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Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us

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The Indue Cashless Debit Card (CDC) was officially scrapped in March 2023, yet its replacement – the SmartCard under Enhanced Income Management – works with identical restrictions. theaimn.net/how-the-smar...

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While Vice-Chancellors rake in millions, young researchers & teachers struggle! Australia’s university VCs are among the highest paid in the world. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this should result in better outcomes, but it turns out paying Vice-chancellors more than 7 times as much as ... 1/

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🇰🇪’s P Gathara: “Septuagenarian strongman Donald Trump once again took the oath of office, in a ceremony witnessed by a small group of aging elite members of the oligarchy that has ruled the United States for decades. Shortly after the traditional oath rituals, Trump declared expansionist plans”

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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This is so sad. Michael Burawoy was one of the most impactful sociologists of the past half century. He worked in and studied industrial workplaces and the oppression and struggle of those working.

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I can’t believe one of the most impactful sociologists of our time was taken away in an instant by some idiot driver racing through a pedestrian intersection. I hate 2025 so much. Rest in peace, Michael Burawoy. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

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I've been right so long, I've been done wrong. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

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How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

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Today, like I did when campaigning for a constitutional voice to Parliament, I lift up Indigenous Australian voices, on the topic of 'Change the Date'. I have posted differing views from 2 highly, accomplished, Indigenous Australian women. I respect both their views. #AwaysWasAlwaysWillBe❤️💛🖤💜

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I’ve been obsessively watching Putricia and I feel so seen! In a era of so much horror hurray for the stinky plant that brings a city together

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The world looks set to see five trillionaires by the end of the decade — and more billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism. Read more in the 2025 Davos report by @oxfamgbpolicy.bsky.social ⬇️

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If you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.

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Really interesting look at using GenAI tools for qualitative data analysis

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If you're interested in using GenAI in your qualitative analysis projects, check out my just accepted Sage Research Methods How to Guide 'How to use Generative AI to Assist the Analysis of Qualitative Data' due to be published Summer 2025 repository.essex.ac.uk/40034/

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"Aust’s superannuation is a broken system that works to give the richest 10% over $20bn a year in tax breaks, while nearly 1 in 4 retirees live in poverty due to the miserable level of the age pension." "It is beyond absurd." - @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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What exactly is oligarchy? And which anti-oligarchic measures have proven effective in the past? New Guardian column.

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So chuffed to be asked to be a keynote at the BSA Bourdieu Study Group’s Mid Term International Conference 2025 in Vienna in September. The theme is Rising Complexities in Education: Opportunities and Inequalities. Hope to see you there! britsoc.co.uk/bourdieu25

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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

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Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Academic deadlines. @PHDcomics #PhDchat #PhDforum #academicchatter #acwri #ECRchat

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Research finds signs of “coordinated climate obstruction efforts” among oil, plastics, and agrichemical industries in social media messaging by @sharonkelly.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/01/15/p... @desmog.bsky.social

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found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB

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I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

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Redeveloping a Master's course on #Gender & Global Politics to teach later this year. Would love to receive suggestions from #feminist (IR) scholars here on readings (esp from #decolonial perspectives/ Global South scholars), & any reading lists/course outlines you're happy to share!🙏

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"#MachineLearning is not the root cause of #inequality, but it can and often does encode and reproduce social inequalities." Sociology scholars @salegria.bsky.social & Catherine Yeh explore inequality & #AI tools like ChatGPT: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... Free to read, download, and share!

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This year @vierth.bsky.social & I will again teach our East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities introductory workshop via Zoom in June! This is a 4-day crash-course in all things DH & their use in an EAS context. Apps due 3/7. Please share widely with your networks! web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

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"Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science." @danvergano.bsky.social is doing the best at this. One thing I'll add... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

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Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

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Lucille Clifton, always.

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We'll always have this: youtu.be/bes1tOk25kE?...

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My favourite stuff that I published this year? I can't go past my White Paper with Jess Hill "Rethinking Primary Prevention", which triggered the Commonwealth's review of prevention strategy and has catalysed significant policy shifts at a state and Cth level jesshill.substack.com/p/rethinking...

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WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Finally got to reading The Wide Sargasso Sea. It really is an astonishing work - both a compelling, evocative read and a searing portrayal of the multiple betrayals of colonialism and its aftermath.

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No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

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Helpful discussion on what is lacking in GenAI discussion between scholars and students and scholars themselves - what principles inform when this should and shouldn’t be used? What bias and technochauvisms are there? And what are the skills, knowledges, purposes and contributions of academic work?

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The great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh on the art of deep listening and the 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship

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I made a gingerbread panopticon

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snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400

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1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

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We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging. Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/ open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...

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If your liberation depends upon the oppression of others then you are not and will never be free. If your safety depends upon the slaughter of others then you are not and will never be safe.

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