The thing I love about Meg Conley's work is the way she makes you see the world completely differently by connecting apparently unconnected things. The multiple Spidermans metaphor is a perfect exploration of the effects of what sociologists much more boringly call 'biographical disruption'

🕸️Meg Conley@pocketobservatory.org · 2mo ago

I've finished chemotherapy + radiation. At a recent check-in, a woman told me I can get back to my life. I tried to hide my confusion. Which me? Which life? I seem to be experiencing the superposition of parallel versions of myself... www.pocketobservatory.org/alright-lets...

This looks great! Hoping to listen once it pulls through to my podcast platform.

Joe Jukes@joejukes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...

Proud (aptly) to have a chapter in this excellent Open Access book. Our chapter is called 'Envisioning queer temporality and queerer futures through letters to self' and is about how letters-to-self might queer temporality and create possibilities for queerer forms of LGBTQ+ ageing.

Ana-Cristina Santos (she/her)@anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥 My latest book, A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing, has just been published! Bringing together world-class scholars across the 🌍, this #OpenAccess book is precious. Enjoy! #PrideMonth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #SociologyMatters #trace_ces #queerageing @erc.europa.eu @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @ces-uc.bsky.social

Well that's done. It did feel like a celebratory and joyful occasion and it was wonderful to have so many of my friends, colleagues and family with me in the room or online. The recording is publicly available here youtube.com/live/f37EU4H...

A few people have asked me if it's too late to sign up for this afternoon. It's not! There's lots of online tickets left and some in-person ones in Milton Keynes, which include free wine and nibbles. If you unexpectedly find yourself free at 4.30 today, please do join us.

Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am giving an inaugural lecture! If you'd like to hear me talking about queer joy, ageing, sexuality & being an academic, you can sign up here to attend online or in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... You can also hear my brilliant colleague @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social on death and grief

Is your organisation led by and for LGBT+ disabled people? Are you interested in connecting with similar groups? Join us online on the 9th of June, from 6pm - 7.30pm [1/4]

Putting the final touches to my talk, do I want the audience to actually laugh at my so-called-jokes?! On the one hand I do, obvs, but if they laugh for too long I will go over my allocated time slot. Maybe I should make them really lame and feeble?

Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am giving an inaugural lecture! If you'd like to hear me talking about queer joy, ageing, sexuality & being an academic, you can sign up here to attend online or in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... You can also hear my brilliant colleague @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social on death and grief

Sadly I'm not free at this date but it looks great! Do attend if you can and this is your kind of thing.

Eva-Maria Trinkaus@evatri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🗣️Join us for our next ENAS Quarterly. The summer edition, on June 11, with Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Daniela Koleva on “Ageing East and West: Politics and Poetics” 🌼 #aging #agingstudies #slavicstudies #ageing #ageingstudies @enas-agestudies.bsky.social More infos in the flyer ⬇️

Want a career changing lives? Explore flexible, industry-focused Health & Social Care courses at The Open University Virtual Open Day – 23 June. openuniversity.swoogo.com/health-and-s...

What is a ‘good’ sentence in sociology? To mark its 75th anniversary, the British Sociological Association put that question to its members. The response was joyful. Contributions arrived from across career stages, continents and specialisms – read all about it: es.britsoc.co.uk/the-sentence...

The sentences we keep: what stays with us in sociology - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association

What is a ‘good’ sentence in sociology? To mark its 75th anniversary, the British Sociological Association put that question to its members. Not the most cited argument, or the most...

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I think I can safely promise that neither @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social nor I will be taking this approach to our inaugural lectures research.open.ac.uk/events/reima... At @openuniversity.bsky.social we pride ourselves on explaining difficult things clearly, and my stimulant of choice is coffee.

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Join Professors Rebecca L. Jones and Erica Borgstrom for two inaugural lectures exploring how we understand sexuality and ageing, death and grief. Through research, personal experience and creative re...

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Anna Mazzola@annamazz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

As you know, I'm very keen on encouraging us all to embrace the messy when we're doing our research (noting, also, the harms that follow when research is not messy by design). If you're an ECR, PGR or Indie Researcher also keen on this topic, this event is for you docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mess and Resilience in Creative Research Methods

Call for contributions: We invite scholars from across disciplines to share their perspectives about dealing with mess, uncertainty, the unresolved aspects in using creative research methods as part ...

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Really looking forward to reading the rest of the chapters in this. Congratulations @anacristinasantos.bsky.social! So sorry I can't be at the ESA in Warsaw to help launch it.

