Call for Nominations: Uppsala University invites nominations for the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology 2026. Deadline: 24 May 2026 🔗 www.uu.se/fakultet/sam... #ZetterbergPrize #Sociology
Last year we authored three reports on the difficulties for the global south to partake in science publishing - shows how important the topic is, even if er are aware that all authors reside comfortably in the dark purple zones.
- Wiley Online Library rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A page from the foreword to a 1978 report that led to the founding of the Nordic Council on Alcohol and Drug Research, which coordinated >100 projects, dozens of PhDcourses, conferences, published 50+ books - with a staff of 3-4 persons.
Small budgets, massive outputs! Link to editorial in comment 🔽
Our colleague @matildahellman.bsky.social has recently published an interesting chapter analyzing how popular online news report on neuroscience discoveries in the field of addiction. Read the chapter here link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#AddictionStudies #SociologyOfScience#Research
New year, new discoveries! 💥
The book ”Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour: New Critical Perspectives” is out now!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
🧠 I have contributed with a chapter on ”Hyping and Spinning the Superiority of Neuroscience”
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
In the early 2020s, despite increasing public concern about gambling harms, the city of #Tampere hosted a casino.
🎰 Read our study on the legitimisation of this last bizarre synergy between addiction capitalism and the state monopoly. With Paula Jääskeläinen.
direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...
Yes, there are convincing and good interpretations and translations . Also analysis of heglian roots for other (ideological) thinking — which must be some of the the most important contributions
Arguing Hegelian geist to be intelligible, naturalistic, intersubjective, historical, non-metaphysical… etc etc
📢 Our college @matildahellman.bsky.social has recently published two timely pieces on the challenges facing science under the second Trump administration: a call to resist anti-science policy and an editorial on DEI in research.
🧪 doi.org/10.1177/1455...
🌍 doi.org/10.1177/1455...
Grattis! Fint jobbat 💪
You can do it! 🫶
@nordicwelfare.bsky.social is hosting an alcohol policy webinar in Helsinki today 🍷 with @who.int
Measles: What has not been widely reported is what comes next for those who have been infected —
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/meas...
Watch my brilliant colleague @bradby.bsky.social speak about the intersection of sociology and health⚕️🏥🩻
📖 Kicking off this week by sharing new research from our department on addiction from a sociological perspective. Check out more work on this topic here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.... #Sociology #AddictionResearch
New Research from our Department! 📢
📝 Tripping in the Happiest Country of the World ,Use Values of Psychedelics According to Finnish Users
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This study explores how psychedelic use is understood and valued in Finland.#Sociology #DrugStudies #SocialScience
New Research in our department:
📄 “A Double Decline in Character”: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Female Drug User Experiences in Iran
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
#DrugResearch #Sociology #NewPublications@matildahellman.bsky.social
Tässä podcastissa tehdään melkein sama analyysi. Varsinkin kongressin valta/ rooli nyt vaakakupissa
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