Dressed as my supervisor's feedback on my PhD thesis for Halloween because nothing is scarier than reality 😱😱😱 #phdlife #phdchat #phdmemes

My essay on "The Autocrat's War," in which I analyze the scenarios of war outbreak and explain how the tsars justified wars by "inevitability" or "people's demands," is not paywalled (for a limited time). Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-a…

Due to pro-war bloggers, Telegram is often seen as the main 🇷🇺 social media. However, it is only one pocket of the vast Russian media space! Maria Kunilovskaya, @semenaff, and I have analysed how users discuss the war and mobilisation across Telegram, Vkontakte, and Odnoklassniki (11).

Lenin’s epistemological break from an evolutionist view of development to a view of the global economy via the hinge of imperialism then ushers in a new view of capitalism, where part of the world develops and another ‘under-develops’. By ronaldo munck tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here are the 10 most popular episodes from the Huberman Lab podcast in 2022

Official figures show an extreme rise in crimes related to guns and explosives in Russia. In some regions the number has increased by 2-6 times. Does this mean that there is an outburst of violence and is it connected to the war? 🧵1/11

Good work here from Ted Gerber and Margarita Zavadskaya on the "Rise and Fall of Social Science in Russia" in special issue of Post-Soviet Affairs. Well worth reading. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My book on the politics of legal pluralism in Chechnya is out today! I worked on this study for almost 10 years and I am very thankful for all the people who helped me on this road. cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

Ok sociologists. I need some inspiration for a seminar on research design. It MA level. The students come with their own project and need some inspiration to think about design of sociological analysis. The texts should be short and well written, it fine if they are programmatic.

Grigory Yudin's recent interview w/ Meduza in English resonated w/ many, incl. his focus on resentment (Putin's & Russia's). meduza.io/en/feature/202… This topic has been discussed for a while. Good place to start is Olga Malinova's 2014 Communist and Post-Communist Studies article. online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-a…

I was interviewed by @themindfuzz for The Conversation U.S. podcast on ChatGPT and what it might mean for bias in AI, science, and more. It was fun! theconversation.com/three-ai-exper…

For those of you who read in Russian, here is our interview with Natalia Forrat about state-society relations in Russia that we recorded with @_arnoldkh

Happy to see my new article out in Political Communication 📓! The article looks at how personal experience and popular wisdom affect perceived credibility of regime propaganda regarding Ukraine in Russia. A short thread (8).

I am not a sociologist anymore, but my book on star sociologists is out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

We have a new article out, with fully Open Access; doi.org/10.1080/106058… My co-author, Vera, takes the lion’s share of the credit for this. As always, it was a pleasure and a huge privilege working with her. The article offers a foretaste of our new Disinformation project

Putin’s regime has distorted its meaning of 9 May, which used to be a day of commemoration and mourning, using it to promote the cult of war and death. Svetlana Stephenson analyses the ways Russia appropriates the victory in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine.

RIP Ian Hacking (1936-2023) We were very sorry to learn of the death of Ian Hacking. To mark and honour his work we have made the following pieces by and about him (published in HHS between 1992 and 2013) free to access: journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearc…

While doing 200+ interviews for The Santiago Boys, I've often wondered if there was a book with tips and advice on how to make the most of those sessions. The best text I found was Creative Interviewing by Ken Metzler. It's quite good!

Two weeks after "reviews complete" and still no news? It is time to celebrate the finale of long-lasting paper - 'Ambiguity in Ethical Standards: Global Versus Local Science in Explaining Academic Plagiarism' appeared in Science & Engeneering Ethics. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I will probably never run a real marathon. But I just finished my academic marathon: I published a book :) global.oup.com/academic/produ… Keep reading if you are interested in authoritarianism and/or Russia. Link to a free chapter at the end of the thread.