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Interested in qualitative methods, and how we can teach them, and pop culture and political representation. Co-convenor @psampg.bsky.social Otherwise, mostly reading novels and watching reality/game shows
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I don't watch a lot of TV, but I used an Apple TV trial to watch Severance and I now feel permanently on edge

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

My (stolen) mantra that teachers should also be students has been stretched to a new level of karma this year, after I enrolled in an evening class without realising that I would also be required to complete the assessments.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

@vgravey.bsky.social and I will be convening a #UACES2025 themed track on #teaching and #learning - see screenshot for details. To find out more about the conference, please visit the @uaces.bsky.social website #EduSky #SoTLsky #TeachLearnSky

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

if you are an academic who specializes in pop culture (movies! tv! music! books! the internet!) i want to know you!! i am ALWAYS looking for sources and story ideas for my work at yahoo entertainment. get in touch here or at [email protected] <3

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Respect to the Politics colleagues who made the argument to me - in the early 2000s - that celebrity politics was the coming thing. The two realms are now fused. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Warning: Elon Musk A record of Musk's commentary on UK politics since 13 Nov, when he was appointed Trump's efficiency tsar The analysis suggests an uptick in vitriolic commentary from the preceding period, and a return to the conspiracy-laden remarks that characterised Musk's summer criticism 1/

submitted 101 days ago • 36 comments

In seeing my millennial cultural references no longer land, I've apparently decided to go back much, much further. My students were spared my obsession with Dracula in a lecture on the development of democracy in Europe, because I was sicker than a vampire separated from their dirt boxes

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Jobs: 1 PhD student, 1 Post-doc to work with me on the project "Parliamentary Accountability and EU Action Against Democratic Backsliding". Both positions are for 3 years, starting 1.4.2025. Happy to answer questions. See below or here: www.hhu.de/die-hhu/kont.... PSJMInfo

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Moldova's presidential elections and EU referendum, the Kremlin-financed vote buying, and the lessons that PAS is taking into the parliamentary elections next year for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Was lucky enough to see this final episode of Taskmaster being recorded, and it's fascinating to see it speed by with 75% less chat. Be grateful for some of the stuff cut from Rosie's prize task discussion... #Taskmaster

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

My take on the #BookerPrize this year is that Stoneyard Devotional absolutely slaps. The Safekeep could be better, but slaps. Orbital will be marmite, captivated me for the first half. Held is for those gifted with patience.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

In memory of badass University logos, rebranded too soon

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

This week I'll be talking to students about celebrity endorsements during UK GE2015. This will be the third year in a row. The first time, it felt a bit like guiding students through a faded map full of names they didn't recognise. Now, it feels like opening a cursed time capsule.

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments