Recently published review of my book, INTRODUCTION TO CONVICT CRIMINOLOGY (2024), by Jim Thomas, Ph.D jeffreyianross.com/wp-content/u... appeared online in CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW #bookreview #convictcriminology #corrections #prisons

UC Press recently shared this generous endorsement from Didier Fassin whose research has long been a major intellectual inspiration for me, so this means a great deal. Out in March 2027 with @ucpress.bsky.social #TheAutocrat'sPlaybook #BookSky #Authoritarianism #NewBook

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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At least 3.3m people were victims of Dutch enslavement, research claims

Figure is more than five times the widely used 600,000 figure widely cited in apologies by king and politicians

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Full article: How does political competition persist in dominant party systems? A case study of contained pluralism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How does political competition persist in dominant party systems? A case study of contained pluralism

This article addresses a key puzzle in comparative politics: how political competition persists in subnational dominant party systems without producing turnover. While existing scholarship attribut...

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Delighted to share that I've recently joined the Editorial Board of Cultural Sociology, of the British Sociological Association. I look forward to supporting constructive feedback and reading exciting new work in the field. Please send your best work our way. journals.sagepub.com/home/CUS

Universities are indispensable to reproduce democracy, society and all kinds of other jobs. So if they are showing up as costs on your balance sheet but not as essential capacities, get a different balance sheet approach

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last mo.

We don't know who needs to hear this but ... wait ... yes we do .. it's bloody everyone.

My latest blog post, “Eleven Films I use in my Criminology and Criminal Justice Classes” jeffreyianross.com/eleven-films... #criminology #criminaljustice #films #instruction #movies #pedagogy #PhDLife #teaching #universitypedagogy

Eleven Films I use in my Criminology and Criminal Justice Classes

Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate id...

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My editor has just shared the cover of my forthcoming book, The Autocrat's Playbook: How Authoritarians Weaponize Morality to Destroy Societies @ucpress.bsky.social (April 2027) l really liked the cover. The striking typography and crowd imagery capture the book's central argument well! #NewBook

My editor has just shared the cover of my forthcoming book, The Autocrat's Playbook: How Authoritarians Weaponize Morality to Destroy Societies @ucpress.bsky.social (April 2027) l really liked the cover. The striking typography and crowd imagery capture the book's central argument well! #NewBook

The final copy of A Slow Revolution from @cornellupress.bsky.social has arrived. The next 30 days I will be spending on the most meticulous stage of the proces as I will be checking every word and punctuation mark second time. One final push before the book meets its readers hopefully. #AcademicSky

#OnThisDay, 90 years ago, the Popular Front took office in France. Formed after the failed far-right coup attempt of February 1934, the coalition of Socialists, Communists, and the Radical Party emerged from growing demands for left-wing unity against fascism.

Our lives. Our families. Our futures. The LGBTQ community has always fought for our right to exist freely. This Pride Month and every other month of the year, we’re protesting the government’s attacks on our rights and celebrating our queer joy.

As a gay academic, #PrideMonth has a personal meaning for me. I stand with queer scholars worldwide whose honesty can still cost them safety, freedom, or careers. Pride means solidarity, memory, and courage. It exists because #queer people before us rebelled and refused to disappear. #LoveisLove

”It’s a damning reflection of the UK's slide away from being a world leader on LGBTQIA+ rights." From 1st to 22nd in just ten years, the UK drops again in ranking of LGBTQIA+ rights 👇

UK drops in Rainbow Map scoring again, as Spain takes top spot

The United Kingdom has slid down yet again in the ILGA Europe annual Rainbow Map ranking of countries’ LGBTQIA+ rights provisions.

