Giovanni Zampieri

the thing in medieval confessional manuals about being careful not to accidentally introduce your parishioners to ways of sinning they had never yet considered. like that.

Academia is just a series of increasingly specific regrets, each with its own citation style

We're seeking a full-time LSE Fellow to contribute to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and to act as an academic mentor to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

📅 Applications close Sunday 16 November

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the worse the shared draft the better the friend

I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice?
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Nothing sums up research better than spending one week tweaking a paragraph until it returns to its initial state

New in ST!🔔For a Strabismic Sociology: A View from the Southern Cone - Claudio E. Benzecry, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South

Full details here:
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@asanews.bsky.social

can I be included? (I have been trained as a historical social scientist, but I won't tell anyone)

Every grant application is basically “what if I did the same thing, but with a budget and lower expectations”

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

"Significant contribution to the field" often translates to "first person to care about this very specific thing"

📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline.

We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI

Not book smart, not street smart, but a secret third kind of smart (not)

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

it was amazing indeed!

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

British Journal of Sociology Conference Find out more about the BJS conference 2026, which will provide an in-person platform for academics across the discipline to advance their research.

👀 Call for Papers 👀

The BJS Conference is back! 23rd and 24th of April 2026 at LSE. Please submit an abstract by October 20th and share widely. It’s going to be 💥

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Every academic has exactly one paper they're secretly proud of and twelve they pretend don't exist.

Artisanal, small batch, typo-strewn emails are becoming the real currency of our time

We are happy to announce the 2025 International Sociological Association's RC16 Junior Theorist Award!

This year the RC16 Junior Theorist Award goes to Romulo Lelis (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning), for his paper:

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Excited that my article 'Levels of Legibility: Roles and the Flow of State Information in French Morocco' is now out in Social Science History! The paper shows how French administrators' internal communications transformed environmental knowledge and practices in Morocco

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getting ready for #ASA2025 at the Art Institute of Chicago

"GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert."

The inaugural issue of Theory and Social Inquiry is now available! I love that it includes an orientation toward #ProblemSolvingSociology. Check it out, problem-solvers! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...