'Fair Game': Talks, Jokes and Legitimacy in Men's Journeys of Hereditary Hair Loss - not of the press from myself and Matt Hall, open access, in Men and Masculinities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“If an expert is somebody who knows a lot about very little, AI is the opposite, engaging with academic literature only superficially while falling over itself to show you the breadth of its knowledge. The result is 1,500 words of grammatically impeccable mediocrity.” Has AI killed the essay?

What does #LocalNews have to do with #parenting and raising #children? Our brand 🆕 paper from The Leverhulme Trust #news #use study shows #parents use local news as anchors ⚓️, escape 🪜, as a lens 🔭, and news use as a site of parenting labour 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒. #OpenAccess now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

ChatGPT “encourages] users to rely less and less on inner resources and personal capacity at a time when most of us are already losing the equipment—our will, our instincts, our sense of purchase—with which we handle the task of being alive,” Jia Tolentino writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Two posts coming up in my department. We are very nice 😌 #criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych #sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️

List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

Happy to have signed contract with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for new book: 'Going Bald: Identity, Masculinity and Wellbeing in Men's Journeys of Hair Loss' - based on findings from the BA-funded Journeys of Hair Loss project - can't wait to get writing!

Does higher education politicise today's students? Delighted to be starting a new ESRC-funded project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social & Tom Fryer Follow our new account @studentspolitics.bsky.social & come along to our launch seminar in June! www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...

Excellent blog from Emily Setty and Jonny Hunt on need for nuance, listening and caution about simplistic cause/effect ideas in responding to public debate on digital media & masculinities etc following Adolescence series

See also cute share-worthy graphic:

If Trump was President in 1940

The Father-inclusion Hub website was lunched just this month! A growing, co-created archive of ‘what works’ in embedding father-inclusion! Visit the site to access resources developed by leading organisations and get in touch if you have examples to share! fatherinclusion.org

🎉 My new book 'Pop and Postfeminism: Female Dandyism in Popular Music' is now 30% off the hardback version and 40% off the ebook as part of the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social sale! 🎉 come for the beautiful cover, stay for the #LadyGaga analysis 💃 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pop--post...

📢New article: 'Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education', in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social, with @drdanwoodman.bsky.social & @juliacook.bsky.social #parenting #HE #intensiveparenting journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 🧵

🌟Are you a PGR interested in publishing your sociological research? Join us for this free @britsoci.bsky.social PG Forum event: Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online 📝 Friday, 21 February, 11am - 1pm Register ➡️: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Our information systems “feel like they were built for a world we no longer inhabit,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. He sees the Watch Duty app as a potential template for resilient “tools that give people information that can be turned into agency.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

Today we launched the Father-inclusion Hub to over 122 professionals. This hub is a living archiving of resources to capture what works in supporting dads! TY to @felicitycallon.bsky.social from Small Steps Big Changes for sharing your resources! Check it all out here: fatherinclusion.org

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social on why literacy not enough: 'if we don’t effectively regulate the tech companies, the effect of awareness raising... burdens vulnerable individuals with the responsibility for coping with the opaque and often exploitative actions of the world’s most powerful companies'

NEW: Elon Musk’s X is a weapon currently owned and controlled by a non-state entity. But from January 20, that changes. At that point, we need to understand in the context of information warfare from a hostile nation state. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Happy New Year! In 2025, I'm running a research project on blackness and ARTs. I'd like to talk to: 1) black egg/sperm donors, 2) black surrogates, 3) black parents who plan to or have used IVF, IUI etc 4) clinicians & managers who've worked with black families #fertility #sociology Repost at will!

Really pleased to be on the Editorial Board for this new series.

Ten years on from the introduction of shared parental leave, the policy has completely failed working families. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...