And that’s a wrap! Thanks to our amazing committee, presenters, participants and everyone who helps to make this one of my favourite weekends of the year. See you in 2027! #IAVS2026

Final paper sessions - Europe and Latin America! Julieta Campos gets us started with her critical, important work bringing together laboratory sociology and critical animal studies to analyse discourses around rats used in scientific testing #IAVS2026

Tiptoeing that treacherous line between correct number of sour patch kids to stay awake and too many to go to sleep after #IAVS2026

Next up we have a fabulous panel on Romanian vegan sociologies with Maria Martelli, Aron Nor, Irina Frasin, Rimona Afana, & Alina S. Rusu #IAVS2026

Kicking off with a UK panel, Corey Wrenn takes us through the links between beards, animality and the maintenance of race, class, gender, species #IAVS2026

Day 2 of #IAVS2026 ! We've got panels from the UK, Europe, Australia and a deep dive into Romanian vegan sociologies (plus us co-founders rounding up the day). Still time to join us and find out what @katestew.art is baking this year www.vegansociology.com/conference

And that's a wrap for day 1! See you all tomorrow for another packed day of vegan sociologies around the world #IAVS2026

Final session for the day - North America is here to see us out! Andrea Polanco from @faunalytics.bsky.social kicks us off exploring whether animal advocacy changes hearts and minds in a randomized control trial #IAVS2026

Tune in now for 'Cultured Meat, Speciesism, and the Futures of Vegan Sociology' - a panel with Vasile T. Stǎnescu, Richard Giles and Nathan Poirier #IAVS2026

#IAVS2026 is here! The 2026 meeting of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists has officially begun (Pssst, it’s still not too late to grab a ticket!) events.humanitix.com/iavs-2026-in...

IAVS 2026: Internationalising Vegan Sociology

The 2026 IAVS annual meeting will showcase research related to veganism, nonhuman animal rights, and sociological theories of international relevance.

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So exciting to hear about the Vegan Sociology book series with emerald press! Series co-editor @katestew.art joins us with Katy Mathers (Commissioning Editor) and authors Kadri Aavik, Ellie Atayee-Bennett, and Louis Gough. Impressive pipeline of vegan sociology scholarship! #IAVS2026

For this year's theme (internationalising vegan sociology) we are going region by region to learn about the many vegan sociologies around the world. First up: the Australians! #IAVS2026

We're off in 10mins! Join us at the 2026 International Association of Vegan Sociologists 6th annual conference - free, online, a guaranteed good time! www.vegansociology.com/conference for info #IAVS2026

Conference, International Association of Vegan Sociologists

Past Conferences  Senses & Emotions  2025 Interrogating Capitalism 2024 Vegan Intersectionality 2023 Vegan Sociologies of Space and...

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Spent an incredible week at the Canadian critical animal studies conference in Montreal. Fabulous, critical and creative reflections on wild/feral/free living animals so lovely to see this incredible work being done!

New piece with @animalsociology.bsky.social : legislative change is a good step but we need to resource supports and services for human and nonhuman victim-survivors theconversation.com/protecting-p...

Protecting pets in domestic violence cases will take more than a law change

Changing NZ’s Crimes Act to cover family pets caught in violent situations is a good start. But better resourcing and training will be needed to make it work.

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New article alert! How do renters with pets and housing stakeholders navigate multispecies renting in South Australia? Open Access, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Sociology #Animals #Qualitative #Housingresearch

‘If I don’t like the cats then they have to go’: navigating pet unfriendly rental accommodation

While nonhuman animals are often described as family, beloved, irreplaceable when fulfilling a companion animal role, they sit in a complex socio-legal context that does not value them as subjects ...

tandfonline.com

Just over 3 weeks to submit for IAVS 2026! 📣 The call for papers for this year's International Association of Vegan Sociologists Conference deadline is in just over 3 weeks - please submit by 31st May 2026 to info@vegansociology.com More details on our webpage! www.vegansociology.com/conference/

Coming July 2026! This one has been a long time in the making :) #pet #vegansociology #sociology link.springer.com/book/9789819...

Critical Pet Studies

This book defines and and argues for a critical pet studies that challenges conventional narratives about pets.

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One of my favourite parts of being a CAS scholar is the thoughtful chats I get to have with others in the field. This week @animalsociology.bsky.social and I recorded a gentle meander around CAS book publishing, watch it here: animalsinsocietygroup.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/n...

Navigating Publishing Challenges in Animal Studies

Today, Dr Zoei Sutton and I sat down for what was supposed to be a quick chat about publishing in critical animal studies. We ended up chatting for an hour about all kinds of issues, including: How…

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Animal studies folks! Some fab vegan sociologists are putting on a stream at ESA2026, please come so we can have many vegan adventures abstracts due Jan 30 ❤️🐮🥬🎉

#IAVS2025 Day 2 is underway! Such a great collection of papers today, this truly is my favourite weekend of the year

About to kick off another weekend of Vegan Sociology at the #IAVS2025 conference. One of my favourite weekends of the year and definitely my favourite academic conference.

And we’re off! Our 6th annual vegan sociology conference starts today, still time to join us for a fab suite of vegan sociologies of emotions and the senses #IAVS2025

Sociologists! Macquarie uni is looking to cut sociology, a discipline critical to understanding society now more than ever - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

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Animal Studies folks!! You can still sneak in an abstract (I hear we’ll still take them on the 30th of June). Come join us in beautiful Toowoomba, it is our 20th anniversary after all 😻

AASA Australasian Animal Studies Association@animalstudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're thrilled to announce our CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2025 AASA Conference: "Centring Animals Across the Disciplines"! 📆 5th Nov. - 7th. Nov. at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia ⏰ Proposals due 20 June 2025 #animalstudies #academia animalstudies.org.au/aasa2025-cen...

Revisiting pattrice jones' Commonalities of Oppression talk while working on some research today... this talk has lived rent free in my head since I first saw it, watch it, it's great #themainstreamisnotthemajority www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Fj...

Commonalities of Oppression - pattrice jones

YouTube video by Farm Animal Rights Movement

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Heartening to see the outrage at ill-treatment of other animals in Australia…now let’s extend that to concern for ALL other animals (and perhaps stop selling parts of animals’ bodies as souvenirs at the airport..) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Baby wombat grabber Sam Jones leaves Australia after intense backlash including from PM and immigration minister

Montana-based hunting influencer flies out of Australia on Friday after home affairs minister said he couldn’t ‘wait to see the back of this individual’

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Quality of governance in Australian Universities hearing streaming now - so so important stream it live here www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8c...

Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers | 12/03/2025

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Happy 2025 Bluesky! I just deleted the 390 open tabs on my phone, think I’ve earned myself a Big Sit #spicybrain #pleasedontaskaboutthescreenshots

That time of year is approaching again, and lots of people will be thinking about signing up for Veganuary. What is it, why is it, and how popular is it? The Open University’s Matthew Cole explains (and gives me a quick name check in the process) #sociology #vegan

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

This article explores how Veganuary’s growth has sparked a global shift toward veganism, changing consumption habits and raising awareness about animal rights.

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