Stellenmarkt: Assistenzprofesssur (m/w/d) für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt "Kommunikation und soziologische Theorie" […]

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This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

„We live in an ordinal society, a society oriented toward, justified by, and governed through measurement“, argumentieren @marionf.bsky.social und @kjhealy.co. Désirée Waibel @amateurgarde.bsky.social und @thorstenpeetz.bsky.social haben das Buch rezensiert: www.soziopolis.de/grenzen-eine...

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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CfP Plenarveranstaltung "Die gesellschaftlichen Zukünfte der Künstlichen Intelligenz" auf dem @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Kongress 2026 in Mainz. Jury: @fanicker.bsky.social und @annekkrueger.bsky.social kongress2026.soziologie.de/calls-for-pa... Deadline: 31.03.2026

Damit die Suche nach dem perfekten Weihnachtsgeschenk nicht zur Tragödie wird, beraten wir morgen alle, die noch das perfekte Buchgeschenk suchen. Wen wollt Ihr beschenken? Je genauer Eure Umschreibung, desto passender sind unsere Tipps für Bücher und Caps.

Now available! INSIDE DATA SCIENCE shows how the interplay of personal reflection, technical rigor, and collective scrutiny gave the big-data era, for better or for worse, a human face. buff.ly/YZtcxic #DataScience #BigData #Tech #DataForGood #RSTATS #NYC #Sociology #Discovery #Innovation

Für die theoretisch Versierten unter euch: Die Ausschreibung für die Professur für allgemeine Soziologie an unserem Institut ist raus. adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD...

1 Assistant Professor in Sociology, LSE: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

do we (sociologists and historians) know - its from the late 18th, early 19th century on that 'home' became the seemingly natural space for a seemingly natural disposition of women fascinating new study

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

NECHE is proposing eliminating libraries from accreditation standards, making them optional in higher ed. Public commentary is open until 10/15. Learn more from EveryLibrary: docs.google.com/document/d/1..., make public comment to standardsreview@neche.org, & share this widely.

At the Risk of Disappearing: How the Draft 2026 NECHE Standards Remove Libraries and Librarians from Accreditation - 6 Oct 2025

Executive Summary For decades, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) has shaped institutional priorities across governance, academic quality, student success, and resource allocation...

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Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer setzt generative KI in das Konzept des verteilten Handelns und postuliert "Im Kern stellen Systeme generativer KI eine Art agentifiziertes menschliches Wissen und Können dar. Zum Sessiontitel sagt er " #KI ist nicht Akteur ohne Mensch, sondern eher Mensch ohne Mensch." #DGS2025

Heute um 14.15 alle so: "Model car, model wife, model village - Model farm, model right, model village" #dgs2025

📢📆 CfP für die gemeinsame Tagung der @gender4dgs.bsky.social und @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social mit dem Titel „Geschlechter des Sozialen: Dialoge zu Verortungen und Perspektiven soziologischer Theorien“ Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche - multiparadigmatische - Einreichungen 🦚

Still thinking on how media and politicians response evinces an absolute lack of ability to think through culture (with a superb example of precisely such analysis from @profc.bsky.social below) but also motivated reasoning to quickly accept one interpretation www.facebook.com/share/p/14Js...

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!

Cowboy Hannah@cowboymindset.bsky.social · last yr.

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I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

This is the academic "when they go low, we go high" moment. You can do this the ethical way, but it is comparatively resource intensive. Let's not mimic the techbro spiel of "what's a little disenfranchisement for your improved user experience".

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last yr.

An experiment deploying AI-generated messages on a Reddit subforum has drawn criticism for, among other critiques, a lack of informed consent from unknowing participants in the community.

What DOGE doesn’t understand about bureaucrats: they are the government employees that stand between the public and amateurish errors, favoritism and selfishness buff.ly/OdUThWT Michel Anteby @bostonu.bsky.social

Bureaucrats get a bad rap, but they deserve more credit − a sociologist of work explains why

More than a century of evidence suggests that bureaucrats, at their best, stand for expertise, fairness and public service.

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"However, telling managers that they are dealing with a predictive technology that outputs probabilities, leading to many invisible failures, will not yield any consulting gigs. Watching the AI magic vanish tends to kill the mood in boardrooms." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Or, history of Men is just sequences of Ron Hubbards pushing creepy gear until the end of time

Wait, is Role Theory back?