It's no longer pixels on a screen

My book is out today! Big huge thanks to my co-authors Andrine and Xiuwei, the wonderful team at @routledgebooks.bsky.social and everyone who supported me in this process. I hope many students will find the book very helpful as they conduct their research projects! www.routledge.com/Researching-...

"In our time marked by epistemic instability, discursive overload, and interconnected global crises, it is no longer sufficient for people to decode language; they must be equipped to question it, redesign it, and use it ethically to shape more just and sustainable futures."

In "Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of Adolescence", Debbie Ging and Catherine R. Baker argue that 'Adolescence' inadvertently operates in the service of anti-progressive agendas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Academic publishing can be a hot mess of mixed emotions patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i...

The Amazing AnswerBot. www.patreon.com/posts/amazin...

It’s a mistake to outsource most writing to AI. Even if the output is accurate and engaging, something valuable is lost in the process. Jotting down intuitions and spelling out hunches is how we develop and refine our ideas. Writing is where we do our best thinking.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: controversy as new Pope drops requirement for citations to list place of publication 🚨🚨🚨

RFK Jr. claims that he can find THE cause of autism within a few months. When I hear someone claiming they have found THE cure for cancer, I have a 100 thoughts whirling in my head. Once misinformation takes flight it is so hard to refute it. Inaccuracy on multiple levels. Brandolini’s law is 🎯🧪🧬

Very exciting to see that my book is now up on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website! 'Language and LGBTQ+ Youth: Analysing Marginalised Identities through an Intersectional Lens' will be out in November 🥳 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Youth workers can provide a positive example of masculinity.

Statement on the Importance of #Sexuality and #Gender #Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Job postings with terms like "ambitious" and "self-reliant" may attract more narcissistic applicants. A behavioral researcher explains why: buff.ly/80ffaHu Jonathan Gay, University of Mississippi #jobs

A new guest blog by @alexahepburn.bsky.social . A fascinating, line by line transcription and analysis of the Trump – Vance - Zelenskyy White House interview that caused ripples around the world. rolsi.net/2025/03/19/g...

'Why don't they run?' Kazuo Ishiguro discusses why the characters in Never Let Me Go don't try to escape: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYx14nN9Cw&t=6s

'Academics can no longer resort to only publishing papers, and clenching fists in pockets. Instead, there is a need to consider how to make best use of academic knowledge and creativity to support diverse activism'. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My monograph 'Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, Argumentation' is now available for purchase as an ebook with John Benjamins, though you will need to pre-order for a physical copy. benjamins.com/catalog/daps...

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

"disability inclusion isn’t about charity; it’s about making organizations work better"

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

VP JD Vance clashes with# Catholic bishops over #immigration—raids, rhetoric, and the Church’s role. A religious studies professor explores the deep tensions in Christian views on migrant care. https://buff.ly/3CI664H @laura-e-alex.bsky.social @ University of Nebraska Omaha

📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4

Want to know more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book? Read this Q&A I did with @asc.upenn.edu where I talk about research, activism and digital tech!

We talked about the weaponisation of 'DEI' in the US in the latest pod and here we are... bsky.app/profile/davi...

"Through pointing, Trump is able to entertain his audience, direct their attention, build rapport with them and align himself with them as a man of the people."

Actually, no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"

We're excited about this new edition of Jane H. Hill's Everyday Language of White Racism. Collaborating on this book update with Barb Meek and Christina Leza has been wonderful. www.wiley.com/en-in/The+Ev...

Designed ambiguity. Flirtation, dog whistles, and many social actions are intended to be defeasible, deniable, transformable. In this case, and in all such cases, it's what happens next that is the tell. "My heart goes out to you" offers an interpretative framing that renders the gesture deniable.

I’m starting a little series about writing post PhD. The first is about gift authorship. That’s when someone gets credit for writing without doing any work patthomson.net/2025/01/12/a...

New #OpenAccess article in @sociologicalreview.bsky.social >> Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson: Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

shared some thought with the reporter for this piece on Trump's appeal among the Asian manosphere www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024...

Hello Bluesky! We’re LTS, an interdisciplinary journal based at the University of Nottingham and spotlighting cutting-edge postgraduate and early-career research. Get to know us in the short 🧵 below 👇🏻

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Faculty don't just know things. They do things. This is why we should be thinking of the labor of teaching and research, not just the products and outcomes.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Using my first message to celebrate my colleagues published article @timeshighered.bsky.social Jess and Rosie doing fantastic work evaluating Research Culture at @unisouthampton.bsky.social #researchcultture #evaluation #highereducation www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/time-...

I love that we got to choose the cover this time! Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃 Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂 🐦🐦

The first title in the Cambridge UP Elements series edited by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and me has been published. The short book - the latest by Teun van Dijk - is available for free for the next four weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

All articles that are part of the special issue on "News Today" that Teun van Dijk and I co-edited are now available Online First

Check out the latest post on our RC21 blog, where @gavinbrookes.bsky.social argues that "[c]oncordance analysis is still something that humans do best"! www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2024/11/28/c...

Submit your extended abstract for a special issue of @critdiscstuds.bsky.social on the language of the #manosphere by the end of Sunday. My @mantrap.bsky.social colleagues and I are interested in research-based interventions and non-Anglo contexts. t.co/B9AevMR6HE

It's all about creating the illusion of empathy. But remember, folks, LLMs are just that, illusions of language.

Here is a film sharing data from my project "Growing up multilingual with Chinese heritage". Sharing the link is the best way I can figure out, it's about 2 mins long. NB: this film comes with CW digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/id/1_kbm3fb7k - - - - - - - - racism, loss of identity and belonging

The LGBTQ community in Hong Kong saw a landmark victory on Tuesday as the city's top court upheld housing and inheritance rights of same-sex married couples after government appeals against lower court rulings. In full: https://buff.ly/41b86vM Photo: Hillary Leung/HKFP.

Still the greatest email ever. Humans are beautiful. ❤️

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...