Junior scholars: "I feel awkward citing myself" Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)..."

Devastating news of sociologist redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London Heart-breaking for those involved. Our solidarity and sympathy is with all affected.

The Tories are descending into hysteria now, as they face inevitable defeat with all the good grace and maturity of an enraged toddler on a sugar rush being carried bodily by their embarrassed mother out of a birthday party where they've disgraced themselves.

“Political insistence that higher education must operate like a market has led to many of the worst pathologies of market societies” theguardian.com/politics/ng-in…

Well this is just superb! Blame it on the tories! 🎶👏🏼

Literally me

Come and stay with me, Criminology pals!

Political discourse is becoming increasingly unhinged…

“The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture. As disinformation and propaganda spread freely online, genuine research and scholarship remains gated and prohibitively expensive” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Obviously banning *any* book is appalling and an affront to a free society, but ‘Blankets’ is in my Top Ten All Time Books, so this ban is particularly egregious… (you’ll see another “banned” author peaking into frame there 🤪) theguardian.com/books/article/…

The Lightning Seeds set Victorious Festival was a mf-ing masterclass in how to play a festival! A tight 45 minutes. Play *only* your singles. Incorporate a covers medley into your famous cover. End on the insanely popular football anthem that’s made you multi-millionaires. Job done!

“Texas is about to execute an innocent man convicted of a crime that never happened” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

It is truly devastating to have to write this - but please help to support our friend and colleague Dr Emily Cooper who has lost her little girl Isabelle - any help would be appreciated 🙏💔 justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

Thanks so much for all the condolences for the loss of Isabelle.We're so grateful for offers of help but as we can't think straight at the moment,a colleague has kindly done a fundraiser page until we can function enough to know what we need.Thank you x justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

Very excited to release this project out into the world! Threading some bonus details here. 🧵

ashley cai florina The Pudding ao3 We also got to talk to Dr. Lucy Neville, who wrote the book Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys. During our 9am call my mom unknowingly interrupted, which birthed the joke: “Not now Leslie, we’re talking about porn!" FTR, my mom probably would have joined in. google.com/books/edition/…

Appealing to colleagues to support Casa Xochiquetzal -a retirement home for #sexworkers in Mexico that I & others visited in 2017. They need funds for their services & their Día de muertos event w/ 200 sex workers. Give if you can via paypal to: [email protected]

Ready to help host our student Halloween party tonight! UoS Faculty of Social Sciences

Gingrich Can’t Believe Wives Told They Can Vote Differently to Husbands: “How do you run a country where you walk around saying wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives?” asked Gingrich, who cheated on his 1st & 2nd wives 😂 thedailybeast.com/newt-gingrich-…

Such a pleasure to attend Dr Zahra Stardust’s book event last night at The Common Press. Been far too long since I listened to her talk about her amazing scholarship & activism in person 🩵🩷🤍 Can’t wait to read #IndiePorn (also gutted you can’t see our matching clitorings here!)