Dr Raphaël Nowak
@raphahead.bsky.social
Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
I only just caught news of Gregor McLennan's passing. I knew him during my short time at the Uni of Bristol 10 years ago. He was then the head of department and I confirm he was very generous with his time and inspiring to all colleagues and students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Bristol professor found dead after hike in heat
Gregor McLennan disappeared after going on a hike in Snowdonia during a record-breaking heatwave.
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8 Raphaël Nowak (@raphahead.bsky.social) has published on railway modelling, object-relations, and the materiality of serious leisure in the ‘Journal for Cultural Research’. buff.ly/wLf9zNU
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🚨New publication alert🚨 'Railway modelling as object-relation. Examining the discursive framing of a serious leisure' in The Journal for Cultural Research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is RECORD Heatwave Sign Of Climate Catastrophe?! via @novaramedia.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2t...
Is RECORD Heatwave Sign Of Climate Catastrophe?!
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has published on academic misconduct, GenAI, and the everyday work of investigation in UK higher education in the ‘Journal of Academic Ethics’. buff.ly/XgOJb64
The Procedures of Investigating Academic Misconduct: Perspectives from Academic Staff at a UK Russell Group University - Journal of Academic Ethics
Journal of Academic Ethics - This article sociologically explores the issue of students’ academic misconduct at a UK Russell Group University, specifically through how academic staff are...
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML
Deezer: AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new uploaded music newsroom-deezer.com/2026/04/ai-g...
Deezer: AI-generated tracks now represent 44% of all new uploaded music - Deezer Newsroom
As the only streaming platform tagging AI-generated music, Deezer now reveals that nearly 75,000 AI-tracks are uploaded every day
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Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans youtu.be/9C6AGYSXHW0?...
Revealed: Nigel Farage Cameo videos show support for neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
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Donald Trump has just implicitly threatened the Iranian football team regarding their safety if they come to the World Cup. As Infantino would say #FootballUnitesTheWorld
🚨 Publication alert 🚨 I just published an article in the Journal of Academic Ethics that examines how academic staff investigate and sanction suspected cases of academic misconduct. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
The Procedures of Investigating Academic Misconduct: Perspectives from Academic Staff at a UK Russell Group University
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“Above all, it has long had Europe's biggest university campus. Everything comes back to this. The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kickstart growth?
With an annual growth rate of 3.1%, Manchester's economy has performed twice as well as that of the UK as a whole.
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Sociology graduation today. This time I got some blue on my gown. W. @drfuturity.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social
Management team of @uoy-sociology.bsky.social (minus Sarah, Katie, Mary, Gareth, James) being super cold for the whole of its Away Day. @emmahcasey.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social
I submitted 3 articles this week with the last one just now before logging off. Fingers crossed I don't come back to 3 desk rejects in early January!
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Today I learned that saying that 'culture has positive effects' is a banality whereas saying that 'culture reproduces inequalities' is cutting-edge scientific knowledge. The things you learn... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🚨New publication alert (for those who speak French), a book on music tastes of French people 🚨 Les goûts musicaux des français par Hervé Glevarec et Raphaël A. Nowak
I’m really looking forward to speaking at this event at LSE alongside Lois Shearing and chaired by Rachel O’Neill. All welcome! Link to register is below. @lsemedia.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’. #France #French #Music
Les goûts musicaux des Français.es – Le Bord de l'Eau
Aucun produit dans le panier.
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