From my cold dead hands. Mind you, I don't want to give over the semi-colon in some kind of hostage exchange either.

My article “’Everybody Wanna Move Like Us!’: Performing Afro-Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest” has just been published in the September 2025 issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...

Have you ever purchased makeup or beauty projects based on your fandom? If you are 18 years or older, please fill out this 10 minute survey for a research project on embodied fan identities. Share widely! Contact with any questions: [email protected]. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Or even better, a recorded skit about the new ICT/enterprise services policy/tool/tip. I wish I was joking.

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Genuine and serious question: is there an academic journal dedicated to Star Wars? This question brought to you by the discovery of the International Journal of James Bond Studies.

Please take this online survey to help me understand Xena fans and the relationship of the fandom to the makers of the show. #xena, #xenawarriorprincess, #xwp Share with anyone who might be interested! ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A Swedish listicle cultural canon? Petra did it better. (I bet they left her off it too.) youtu.be/29tZAqJKtxs?...

Another great way to mark the Eurovision new year is to start writing an abstract for a fabulous conference to be held in Paris next year. Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2025 See website for more details: encore-network.org #Eurovision #cfp #AcademicSky

Happy Eurovision New Year to all who celebrate! May the most controversial thing about this season be that dreadful new logo. #Eurovision

When you submit your last lot of grades for the year.

🚨New issue 49.3 out now!🚨 Featuring: a special section on Australian deserts guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger as well as articles on Aus-US public relations, environmental protest, and gender in Australian visual arts. Stay tuned for feature posts! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c...

So many people have asked whether the state of academia in Australia is really as bad as I represent it in An Academic Affair, and it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when I tell them that it's much, much worse.

Without giving this thing any more publicity than necessary, no the old Intervision was not ‘held between 1965 and 1980 in communist Czechoslovakia’. Now come weeks of this fluff instead of media exposing how 🇷🇺 positions itself as anti-🏳️‍🌈 world leader by hosting a song contest like this.

The Australian Queer Archives are offering a brand new Research Fellowship - up to $5000 to assist with the expenses of a trip to AQuA to conduct a project on Australian queer history. Applications are due September 1. 🌈🎓 Details are here: queerarchives.org.au/posts/latest...

Vale to a true icon. David Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

The NTEU just asked me “what would you ask a VC?” about governance, so here’s my answer:

I don't know how Amazon knows this before anyone else, but excited that my new monograph finally has a release date (much delayed by Rowman and Littlefield being acquired by Bloomsbury) www.amazon.com.au/Beauty-Labor...

Can anyone suggest good articles on teaching? Just need my imagination sparked

#TWC32 is our special issue on Fandom and Politics, coedited by Ashley Hinck and Amber Davisson. They emphasize that "this special issue persuasively demonstrate[s] that the intersection of fandom and politics is not an unusual exception". Read the full issue here:

"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Look, it's not about two scholars who are each other's Reviewer 2, but if you want a rom-com about two bitter academic rivals who end up together written by an academic, then may I point you towards... (I wanted to call it Higher Yearning, but alas, got shot down)

🚨 New issue alert 🚨 49.2 out now! Guest editors @chriswallace.bsky.social & @sybiln.bsky.social present the special issue "Insiders & Outsiders, Winners & Losers: Close-Ups of the Struggle for Power & Status in #Australia". Stay tuned this week as we feature each article! tinyurl.com/makzm2b8

We forgot to post the #Eurovision scholar predictions last night, @pauldavidflood.bsky.social! As everyone can see, we were a bit torn on some choices but we all thought Australia was a shoe-in!

Are any Australians getting Gretel Killeen vibes from Sandra Stuger? #SBSEurovision #Eurovision

I am conducting a survey of women’s experiences of accessing financial credit since banking deregulation in Australia. I will use the results of this survey in an academic article. Survey closes end of May 2025. unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Watching the news in Italy and they are covering the papal conclave like a sporting event. I almost expected them to break out brackets.

Dale and I had a good ol' nerdy gasbag the other day.

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

Look, The Residence isn’t great but Julian McMahon as the Australian prime minister is one of the greatest pieces of stunt casting ever (especially when you remember he’s also Kylie’s ex-brother-in-law).

Looking for something to do during #Eurovision week in Basel? Check out the Eurovisions conference, which will be held on the Tuesday and Wednesday. The theme this year is "(Un)Fairness", so I'm sure we'll have A LOT to talk about...😅 Programme out now! www.eurovisions.eu/programme-2025

Officially my new favourite thing - I totally vibe with this!

Looking for people who attend anime cons! If you… ● Are 18 years of age or older ● Live in the United States ● Attend anime cons ... then we would love to hear from you! Click here go.iu.edu/animesurvey to learn more and to begin the Anime Conventions Survey 2025!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 (please share). The Centre for Feminist Research at York University invites abstracts from scholars/artists/activists, for Connection: The Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference. Conference is virtual August 15-17, 2025. Full CFP: www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-conte...

49.1 continues to deliver - Irving presents a gendered history of sports betting in Australia, demonstrating that it continues to be primarily a men's practice. #OzStudies #GamblingStudies #sportsbetting #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/6sacnesd

Welcome to Bluesky, @intlausstudies.bsky.social! Everyone, follow InASA for opportunities in Australian Studies! #OzStudies #AcademicSky

Start your week right with some reading from 49.1. Oldham looks at 1960s sharpie culture as an outlet for working class suburban youth and how it resonated through later youth subcultures. #OzStudies #YouthStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/ccdb72wn

Some 49.1 weekend reading: Martin Hobbs examines Australia's #AUKUS relationship through the lens of imperial nostalgia, arguing that in a time of insecurity around the US, it returns to the UK. #DefenceStudies #OzStudies #InternationalRelations tinyurl.com/mpbm3h7t

More from 49.1: Black examines how the ways that the anniversary of Whitlam's Dismissal is commemorated, reported, and discussed over time illustrate Australia's changing political culture and the shifting politics of memory. #Whitlam #auspol #politicalmemory #OzStudies tinyurl.com/55zyjj3z

Next in 49.1: Taylor and Korolev examine how online alternative media (e.g. FriendlyJordies, Michael West Media) impact Australians' political views on China. #MediaStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/yz4nvujc

Our first cab off the 49.1 rank - Zong and Bisenieks explore dark humour as a crucial storytelling technique in addressing Australia's eco-social challenges. #EnvironmentalStudies #environment #humour #HumourStudies #OzStudies #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/5n6pjzvt

Hot off the press! The latest issue of the Journal of Australian Studies (49.1) is out now. It's got dark humour, imperial nostalgia, youths, and more! Stay tuned for the highlights reel over the coming week! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #AcademicSky #AustralianStudies #Australia

NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

i'm an experienced, award-winning teacher and can teach courses and/or supervise (ma and ba theses) on, among other things: popular culture and world politics, visual politics, human rights, politics of international law, and (critical) IR theory

We're so pleased to present to our members a workshop navigating non-academic careers: the registrations are open now! (Like to attend, but not a member? This is the perfect opportunity to join!)

pls forgive the self-promotion but i'm sharing this article again bc it speaks to some bigger themes about children's politics and about "non-politics" beyond "just" junior eurovision, which i think are useful for many current academic conversations! academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

We're in the season where the IWD invites start flowing with the corporate slogan. This year's UN theme hits pretty hard this year and is actively inclusive: “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” Anyhow, I just withdrew from my uni's women's network.