Luuc Brans

Samen met @luuc.bsky.social schreef ik opinie over looksmaxxing: dat heeft niks te maken met schoonheidsidealen, maar is onderdeel van een rechts-conservatief project dat ideologisch moet worden bestreden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Happy publication day(+1) to Lorenza Antonucci @camsociology.bsky.social for 'Insecurity Politics', out now with @princetonupress.bsky.social: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... - exploring the everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

Dit is wat regeringen zouden moeten doen. Besturen is niet “complex”. Natuurlijk zijn er dilemma’s, maar de naleving van het internationaal recht hoort daar niet bij.

💥 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 💥 International survey of 1138 scholars across 77 countries - plus four focus groups - maps the what, how and why. 69.2% already use it for at least one research task, especially writing and literature review. 5 takeaways: medium.com/@hannes.cool...

This is why 'luxury is more (socially) sustainable' is a myth and not only in fashion. 'Made in Italy' can still mean 'Made in Abusive and Exploitative Conditions'..)

Italiaanse politie bezoekt modemerken als Prada en Versace vanwege mogelijke uitbuiting

Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀 tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...

So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege. Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊

De Duitse socioloog Werner Sombart noemde mode al in 1902 ‘het lievelingskind van het kapitalisme’. Dat staat op gespannen voet met de klimaatcrisis. We spraken met socioloog @luuc.bsky.social over zijn proefschrift naar mode en ideologie ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-201-mode...

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

I spoke to @theguardian.com for their podcast today about the enduring propulsive power of Britain’s private schools, and the impact it has on the politics we get 🎧 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

New article in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and I’m quite proud of this one! What Shapes Feminist Journalism? Comparing Dutch and French Reporting on Street Harassment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 Most people are willing to infer ideological/partisan preferences based on #food consumption choices in #Italy 🥕🥦🥩🍤 Read the article by G. Scaduto & F. Negri ⌛ HURRY UP! #FreeAccess here until 30th November 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

This is a dawn on Mars captured by Opportunity rover.

To all the researchers here on @bsky.app for whom the topic data access from online platforms is relevant, please consider writing a short feedback on the draft of the delegated acts for the DSA: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

I won't lie if I say that some of the posters from the exhibition "The art of integration: 40 posters promoting #Europe" at the EU #archives in Florence made me a little bit sentimental, even sad, given where things are now. Some posters are also really beautiful and interesting to look at.

🚨 Those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, and the privately-educated, are significantly overrepresented in the creative professions in the UK. Our new research uncovers stark inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, including television, film, and music 🧵

6. Hyland et al.: Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class

In "Poor Things," @lendavis.bsky.social writes about “poornography”: distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Read the introduction for free now: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Crises responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. How can we study such processes? And how do they work out for the cases of climate change and Covid? We answer these questions in our new International Sociology article! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....