there’s still a week to get your submissions in for So Fi Zine #15 - seeking sociological(ish) fiction, poetry and visual art sofizine.com #sofizine

We're recruiting a PhD student. ESRC funded, for a Msc. Sociology & then PhD Sociology. PhD on Mass Observation Project, looking at visual and material aspects of the archive and how this helps us to understand everyday life. More info in thread & link: findaphd.com/phds/project/w…

me and #sofizine today at other worlds zine fair - edition 15 with new sociological fiction is coming soon! sofizine.com

OPEN CALL: AI_ANXIETY (October 1st, Amsterdam) aianxiety.odie.us For everyone in social sciences, arts, and humanities researching AI: we are organizing a community event to reflect on knowledge production and social, political, and economic conditions of our research

My thoughts are with Goldsmiths colleagues this weekend who are waiting to find out who will receive redundancy notices on Monday. Please share - on why this matters to anyone who believes in the transformative power of education.

a new essay from me in Kill Your Darlings today on nostalgia, retro tech aesthetics, internet privatisation, the loops that ‘AI’ traps us in and most importantly: a whole lot of reflections on You’ve Got Mail 💌 killyourdarlings.com.au/article/homesi…

The redundancies at Goldsmiths are so cooked. Shame on the SMT. I was so lucky to spend 6 months there as a PhD student, the intellectual generosity of the academics and students in sociology changed my whole life. Donate here: goldsmithsucu.org/support-fund/

I'm very happy and grateful to again be a part of SO FI - a sociological fiction zine from Ash Watson It's a great outlet for sociologically inspired creative work. Check out Edition 15! #sofizine Free to access and download at: sofizine.com/latest-edition…

A new edition of So Fi Zine is out now! Featuring 15 new works of sociological fiction, poetry and visual art by amazing contributors from around the world. Check out edition 15 and the whole back catalogue at sofizine.com #sofizine

Join us! The Sociological Review Foundation conference #UndiscipliningII 10-12 Sept in Salford UK. Details and tickets below. I’ll be there talking all things fiction and sociology. In the meantime, tips on how to clone myself so I can attend every session on the program v welcome 🙏

Celebrating 50 sociological short stories in The Sociological Review Foundation :~) open.substack.com/pub/awtsn/p/fi…

🙌Congratulations to the Sociological Review Foundation’s Fiction Editor, Ash Watson, on the 50 dazzlingly diverse, sociologically imaginative short stories she has commissioned and brought to our pages.

Did you know that renowned postcolonial theorist Paul Gilroy is an accomplished guitarist? Or that Stuart Hall played the piano? From #Identities' latest issue 31(4), by Les Back T&F Social Sciences and Humanities UofG Soc & Pol Sci UofG Social Sciences With #OpenAccess ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/107028…

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#UndiscipliningII: join us at The Lowry in Salford this September. Our Sociological Fiction editor Ash Watson Ash Watson gives us a preview of what to expect at a sociology conference that thinks outside the box and beyond the podium. buff.ly/4daGKcH

I’m chatting all things zines today with Cora Zon and Luke from Sticky Institute on Yarra Valley FM - 12pm Sydney/Melbourne time, tune in to 99.1FM or stream via yarravalleyfm.org.au #sofizine

Another near miss 🥲 huge congrats to those getting good news today - and for everyone like me here’s a phenomenal paper Grieving Academic Grant Rejections journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… #DECRA #DE25

Sociology and poetry, politics, love and loss: join us on 10 September as scholar, Makar & #Salford lover Jackie Kay gives our inaugural Public Lecture as part of #UndiscipliningII. Interview: thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/…

“‘Things are looking up in Manchester,’ my mum says. ‘The money MUST be coming in for them great whacking skyscrapers to get built.’ I love the word skyscraper, it sounds so cool.” Juliette’s Looking Up is our latest Sociological Fiction selection. buff.ly/4gf62rL