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Baris Cayli Messina
@bariscaylimessina.com
Assoc Professor / Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley) / Editor Temple Studies in Criminalization, History & Society Book Series
(Temple Univ Press)
A gay man 🏳️‍🌈
www.bariscaylimessina.com
#Sociology #History #Criminology
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Are you an author with a passion for exploring the fascinating relationship between #crime and #power in history? If yes, then the Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society is eager to hear from you! 🙌🏽👀
Visit our website:
www.templestudieschs.com
#REF2029:
-Long-form research, such as books, has 5-year portability.
- SPRE pushes institutions to show strategy, not just good intentions.

Risks:
– “Culture” fades as a named commitment that may risk managerial gloss.
– Strategy-heavy framing may favour well-resourced universities.
#AcademicSky
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My DNA results. I have apparently got Inuit ancestry. 😊 Didn't see that coming. From the Mediterranean to the Arctic in one chromosome set. Kind of amazing how far histories can take you. We all share far more roots and similarities than we admit. Humanity really is one long migration.
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The New School has long protected dissenting thought and critical scholarship. It is painful to watch an institution with such an intellectual lineage treated as a budgetary problem.

At a moment defined by democratic erosion, we need the New School’s founding vision more than ever!

#AcademicSky
New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign.

Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
December 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I’ve just signed with University of California Press for The Moral Trap: How Autocrats Criminalize and Divide Societies.

This book grew from years of research, hard lessons, persistence, and great support from many many people. Grateful and energised to bring it into the world.

#AcademicSky
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’ve just signed with University of California Press for The Moral Trap: How Autocrats Criminalize and Divide Societies.

This book grew from years of research, hard lessons, persistence, and great support from many many people. Grateful and energised to bring it into the world.

#AcademicSky
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Congratulations @ralphhubbell.bsky.social
Oğuz Atay’s work has always been daring!
His social insight is razor-sharp and his storytelling is magnetic. He pulls the reader straight into the current of the narrative. Thrilled to see this masterful translation bring his voice to a wider world. #BookSky
"Ralph Hubbell has succeeded marvelously in rendering the stream of consciousness of inner offbeat voices within the short stories of the great and notoriously difficult twentieth-century Turkish author Oğuz Atay."

Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you have expertise in #sociology, come and join us! You can be based in any part of the world and read our manifesto before applying please!

#AcademicSky
FINAL CALL: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026.

Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the rich diversity of the sociological community.

➡️ Deadline: 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Launching on #givingtuesday is the LGBT Fund’s first ever individual giving campaign with the focus on building a funding pot over the festive period that will go back out to grassroots organisations in 2026. Keep an eye on our socials tomorrow morning 🤩

#lgbt #donate #fundraising #lgbtfund
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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On #GivingTuesday UC Press reaffirms its commitment to stand strong as an independent publisher amid federal attacks on academic institutions. If our work has supported your teaching or research, please consider donating to the UC Press Foundation: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/univers...
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Wikimedia LGBT+ commemorates World AIDS Day and celebrates 30 years of the protease inhibitor revolution.

Join us if you are interested in improving and expanding the history of HIV/AIDS on Wikimedia!

#wikipedia #collectiveknowledgecares #worldaidsday #wikimedialgbt
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Cruel and oppressive!
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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One of the rare organisations that keeps my faith in humanity on track.

More of us should sit with Palestinians, listen without flinching, and let their stories settle into us. When we carry their pain, we gain sharper tools for peace to rebuild what fear and senseless violence keep breaking.
Yesterday in Haifa, thousands of us — Palestinians and Jews — gathered for Standing Together’s 10-year convention. (1/3)
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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“11/25/25👺ICE abducts two Americans; eight hospitalized after chemical munitions & police beatings in St. Paul, MN. This is not public safety-it’s state violence” Hart ‘28 Dem 🇺🇸🙏
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Increasing number of National Guard in DC will not lead to lasting decreases in crime unless community engagement, targeted policing strategies, & social-service interventions are present. Thus current response is mostly symbolic & PR #crime #crimerate #DC #lawenforcement #patrol #policing
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It’s a day to raise awareness around all forms of violence against women and girls and to call for an end to gender-based violence.

#InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen #EndGenderBasedViolence
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This sounds fascinating, organised by @thesociologicalreview.org so if you are in Glasgow, please consider attending. It is free.
GLESGA CALLING: will you be in Glasgow this week? Are you interested in sociology, anthropology and migration?

If so, please join us for our Annual Lecture 2025 on Thursday, as acclaimed scholar Shahram Khosravi speaks on doing migration studies in dark times.

🎟️ Book your tickets buff.ly/n8QjRkd
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM