Matt Patterson
@yyz2yyc.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, studying cities and culture.
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/matt-patterson
https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/matt-patterson
Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.
Our department is hiring!
My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our department is hiring!
The average American has three friends
May 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The average American has three friends
NGL it’s pretty crazy to hear Al Gore quote Adorno and reference Habermas (though he uses the past tense as if he’s dead)
Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.
April 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
NGL it’s pretty crazy to hear Al Gore quote Adorno and reference Habermas (though he uses the past tense as if he’s dead)
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Want an introduction to the practice of #UrbanPlanning and #CityBuilding?
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Starts Wed, Jan 22 | 6pm PST | Register:
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@sfucity.bsky.social CITY101 with @nlamontagne.bsky.social is open for enrollment.
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January 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Want an introduction to the practice of #UrbanPlanning and #CityBuilding?
@sfucity.bsky.social CITY101 with @nlamontagne.bsky.social is open for enrollment.
Starts Wed, Jan 22 | 6pm PST | Register:
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@sfucity.bsky.social CITY101 with @nlamontagne.bsky.social is open for enrollment.
Starts Wed, Jan 22 | 6pm PST | Register:
www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
While we look back nostalgically at the formal fashion of the 1920s, the people back then were dreaming of the day it would be socially acceptable to wear pajamas to work.
People will be awakened by radio alarm clocks and baldness will be almost universal
January 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
While we look back nostalgically at the formal fashion of the 1920s, the people back then were dreaming of the day it would be socially acceptable to wear pajamas to work.
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My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply:
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December 19, 2024 at 4:17 AM
My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply:
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December 18, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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City looked nice this week.
November 30, 2024 at 8:42 PM
City looked nice this week.
Former YMCA, Philadelphia Chinatown (closed since 2007)
November 21, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Former YMCA, Philadelphia Chinatown (closed since 2007)
Neil Postman, in 1985, predicting TV programs like the Daily Show intended to satirize television news but ultimately just further blurring the boundaries between entertainment and news.
November 19, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Neil Postman, in 1985, predicting TV programs like the Daily Show intended to satirize television news but ultimately just further blurring the boundaries between entertainment and news.
Coming out of social media hibernation to post my thoughts on the US election. Lots of debate over whether Harris was too centrist or not centrist enough. For me, this misses the mark. I think of this election in terms of Ronald Inglehart's concepts of materialism vs post-materialism... 1/8
November 14, 2024 at 5:33 AM
Coming out of social media hibernation to post my thoughts on the US election. Lots of debate over whether Harris was too centrist or not centrist enough. For me, this misses the mark. I think of this election in terms of Ronald Inglehart's concepts of materialism vs post-materialism... 1/8
For @ctownt2g.bsky.social, here’s some photos of Melbourne Chinatown
July 4, 2023 at 7:44 PM
For @ctownt2g.bsky.social, here’s some photos of Melbourne Chinatown
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If this can be a salad, you can be anything.
July 3, 2023 at 4:28 AM
If this can be a salad, you can be anything.
Back in Canada. Melbourne did not disappoint. It is a flaneur’s paradise.
July 3, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Back in Canada. Melbourne did not disappoint. It is a flaneur’s paradise.
Digital technologies are transforming the city into a "gamespace" in which we are constantly encouraged to score points. Check out my latest paper: "Scoreboard Urbanism: Theorizing Mental Life in the Digitally Mediated Metropolis" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15356841231173644
July 3, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Digital technologies are transforming the city into a "gamespace" in which we are constantly encouraged to score points. Check out my latest paper: "Scoreboard Urbanism: Theorizing Mental Life in the Digitally Mediated Metropolis" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15356841231173644