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'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/...

Have chatbots killed the student essay? This year’s marking season has confirmed for many academics that, less than three years since the launch of ChatGPT, AI use by students has become so rife that their submitted writing is no longer a r...

“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?

Lecturers are struggling with students’ use of AI | Letter Letter: A Guardian cartoon strikes a chord with a music lecturer worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on academia

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

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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!

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My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

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

This graphic displays a book launch invitation for Ysabel Gerrard's first book: The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life. The invitation is pink and also displays a cover of the book. EVENT HOST: Dr. Briony Hannell DATE + TIME: 18 March 15:00 GMT EVENT FORMAT: hybrid REGISTRATION LINK FOR ONLINE PARTICIPANTS: https://tinyurl.com/ydrep6fh

See also cute share-worthy graphic:

If Trump was President in 1940

National providers of research, evaluation, consultancy and training, plus unique access to our resource hub; a growing, co-created archive of 'what works' in being father-inclusive.

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

Pop & Postfeminism Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintainin…

🎉 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

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🌟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...

Seig heil Tesla Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.

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...

Beyond Doomscrolling The internet we have, and the one we want

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...

How to resist the tech overlords Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.

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'

Total information collapse It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

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!

Yes please!

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

Shared parental leave ‘failing working families’ The government is reviewing the policy but campaigners say the current system is

Ten years on from the introduction of shared parental leave, the policy has completely failed working families.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many many congrats!

Parents Talking Algorithms Parents Talking Algorithms - Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies; This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions...

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...