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Rage and remembrance: “Remembering is a political act. To forget would be a second murder.” Through conversations with citizens and a tour of public memorials, @bariscaylimessina.com explores how commemorations of Sicily’s mafia victims expose a wound that has never healed. buff.ly/Fm2QZDI

My latest blog post, “Two Sundays in a Row,” jeffreyianross.com/two-sundays-... #Instruction #JapaneseFood #JapaneseCuisine #Washoku #SkillAcquisition #Instruction

Two Sundays In a Row

On my first visit, I brought my Japanese knives (the short deba and the long yanagiba), packed away in my knife case. Then, standing at the trunk of my car, parked across the street from the restauran...

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Pretending climate impacts aren't happening costs $20 trillion. #academicsky #AcademicChatter #econsky #ClimateChange #greensky #sciencesky #climate #ipcc 🧪 archive.is/nQMQs#select...

A $20 Trillion Wealth Transfer Is Happening Under Our Noses

Economist Paul Samuelson’s famous joke that the stock market has predicted nine of the past five recessions applies to strategists, economists and day traders as much as it does to the stock market. F...

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After more than a decade of research, it is moving to see A Slow Revolution read, reviewed, and endorsed by scholars whose work I have long admired. Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 6 months and can't wait to see the book cover. #AcademicSky #BookSky www.waterstones.com/book/a-slow-...

How do colonial histories continue to shape the modern world? Join us next Wednesday 27 May for a free online discussion exploring colonialism, capitalism and sociology today. 📅 27 May ⏰ 6:30–8pm BST 💻 Zoom Free to attend — spaces limited. Register here: buff.ly/7reEMGi

Nearly 700 sociologists have pledged to boycott this year's ASA meeting in a fight for a democratic sociology. Join the boycott, and share (DM or email video) with us why you plan to #BoycottASA Read #BoycottASA FAQ: www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/faqs

"Our community is scared and exhausted but we are fighting back." It's important that all of us who stand with the LGBTIQA+ community support the Good Law project in their appeal against the high court decision. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 3mo ago

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

After more than a decade of research, it is moving to see A Slow Revolution read, reviewed, and endorsed by scholars whose work I have long admired. Forthcoming with Cornell University Press in 6 months and can't wait to see the book cover. #AcademicSky #BookSky www.waterstones.com/book/a-slow-...

Net immigration drops to lowest level since 2012. Bad news for Nigel Farage and chums who will soon be in search of another moral panic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

UK net migration drops to 171,000 in 2025, lowest since 2012 excluding pandemic - follow live

The figure, showing the difference between the number of people arriving and those leaving the country, reached a peak of 944,000 in the year to March 2023 - but has been falling since.

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Wonderful news to wake up to this morning as my paper “The Consent to Destroy: Imperial Melancholia and the Hegemony of Fragmentation” has been accepted by Sociological Theory. It also reminds me why 15,000-word limit like in #SociologicalTheory still matters for theory-driven work. #AcademicSky

#Sociology is hugely relevant and it is primary discipline to understand a world changing at brutal speed. But the discipline has softened its public voice out of fear of being labelled activist rather than scientific. Meanwhile, philosophers occupy spaces once shaped by sociologists. #AcademicSky

EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · 3mo ago

Sociology Is Surrendering Its Public Voice to Philosophy

Join us in the May issue of The Sociological Review magazine as we explore the world, revisit the past and walk in each other’s shoes. We meet young people in India, mafia resisters in Italy, Black mothers of autistic children, and explore the work of sociologists in Ukraine. buff.ly/IvAo1Fb

Proof that sociologists occasionally leave the writing, pause the marking, and see daylight while trying to pose.

Some AI writing is easy to spot because it has no rhytm and remains superficial. But I am cautious about abandoning perfectly good English phrases simply because AI now overuses them. Repetition, contrast, tricolons, and em dashes are all the tools of narrative. And all good writers have used them.

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴@jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/29/ai-written-books-novel-shy-girl-publishers

The May 2026 issue of The Sociological Review magazine is out now! Les Back and Laurie Taylor take us back to 1960s gangland London, plus we examine how Sicilians remember those killed by the mafia, sociology’s role in Ukraine, and the barriers to adulthood in India. Read it here: buff.ly/rdTFWsq