My PhD supervisee Raimond Merila has published and article on game inspired food cultures. A very cool addition to fandom and participatory cultures work, I think. Check it out if games, fandom, food or Zelda are your thing. If you don't have access, lmk.

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

Listening to "IGF DC Webinar: To Ban or Not to Ban – How to Protect Children Online?" What a treat to have both @sonialivingstone.bsky.social and Amanda Third speaking, such a wealth and depth of experience and not a clutched pearl in sight ❤️ 🤓

Yesterday I presented my research on shadowbanning, de-platforming and platform appeals to Samantha Niblett MP, together with a group of badass sex educators, activists and brands.

My sister @rachelcleves.bsky.social has been dealing with every scholar's nightmare—a popular author taking sole credit for her work, flooding the zone with a derivative book using the same title and cover art as the original, without attribution. Buy Rachel's book, not the knockoff.

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An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Am I really the only one who absolutely needs for text to be justified (in terms of alignment) in any writing document I work on? Surely not? Surely there are others who are physically pained by the jagged edges of left aligned text?

Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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two days to book submission. one of the neighbors religiously practicing flute. excellent.

Went on a hike, saw some birds. "The herons are aura farming," said son. Was impressed by both – bird species knowledge and the use of 'aura farming' as a legitimate zoological term.

A bunch of gay bars in San Francisco just started using facial recongition surveillance on customers. Madison Square Garden was just caught keeping "dossiers" on facial recognition activists ... including me Now is a great time to ask your fave artists to sign this banfacialrecognition.com/venues

Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

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I really envy my son's ability to say "no thanks," in a sincere, polite, unbothered way to questions that are not intended to be questions, but he takes them as such, because they end with a question mark.

What is A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing? This short video introduces my new Open Access book. 🎥 Watch the Intro: www.youtube.com/shorts/kXtBi... 📖 Read in Open Access, share & enjoy! www.elgaronline.com/view/book/97... #trace_ces #queerageing #lgbtqiageing #SociologyMatters 🙏🏽@erc.europa.eu

A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing — Meet the Editor | Ana Cristina Santos

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Baker and writer Titty Boobowitz on working the kitchens at Meta: "Underneath all the futuristic branding, the metaverse was still just a workplace. A very ordinary American workplace full of ego, hierarchy, cowardice, bias, loneliness, office politics, protected mediocrity, and men who […]

If interested in algorithmic practices and imaginaries in the context of wellbeing, check in out latest publication based on the TRAVIS project data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... It's OA!

REMINDER!! Creator & Influencer Studies is open for article submissionsI also have 20 article process charge (APC) waivers to use before the end of the year, so submit now!

What I found interesting in Estonian research on this (altho w teens) was when kids said they feel safer knowing their parents know where they are. Also when parents said it avoids conflicts bc they don't have to call to check where their teens are in ways that would make them seem uncool to peers

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The nervous generation... No, I am not talking about the kids, but the parents. "Most parents track their 18-25-year-old kids on their smartphones. Is that healthy?" www.npr.org/2026/06/15/n...

saw Kings of Leon yesterday. I used to really like them before they married supermodels and started making moody-dad rock. The venue was awful tho & I felt bummed for them that they didn't get to do our Song Festival Grounds. But it was still kind of cool to see some of those songs performed live

ah, the season of the most boring sportsball is upon us. I know there are many diehard fans, but how can you do it? all they do is run, sometimes fall funnily, and very rarely score. The soundscape is psychosis inducing. Tennis is the only ballgame that has a reasonable run to score ratio

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This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

i'm gonna try, once again, to like bsky. if you've figured it out, share tips pls? i used to like twitter. i will forever miss tumblr. i find linkedin mindnumbingly boring, i have lovely colleagues on FB, and love what they post, but it also hosts a debilitating amount of hate by my compatriots

🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)

New cool job for a PhD candidate with quantitative social research skills!

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter

A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and

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Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social

If you need me, I am sorry, I have perished double authenticating myself to access 7 different collaborative projects' Teams servers, while working for a university that uses Google

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ALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

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the reaction to moltbook is more interesting than the actual substance of moltbook

some exciting news: announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors. submissions open Feb 12.

I'm noticing that taking "AI in research" and "AI in teaching" trainings has the capacity to make one feel tired in a deep, existential way

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press