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....

Please sign to help us stop outsourcing plans at Surrey!

It's hot and muggy in London today so of course I'm starting to miss last week's 14 degrees and drizzle on the Scottish west coast

Doubling down on non portability absolutely screws people like me, who have been told for *years* to focus on writing our books to get a job, even when no workload (support!) given to do so, and now find those books are not useful for future departments and so were basically pointless. I'm furious.

The first 'Whose Rainbow?' project publication! Whose Rainbow? explored LGBT+ staff & student experiences of rainbow symbolism & EDI schemes in HE. In this paper, we think specifically about the extra labour required of LGBT+ people (to survive!) in HE. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🚨Job Alert🚨🚨 Our dept has an opening for a 12-month full-time fixed term contact for a Lecturer in Media and Politics. The role will cover teaching in areas of global news media & war, research methods, & digital media. Deadline 30th June 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l... (pls share) #commsky

🌟call for research participants🌟 i'm looking for people who are (or have been) fans of #eurovision to join an online focus group about how fans think about & interact with the politics of the contest. more details on the study & how to join below. please sign up & share with your eurofan pals!

Keep forgetting to plug this! Open Access article exploring zombie #memes on social media as a cultural critique, considering how the monarchy embody the "living dead", and how counter cultures utilise humour and exist in online spaces as sites of resistance #ZombieStudies #MediaStudies #SocialMedia

AI applying a specialist algorithm to a selected dataset, designed for a specific, technical purpose, with the results validated and the system refined by human experts. Doesn't require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property at any stage. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Join us for the @bcmcr.bsky.social conference "Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities" - 17-18 June, Parkside Building, Birmingham City University! In-person fee: £30/£15. Online fee: £15. Schedule, abstracts, and info here: bcmcr.org/event/cfp-tr... #media #culture #research #transgression

People need to buy the rights to a novel if they want to make a movie out of it -- which is indisputably a separate work of art. People need to buy the rights to a song if they want to use it in a commercial -- and that permission is often refused. Why should AI get a 100% discount?

The music industry has a problem with gender-based violence. On the blog, the authors of Unsilenced: Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry, examine how artists like Kesha use music to speak up about their experiences. bit.ly/4krDo8R @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

If you want to kickstart your summer research and writing time in a supportive, encouraging environment, join our MeCCSA Women's Network Online Writing Retreat! Everything counts as writing: reading, drafting, editing, dedicated thinking time,.... you can sign up here: buytickets.at/universityof...

I encounter more and more people in real life lately who think AI genuinely is some kind of truth machine and it feels like they are living on a different planet in a way that is just incredibly distressing

📣 TOMORROW from 5-6pm BST: a FREE online celebration of women's TV authorship! I'll be discussing my book on UK comedians with Sarah Arnold, alongside Sarah Smyth & @dearstefania.bsky.social on their special dossier exploring authorship/adaptations 📣 Register: shorturl.at/eO3KY

Join us on Wednesday this week!

JISC appears to be surveying academic and professional services staff on the use of AI in REF2029 for, among other things, assessing research outputs, impact case studies, PCE statements.... Check it out if you have views or expertise: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Those of us who caution against AI are doing so forcefully because it's a multibillion dollar business marketed by multibillion corporations as a solution to the problem of humans doing things and we're the humans and we do in fact want to do things and ideally get paid for some of them.

It's the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social May Sale and it includes my book Pop & Postfeminism! The recent Met Gala piqued your interest in dandyism? Give it a read if you want to find out why the dandy is still an important figure that subverts contemporary gender norms www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pop--post...

'Island of strangers' is scary, dangerous language. Also what rules is he talking about? The 'rules' regulating immigration mean it's already difficult and expensive to come to the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

OK - but how much of these worries are actually rooted in the factual reality of immigration, versus how it is reported on and has been talked about for decades now? For one: it is already SO HARD to come to this country. It's super expensive and there are a shitload of hurdles to get over!

Enraging to have grown up around working class black people who came to the UK and broke themselves for it only to be told that their host nation still has “legitimate concerns” about them being there.

Are you an #ECR or #postdoc looking to publish your first academic book? Join our digital workshop for personalised feedback on your book proposal from experienced OUP Editors and ECR peers. 📖 Reserve your spot: oxford.ly/ECR-Proposal... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Co-written with @poppywilde.bsky.social, our article is out now in @icsjournal.bsky.social. We analyse humorous bad taste Twitter reactions to the death of Prince Philip as a critique of the monarchy, and reflect on the ethics of researching controversial content on social media tinyurl.com/y62326fr