sdoebler.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

The #strike in CFM, the outsourced services of Berlin hospital chain Charite continues as management refuses insourcing gesundheit-soziales-bildung-bb.verdi.de/mein-arbeits... One team in health #solidarity to workers in @social.verdi.de @epsu.bsky.social @strikemap.org @unionnews.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the connection between two big recent stories in AI: the sudden increase in sycophancy from ChatGPT and the growing evidence that AIs can be hyper persuasive. First we shape our tools, then they shape us. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like a great opportunity to communicate to parents and students that Trump is cutting higher education and scientific research in Alabama aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

Some artifacts and exhibits are being removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

The tragedy unfolding in the US under Trump. Healthcare funding slashed, pre-schools, child protection and support services, all gone ... I have no words.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Important work on the UK & international far-right network by Harry Shukman. An example of outstanding journalism. I'm linking his documentary, the article is based on, below. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Out now! My new paper "Access to transport, life satisfaction & the mental wellbeing of rural older people in England under austerity" online in JRS: lnkd.in/eV8df6rJ It's part of the special issue 'Contemporary Rural Gerontologies' edited by Mark Skinner & Rachel Winterton.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Great to be at the #BSA2025 Sociology conference, despite the crisis UK Higher Ed is in. Great keynote by my colleague from Lancaster University, Dr @aaronwinter.bsky.social "What can Sociology say about right-wing extremism and the mainstreaming of racism & the far-right?".

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 67 days ago • 179 comments

Welcome to all our new followers! 💚

submitted 73 days ago • 413 comments

Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown post doctoral fellow who is a legal immigrant, was detained solely for sharing pro Palestinian views on social media. He was detained under the same provision as Mahmoud Khalil. He's already been moved to Louisiana. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 76 days ago • 22 comments

Join the Alternative Open Day at Coventry University this Saturday ✊ Staff & students unite to protest disgusting fire and rehire tactics 💪 Poetry 🎭 Art 🎨 Speakers 🎤 @drjogrady.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social Experience the REAL Coventry University 👇

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) published a statement joining @popassocamerica (PAA) & @IUSSP in expressing deep concern over the removal of key public health & demographic data by US Federal Agencies. Devastating for public health & social care! www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Funding opportunity 📢 We’re accepting applications for the Basia Zaba Scholarship for the MSc in Demography & Health @lshtm.bsky.social 🎓 The scholarship covers full tuition fees for a UK home student for the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline 26 March. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/3j7esk22

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

“A document authored by an anonymous group of [Silicon Valley] whistleblowers accuses Elon Musk of attempting to spearhead a private hostile takeover of the US Government on behalf of an extremist anti-democracy philosophy known as the ‘neo-reactionary’ movement...” 2/7/25 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 46 comments

Thousands out in Madison for Friday’s STAND FOR SCIENCE March. Scientists are sending Musk a message: “No Science. No Future!”

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #palestine #gaza

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

What explains housing inequality? Join us 5 March when @norawaitkus.bsky.social will scrutinise data from 35 countries. Register to attend in person or online. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that "free speech" champion Niall Ferguson, as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, commissioned "opposition research" on an undergraduate whose politics he didn't like...😉 archive.ph/gJwoL

submitted 95 days ago • 15 comments

What a wonderful Radical Statistics 50 year anniversary conference it was! Brilliant talks, & keynotes by John Bibby, Alison McFarlane, Nazneen Ismail, & one me. Being able to still do this is empowering, given the crisis the HE sector is in.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is American diplomacy in 2025. Trump and his sycophants have shown themselves to the entire world as the cynical bullies they are. Utterly disgraceful.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 The University of Cambridge has failed at the High Court in its attempt to restrict pro-Palestine protest for five years. This is a major victory for our democratic rights. Our statement 👇

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Apply to be an editor for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! ASA’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities is looking for editor applications from individuals and teams. Applications due March 28. Read the call here: https://bit.ly/4jsHxZN #ASA #journals #sociology #research #editor

