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American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In her MLK Jr. keynote address, ASA member Shaonta' E. Allen @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social questioned “Ask yourself, who benefits when we are not able to articulate what we would like to see in the future, but can only describe what we’d like to tear down?”

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

Love to see it.

JOB @westernu.ca -Sociology - Assistant Professor (Health and the Life Course or Work and the Economy). Please send widely to anyone that might be interested. Happy to answer any Qs about it if you DM or email. csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

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My book, “Black Lives Matter: A Reference Handbook” w/ Simone Durham & @drjonessoc.bsky.social has been out for 3 months today! It offers an overview of the movement’s progress & controversies! Order your copy today!! 📚 www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-liv... #BlackLivesMatter #AcademicSky #Sociology

Classes started last week here at Dartmouth and I can already tell it’s going to be a great fall term! 🍁🍂 I’m teaching “Social Movements” again as well as a new “Black Sociology” course!! 🙌🏾✨ Grateful for another opportunity to think and learn with curious students! 💚🌲 #AcademicSky #Sociology

Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/6cTpB24

✨ Looking for innovative ideas in sociology and the social sciences? JST is a peer-reviewed, open access journal run by graduate students in Sociology at Western University (Canada). We publish works from grad students, post-docs, academics, and independent scholars.

Fantastic panel on religion & politics at #ASA2025. New findings pushing the field forward: - how political activism brings some people back to religion - how people use similar cultural schema to talk about spirituality & politics - racialized patterns in Christian nationalism & patriotism

Ditto. Great group. Thanks to organizers. Yes, to productive conversations, organizational collaboration, and collective action. "People-ing politics" political acitivities and policy proposals for regular people and not for politicians' dreams and personal aspirations, ambitions, fears and whims.

Dr. Shaonta’ Allen@shaonta.bsky.social · 12mo ago

So much fun at the political soc “People-ing Politics” riverboat reception last night along the Chicago River! Thanks to @blackcapitol.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social & @wendyyli.bsky.social for organizing! #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky @fisherdanar.bsky.social @michaelrosino.bsky.social

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

So much fun at the political soc “People-ing Politics” riverboat reception last night along the Chicago River! Thanks to @blackcapitol.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social & @wendyyli.bsky.social for organizing! #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky @fisherdanar.bsky.social @michaelrosino.bsky.social

Happening now at #ASA2025! @asanews.bsky.social has developed a great new toolkit on how departments can include community-engaged research in their tenure and promotion process www.asanet.org/public-engag...

Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit | American Sociological Association

ASA’s Shifting the Academic Ecology to Support Community-Engaged Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion in Sociology project establishes a framework that can be

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Happening now! First Black woman ASA President, Patricia Hill Collins, in conversation with current ASA President Asia Harvey Wingfield! 🤎✨ #ASA2025 #BlackFeministThought #Sociology

For the religion scholars headed to Chicago for the sociology meetings, make sure to pop into the #ASR2025 conference as well as #ASA2025! On Sunday, I’ll be presenting some research from my book project on the “woke” politics of Black Christian Millennials! #Sociology #AcademicSky

This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:

Katrina, Sandy Hook, Jan 6: three watershed moments where we could have risen to our ideals, but instead just paved the road to modern American hell

Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 12mo ago

katrina was the bellwether for how all future disasters would be handled and it's only getting more so as they increase

My forthcoming book on racial capitalism examines straw burning in Brazilian sugarcane. I analyze São Paulo where burning is (mostly) banned and the Northeast where it mostly persists. Burning explains a lot about how racial, class and regional identity intersect with the environment and climate.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last yr.

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

See you soon, Chicago!! #ASA #ASA2025 #Sociology #AcademicSky

American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · last yr.

The countdown begins! The ASA 2025 Annual Meeting starts in just 4 days in Chicago. Register online or on site any day of the meeting to participate in meaningful dialogue with sociologists! bit.ly/RegisterASA25  #Chicago #ASA #sociology

Connections Puzzle #771 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and businesses to share documents within organizations and recommended security updates that customers should apply immediately.

Microsoft alerts businesses and governments to attacks on SharePoint servers | CNN Business

Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and businesses to share documents within organizations and recommended security updates that custome...

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I keep seeing people talking about how genetic ancestry tests can "prove" someone is 12% [whatever ancestry] this week and I am re-upping this thread as a reminder that "race" is socially constructed and those tests are measuring the statistics of the social construct (read up for full thread)

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2y ago

In a lot of cases, they are strong statistical guesses with a lot of data behind them! In other cases they're just vibes. Treat the ancestry and kinship suggestions from these services like a starting point, not absolute truth.

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bluesky wouldn't tell us if it was captured by the elites, but there would be signs

this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.

Robyn Schroeder@reconstitut.bsky.social · last yr.

A big point in my Founders in American memory class is that the visual culture of the 19th century whitewashed the era of the revolution out of recognition. I ask students if there were Black soldiers at Yorktown and if anything they describe back the Trumbull painting.

People also need to start writing and compiling diaries/ journals and photos again. Those end up being primary sources for much of future history books.

Wat@a-wat.blacksky.app · last yr.

We’re going to have to go back to physical encyclopedias as a standard for reliable information because they’re going to make the internet unusable with AI

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between doing a "search" and doing "research" and how that works with conspiracy theory/lies to control our public sphere. Here's an old thread from 2023