Ana-Cristina Santos (she/her)@anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Guess what's happening in June? Many thanks for the endorsement, my dear @lynne-segal.bsky.social: Affirming the value of community, intergenerational ties & late life experiences as new forms of becoming or resistance, these chapters impressively expand the horizon of everyone interested in ageing.

Our new report with @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social is out! Drawing on the lived experiences of disabled doctoral students, it sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled PGRs across the UK HE sector 1/6 research.open.ac.uk/news/report-...

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A new collaborative report from The Open University and Disabled Students UK sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled doctoral students across the UK’s higher education secto...

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we'll post another terrible pun for every new donor, member or patron who signs up until our social media person clocks off at five

Oh this looks so interesting! Imagining retirement through the gifts that are given in workplaces.

Helen McCarthy@historianhelen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our display on the material culture and history of retirement gifts is ready for visitors at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Festival of History, happening today @ihr.bsky.social

Aha, some data! Apparently 100 in-person tickets booked so far & 300 online. Which is about half full for the lecture theatre but still a fraction of online tickets. I guess 'half gone' could be parsed as 'fast'. Maybe there is some scope for shortages for in-person, although you're probably fine.

Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Apparently, tickets for @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social & my inaugural lectures are 'going fast'. I have no idea what this means, since 10,000 online tickets are available - it seems implausible that any inaugural lecture is that popular... But hey, gets yours quick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

New post on my very occasional blog, about choosing between projects for the parts of academic workload over which you do have choice: rememberingmyhat.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/b... I would love to hear from other people (academics and not) about how they make these kinds of choices.

Bang-for-buck v. ‘what is energising me’

I’m doing lots of coaching and mentoring kinds of work these days, which is a huge privilege and pleasure – it’s one of my favourite parts of my job. One of the topics that often …

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Apparently, tickets for @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social & my inaugural lectures are 'going fast'. I have no idea what this means, since 10,000 online tickets are available - it seems implausible that any inaugural lecture is that popular... But hey, gets yours quick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

Reimagining Sexuality, Ageing, and Death: Inaugural Lectures

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

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My 1st research-focused intimation of mortality: thinking about the huge rise in young people claiming bisexual/pansexual identities & wondering whether they would keep these identities throughout their lives and into old age. I will never know! So frustrating! Please will someone somehow inform me?

My inaugural lecture is coming up - June 3rd! Talking about my research and lessons about the end of life and loss. Free to attend (in person in Milton Keynes or online), plus opportunity to hear my wonderful colleague @remembermyhat.bsky.social too! Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin...

Reimagining Sexuality, Ageing, and Death: Inaugural Lectures

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

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Are you from Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬 or Zambia 🇿🇲? You have the opportunity to inform a regional study around Domestic Resourcing 4 Youth SRHR Under 10 mins your views will be counted & findings to be shared with Governments & stakeholders! Please fill & circulate! ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/pi0bpiL3

BiCon 2026 bookings now open! When: 21st-23rd August 2026 Where: Nottingham, UK Why: because it's a wonderful weekend of talking and socialising. It's the UK's longest continually running annual LGBTQ+ event for a reason... How: 2026.bicon.org.uk Who: you?

I mean obviously there will be some reference, but it may not be a major topic.

Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yes, on YouTube on the OU channel. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be talking about bi+ stuff yet - 35 minutes is surprisingly little time and I may have committed myself to too many topics!

Even if you don't like brutalist architecture (I do) you have to admit this is beautiful, surely? #LoveMiltonKeynes

My feelings about pinkwashing have changed a lot over the last few years. More of this please! (The image on the office block, although I also love the Nigerian- inspired floor mural)

I am giving an inaugural lecture! If you'd like to hear me talking about queer joy, ageing, sexuality & being an academic, you can sign up here to attend online or in person www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... You can also hear my brilliant colleague @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social on death and grief

Reimagining Sexuality, Ageing, and Death: Inaugural Lectures

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

eventbrite.co.uk

Deadline extended to the 8th April. Now particularly looking for contributions from South/Central America, Africa and Oceania. Or for chapters thinking about language/translation/slang and how working in languages other than English helps us rethink identity categories and identitarian frameworks

Rebecca Jones @remembermyhat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026 Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!) Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

New online course written by me and two colleagues-who-are-not-on-Bluesky. For the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (CORST) About older adults and intimacy: www.cosrtlearn.org.uk/product/supp... A total bargain at £40!

Supporting the Intimacy Needs of Older Adults | COSRTlearn

This self-access class supports Psychosexual and Relationship Therapists to work effectively with an under-served population, older adults experiencing emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy issues....

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Such a helpful discussion about writing through uncertainty and discomfort.

Pat Thomson@patthomson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...