Let's go through a list of docs requested for a currently advertised tenure-track academic position in Sweden (translated to familiar US/UK terms): -Cover letter -List of all educational activities and degrees -Transcripts and diplomas from all education -List of employment

Most likely a particularly pronounced problem in consumer research in 'prestigious' journals. Great initiative to investigate how the orthodoxy is reproduced.

Just an absolute banger.

One of the smartest and most depressing discussions of psychology I've seen in a long time, by the always-interesting Adam Mastroianni experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-…

“essentially lynched me and my academic character” So now-fired FSU Criminologist Eric Stewart describes the grad student who uncovered how he fabricated data in his publications on systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Perpetrator casting himself as victim. Unreal.

Fab paper alert

Absolutely stoked to announce a new opus: "Interpassive students in interactive classrooms" with the inimitable Alan Bradshaw in 'Radical Philosophy' Enjoy! radicalphilosophy.com/article/interp…

Essential reading - a new paper by @ronald_hartz. This is the real 'free speech crisis on campus'; university senior management firing academics for publishing research they don't like. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

A university's level of failure can be measured by the amount of time that academics normally spend on administrative work.

Banger alert!

Bonkers how much power these publishing houses have. What value do they actually provide? Beyond acting as a platform for the free labour they extract from academics...

My colleague Chris, by virtue of experience better poised than most, provides a clear view on the business school.

Alan Bradshaw and I have thought about interactivity and student disengagement: timeshighereducation.com/opinion/what-i…

Online counter-cultures, are they communities? Are they even really communicating? New article published in New Media & Society: "Becoming Red-Pilled: Affective production in online countercultural collectives" with Joel Hietanen and Alice Wickström. doi.org/10.1177/146144…

Are the problems of contemporary comedy indicative of a new zeitgeist? Great talk and take on this problem provided by Alfie Bown. Also check out 'everyday analysis' which he edits: everydayanalysis.co.uk

CHRONOS is pleased to be hosting a talk by Angela Daly pertainting to recent events at University of Dundee next week Wednesday the 11th at 3PM in Senate House 102, 3.00-5.00 PM - the talk will also be on Teams: lnkd.in/eMyf6cn8 Welcome! scottishleftreview.scot/behind-the-cri…

A new review of my book ‘But how do you teach…business?’ by Paul Haynes just published open access in Consumption, Markets and Culture tandfonline.com/eprint/HUAUR6J…