Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans YouTube video by The Guardian

Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans youtu.be/9C6AGYSXHW0?...

Donald Trump has just implicitly threatened the Iranian football team regarding their safety if they come to the World Cup.

As Infantino would say #FootballUnitesTheWorld

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 I just published an article in the Journal of Academic Ethics that examines how academic staff investigate and sanction suspected cases of academic misconduct.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth? With an annual growth rate of 3.1%, Manchester's economy has performed twice as well as that of the UK as a whole.

“Above all, it has long had Europe's biggest university campus. Everything comes back to this. The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is quite funny.

Sociology graduation today. This time I got some blue on my gown. W. @drfuturity.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social

Management team of @uoy-sociology.bsky.social (minus Sarah, Katie, Mary, Gareth, James) being super cold for the whole of its Away Day. @emmahcasey.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social

Good luck to everyone on a REF2029 panel

I submitted 3 articles this week with the last one just now before logging off. Fingers crossed I don't come back to 3 desk rejects in early January!

Finally in my hands

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Fluctuations

And a happy birthday to @rivalconsoles.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/6dtXF2...

Oh look, it’s @deathandculture.bsky.social on the telly!

New Futurama season delivers

Today I learned that saying that 'culture has positive effects' is a banality whereas saying that 'culture reproduces inequalities' is cutting-edge scientific knowledge. The things you learn... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Autumn vibes

🚨New publication alert (for those who speak French), a book on music tastes of French people 🚨

Les goûts musicaux des français
par Hervé Glevarec et Raphaël A. Nowak

I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Les goûts musicaux des Français.es – Le Bord de l'Eau Aucun produit dans le panier.

Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’.

#France #French #Music

Out of the office update

French streamer dies live online after months of apparent mistreatment Jean Pormanove featured regularly in videos in which he appeared to be assaulted or humiliated as viewers watched

Why would anyone need to watch Black Mirror since we are already living in it?
'French streamer dies live online after months of apparent mistreatment' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨 new publication alert 🚨
New book chapter, co-authored with Jo Haynes, 'when is a music audience?', published in Mike Dines, Shara Rambarran, and Gareth Dylan Smith's edited collection Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies.

Getting there

Enjoy those last couple of months 😆

Mehdi Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts YouTube video by Zeteo

Mehdi Hasan Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAE4...

My knees squeak and my back hurts. You?

Universities urged to hasten ‘quiet retreat’ from X after Grok outcry - Research Professional News Fresh analysis shows increasing numbers of UK universities going silent on Elon Musk’s platform

Universities urged to hasten ‘quiet retreat’ from X after Grok outcry.

Fresh analysis shows increasing numbers of UK universities going silent on Elon Musk’s platform.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

What a terrible idea / tournament / bunch of people.