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Last call to register for the Radical Statistics conference 2025 "Using Data Accountably", which takes place this Saturday at Manchester MMU! This is a wonderful conference, Stellar line-up & programme. I'm delighted to give one of the keynotes. Register here: www.radstats.org.uk/2025-confere...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

German election: The CDU can just about get a coalition with SPD together (together getting 328 out of 630 parliamentary seats), but it's tight. High turnout of c. 80%, but they're still counting. 21% voting for the fascist AfD is a national disgrace.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The German exit poll. Centre-right CDU set to win, challenges ahead. They need the (liberal) FDP to get 5% to enable a CDU-SPD-FDP coalition but this looks unlikely. CDU won't work with the fascist AfD, but also not with Greens or Die Linke. The AfD's >20% vote share will be a national disgrace.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely awful treatment of my colleagues at Cardiff University! The level of managerial incompetence, cynicism and brutality is shocking. Solidarity with everyone at Cardiff!!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

"The level of access DOGE possesses means that the organization may already be able to siphon data that Musk or his agents could hold on to forever, long after his time as a government liaison, or even after a potential falling-out with the president."

submitted 104 days ago • 14 comments

Liebe Freunde in Deutschland, bitte vergesst nicht, zu wählen! Der letzte Tag, um die Briefwahl Dokumente zu senden, ist heute! Zusammen am 23 Februar Faschisten verhindern! F*CK AfD!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Calling the next generation of inequality scholars! Apply now for our Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality with @ucstonecenter.bsky.social and the Institute for Applied Economic Research. 🔗 https://buff.ly/4gMFvBs 📅 Deadline: 30 April 2025

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

UK Higher Ed is in the worst funding crisis in its history, tens of thousands of job losses. The UK's Oxbridge educated political leadership ignores it in cowardly silence. Their children won't be affected when there will be no other Universities left to go to. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

So, a far right white nationalist Eugenicist, who was fired in 2018 for speaking at a white nationalist conference, was appointed the US Undersecretary for diplomacy & public affairs? The US is going down a very dark path. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

A new UK All-party parliamentary group report finds that 80 out of the N=3,605 child deaths in England between Oct 2023 & Oct 2024 (c 2.2%), ocurred in temporary accommodation. Most were Babies who never knew what it's like to have a home. householdsintemporaryaccommodation.co.uk/reports/chil...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Rural families, not what everyone thinks. Sociologists @shelleydclark.bsky.social and @ruraldemography.bsky.social in WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

The British trade union Unison reports on rampant exploitation & maltreatment of migrant care workers in the UK. I feel deep solidarity, as used to be a care worker myself, but far more privileged because I was employed in the country I am a citizen of. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/work...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

What an interesting read on gender & work-family (unpaid care labour?)-conflict from colleagues in Iceland! ☕📰 I just taught a session on this topic to my 2nd year UG module last week.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Germany is preparing for General Elections on 23rd February. The far right AfD is set to make big wins & the political centre does not hold.The mainstream parties argue like a bunch of bickering teenagers at a prom. Does it not remind you of the (pre-WW2) Weimar republic? We all know how that ended.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Candidates are being asked questions like: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Yes this is really happening. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

Breaking news: The Trump administration cut billions in biomedical funding. Researchers say it imperils work on cancer and other illnesses.

submitted 116 days ago • 118 comments

Things are coming to a head in UK Higher Ed when ex education ministers face redundancy & pledge to join picket lines. We are experiencing the biggest crisis the sector has ever seen. The Labour government knows, but doesn't seem to care. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

Well worth a listen from Dr Kapadia ✊🏽

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

We've extended the deadline ⏳🎉 Submit your abstract now!

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

This NIH page on Covid's impact on women was up as recently as December. web.archive.org/web/20241217... now it's gone -- among many of the other NIH pages on women's health. orwh.od.nih.gov/womens-healt...

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments