรฅnd.

Angelo Reira endelig ute med nytt album. Jeg anmelder det i ukas Morgenbladet www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/musik...

15.03.2024 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Vi har en lang vei รฅ gรฅ i kampen mot vold mot kvinner, slik min eminente veileder Margunn Bjรธrnholt viser i ny artikkel. God kampdag!

08.03.2024 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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