Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/s...

Gloria Steinem’s Glamour Was a Means to an End (Gift Article)

The glasses, the hairdo, the bell bottoms and hip-slung belts were all wrapped up in her feminist cause.

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In Her Words: Gloria Steinem www.nytimes.com/video/obitua...

Video: In Her Words: Gloria Steinem

In a never-before-seen 2008 interview with The New York Times, Ms. Steinem reflected on her career as a writer, organizer and fund-raiser.

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This week on patter. Three playful ways to deal with a fierce inner critic. patthomson.net/2026/09/02/w...

Are you heading to Boston for #APSA2026? Here's your ultimate reading list. 🧵 The 10 papers political science readers have saved most this year on SciLove (the app I built). Pity to miss out myself this time — have a wonderful conference! 👋 @apsa.bsky.social

#OpenAccess book Contesting hate: Digital counter- narratives against Islamophobia www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... Full book download available, as Html or pdf

Our North America team is excited to be partnering with other US fact-checkers to produce a pop-up newsletter debunking deceptive 2026 midterm ads and election disinformation. Subscribe today: u.afp.com/USMidtermsNe...

Good summary of what is at stake in Sunday's regional elections #Germany #farright

Siegmund wants to make Saxony-Anhalt a model for AfD rule

The AfD's lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund aims to turn his small federal state into a blueprint for right-wing extremist politics across Germany.

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📢 Call for Abstracts | 2027 ISA World Congress of Sociology July 4-10, 2027 in Gwangju, Korea 'Queer Lives, Queer Methods' co-org with @drcompton.bsky.social 📅 Abstract deadline: 14 October 2026 🔗 Click below to submit your abstract! #ISAWorldCongress2027 isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...

Very happy to share that my latest paper, Critical Reflections on Caring Masculinities: Nuances, Tensions, and Complications is now available online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Critical Reflections on Caring Masculinities: Nuances, Tensions, and Complications - Andria Christofidou, 2026

This article draws selectively on three cases of young heterosexual fathers to highlight nuances, complexities, and tensions that could complicate understanding...

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New Substack post: “I don't imagine they probably will”: Transferred negation and syntactic priming basaarts.substack.com/publish/post...

Question for grad students and faculty: how do you actually find out about seminars outside your own department? I've been building seminarsearch.org — talks from ~90 universities in one searchable place — and the answer I keep getting is "I mostly don't." #AcademicSky #PhdSky

Anti-trans laws are anti-democracy. Any laws that discriminate against a group of people hurt inclusive democracy. DCDD believes that transgender people should be free to be who they are.

Inclusive Democracy Means Including Transgender People

Words to Know Accessible means that disabled people can easily use it. This includes disabled people with all kinds of disabilities. Anti-democracy groups are organizations that want to get rid of …

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Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread of great public scholarship from the last week. Please share widely to support all this work, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · last wk.

We come to it at last—the final #ScholarSunday thread before my Fall 2026 semester begins. So here it is, my 291st thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2w ago

Its been compared to the great migration.

The Nordic Journal of Linguistics is curating a special issue dedicated to the past, present, and future of the Saami languages. We invite contributions on Saami languages and Saami linguistics. We also welcome studies with varied linguistic methodologies, topics and more. 📚 https://cup.org/49ZHZLp

#CFP: Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice, is a series exploring how gender shapes everyday life and how it intersects with power, inequality, identity, and justice. I’m editing the Gender, Home, and Family section. Let me know if you have questions! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social #rollingsubmissions

📣Call for Papers The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 📍South East Technological University (Waterford Campus) 🗓️6th – 7th May 2027 Sociology, Technology, and the Future of ‘the Republic’ sociology.ie/event/2027-a...

Excited to share a new article on ushirikina ("superstition") in Swahili. Through dictionaries, missionary archives, and contemporary usage, I trace how language becomes a tool for defining “true” and “false” religion. doi.org/10.1353/mrw.... #ReligiousStudies

I was part of a workshop about communicating uncertainty and we shared our findings. Check out the write-up here: theconversation.com/communicatin...

Communicating uncertainty in research is hard, so we worked on how best to do it – here’s what you can watch out for

Uncertainty is part of the scientific process, and it’s not a bad thing – it’s where future discoveries can happen.

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The Māori word "kaitiakitanga" has been named the world’s most beautiful word, selected from 223 words across 75 languages for its sound, meaning, rarity & cultural significance. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y4bb9ua2 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #language #languagepreservation #indigenouslanguages

Recognition of Māori word "kaitiakitanga" highlights the value of

The Māori word "kaitiakitanga", which expresses the responsibility to care for the natural world, has been named the world's most beautiful word by the language learning platform Babbel.

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A research line on discourse, gender, and power underlies Viviane Cristina Vieira's new study on an ANTRA booklet and the fight against transphobia in Brazilian prisons. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics #discourseanalysis

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

Linuxiac@linuxiac.bsky.social · 2w ago

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available with a new Paragraph Composer in Writer, native OpenType variable font support, Calc improvements, and better document compatibility. linuxiac.com/libreoffice-... #OpenSource #OfficeSuite

My author copies have arrived. I'm really pleased to have contributed to this project, led by @elizabethpoole.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181527/

While Trump cuts billions of USD from scientific research, Canada is recruiting professors, providing them with millions of dollars in funding for research. Go Canada! 🍁📣 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada recruited 64 professors with new research fund. Three-quarters are from U.S. schools | CBC News

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Thursday that the federal government is providing $541 million in research funding to a tranche of new professors recruited into Canadian institutions from ...

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A nudge for the free online writing retreat I am running next month. I'll say that again...it is totally free. You just need to give yourself permission and the time to come. Break from those pesky emails and see what happens. #PhdChat #PGRChat www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-club...

Write Club Radio - An online writing retreat like no other.

Write Club Radio, a live three-hour virtual co-working, writing retreat broadcast on Mixcloud Live with a live vinyl record soundtrack.

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New at Fight the Fire: "Democratic lawmakers had better pack themselves an overnight bag. They’re going to have to lie down in front of bulldozers and excavators soon." Links and subscriptions are free.

Feeling sleepy yet, Kennedy Center?

A dirt nap awaits as plans to give the place the East Wing treatment become more apparent

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I always had a smile together with a happy tear when this song played. My favourite Dolly song. Rest in Peace, Sweet Songbird. youtu.be/cxTIIYU6aSg?...

Dolly Parton - Together You And I (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton

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@andizeisler.bsky.social writes, 'A preoccupation with what others have on their shelves might be purely aesthetic, but often conveys something more, like a sense of judgment'. When the number of books you have invites more than curiosity: www.salon.com/2026/07/23/h...

How owning books became everybody's business

The number of books you have, and the way you shelve them, invites judgment.

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Cofnas in the Wall Street Journal

Saying racist things not racist, claim racists

Racists have claimed that making unashamedly racist statements is definitely not racist, and anyone who accuses them of being racist is a racist.

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This is a really useful deep dive into authorship and AI use policy of major academic publishers... from Janet Salmons janetsalmons.substack.com/p/what-do-ac...

What do academic publishers say about using gen AI?

Review current guidelines and implications for your research.

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