We are hiring a research assistant at Bennett Institute for Public Policy - come & work with me and Michael Kenny & our great team: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48018/

Anyone attending ESA in Porto this week shoot me a message if you would like to catch up! i.e. drink some wine looking over the Douro

All the papers for an issue of Work in the Global Economy Journal on LPT 50 years after Braverman & Labor & Monopoly Capital are now on early view. The lead article from CHRIS Smith & myself is, we believe, the most comprehensive account of contemporary theory and research, bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Postdoc fellowship open at the Wellbeing Research Centre. For the social science of wellbeing and sustainability. We have good pay and security, fantastic opportunities to instigate ambitious research with social impact, and impressive media engagement wellbeing.hmc.ox.ac.uk/work-for-us/

New episode of ePODstemology! Dan Honig (DanHonig.bsky) talks about how we can get better public services by recruiting values-driven bureaucrats and giving them the autonomy to adapt their activities to local conditions. I can't think of anything the UK needs more. buzzsprout.com/1763534/episod…

This years’s ASA theme is the sociology of work

at least the FDA’s war on sunshine is over

Weekly visit to Oxford today. Hoped to be there early but GWR peak ticket prices just completely ridiculous. 5 minutes to 9? £73 without a railcard. Immediately after 9? £35 w/o card. When TfL don’t even do peak fares on Fridays anymore…

Since Maccabi Tel Aviv is trending, come and get to know its soccer/football fans who ignited anti-Arab hate and violence in Amsterdam, leading to reprisals from Arabs who were attacked (and who are universally being smeared as antisemites engaging in pogroms). 🧵

Interesting on creatine. After reading several studies on it a few months ago (cited here) I’ve been having 3-5g a day and I would say small but notable subjective benefits for cognitive capacity. My chess score went up slightly too. Seems no side effects theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

I’m also on bluesky (@ willjfleming) but I will also keep this account as I suspect it’s not super helpful for the current situation to have two separate platforms for right and left…

I reviewed Sarah Waters ‘Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France’ for Work, Employment & Society - an excellent study of the epidemic of work suicide in large French organisations doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Two exceptional recent studies on prison work Adam Reich in ASR doi.org/10.1177/000312… Pandeli & Longman in WES ('Data collection began in Autumn 2011...' 🫠) doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘Waters tackles a powerful topic with original and strong research materials, advancing an ailing sociology of suicide and integrating it with labour studies.’ Read William Fleming’s review of Suicide Voices below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

I enjoyed reading this polemic as I sit in the airport waiting to return from two weeks in India. Attached a pic of our plastic slippers worn to protect the marble floors of the Taj Mahal, worn through to shoe before you’re out.

‘Waters tackles a powerful topic with original and strong research materials, advancing an ailing sociology of suicide and integrating it with labour studies.’ Read William Fleming’s review of Suicide Voices below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Today at The BSA conference ‘25 I presented our collaborative work with Mark Fabian on coproduction in the third/nonprofit sector. We’re keen to debate how it fits in public sociology.