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...

Last but certainly not least, please welcome our final new PhD researcher, Charlotte Curran! Charlotte will be looking into the interpretative, communicative and expressive work undertaken in romantic relationships 🏋️‍♀️🤔 Here’s Charlotte on her research and why she’s excited to be joining CLSR⬇️

Our next new face we’re so excited to introduce… Kristin Kauper! @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social is embarking on their PhD with us researching asexuality and aromanticism🏳️‍🌈 They’ve got some amazing stuff in the works that we can’t wait to share with you! 👀✨ Over to Kristin to say hi ⤵️

Our next new CLSR member to introduce… Tom Wardell! Tom’s PhD will dive into the fascinating world of AI, exploring the possibility and ethics of human-chatbot relationships🤖❤️ Hear him talk about his research and how he’s found being a distance learner with CLSR so far👇👇

A good idea, apart from ‘with only limited AI use permitted for tasks such as formatting or idea generation’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

A good idea, apart from ‘with only limited AI use permitted for tasks such as formatting or idea generation’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Call for papers for BSET '26 - taking place in Leeds in mid-July, this time with Jenny Saul and Krister Bykvist:

Society of Applied Philosophy conference is back in Edinburgh next summer, and has @jennysaul.bsky.social and Ishani Maitra, amongst others, as keynotes - the call for abstracts has just gone out.

So excited to be starting my research with CLSR! I’ve loved being here for my undergraduate and master’s degrees, and I’m really looking forward to continuing to work alongside such an amazing community🫶🫶

I’m excited to be mentoring Alex’s project! He’s doing some fascinating research.

I contributed to a discussion of friendship and loneliness in this gorgeous French language print magazine.👇🏻

Coming soon! In one month my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social will be published by @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

One of my students doing great work!

Coming soon! In one month my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social will be published by @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Had an interesting time in the first @clsrleeds.bsky.social reading group of the year reading ‘“Just a little gay”: how sexual orientation comes in degrees’ by Kevin Richardson.

New publication! ✨ Remember Jonah Hill asking Sarah Brady to stop modeling to respect his “boundaries”? Or an abusive boss recommending mindfulness after your complaints? @almagro.bsky.social and I are now ready to tell you when and why therapy-speak might be wrong. 🔓Link in reply

What a total mess. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Really sad to hear that Jonathan Lear has died. His work was an influence and inspiration when I was a PhD. dailynous.com/2025/09/22/j...