🚨New publication alert🚨 'Railway modelling as object-relation. Examining the discursive framing of a serious leisure' in The Journal for Cultural Research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Is RECORD Heatwave Sign Of Climate Catastrophe?! via @novaramedia.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2t...

Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has published on academic misconduct, GenAI, and the everyday work of investigation in UK higher education in the ‘Journal of Academic Ethics’. buff.ly/XgOJb64

University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML

Deezer: AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new uploaded music newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-g...

Why Spotify has no button to filter out AI music www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans youtu.be/9C6AGYSXHW0?...

Donald Trump has just implicitly threatened the Iranian football team regarding their safety if they come to the World Cup. As Infantino would say #FootballUnitesTheWorld

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 I just published an article in the Journal of Academic Ethics that examines how academic staff investigate and sanction suspected cases of academic misconduct. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

“Above all, it has long had Europe's biggest university campus. Everything comes back to this. The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is quite funny.

Sociology graduation today. This time I got some blue on my gown. W. @drfuturity.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social

Management team of @uoy-sociology.bsky.social (minus Sarah, Katie, Mary, Gareth, James) being super cold for the whole of its Away Day. @emmahcasey.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social

Good luck to everyone on a REF2029 panel

I submitted 3 articles this week with the last one just now before logging off. Fingers crossed I don't come back to 3 desk rejects in early January!

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

And a happy birthday to @rivalconsoles.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/6dtXF2...

Oh look, it’s @deathandculture.bsky.social on the telly!

New Futurama season delivers

Today I learned that saying that 'culture has positive effects' is a banality whereas saying that 'culture reproduces inequalities' is cutting-edge scientific knowledge. The things you learn... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Autumn vibes

🚨New publication alert (for those who speak French), a book on music tastes of French people 🚨 Les goûts musicaux des français par Hervé Glevarec et Raphaël A. Nowak

I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’. #France #French #Music

Out of the office update

Why would anyone need to watch Black Mirror since we are already living in it? 'French streamer dies live online after months of apparent mistreatment' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨 new publication alert 🚨 New book chapter, co-authored with Jo Haynes, 'when is a music audience?', published in Mike Dines, Shara Rambarran, and Gareth Dylan Smith's edited collection Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies.

Getting there

Mehdi Hasan Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAE4...

Universities urged to hasten ‘quiet retreat’ from X after Grok outcry. Fresh analysis shows increasing numbers of UK universities going silent on Elon Musk’s platform. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Remembering 1985 - The Year of Live Aid, EastEnders, Madonna, Whitney, Back to the Future, The Sinclair C5, and much more! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers archive.md/UJIGh#select...

Today in AI world... 'He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him' archive.md/QbPXz#select...

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The Department of Sociology is turning 60 years old! 🎉 Join us on the 18th June for lively discussions and conversation on Sociology past, present and future, as we celebrate 60 years of legacies and sociological ideas at York. Sign up and schedule here 👉 buff.ly/mzLFh0a #UoY #Sociology #60years

My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

Look what arrived today! Super pleased to see this in print. I think it's a really timely and important collection and I'm so proud of my fellow editors @simoned.bsky.social and @benlitherland.bsky.social as well as our amazing contributors for all of the work they put into it.

The MA Global Culture & Society combines classical theories with cutting-edge research practice. You'll acquire first-hand experience of social scientific research alongside a range of transferable skills useful for academia, the market, and industry. 🔗 buff.ly/bFkxmdw #UoY #Sociology #Postgraduate

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Toilet segregation: an issue for everyone The UK’s EHRC has advised that toilet access should be restricted by sex, but in practice this means problems, and not just for trans people By Jennie Kermode @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

It's also the same reason as to why more men voted for Donald Trump. Men are more likely to like fascism.

🚨🔥🚨 Europe just had their warmest March on record.

'but he hasn't even been potter of the week yet!' is the kind of things I now say. #middleclassmuch?

« Une corruption d’une intensité jamais atteinte » : la charge des parties civiles au procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Spotted in Amsterdam