This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

A reminder of our last writing group session for the year tomorrow!

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

This is an absolutely cracking job for someone: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN334/q...

I know folks love to pretend that 10 year wait for indefinite leave to remain doesn’t already exist, but it does and folks like me get stuck on it due to our time as students in this country. And I can tell you from experience, a 20 year wait is fucking indefensible.

My article for Celebrity Studies has gone live - Exposing Russell Brand: navigating allegations of sexual misconduct and appealing to the manosphere. Open access so fill yer boots. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's always a bit weird having a publication come out when the topic is in the news anyway, especially when it relates to the royals. If you're interested in the monarchy's relationship with celebrity, do have a look at my new article! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's always a bit weird having a publication come out when the topic is in the news anyway, especially when it relates to the royals. If you're interested in the monarchy's relationship with celebrity, do have a look at my new article! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are starting a Research Profile series to highlight some of the excellent work of our Network Members and Committee!

If anyone wants an article about what it is like to be in a hotel while applying for asylum (this is pandemic era but much still applies) then our article last year covers some of this from the perspective of those in the hotels

A reminder of our Writing Group this Wednesday! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

We’re starting our Online Writing Group again! Come and join us for support and solidarity while we work on those unfinished projects 📝👩‍💻 Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Join us for our @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social online writing group this semester! First date is next week, 29th October, 2pm to 4pm. All welcome! And writing is defined broadly - whatever is useful for you. Register here for the Zoom link: buytickets.at/universityof...

I am co-organising a Techne DTP student-led event series alongside fellow PhD student Samantha Dick. Starting in December, we are bringing together different perspectives on class from across the arts and humanities in monthly online seminars. Info and sign-ups: www.eventbrite.com/cc/techne-st...

“In a recent survey of its British Library members, the union found that most workers struggle each month to make ends meet.”

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Had an absolute blast at #MeCCSA2025 with the Women's Network, and also talking about gendered social media representations of paid work. Shout out to our social media team for capturing it so well!

This! I welcome it too. I genuinely don't want bad things for anyone. The people who I admire most are the ones who suffer all of life's disappointments and somehow become even better people, who build even stronger structures of care and community. "That's* who we need to listen to. Not fascists.

The fuck is unfunded hobbyist research? My hobbies are millions of miles removed from the academy and if my research was of no interest to others, this would show in every aspect of my career. We have the REF for this, no? So what other than right wing talking points being echoed is this adding?

Palgrave is hiring an Editor for Film, TV, and Theatre Studies hybrid (2 days/wk in office) out of NYC or London. I'm not on the hiring committee but this is directly on my team: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

I had such a good time at the @meccsa2025.bsky.social conference last week! Highlights include presenting some ideas on class, domestic labour and the mental load, @nweidhase.bsky.social's fab paper on corporate queens and girlbosses, and winning the pub quiz with @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social pals!

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

Following on from mentoring session with @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social I thought it would be useful to share this 🧵 on academic job applications again.

So lovely catching up with the Women's Network @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social at the MeCCSA conference today! Excited for some more events, workshops and networking in the new term 🥰 @meccsa.bsky.social

What an incredible keynote #meccsa2025

Just a reminder that there is still time to sign up for our speed mentoring event for PhD students, ECRs, and anyone looking for career advice at @meccsa2025.bsky.social ! (There will be coffee, tea and pastries 🥐☕)

Researchers from Cardiff University are recruiting non-binary people (between the ages of 18-65) who have had treatment for an eating disorder to find out more about their experiences to understand how we can improve support. Email them at [email protected] #TransResearch #ResearchSurvey

We are pleased to be bringing back our Speed Mentoring Event to @meccsa2025.bsky.social Join us to meet and learn from fellow researchers in the field of media, communications and cultural studies! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

If you're going to MeCCSA this year at Edinburgh Napier University, join us for our MeCCSA Women's Network Speed Mentoring event on 4th September for PhD students and ECRs (ECRs very much defined broadly - if you identify as ECR, then you are!)! You can sign up here: buytickets.at/universityof...

This came up a few times in conversations with other people with settled status in the UK, so sharing. You may now be asked, upon returning home to the UK, for a proof of your settled status. You can get a 'share code' following this link. It's easy, even if a pain: www.gov.uk/evisa/view-e...

I recently learned about Russian painter Ivan Aivazosky and I may never recover. I don't think I've ever seen water done like he does it. I don't think I've ever felt an artist loved water as much as I feel he must have. It's so incredible I could vomit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ai...

📢 Please share with your networks and anyone you think might be interested! 📢 I'm looking for participants for my research project on young women's understanding of paid work on and through social media, including phenomena such as the #girlboss #corporatequeen or #lazygirljobs.

Is anyone working on the Online Safety Act and specifically impacts on social media? I'd like to run a class on it this autumn semester for my third year undergraduates. Any resources/ideas/people happy to speak etc. greatly appreciated! #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #OnlineSafetyBill

Favourite bot response to my research project EoI so far - wish I had the same superpower

wonder if decades of mocking media studies as a Mickey Mouse subject has anything to do with this at all

📢 Please share with your networks and anyone you think might be interested! 📢 I'm looking for participants for my research project on young women's understanding of paid work on and through social media, including phenomena such as the #girlboss #corporatequeen or #lazygirljobs.

Please sign. We are close to 1000 signatures. Do not let private limited company subsiduaries flourish in our sector, downgrading staff T&Cs. speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/operate-surr...

I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: [email protected]

Pleased to share this piece I wrote about the killing of Menezes and to reflect on the criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK.

I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

Nearly at 900 @ucusurrey.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk Please 📝 against outsourcing: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/operate-surr... Our petition is with the Executive Board, & we plan to escalate ⬆️ @zoefranklinld.bsky.social @drjogrady.bsky.social @theguardian.com @theipaper.com @timeshighered.bsky.social

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

#OutNow in #iCS Weidhase & Wilde examine zombie humour on social media following Prince Philip's death. Their paper explores how zombie metaphors on Twitter critique the monarchy & express resistance: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....