Lois Lee

This is SOOO out of date (after slow start to my bluesky journey) but what a joy to come on today and be reminded of a joyful day and an amazing accomplishment!

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

Thanks so much! And interesting point about universities

Six voices on the search for meaning in the modern world How should we navigate existential questions in our increasingly secular society? We asked six people for their perspectives

Are we experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in the west?

In the first edition of our new Voices section, we asked six people for their perspectives.

Hear from @andrewcopson.bsky.social, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @loielee.bsky.social and more

SUCCESS: Mubarak Bala is free! President of the Nigerian Humanist Association Mubarak Bala is finally free after nearly four-and-a-half years of imprisonment for ‘blasphemous’ posts on Facebook. Mubarak was jailed in 2020 and convi...

Delighted to hear the news that Mubarak Bala (president of the Nigerian Humanist Association) has been released, after being imprisoned on blasphemy charges.

This case is a reminder that blasphemy & apostasy laws should be repealed, so everyone has the freedom of religion or belief.

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

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This is a really important point about the very low number of academic texts available in audio format. I often use a screen reader but citation practices, pdf formatting etc means they don’t work well for academic work. To be truly open access, academic publications must have audio versions.

Academic jargon, translated

The average social science journal article now cites five times as many references as such an article did back in 1960
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
#AcademicSky

DPhil in Population Health scholarship for pandemic research Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? Apply for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health by Tuesday 3 December 2024 and you could be offered a…

Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? https://buff.ly/4fHGfI2 The Pandemic Sciences Institute is offering a scholarship for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health to work with PSI Investigators on a PSI-related project, apply by 3 Dec.

Two year post-doc at LSE's International Inequalities Institute working on inherited inequality and social mobility - deadline Dec 1st

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Full professor of sociology with a focus on “micro-organizational sociology" (100%) - Vacancies - ... Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Come be a sociology professor in a picture-postcard city!

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