If you don't care about music, come for the grandezza & chandeliers
06.03.2026 15:42
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If you don't care about music, come for the grandezza & chandeliers
Berlin friends:
We will be performing Bach's monumental Mass in B Minor together with the fabulous Konzerthausorchester in the no less monumental Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt on April 11th.
Would be great to see you there!
Tickets: cantusdomus.de/tickets
Die Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie freut sich sehr, auch in diesem Jahr wieder den Karl-Polanyi-Preis fΓΌr eine herausragende Monografie auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschaftssoziologie auszuloben.
(Selbst-)Nominierungen nimmt der Vorstand gerne bis zum 30.4. entgegen.
Wir freuen uns ΓΌber Reposts :)
New article out with @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, Kevin L. Young and SΓΈren Lund Frandsen in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Journal of Organizational Sociology. We adapt niche construction theory to study interactions between organizations and environments.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Brb, just gonna diversify my personal portfolio into Counterstrike skins.
The German government is now legislating a new plan allowing firms to take up to 1.5% fees. 1 point 5 per cent.
The Swedish standard funds take ... 0.07%.
Just about to conduct the first interview for my new project on climate risk and it really feels like the first day at school. You can feel there is a whole new world of knowledge just about to open up to you β such a huge privilege!
New in @finandsoc.bsky.social: βThe non-death of Adam Neumannβ, unpacking the return of WeWorkβs disgraced founder. Itβs about Silicon Valleyβs ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Like any book it's of course not without weaknesses, but I think I'll assign parts of it in my course because they quite concisely point to how the development of theory was informed by order as a problem of action.
Slowly prepping for my "theorizing social action" course and must admit I'm quite impressed with how Joas & KnΓΆbl present sociological theory as a field of reciprocal position-taking and Parsons as an obligatory passage point for much of modern soc theory.
That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE β applications are open until March 1.
ποΈ Am 18.02. geht es in der @bbaw.bsky.social um #Staatsschulden. An der Diskussion nimmt auch unser Mitglied @andreabinder.bsky.social teil. Sie ist in der Jungen Akademie gemeinsam mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sprecherin der AG "Geld und Gesellschaft": www.diejungeakademie.de/de/arbeitsgr...
New article out in Politics & Society with @danieldrisc.com and @maxkiefel.bsky.social : "Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
π¨ The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
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We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
They should at least be honest and change the motto to "Democracy Dies in Darkness (hehe)"
+++ Teilt und unterschreibt unseren offenen Brief an die Hessische Landesregierung! +++ Wir werden die bevorstehende katastrophale Verschlechterung unseres Hochschulsystems nicht hinnehmen und fordern eine Neuverhandlung des Hochschulpakts! #nocuts #nocutsinhessen cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...
New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Lateβstage funds pushed into earlyβstage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Veit "Nitro" Braun β Iβd hire him!
Yeah I agree, but unfortunately weβre much gravitating to the latter Iβm afraid
Either, depending on what you do. I mean the narrative you have to develop for yourself and others are constructing about you β your "profileβ
My point was rather the pressure to build a consistent profile rather than what some call being a "portfolio researcher". The former then strongly informing what you should or should not be studying to enhance your job prospects and impact.
Imagine we had to navigate the world like weβre expected to form research interests:
"Canβt tell & don't care if this was a good lasagna, Iβm only interested in semifreddos with charred beets"
PS: on that semifreddo, Iβd see an olive oil soft serve with dusted slow-dried beets and sea salt. Yums!
I think it would also be helpful for departments if they hired not in silos, but in a matrix structure: complementary expertise but also complementary skills. This could help foster engagement with one another and strengthen departments as teams.
This creates incentives to follow academic trends rather than foundational social problems, and it massively increases stress on junior academics who are forced to distance themselves even more from nonac opportunities if they want to stand a chance in academia.
It not only reproduces inequalities by favoring those whoβve learned the drill in elite institutions early on, worse, it needlessly reinforces academic self-commodification as it favors marketable packages of knowledge over academia as a mode of engagement.
There is of course absolutely nothing wrong with specialized expertise, and indeed academia must also be the home for it. My point is rather that weβre not doing us a service if this is our main assessment criterion.
The comparison is a bit off, of course, but I really think the increasing pressure to build super specialized research profiles is problematic for a discipline whose big strength is reflexivity. Like where in the world would be a place for generalists if not in social science?
Imagine we had to navigate the world like weβre expected to form research interests:
"Canβt tell & don't care if this was a good lasagna, Iβm only interested in semifreddos with charred beets"