"The Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a 9-month full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of computational social science (quantitative or qualitative)." 👇

First-year PhDs: this may be one of the most exciting *and* most stressful years of your life. For #SomeoneToTalkTo, we asked 1st year PhD students in lab science, social science, and humanities depts. to describe their biggest stressors: mariosmall.com/someone-to-tal… 1/7

PhD candidate Mary Jessome's latest article theorizes gendered differences in understandings and experiences of intimacy in the context of dating. Read "Gendered meanings and mechanisms of intimacy for people living with chronic pain" in Culture, Health and Sexuality: buff.ly/40SRBm0

In this episode of Moral Matters, Elena G. van Stee & kerby goff interview @jlkucinskas & Evan Stewart about their article "Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement." ▶️open.spotify.com/episode/4285HH…

Thanks for writing, Shai M. Dromi - @dromishai.bsky.social & Sam Stabler ! Check out their latest post for the Contexts Magazine blog ➡️contexts.org/blog/better-to… Harvard Sociology Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop The City University of New York ASA Altruism Morality & Social Solidarity Section

Want to share your research with a broader audience? Pitch Contexts Magazine the "magazine version" of your current–even published–work! Amin Ghaziani & @seth_abrutyn want to read your feature pitches; I'm here for the blog. Read more: contexts.org/blog/recycling… #RecyclingisRad

It's been a blast hosting the ASA Altruism Morality & Social Solidarity Section podcast *Moral Matters* with kerby goff this year. 🎙️ Find our recent interviews with Evan Stewart, @jlkucinskas, Shai M. Dromi - @dromishai.bsky.social, Sam Stabler & others on Spotify! Coming up next . . . @alizaluft!

We're celebrating Amin Ghaziani & @seth_abrutyn's one-year Contexts Magazine edit-iversary! 🎂 (Letta Wren Page - that's a word, right?) ASA Sociology UBC Sociology Colter Uscola

It's your favorite quarterly holiday . . . Happy New Issue Day! 🥂 Contexts Magazine's Winter 2024 issue is live and free to read, download, and share through March 15. Use our clickable table of contents to find your weekend reading! contexts.org/articles/winte… Amin Ghaziani

Contexts Winter 2024 issue is now live! It’s free ✅ to read, download, and share through March 15th. Follow this link ctx.sagepub.com and come learn about psychedelic inequalities, green card soldiers, and more.

Friends, Princeton University Press is having a site-wide sale of 50% off all titles! If you haven't picked up a copy of #LongLiveQueerNightlife, and you are interested in it, grab it now for half price! Use code FIFTY at check out for $14.98 / £12.50. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… UBC Sociology

Call for blog posts! 📢 Want to amplify your research findings? Summer is the perfect time to write a punchy, public-facing piece for the Contexts blog ☀️ No jargon // 750 word max. Read more: contexts.org/blog/call-for-… Amin Ghaziani @seth_abrutyn Colter Uscola

Public sociology is a principle and practice. Thanks NPR and Marketplace for inviting me this morning to talk about my new book, #LongLiveQueerNightlife w Princeton University Press. The program is heard by 10 million weekly listeners across the US! ASA Sociology UBC Media Relations UBC Sociology

This year's Lewis Coser Prize winner for Theoretical Agenda Setting from ASA Theory Section also won a best book award from the ASA's Biosoc and Evolutionary Soc sections. Congratulations, @seth_abrutyn! You are an inspiration! UBC Sociology

Excited to share our new paper! A big thank-you to Amin Ghaziani for your mentorship and support!

Coming soon! Andrea D. Kelley, Ph.D., MSW (they/them)'s (Lyman Briggs College - MSU) feature "Making Yourself Ugly" explores the blame and shame involved in the beauty-norm deviance of body-focused repetitive behaviors. Below, 3 Qs about their piece and publishing with Contexts Magazine! youtu.be/z_TMBMF-zp0si=…

#ASA2024! Our co-editors, @seth_abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani, managing ed. @lettapage, blog ed. Elena G. van Stee, and grad eds. Colter Uscola and @parkermuzzerall are all on site and absolutely stoked to meet you and talk about your story ideas! Please say bonjour!

Fun fact! Contexts Magazine, Recycling Is Rad! We are committed to translating complex sociological research into short, rigorous, and readable articles, and we encourage authors to pitch “magazine” versions of their existing work. contexts.org/blog/recycling… #ASA2024

Coming soon! Matthew P. Fox and Steven E. Clayman (UCLA) explore the difficulties of uncovering racial bias in voir dire, or jury questioning. Below, Colter Uscola speaks with Fox about their research: youtu.be/pEZhdX0OVRg?si… #ASA2024

Contexts Summer Issue is Live! Free to read, share, and download through the month of September! Come check it out! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/23/3