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Should we treat dating like work? I’m quoted in this Cosmopolitan piece: www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

We’d never be able to teach classes like this in a UK university. Such a shame!

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@lukebrunning.bsky.social was quoted in this article on modern dating in @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/how-to-mak...

More on X and nudification 👇🏻

A new article by @alex-fisher.bsky.social on why Grok’s ‘nudification’ was so harmful. 👇🏻

“How can images that everyone knows aren’t real cause harm?" Our visiting fellow @alex-fisher.bsky.social explores the wrong of nudification and virtual harms in this article for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

This looks so good! I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t read @add-hawk.bsky.social’s work before to have a look!

It’s the North American publication day of my textbook written with @nmckeever3.bsky.social 🥂 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

More coverage of the Feeld Raw report with my commentary. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Sad to hear that Bella Tarr has died. Watching his films was easily one of the best artistic experiences I had when I was younger. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

I was quoted in this piece on heteroflexibility www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

How is technology reshaping modern love? Great panel discussion we are holding on this topic on 26 March with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @lukebrunning.bsky.social @shannonphilip.bsky.social Book here - free - in person or online www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

I contributed some thoughts on exploration and emotions to this article in Men’s Health www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a6...

These talks were all so good! Lots of great research at @leedsprhs.bsky.social

Christmas has come early for those interested in sexual orientation data! 🎅📊 The Office for National Statistics has just released new sexual orientation data from the 2024 Annual Population Survey – and the story is one where the proportion of queer people in the UK continues to grow! 🧵

Over the last two days I was at the On Asexualities conference in Berlin. The aim of the meeting was to catalyse research and activism around asexuality and aromanticism. Here are 10 observations from the event.

Time for day two of the On Asexualities conference in Berlin. A fantastic event organised by Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło, bringing together academics and activists to think about aromanticism and asexuality.

Latest Philosophy Bites. Sam Scheffler on grief philosophybites.com/podcast/samu...

People are using Chat-GPT to flirt on dating apps and I was asked about it for @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

Lots of great research going on at @clsrleeds.bsky.social

Natasha McKeever and @lukebrunning.bsky.social have been quoted in this recent @newscientist.com article Give it a read! www.newscientist.com/article/2504...

In great company here!

Not many philosophical texts engage with asexuality & aromanticism, but here are some philosophical publications by @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social:

The weird jewellery policy, first in Denmark, is back! I wonder why these kind if strange policies are proposed. Any ideas? One possibility: they distract people from other unpopular policies, or make other unpopular policies seem relatively more reasonable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Want a new textbook on the Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, for less? Order from @politybooks.bsky.social with code: BRM30 and you’ll get a 30% discount (until end of November). www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Registration is open for two events happening 3rd & 4th December at Leeds @idea-leeds.bsky.social! Objectification & Sexualisation: philevents.org/event/show/1... Sex, Deception and Consent: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sex-decept... These events mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

Happy publication day to my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social This has been a long time in the making and @politybooks.bsky.social have been fantastic throughout the whole process. 🥂

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

You’ll find a few words of mine in this @economist.com article: www.economist.com/business/202...

Happy publication day to my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social This has been a long time in the making and @politybooks.bsky.social have been fantastic throughout the whole process. 🥂

To mark two weeks since the launch of the @aroaceresearch.bsky.social based at CLSR, @isobellogan.bsky.social sat down with the organiser @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social to hear more about the network, plans for the future, and how you can get involved! 🧡💛💙 ⬇️Give it a listen⬇️

In this @telegraphnews.bsky.social article I mention some things to consider when transitioning to nonmonogamy www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

This is terrible. Teen Vogue were a vital source of political critique and social commentary.

I've been trying to get deskilling into AI ethics for probably five years, and this Appiah essay trying to do this is a total mess www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Out this Friday!

This conference on asexualities at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is going to be amazing!

My textbook is out in less than two weeks. @nmckeever3.bsky.social and me blogged about it here: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...

If you’re interested in asexuality or aromanticism, or intimate and romantic life more generally, then be sure to follow @aroaceresearch.bsky.social

Check out @nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social‘s paper on the philosophy of asexuality here:

“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—but what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it.

It’s Ace Week, and I want to say that one thing I’ve been happy to see in the past few years is how Audre Lorde’s erotic has become a resource for thinking asexual/aromantic embodiment and experience. ♠️

Why do we need an asexuality and aromanticism research network like @aroaceresearch.bsky.social? Here are some reasons 👇🏻

My PhD student @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social has just launched an academic for scholars studying asexuality and aromanticism 👇🏻

I had a great time chatting to @stinaface.bsky.social and @ninajonesfilm.bsky.social about asexual representation, and you can listen to the podcast episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3p5D... Also, go read my blog about the impacts of ace representation below 👀 Happy Ace Week everyone! 💜

For the start of ace week 2025 why not listen to this podcast on asexuality featuring @nmckeever3.bsky.social and @lukebrunning.bsky.social goodisinthedetails.libsyn.com/romantic-lov...