I aspire to this level of savagery

Everything in Moderation is back for our second year baby! Super excited to be hosting a panel discussion on moderation of The Voice in news organisations with great people from Guardian Australia ABC News and Quiip Full program and registration is > events.zoom.us/ev/Aj34SCd8kDa…

Just over 20 years ago I had some great discussions with the late Teresa Brennan on public academics and public intellectuals as I was thinking about doing a PhD. Looking at my career now, she really shaped my approach to my work and thinking about the role of universities

Actually dead 😂 😂 😂

Hey Russell Goulbourne if someone from Chancellory says in conversation “the incoming Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Jennifer Beckett”, does that mean I have a new job in July?

“Swiftian semiotic sleuthing’ may well be my best use of alliteration in academic writing so far

Delighted to be back chatting about our Swiftposium and Eras Tour on Times Radio shortly

Having to explain grief trolling in a report on online communities of support is extremely depressing

I never thought I would see the day a Paisley was ousted, much less for not being far-right unionist enough

Who wants to play the ‘watch people make a crisis situation worse for themselves’ game with me? Points are measured in increments of schadenfreude

RIP Shannen Doherty 💔 Brenda and Dylan forever!

New Beckett family rule: no sending people into existential crisis before they’ve had their morning coffee

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and my great grandfather. Fun fact: he’s the person winning the Liffey Swim in the Jack B Yeats painting

Well being 48 isn’t bad so far

Vale George Negus. A journo for the ages and in the few times a met him a real gentleman. He balanced courage with empathy; tough when he needed to be, not shy of the truth of the story, and always fair. Now more than ever we need journalists with that level of integrity